{"id":28675,"date":"2015-05-28T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=28675"},"modified":"2015-05-28T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:14:12","slug":"new-york-jets-send-matt-simms-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/05\/28\/new-york-jets-send-matt-simms-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Send Simms Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jets announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/news\/article-randylangefb\/Jets-Release-QB-Matt-Simms\/41bffa42-05ec-4600-8682-24c957a229aa\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">release of quarterback Matt Simms<\/span><\/strong><\/a> today as they conduct their second consecutive week of OTA&#8217;s at Florham Park under rookie head coach Todd Bowles.<\/p>\n<p>Simms, the strong-armed son of former Giants great Phil Simms was never used as any more than a reserve QB in two seasons with the Jets, throwing only 39 passes for Gang Green, completing just 19 for 1 TD and 1 INT.<\/p>\n<p>Simms&#8217; release leaves the Jets with three healthy QB&#8217;s on the roster for the remainder of OTA&#8217;s as incumbent Geno Smith and rookies Byrce Petty and Jake Heaps will share reps.<\/p>\n<p>Off-season addition Ryan Fitzpatrick will be limited in workouts as he recovers from a late-season leg fracture while under center for the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; The Jets announced the release of quarterback Matt Simms today as they conduct their second consecutive week of OTA&#8217;s at Florham Park under rookie head coach Todd Bowles. Simms, the strong-armed son of former Giants great Phil Simms was never used as any more than a reserve QB in two seasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":21630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7sv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28676,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28675\/revisions\/28676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}