{"id":3273,"date":"2009-11-25T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T11:10:11","slug":"kerry-rhodes-benched-eric-smith-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2009\/11\/25\/kerry-rhodes-benched-eric-smith-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Rhodes Benched; Eric Smith To Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jay Glazer from Fox Sports, Kerry Rhodes is being benched this week and Eric Smith will start in his place.\u00a0 Via Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><strong><a title=\"Jay Glazer\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Jay_Glazer\">Jay_Glazer<\/a><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>jets players tell me team is benching saftery kerry rhodes for eric smith this week.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>On the web:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FOX Sports&#8217; Jay Glazer reports that Jets players tell him the team is benching FS Kerry Rhodes in favor of Eric Smith.<br \/>\nWhile Rhodes was the starting free safety for the No. 4 pass defense in the first ten games, he hasn&#8217;t made a big play all year (no picks, zero forced fumbles, only five pass breakups). He signed a $33.5M extension two offseasons ago, but Rex Ryan is clearly trying to send a message. Ultimately, Rhodes&#8217; benching shouldn&#8217;t stick. The Jets&#8217; biggest problems are turnovers on offense and a passing &#8220;attack&#8221; that&#8217;s plummeted to 28th in the league. Nov. 25 &#8211; 1:30 am et<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This move sends a pretty big statement.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how it is received by them team.\u00a0 Tell us <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">what you think here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jay Glazer from Fox Sports, Kerry Rhodes is being benched this week and Eric Smith will start in his place.\u00a0 Via Twitter: Jay_Glazer jets players tell me team is benching saftery kerry rhodes for eric smith this week. On the web: FOX Sports&#8217; Jay Glazer reports that Jets players tell him the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-QN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46915,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/46915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}