{"id":33306,"date":"2016-08-25T21:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=33306"},"modified":"2016-08-25T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T01:36:10","slug":"new-york-jets-brent-qvale-ben-ijalana-look-to-seize-opportunity-with-giacomini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2016\/08\/25\/new-york-jets-brent-qvale-ben-ijalana-look-to-seize-opportunity-with-giacomini\/","title":{"rendered":"Qvale, Ijalana Look to Seize Opportunity with Giacomini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During today&#8217;s press conference with the New York media, Jets Head Coach Todd Bowles acknowledged that with two weeks remaining before the team&#8217;s September 11th home opener, there is a chance that right tackle Breno Giacomini will be a no go come kickoff. \u00a0Giacomini has been plagued by back pain since the opening days of training camp.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bowles on whether RT Breno Giacomini will be available WK1: &quot;I have no idea. It&#39;s getting close and he hasn&#39;t practiced yet, so we&#39;ll see.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/768906650937921536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>In his absence, career back-ups Brent Qvale and Ben Ijalana have alternated at the position in practice and through the first two preseason games as they both look to take Giacomini&#8217;s spot for however long he&#8217;s sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Neither player has extensive playing experience and Qvale owns the only start between the two, but neither has heard their name called a great deal this preseason against the Jaguars or Redskins, and that&#8217;s a good thing in cases like this.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Bowles also said the Jets could be in the market for a veteran right tackle, but don&#8217;t expect much on that front as there&#8217;s not much on the market with all 32 teams still carrying 90 players.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it&#8217;s a banged up Giacomini, with Qvale and Ijalana jockeying for position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; &nbsp; During today&#8217;s press conference with the New York media, Jets Head Coach Todd Bowles acknowledged that with two weeks remaining before the team&#8217;s September 11th home opener, there is a chance that right tackle Breno Giacomini will be a no go come kickoff. \u00a0Giacomini has been plagued by back pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":31664,"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":true,"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-33306","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\/2016\/02\/Brent-Qvale.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-8Fc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33306","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=33306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33307,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33306\/revisions\/33307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}