{"id":42209,"date":"2018-11-26T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=42209"},"modified":"2018-11-26T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:10:26","slug":"spencer-improves-long-term-future-with-solid-outing-at-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/11\/26\/spencer-improves-long-term-future-with-solid-outing-at-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Improves Long-Term Future With Solid Outing at Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When offensive lineman Spencer Long left the Washington Redskins for the Jets this past offseason, Jets head coach Todd Bowles touted Long&#8217;s versatility as a plus with Long having experience at both left guard and center.\u00a0 After struggling through the first half of the season due largely in part to a dislocated finger on his snapping hand, Long&#8217;s versatility came in to play yesterday against the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>And just like that, Long went from a guy who could be on the outs after this season, to a possible candidate to start at left guard for Gang Green in 2019 if he continues to play the way he did yesterday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very important game for Spencer Long today if he plays LG.  Played well there in 2015 and could be back next season as a candidate to replace James Carpenter if he plays well enough.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Glenn Naughton (@JNRadio_Glenn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JNRadio_Glenn\/status\/1066725750085218304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Jets didn&#8217;t have many bright spots against New England, but Long stood out several times in both pass protection and as a run blocker.\u00a0 With no access to the All 22 yet, it&#8217;s impossible to say just how good he was from snap to snap.\u00a0 However, as a team without a left guard heading in to next season with James Carpenter&#8217;s deal set to expire, Long now enters the equation as a possible starter in that spot next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When offensive lineman Spencer Long left the Washington Redskins for the Jets this past offseason, Jets head coach Todd Bowles touted Long&#8217;s versatility as a plus with Long having experience at both left guard and center.\u00a0 After struggling through the first half of the season due largely in part to a dislocated finger on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":42213,"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":[6],"tags":[2836],"class_list":{"0":"post-42209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"tag-spencer-long"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_8352.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-aYN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209","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=42209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42214,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions\/42214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}