{"id":971,"date":"2007-07-10T23:58:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2007-07-10T23:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T04:58:52","slug":"interview-with-bender-and-wicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2007\/07\/10\/interview-with-bender-and-wicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Bender And Wicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/graphics\/Articles\/headers\/nyj.gif\" height=\"61\" style=\"width: 103px; height: 61px\" \/>Courtesy NYJets.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JACOB BENDER<br \/>\nAt 6&#8217;6&#8243; and 315 pounds, have you ever played quarterback?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never had any experience playing quarterback except playing backyard football just messing around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you end up with uniform No. 72?<br \/>\n<\/strong>On draft day, they transferred me to the equipment manager, Gus [Granneman]. He said, <!--more-->&#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a few numbers available.&#8221; It was a choice between 70 and 72 and I had my family standing around and I said to them, &#8220;Hey, 70 or 72?&#8221; and they all said 72, so I went with 72.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s been the hardest part so far about being an NFL rookie?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say acclimating to the amount of information they give you, how fast you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to learn it. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing good with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANDREW WICKER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What will you be doing in the few weeks remaining before the start of training camp?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to go home and get some of my mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good cooking. And I&#8217;m going to stay working out. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t slack. This is our job. I&#8217;m going to go and see the family and friends I love dearly and enjoy the time I have with them and get my mind ready for this training camp that is coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NYJets.com JACOB BENDER At 6&#8217;6&#8243; and 315 pounds, have you ever played quarterback? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never had any experience playing quarterback except playing backyard football just messing around. How did you end up with uniform No. 72? On draft day, they transferred me to the equipment manager, Gus [Granneman]. He said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-971","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-fF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}