{"id":1181138,"date":"2021-01-06T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1181138"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T20:21:24","slug":"a-tale-of-two-quarterbacks-alex-smith-and-tom-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1181138","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two quarterbacks: Alex Smith and Tom Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/jan\/6\/tale-two-quarterbacks-alex-smith-and-tom-brady\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2021\/01\/06\/Washington_Whirlwind_Football_02437.jpg-e3c65_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>Alex Smith, the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft, has had his moments but he&#8217;s never quite lived up to the advance billing \u2014 especially when he&#8217;s compared to Tom Brady, a draft-day afterthought ignored by the league until the New England Patriots nabbed him at &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/jan\/6\/tale-two-quarterbacks-alex-smith-and-tom-brady\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/jan\/6\/tale-two-quarterbacks-alex-smith-and-tom-brady\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"A tale of two quarterbacks: Alex Smith and Tom Brady\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Smith, the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft, has had his moments but he&#8217;s never quite lived up to the advance billing \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}