{"id":387280,"date":"2016-09-20T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=387280"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:04:38","slug":"jay-gruden-redskins-d-needs-to-be-better-on-third-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=387280","title":{"rendered":"Jay Gruden: Redskins &#8216;D&#8217; needs to be better on third down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third down has been a mess for the Washington Redskins the first two weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Offensively, they have not been efficient. Their conversion rate of 36.4 percent is tied with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for 19th in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The news on the defensive side is worse. Opponents &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/sep\/20\/jay-gruden-redskins-d-needs-be-better-third-down\/?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=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/sep\/20\/jay-gruden-redskins-d-needs-be-better-third-down\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Jay Gruden: Redskins &#039;D&#039; needs to be better on third down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third down has been a mess for the Washington Redskins the first two weeks of the season. Offensively, they have not been efficient. Their conversion rate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387280","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=387280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907439,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387280\/revisions\/1907439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}