{"id":410425,"date":"2017-01-04T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=410425"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:41:12","slug":"quick-takes-nfl-playoff-picks-coaches-named-ryan-and-steve-smiths-hof-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=410425","title":{"rendered":"Quick takes: NFL playoff picks, coaches named Ryan and Steve Smith\u2019s HOF candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick hits on the world of sports: &#x25aa;  In the NFL playoffs this weekend I like Oakland to beat Houston in Houston, Seattle to beat Detroit in Seattle, Pittsburgh \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article124540044.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article124540044.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article124540044.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Quick takes: NFL playoff picks, coaches named Ryan and Steve Smith\u2019s HOF candidacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick hits on the world of sports: &#x25aa; In the NFL playoffs this weekend I like Oakland to beat Houston in Houston, Seattle to beat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410425","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904816,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410425\/revisions\/1904816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}