{"id":550509,"date":"2017-11-02T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=550509"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:30:33","slug":"preston-smith-spent-offseason-turning-weaknesses-into-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=550509","title":{"rendered":"Preston Smith spent offseason turning weaknesses into strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 As Redskins outside linebacker Preston Smith went through last season, he kept notes, tracking strengths and weaknesses from game to game.<\/p>\n<p>When he reached the offseason, Smith worked to turn his weaknesses into strengths. In his hometown of Atlanta, personal trainers helped improve Smith&#8217;s footwork and movement.<\/p>\n<p>Midway &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/nov\/2\/preston-smith-spent-redskins-offseason-turning-his\/?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\/2017\/nov\/2\/preston-smith-spent-redskins-offseason-turning-his\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Preston Smith spent offseason turning weaknesses into strengths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 As Redskins outside linebacker Preston Smith went through last season, he kept notes, tracking strengths and weaknesses from game to game. When he reached&#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-550509","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\/550509","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=550509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908473,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550509\/revisions\/1908473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}