{"id":727286,"date":"2019-02-28T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=727286"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:44:31","slug":"jay-gruden-open-to-redskins-starting-a-rookie-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=727286","title":{"rendered":"Jay Gruden open to Redskins starting a rookie quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The NFL is a &#8220;win-now&#8221; league, which can often stop teams from starting a rookie quarterback. <\/p>\n<p>But despite missing the playoffs for the last three seasons, Redskins coach Jay Gruden said Thursday he&#8217;d have &#8220;no problem&#8221; handing the keys to a rookie for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Gruden acknowledged &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/feb\/28\/jay-gruden-open-starting-rookie-quarterback\/?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\/2019\/feb\/28\/jay-gruden-open-starting-rookie-quarterback\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Jay Gruden open to Redskins starting a rookie quarterback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The NFL is a &#8220;win-now&#8221; league, which can often stop teams from starting a rookie quarterback. But despite missing the playoffs for the last&#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-727286","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\/727286","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=727286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906425,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727286\/revisions\/1906425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}