{"id":882407,"date":"2019-12-26T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=882407"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:16:19","slug":"u-turns-rare-in-nfl-but-they-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=882407","title":{"rendered":"U-turns rare in NFL, but they happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 Months before he&#8217;d be fired, former Redskins coach Jay Gruden sat at a table during the league owners meetings in a particularly cheery mood. As he faced questions over the availability of injury-ridden players like tight end Jordan Reed, Gruden took an optimistic approach.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the Redskins decimated &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/dec\/26\/redskins-need-u-turn\/?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\/dec\/26\/redskins-need-u-turn\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"U-turns rare in NFL, but they happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 Months before he&#8217;d be fired, former Redskins coach Jay Gruden sat at a table during the league owners meetings in a particularly cheery mood&#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-882407","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\/882407","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=882407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907950,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882407\/revisions\/1907950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}