{"id":15072,"date":"2015-12-19T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15072"},"modified":"2015-12-19T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T01:17:11","slug":"aj-mccarron-hoping-to-be-compared-to-brett-favre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/12\/19\/aj-mccarron-hoping-to-be-compared-to-brett-favre\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ McCarron hoping to be compared to Brett Favre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15002\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/ajmccarron.jpg\" alt=\"ajmccarron\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/ajmccarron.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/ajmccarron-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron is hoping to compared to Brett Favre.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you are wanting to be compared to anyone you might as well set your sights high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It always looked like he was that four-year-old kid that just won the starting job by raising his right hand and his left hand, and getting it correct and being the only one,&#8221; McCarron said this week, via ESPN.com. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I love about the game, because it&#8217;s a game. Yes, we get paid a great amount and it&#8217;s a blessing. But at the end of the day, it&#8217;s a game and you have to play it like you&#8217;re a kid in the backyard just having fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCarron has a good chance to try and draw some Favre comparisons on Sunday as the Bengals take on the 49ers who feature the NFL&#8217;s 27th ranked pass defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron is hoping to compared to Brett Favre. Well, if you are wanting to be compared to anyone you might as well set your sights high. &#8220;It always looked like he was that four-year-old kid that just won the starting job by raising his right hand and his left hand, and getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[982,174,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aj-mccaroon","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15073,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072\/revisions\/15073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}