{"id":13296,"date":"2014-12-17T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2014-12-17T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:48:43","slug":"blake-bortles-expected-to-start-for-jaguars-on-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/17\/blake-bortles-expected-to-start-for-jaguars-on-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Bortles expected to start for Jaguars on Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11692\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/blakebortles.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/blakebortles.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/blakebortles-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Jaguars and Titans will face off against each other on Thursday night in a match-up of two teams with 2-12 records.<\/p>\n<p>One bit of good news for fans who will be tuning into this game is that Jaguars rookie quarterback Blake Bortles is expected to start despite a questionable tag with a sprained foot.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans will have Charlie Whitehurst under center.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Miller questionable &#10;Bortles expected to start<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan O&#39;Halloran (@ryanohalloran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanohalloran\/status\/545271101333725184\">December 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his rookie season Bortles has appeared in 12 games completing 60.8-percent of his passes for 2676 yards with a 10:17 touchdown to interception ratio. <\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Impact: This game has all the makings of a disaster. None of the offensive players on the Jaguars or Titans are fantasy options and this game will likely be highlighted by poor play across both sidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaguars and Titans will face off against each other on Thursday night in a match-up of two teams with 2-12 records. One bit of good news for fans who will be tuning into this game is that Jaguars rookie quarterback Blake Bortles is expected to start despite a questionable tag with a sprained foot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[639,141,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blake-bortles","9":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13297,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions\/13297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}