{"id":11057,"date":"2011-10-31T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2011-10-31T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T19:34:38","slug":"jamarcus-russell-%e2%80%98the-game-wasn%e2%80%99t-fun-for-me%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"Jamarcus Russell: \u2018The Game Wasn\u2019t Fun For Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s issue of Sports Illustrated contains a profile of former Raiders QB<strong> JaMarcus Russell<\/strong>, the top pick of the 2007 draft and arguably the biggest Round 1 bust in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>Yet according to<strong> Russell<\/strong>, he was dealing with matters the public was unaware of while masking his issues with former Oakland coach <strong>Tom Cable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stuck my neck out for him,\u201d <strong>Russell<\/strong> says of<strong> Cable<\/strong>, who parted with the then <strong>Russell<\/strong>-less Raiders following the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders let <strong>Russell<\/strong> go after acquiring QB <strong>Jason Campbell<\/strong> in 2010. In three seasons, <strong>Russell<\/strong> won just seven of 25 starts, completed 52.1% of his passes and managed just 18 TD passes (or roughly $2 million per).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s issue of Sports Illustrated contains a profile of former Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell, the top pick of the 2007 draft and arguably the biggest Round 1 bust in NFL history. Yet according to Russell, he was dealing with matters the public was unaware of while masking his issues with former Oakland coach Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}