{"id":19193,"date":"2013-01-21T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19193"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:55:20","slug":"new-england-patriots-seem-quite-happy-with-ex-buc-aqib-talib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19193","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots Seem Quite Happy With Ex-Buc Aqib Talib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten weeks after being discarded by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, <strong>Aqib Talib<\/strong> is flourishing in New England, where he is being treated as the second coming of <strong>Deion Sanders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanders<\/strong>, a Hall of Fame cornerback, gained fame by backing up his bragging with a rare ability to contain the opposition\u2019s premier wide receiver. Since the Bucs traded. New England coach <strong>Bill Belichick<\/strong> hasn\u2019t stopped gushing about his new shut-down corner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like him and the team likes him,\u2019\u2018 <strong>Belichick<\/strong> said Wednesday as the Pats prepared for Sunday\u2019s AFC title game against Baltimore. \u201cHe\u2019s a good football player, a good teammate and he\u2019s very well, respected because of his professionalism. He\u2019s a good guy to be around.\u2019\u2018<\/p>\n<p>In the first playoff game of <strong>Talib\u2019s<\/strong> five-year career, he registered a team-high 10 tackles on Sunday in a 41-28 victory against Houston while jawing incessantly with six-time Pro Bowl receiver <strong>Andre Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re a cornerback and you don\u2019t want to go after their best receiver, you\u2019re in the wrong business,\u2019\u2018 <strong>Talib<\/strong> said after<strong> Johnson<\/strong> caught eight passes for 95 yards, but failed to reach the end zone. \u201cIt showed my coach has got a little confidence in me. I can\u2019t complain about that.\u2019\u2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten weeks after being discarded by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Aqib Talib is flourishing in New England, where he is being treated as the second coming of Deion Sanders. Sanders, a Hall of Fame cornerback, gained fame by backing up his bragging with a rare ability to contain the opposition\u2019s premier wide receiver. Since the [&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-19193","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\/19193","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=19193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}