{"id":19798,"date":"2013-02-25T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19798"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:32:48","slug":"confident-geno-smith-kicks-off-campaign-to-be-top-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19798","title":{"rendered":"Confident Geno Smith Kicks Off Campaign  To Be Top Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014<strong> Geno Smith<\/strong> is used to throwing in front of huge crowds. Friday, Smith got to speak before a huge crowd\u2014of reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Smith\u2019s fishbowl existence at the NFL Scouting Combine. Coaches and executives grilled <strong>Smith<\/strong> all weekend. When he throw Sunday, every toss was critiqued, everything he does was scrutinized. NFL Combine 2013: <strong>Geno Smith<\/strong> said he didn\u2019t attend the Senior Bowl because he was advised not to go.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s life for a potential No. 1 overall pick who looks good to some scouts, dangerous to others. Some scouts believe the quarterback-needy Chiefs will make <strong>Smith<\/strong> the top pick. Others see far too much inconsistency in the former West Virginia star and don\u2019t believe Smith should even be a first-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>That vast disagreement about <strong>Smith<\/strong> made him a lightning rod in Indy. But <strong>Smith<\/strong>, who participate in every drill last weekend, hopes the Combine represents a kickoff to a successful campaign to be the top overall pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Geno Smith is used to throwing in front of huge crowds. Friday, Smith got to speak before a huge crowd\u2014of reporters. Welcome to Smith\u2019s fishbowl existence at the NFL Scouting Combine. Coaches and executives grilled Smith all weekend. When he throw Sunday, every toss was critiqued, everything he does was scrutinized. NFL Combine [&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-19798","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\/19798","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=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}