{"id":149,"date":"2015-11-23T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-11-23T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:23:16","slug":"ragged-but-it-was-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Ragged, but it was a win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t win &#8216;big&#8217; games by kicking field goals.\u00a0 Scoring touchdowns when the opportunity presents itself is crucial.\u00a0 When &#8220;Brick Hands&#8221; Ebron dropped a sure touchdown pass I feared the worst outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was the combination of Lion&#8217;s play calling, key defensive stops, or an inept play by Oakland we&#8217;ll take the win.\u00a0 Stafford did not make any real &#8216;desperate&#8217; passing decisions and the running backs held onto the ball.\u00a0 Resulting in no fumbles and no interceptions.\u00a0 Great to see the passing game spread across lots of receivers including the backs again.<\/p>\n<p>Before you store away the &#8220;Tums&#8221;, wait for a few repeat performances the rest of the season.\u00a0 The Lions have a roller coaster history that included games like this before.\u00a0 A glimmer of hope is justified with a guarded dose of historical reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t win &#8216;big&#8217; games by kicking field goals.\u00a0 Scoring touchdowns when the opportunity presents itself is crucial.\u00a0 When &#8220;Brick Hands&#8221; Ebron dropped a sure touchdown pass I feared the worst outcome. Whether it was the combination of Lion&#8217;s play calling, key defensive stops, or an inept play by Oakland we&#8217;ll take the win.\u00a0 Stafford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}