{"id":196,"date":"2016-10-02T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-10-02T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:01:22","slug":"ineffectual-bears-rises-above-the-ineffective-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Ineffectual Bears rises above the ineffective Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, where to start.  First, condolence to all of you who watched the entire game.  One can assume three pathetic routine plays have cemented themselves into the Lion&#8217;s playbook.  First we have the &#8216;don&#8217;t get called on a stupid penalty unless it materially effects the games&#8217; outcome&#8217;.  Second, drop all passes that can potentially create gains for a new set of down.  Third, all receivers may optionally disregard the designed pass pattern as defined by the play called by the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Ebron should have his agent update his resume because his time has come and gone.  What a &#8216;bonehead&#8217; demonstration by giving up on a play before the referee whistles the play dead.  Was he wandering off to offer contrition to the coaching staff?<\/p>\n<p>Discipline and spine are going to be the differences between a seasonal outcome of 8\/8 vs 6\/10.  The time for platitudes and excuses has expired even if it is only four games into the season.  It&#8217;s one thing to be defeated but significantly better that aiding in your own defeat.  With apologies to the &#8216;bard&#8217;, &#8220;a loss by any other name is still a loss&#8221;.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, where to start. First, condolence to all of you who watched the entire game. One can assume three pathetic routine plays have cemented themselves into the Lion&#8217;s playbook. First we have the &#8216;don&#8217;t get called on a stupid penalty unless it materially effects the games&#8217; outcome&#8217;. Second, drop all passes that can potentially create [&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-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}