{"id":286,"date":"2018-01-02T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2018-01-02T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:28:59","slug":"the-end-of-the-beginning-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"The end of the beginning&#8211;again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Lion&#8217;s fans,<\/p>\n<p>Sunsets can herald a beautiful ending or portend a warning of what is to come.  &#8220;Red sky at night, sailors delight.  Red sky at morning sailors take warning&#8221;.  Unfortunately, Lion&#8217;s history is more of the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the Green Bay game.  A perfect example of how a single element, quarterback in this case, can alter strategy and tactics of a game.  No doubt our Lion&#8217;s feasted at Green Bay&#8217;s expense.  No better example of a tormented season was the &#8216;Oh what the hell&#8217; two point conversion play.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Caldwell has joined the plethora of previous coaches in the Lion&#8217;s graveyard of NFL coaches, we are again facing a choice between reality or optimism.  A few points of reality include: healthy\/improved offensive line, north-south running back, secondary defense past the line of scrimmage, third down execution and discipline regarding &#8216;stupid&#8217; penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Tamping down optimism is a hard objective when you have an exceptional quarterback paired with a host of experienced and developing receiving corps.  Injuries aside, there is no reason why our 60th year of rebuilding should not succeed if some existenting weaknesses are rectified.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve come down on the side of optimism.                     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Lion&#8217;s fans, Sunsets can herald a beautiful ending or portend a warning of what is to come. &#8220;Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky at morning sailors take warning&#8221;. Unfortunately, Lion&#8217;s history is more of the latter. Back to the Green Bay game. A perfect example of how a single element, quarterback in [&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-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}