{"id":457,"date":"2022-01-11T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:51:32","slug":"another-year-another-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Another year, another bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well gentle Lion&#8217;s fans, we endured another illustrative season of professional football as defined by the Detroit Lions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with a brief summary of the last three games of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detroit at Atlanta: Another valiant effort with a predictable ending.  Effort but no cigar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detroit at Seattle: Annihilation by any definition.   So sad so sorry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Bay at Detroit:  Theater by any interpretation.  Great next season try-outs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we slink into the 65th year of rebuilding we&#8217;re supposed to relish fanciful outcomes from a bevy of early round draft picks.  Where to start.  How about a competent defensive secondary, consistent functional offensive line and more credible results without the &#8216;hope and change&#8217; mantra.  As Joe Friday said, &#8221; Just the facts mam&#8221;.  And, in the near future a better QB.  Average is not going to cut it.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted previously, several other NFL teams have descended to the Lion&#8217;s depth of ruin and been resurrected to winner status.  Time and tide wait for no man and Lion&#8217;s fans will not remain bonded forever.  Maybe that&#8217;s the obvious pending wake up call.               <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well gentle Lion&#8217;s fans, we endured another illustrative season of professional football as defined by the Detroit Lions. Let&#8217;s begin with a brief summary of the last three games of the season. Detroit at Atlanta: Another valiant effort with a predictable ending. Effort but no cigar. Detroit at Seattle: Annihilation by any definition. So sad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}