{"id":547,"date":"2023-12-11T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:01:59","slug":"hear-the-bells-and-fat-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Hear the bells and fat  lady?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sundays Bear&#8217;s game should remove all doubt that this season is kaput.  A cursory analysis of the remaining NFL North games can construct a scenario where the Lions assist the Vikings  to a &#8216;backdoor&#8217; entrance into the top of the NFL North winners status.  Lions go 1-3 and the Vikings for 3-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complexion of play in the NFL has moved on to a new paradigm.   We&#8217;re in the era of very mobile, athletic and &#8216;smart&#8217; QBs.  In recent weeks athleticism of QB have made critical difference in outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These individuals are fast, strong and intelligent enough to &#8216;take a slide&#8217; and avoid being obliterated by a humongous line backer or ordinary sprinting 300 lb lineman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lions have &#8216;budding&#8217; potential standouts in key positions but stand at the precipice of age, talent and durability in several key areas.  Adaptation of coaching is also in the &#8216;question&#8217; column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year 66 of rebuilding was a pleasant interlude but work on year 67 of rebuilding requires more than incremental shuffling or rearranging of deck chairs.                <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays Bear&#8217;s game should remove all doubt that this season is kaput. A cursory analysis of the remaining NFL North games can construct a scenario where the Lions assist the Vikings to a &#8216;backdoor&#8217; entrance into the top of the NFL North winners status. Lions go 1-3 and the Vikings for 3-1. Complexion of play [&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-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}