{"id":670,"date":"2026-01-09T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:29:43","slug":"sayonara-and-good-riddance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Sayonara and good riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Game stats demonstrated Lion&#8217;s inability to &#8216;close out&#8217; a game without drama at games&#8217; end.  Four field goals and a single touchdown.  Big edge on time of possesion, blow out on first downs and edge on total yardage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear&#8217;s pass defense allowed J. Goff to focus on A. St. Brown and J. Williams for almost 2\/3rds of his pass attempts.  Combo of Lion&#8217;s running duo did their part.  Why then all the dramatics at the end.  Simple answer is Lions lack the &#8216;kick them while their down&#8217; capability.  How you fix this is an ongoing vexing issue.  Giving second chances to opponents by any means is how you go from 15-2 to 9-8.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game stats demonstrated Lion&#8217;s inability to &#8216;close out&#8217; a game without drama at games&#8217; end. Four field goals and a single touchdown. Big edge on time of possesion, blow out on first downs and edge on total yardage. Bear&#8217;s pass defense allowed J. Goff to focus on A. St. Brown and J. Williams for almost [&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-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}