The game was exciting but another last minute ‘save’ leaves the lingering question: How will the Lions do against a team who stops the overall passing and running game?\u00a0 The Lion’s ‘short’ pass defence was lacking.\u00a0\u00a0 Also,\u00a0 R. Bush did not seem quite ‘up to speed’.\u00a0 At first glance the remaining schedule looks favourable for the Lions.\u00a0 Loss of C. Palmer of Arizona, as tragic as it was, is a ‘gift’ to the Lions.\u00a0 Two of the remaining scheduled games with the Da Bears look like ‘gimmies’ after watching Green Bay completely trash Chicago.\u00a0 Best to remember that New England and Green Bay probably will wind up in the “L” column.\u00a0 And never forget the Lion’s uncanny ability to lose games against teams they are supposed to handily defeat.<\/p>\n
From here on it’s up to the Detroit Lions to prove they have more than their quirky 4th quarter performance, ‘luck’ and ‘spotting’ opponents large early game leads to get into the play-offs.\u00a0 Cool Aid anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The game was exciting but another last minute ‘save’ leaves the lingering question: How will the Lions do against a team who stops the overall passing and running game?\u00a0 The Lion’s ‘short’ pass defence was lacking.\u00a0\u00a0 Also,\u00a0 R. Bush did not seem quite ‘up to speed’.\u00a0 At first glance the remaining schedule looks favourable for […]<\/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-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}