{"id":3241,"date":"2010-12-08T06:31:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2010-12-08T06:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T11:32:30","slug":"cardiac-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/12\/08\/cardiac-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder this year\u2019s edition of the Atlanta Falcons are keeping me on the edge of my seat; their propensity for late game heroics keeps putting gray hair on my poor old chin.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/16124\/falcons-show-knack-for-the-comeback\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/16124\/falcons-show-knack-for-the-comeback', 'ESPN NFC South Blog');\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN NFC South Blog<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They\u2019ve had six games where they have either trailed or been tied in the fourth quarter and won, including Sunday at Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Tied\/Trailed Winning Score<br \/>\nat Buccaneers, 24-14, 4:31 left<br \/>\nvs. Packers, 17-17, 0:09 left<br \/>\nvs. Ravens, 21-20, 0:20 left<br \/>\nvs. Bengals, 25-24, 13:02 left<br \/>\nvs. 49ers, 14-13, 0:02 left<br \/>\nat Saints, 21-17, 1:55 left in overtime<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course you can also look at this statistic, especially the home games, and say the Falcons are not doing a good job of putting teams away.  Believe it or not, Ravens, Bengals, and to some extent the Packers games should not have been close.  I think this is good news because it means that the Falcons still have room to improve going into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder this year\u2019s edition of the Atlanta Falcons are keeping me on the edge of my seat; their propensity for late game heroics keeps putting gray hair on my poor old chin. According to the ESPN NFC South Blog \u2026 They\u2019ve had six games where they have either trailed or been tied in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/12\/08\/cardiac-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardiac Birds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,29],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}