{"id":623238,"date":"2026-04-23T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623238\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:21:13","slug":"1st-and-now-coach-buck-running-into-year-two-at-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623238\/","title":{"rendered":"1st and Now | Coach Buck &#8216;Running&#8217; Into Year Two At Helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">How does the head coach see this Lions squad heading into 2026? Matt and Nik welcome Buck Pierce into studio for a look at the overall roster, Nathan Rourke&#8217;s quest for bigger things and the organization&#8217;s quest to take the next step. Buck also talks about what has kept him busy away from the office this winter. The fellas also preview special teams, next week&#8217;s Canadian and Global Drafts and wrap it up with our trivia and Go For It Or Punt segments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the head coach see this Lions squad heading into 2026? Matt and Nik welcome Buck Pierce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-623238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}