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NFL Wildcard Weekend: Key Matchups to Watch


Sunday/ Funday begins for me. It is Wildcard Weekend in the NFL, and I enjoy the NFL and it’s playoff format, but, I also know if it continues to put it’s playoff games on pay streaming services, it will lose viewers. It isa matter of being overly greedy for the NFL. They should back down to the main stations they used before of CBS, NBC and ABC, allowing the people to view said Playoff games for free, bolsters the NFL. Forcing people to pay to see these games, will hurt the league overall, in quick time.

That said, The Games on Prime were good games both, that ended up in lip-sided wins for the two teams that won. The Ravens proved they are a team to be dealt with and a clear front runner for the Championship. The Texans have proven they are the young upstart team, rising and a threat, to challenge also. The two teams that lost on Saturday are disappointing in many ways to me. I thought the Chargers would contend at least and Herbert throwing four interceptions, greatly disappointed me. The Steelers, were on a four game losing streak and they had lost their mojo during that streak and never recovered it.

Today there are three games to be played. The first at 1 pm, will be the Broncos and Bills in Buffalo. While the Broncos show great promise and area strong team, the young Quarterback Bo Nix may decide this game, at least for them. Yet, I doubt Denver can go into Buffalo and survive, never mind win. Josh Allen a powerful Quarterback who has shown he can overcome if needed, and he controls the ball. Now the real question will not be points in this game, but who can stop the other teams offense. Buffalo has shown it’s defense is one that will fight back, and Denver’s Defense has improved over the season. Who gets to the opposing Quarterback more and gets the turnovers may indeed determine who wins. In my opinion, I say Buffalo based on Josh Allen, and the Buffalo Defense. We shall see.

At 4;30 pm, today the Packers will ramble into Philly and the Eagles may face the challenge of the Season in them. The Eagles are a great team, but, how will Jalen Hurts be and will he play first question. Second question can the Eagles be stopped by The Packers defense, I think so, if not stopped they may be held down, if Hurts is out or not fully healthy. of all the games this Wild Card weekend, this one may be the most interesting. If Jordan Love plays up to speed and his receivers do too, add in the running game and it may be a knock down, drag em out game. Barkley is running at his best in his history and he will be rested for this game. Yet I remind all, one running back will not win this alone. I expect this to be a game of hit and repeat and back and forth here. maybe the most competitive of all. Who would i take, if i were a betting man, well, don’t be too surprised here if the Packer find a way. Just my opinion of course.

Now, comes a very interesting contest in my view at 8 pm est. As the Commanders re-enter the playoff picture, with a Quarterback who has shown not only promise and skill, but a clear determination to never surrender of give up. The Commanders have their Quarterback for now and ther future in Jayden Daniels, the man can run, he is poised, he has a rocket arm and he is smart enough not to throw interceptions left and right. What of the Buccaneers though, right. Well, The Bucs are actually a team that made the playoffs in my opinion because another team crumbled. Baker Mayfield is an experienced Quarterback yes. He has numerous weapons at his disposal and he is not afraid to run if needed. Again, we come down to a game I believe that will be determined by mistakes and turnovers here. Can Mayfield hold the ball and not throw interceptions and can he move it against a pretty strong defense in the Commanders. I think as a overall look at this game can show, it will come down to turnovers and The Commanders defense, can they get to Mayfield? we shall see, I think this may be the second best game of the Wild Card Weekend right here. Yes the Commanders are a up and coming team, and may be a surprise here.

The Final Wild Card weekend game will be on Monday evening, in Arizona of all places due to the wild fires in LA. When the Vikings and Rams line up head to head, this could be a shoot out, at the OK Corral so to say. Stafford has a rocket arm and so does the Viking’s Darnold. Both teams are full of great receivers and have decent runners. Defense wise who holds the advantage here, may determine the game and who moves on. Now before I go on, I have been a Viking’s fan, since I was a child and that will never change for me. Yet, i am also a realistic person here, so I know the teams problems and faults, even under Kevin O Connell. The Vikings, while a team with a 14 and 3 record, need to be motivation big time to beat the Rams here. Sadly, they slooch off at times and think, it will be easy and do not play full out. They shoot themselves in the foot many times, by giving up the ball, and their defense not having the energy to hold at the end of games. You can say what you want, but, I know, the Vikings well, and sadly, that defense, losing energy in the fourth quarter. The Rams no matter their record are a very dangerous team, Stafford can pick apart a secondary and their running game is not easy to stop. never mind the imagination and skill of their coach. The Rams have many major weapons in Kupp, Pucuna, and their running game too. This game is going to be determined by the Vikings defense or lack of it, and if it can play up to the task. The last time the Vikings were able to do so, was when the Purple People Eaters were strong and good. is there enough in the Viking’s motivation and engine to carry them here or not. If they falter here, what will happen to the vikings future? as to the Rams they have won before, they have experience on their side and a Quarterback in Stafford who has driven this road before. Is Sam Darnold, a Quarterback who can play without mistakes, and move the team to score well? Can Darnold play, and show he can win here, or will Vikings fans be disappointed once more? The Vikings proved they did right by letting Cousins go, just look at what happened to Atlanta. But, did the Vikings find a Quarterback in Darnold good enough to carry them forward in the playoffs. Monday evening will tell us all of it, folks. And if Sam Darnold wants a new contract in Vikings land or elsewhere, he will have to prove he can win, and play well. This could be make or break for Sam Darnold and his career in the NFL.

O.J. Simpson’s Ending


Yesterday OJ Simpson passed from cancer, at home with his family surrounding him, in the comfort of his own bed. As we all know, his trials for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, had so many Americans transfixed to television and the case. Many Americans of all colors and races, believed OJ Simpson was indeed guilty, and others did not understand the science involved in this case. DNA was relatively new and the explanation of it in court, was confusing at the time, and too many misunderstood the evidence.

While few recall all of the trial, that is now being gone over again, the science and DNA, contained and shown in the trial, really proved OJ Simpson did these murders. Why did he get off, in this case, that mesmerized the people of this nation, it was in an era of racial tension. If not for the racial element of his case and the atmosphere in America at the time, he would have been convicted and locked away for life or, given a death sentence at the time.

After the murder trial, Simpson was found civilly responsible for the deaths and ordered to pay the families. Yet he paid very little to either rof them over the years and dodged it all. The book he wrote and the Goldman family published, gave them some funds, and it ultimately showed that Simpson had committed the murders and gotten away with it. Sadly, America allowed him to walk away, and live his life to an extent, until he was later convicted for other crimes and jailed.

Now that he is dead at 76 years old and gone, will it ever be known all he did, and how he really did it? The case still divides the nation, but, sadly, it more than likely always will. But, the opinions on it have shifted and many more of both white and black Americans believe he was guilty as sin. I know for me, my opinion never changed from the first day I heard of the murders, and saw the White Bronco chase. If he wasn’t guilty, why run, why write a letter the way he did ? The gloves did fit even if they were shrunken from rain and weather. The blood in the bronco and so much more all pointed at Simpson, period. There never was another suspect and never shall be. Sadly, O.J. Simpson got away with murder back then, and most Americans know it now. What is sad is the remaining member sof the victims families and how they have had to live with it all, missing their relatives over all that time. Evena fter spending years in jail, and being forced to live in Las Vegas and Nevada, Simpson, wasa glory hound living off his I’ll gotten gains and his prior reputation as a sports star and actor. Right up until nearly his end he video taped himself thanking his fans for asking about him and keeping track of him. He knew he got away with murder and how he did it, and he smiled about it till his end.

I just want to say this, O.J. Simpson wasa great, running back in the NFL, that can never be taken from him, nor can his acting career. But, in contrast and reality, Simpson, also did crimes and murders, and his passing should not be celebrated. Discussed yes, dissected yes, honored no. The saddest part of Simpson’s life is that he ruined it for himself and all around him. His fall from public grace and tumbling from great heights to the bottom rung in lifem was not caused by others, the law, or the courts, it was caused by O.J. Simpson himself. The fact is he knew he leaves behind children, who must live their lives, trying to not discuss, hide and avoid their father’s reputation and crimes. He put that on his own children, and sadly they have no way of escaping that cloud he left over his family, children and in history ! In the end, O.J. Simpson destroyed his own life, the lives of the Brown family and Goldman family, He destroyed his own children’s futures too, for they must now live with all he did. They will be blamed for his actions or at least looked at as being a criminal and murders offspring, attached to them. There is no clear way for them to prove their father didn’t do it and for them to fully escape all he did. I feel sorry for his children, they did not ask for what they have to live with, that’s for sure. As they prepare to bury him, and have to pay for it all, they must feel the shame and pain he brought up on them heavily, in all ways. I hope they can find a way to live in peace, and not let his actions hurt their lives in the future.

Three disturbances, that bother us all!


     Good Thursday Morning America!

There are three things that disturb and concern me today as I wake up slowly and look at the news this am!

1) Terror Organizations and the existence of such groups. They are abundant in the Mid-East part of the world and wish to threaten everyone they can for either political or religious reasons. They say the Koran tells them to attack and terrorize people and eliminate people and races. Wrong no where in your Koran does it say that! Part two, why are you attacking countries who want nothing to do with you? Leave them be!  Thirdly as a British citizen told me,  and a Canadian too agreed, it is time the USA, Canada, Britain and other Democratic republics stop policing the world and take care of our own. We can not continue to police the world and then feed our own poor, homeless and ill can we?  I also noticed that those who object to my way of thinking on this subject, never served in the military and never will or could, due to choice or laziness or illness. So that is why they think it is easy to do, it is not their asses on a ship, plane, climbing or hiking across a country full of people who hate them, it’s an honorable man or woman doing it. So if you never served, don’t speak about military missions ok, you don’t know jack about being shot at, or trying to survive in hostile territory.

  2) Veteran Hospitals, I am tired of CNN, and all the major news agencies on television reporting on the accidents or malpractice of these hospitals. The truth is these hospitals save veterans and keep them alive each day, a lot more than they make mistakes or cause anyone’s death. leave them be you want to help and are concerned, then give them more money and equipment and hire more medical professionals to man them. They are under manned by Doctors, Nurses and Technicians, why because Uncle Sam pays so much less than civilian hospitals do. Wake up!  While on this subject, I go to the Veteran’s Hospital in West Haven Connecticut for all my care, last year they saved my life, by first finding cancer in my lungs, in a survey they did of people with cancer history in families. My primary care provider found the cancer and one month later they took a lobe and one-third of my right lung, removing the cancer and saving my life. They follow me and have been watching me and will be for at least five years. So, don’t tell me about Veteran’ Hospitals and their faults or problems, if it is misuse of funding ok, as to performance of the Doctors, Nurses, Technicians, no way you can say they don’t do their jobs. Leave them be and give them more money and help, don’t knock them down.

         3)Final subject for today; The National Football League and its interference, in the personal lives of its players. Listen closely now to what I am about to say folks, I am a NFL Fan for sure and have been all my life ok. And I firmly believe no woman or child should be hit or physically or mentally harmed period, but do we really need to be in each players personal life? I understand  if a player is arrested or picked up on a warrant for harming a child or woman, they need to be prosecuted to the fullest and not allowed to play football in the league, but, if not convicted in a court of law of said crimes, one must remember this is America they are innocent until proven guilty. And to sit them down or remove them from their jobs and not letting them work or provide for their families during the charges or trial is wrong. Until convicted by a jury of their peers folks , they are innocent until it’s proven.  Now, that said and done I admire The NFL for doing it’s job to the fullest in these cases and reacting, but they have taken too long to do so really, these domestic violence cases abound in the NFL and the world. It’s time, they stop!  Violence toward women or children is wrong period and we know it, we are not stupid, so wake up folks, this is a disease of the world’s society and is abundant in it, We need to stop it fast and hard and make penalties more severe regarding it all.  

My closer here today is a link to my latest little effort in writing, produced by my wife on Amazon’s e-books:

 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N1W3J5M- The Blogs On Life

   If you like my Blogs, my wife assembled some in book form, please check it out!

 


      I wrote a little book I call;  “Men Do Cry”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HUC737O    43 people have read it so far in a day and a half online and say it is a story many people men and women should know and understand and is a decent read, please try it! Next I am currently starting a book I call currently Blackness, it is becoming a Naval Agent story I hope will sell for me, but time shall tell.

        This is Super Bowl Week in The NFL, and only two teams remain active now. The Seattle Seahawks of the NFC and the Denver Broncos of the AFC, both teams which are now in New York getting ready for their contest on Sunday. Two teams that were built for this chance to win a Championship and both hoping and preparing like there is no tomorrow, because there will be none till next August when pre-season starts again. You have Peyton Manning and his high- powered offense for Denver, playing against Seattle’s vaunted defense and corner backs. On the other side a young Russel Wilson will lead the Seahawks against a defense for Denver that is underrated but also good. It will be a matter of mistakes in this one folks, and a matter of the running backs in this game. If Lynch can run and keep Manning off the field Seattle stands a good chance to win, the less time Peyton has with the ball the better Seattle’s chances. On the other hand, Peyton doesn’t need much time to score, this will not be a simple game but one of hard- hitting plays I am sure. Personally, I can’t be sure who will win this game come Sunday Night, but due to future reputations and Hall of fame considerations in the future I favor Peyton Manning and the Broncos, if the Broncos win it all, he will have insured his status  for the Hall of Fame NFL style and he already has all the records he needs.