Five weeks, boys and girls. That’s it. Five weeks. 34 days. 840 hours. 50,400 minutes. I’d do seconds, but I Googled it and a number came up that I’d never seen before, so I’ll just stop here. You get the point.
This is crunch time, folks. While the Big J journos are trying to work in one final vacation before NASCAR returns, I’m up at 7 a.m. working my tail off for you because this column never sleeps. Never stops. No days off. No months off.
Sure, the pickins’ are slim right now in terms of topics, but whatever. That’s my problem, not yours.
Author: Michael
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The biggest game of the season might not happen in the Super Bowl.
There’s always that one game before the Super Bowl that we all wish was the Super Bowl. The contest between legendary quarterbacks, amazing teams, titans of the NFL — who just so happened to be locked in the same conference.
Normally it comes in the AFC or NFC Championship, but for the 2024 season we’re being treated to it a week early. The Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills are poised to give us the best game of the season, and in the Wild Card round, both teams proved why.
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Cam Newton has not suited up for an NFL team since 2022. While he hasn’t officially retired from football, he’s taken the inevitable next step in doing so by diving into reality television. The 35-year-old is one of 16 competitors on ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’ on Fox and wasted no time reminding the world of his freakish athletic abilities.
During the premiere episode, Newton found himself not only having to jump from a moving boat onto the landing skid of a helicopter, but pull himself up onto the moving chopper.
The NFL’s Wild Card Weekend? It was a work of art …
…drawn by a kindergarten class. In crayon.
Thank you, Washington Commanders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers for saving us from a complete set of disappointing games.
Otherwise, the NFL’s slate of games on Saturday and Sunday failed to deliver the kind of incredible drama the league has a reputation for routinely delivering.
One possession games, which the league brags about because it keeps interest high? Only the weekend finale on Sunday night had that.
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Where do the playoff losers go from here?
There’s still one more game left to play in the Wild Card round, but for the most part we have our divisional round matchups set. We have a titan battle between two MVP caliber QBs, and both No. 1 seeds enter the battle like Super Smash Bros. However, before we look forward to the Divisional Round, we have to look back in memory of the playoff teams lost.
For the losers, they enter an offseason where they were close, but not close enough to make it further.
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With an awesome team already and nearly all their own assets available to upgrade it, the Orlando Magic are ready to win now.
The Orlando Magic should be on the cusp of something special. Before his oblique injury, Paolo Banchero looked like the next thing. And then before his own oblique injury, Franz Wagner looked like the next-next thing. Jalen Suggs might be the next slightly-less-important thing, and it all seems like a perfect, patient draft rebuild in the style of the now-ascendant Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Diving into the contract status of every F1 driver ahead of the 2025 F1 season
The 2024 Formula 1 season began with a bit of history for hte sport. For the first in F1 history the drivers who finished the previous season were the same drivers who began the next.
That is certainly not the case as 2025 beckons.
Jay (@croucherJD) and Drew (@whale_capper) reca
Philly’s star WR didn’t load the box score Sunday. That’s OK, because thanks to a teammate’s recommendation, he’s accepted what he can — and can’t — control.