And then there were four! The first two rounds of the playoffs have been finished and we are all set to see which teams will make the trip to Tampa Bay for the big game.
So let’s recap all the Divisional Round matchups and break down the conference title games in detail!
NFL Wild Card recap:
The first round of the playoffs is in the books and the two Super Wild Card triple-headers did not disappoint at all. Let’s recap what happened over the weekend and preview the Divisional Round matchups!
Timestamps for individual matchups are in the description!
Previewing the 2021 CFP National Championship game:
The two teams meeting in this year’s national title game took very different paths to get here. The SEC (together with the ACC) was one of only two conferences to basically start the season “on time” and Alabama played ten regular season games, to go along with beating Florida in a shootout in the SEC title game and a convincing 31-14 win over Notre Dame in the CFP semifinal of the Rose Bowl. Ohio State on the other hand had three of their eight regular games canceled due to COVID concerns and it took the Big Ten to change their rules about the minimum amount of games played to qualify for a spot in the conference championship game, which they struggled with Northwestern through three-and-a-half quarters, but then surprisingly lit Clemson up 49-28 in the Sugar Bowl, to make it to the big game.
All those different factors that have led to the Crimson Tide and Buckeyes meeting in the CFP final don’t matter now, because while people may want to put an asterisk to this very unique season, in the end one of these teams can call themselves national champions. So now let’s see how these two teams match up and what I believe will happen. I will have one paragraph each for one team’s offense, the defense they are facing and how some of the matchups may favor either side, then I give you one X-factor for each team and finally get to my score prediction.
NFL week 17 recap:
All 256 regular season games are now in the books and we’ve recapped every single one of them on this channel. In week 17 we saw which double-digit win team would be left out of the AFC playoffs and which sub-.500 team would win the NFC East, plus another 8-8 team that sneaked in despite a loss. It was the return of the old-school run game, with Derrick Henry reaching 2000 rushing yards on the season, Jonathan Taylor going off for an NFL season-high 253 yards and the Ravens being only the second team in the Super Bowl era to rush for over 400 in a game.
NFL week 16 recap:
This pen-ultimate week of the NFL’s regular season has brought on a lot of changes with playoff implications. I hope everybody enjoyed their holiday season, the four days of football and won your fantasy championship! Let’s break down everything that happened!
Ten biggest omissions for the 2021 Pro Bowl:
It’s Christmas time and it’s time some players get the love they deserve, but didn’t get from Pro Bowl voters.
I have a problem with the voting process in general, already because pass-rushing outside linebackers are still in the same category off-ball players, but this year in particular the NFL’s ballot were pretty ridiculous – whether it’s not even showing comma numbers, listing players by categories that shouldn’t be as relevant or even having kickers all with a perfect 100 percent rate for a while, while listing them by total makes rather than percentage altogether.
Considering that, the results weren’t as bad as I thought they might be, because the choices for a few positions are just so much straight-forward, but there are a few glaring omissions
While most people just throw out names of players they like, but don’t tell you who they’d take off, I’m looking for actual solution here. So I will keep names like Ryan Tannehill or Justin Herbert, who are both certainly worthy, in the honorable mentions, because the three AFC quarterbacks are just amazing in their own right.
NFL week 15 recap:
We’re coming off an eventful week 15 that saw the Jets win their first game of the season, the Patriots ensuring they will finish with a losing record for the first time since 2000, a great showdown between two former Oklahoma QBs and a potential Super Bowl preview with Chiefs @ Saints.
Enjoy the recap and Merry Christmas everybody!!
NFL Power Rankings heading into the final three weeks of the 2020 season:
As crazy as this sounds, we are only three weeks away from the NFL playoffs and the picture is starting to manifest itself. In this breakdown I’m ranking all 32 teams and I use different tiers to describe how I feel about them. While there are plenty of statistics to support the cases I want to make for them, I tried to limit those to a smaller degree, because at this point of the season it’s all about what I have learned from studying them every week and what my eyes tell me.
Here we go:
NFL week 14 recap:
All 32 games were back in action for week 14 and it’s time to recap every single matchup! We had quite a few blowouts, but also another major upset from an NFC East team and what many people have called the Game of the Year.
Top five college players at every position – Defense edition:
Just like I mentioned last week with the offensive edition, I put out my rankings of the top five at every position as collegiate players, rather than solely draft prospects. The criteria remains the same – must have played at three games this season, no season-long opt-outs or players that were knocked by injuries for the rest of the year early on. So this list doesn’t include names like Gregory Rosseau, Micah Parsons or Caleb Farley, which could all end up being top ten draft picks.
Make sure to check out my rankings of the top offensive players and my in-depth breakdown of every game of NFL week 13!
