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Tampa Bay travels to Green Bay this week to determine who will represent the NFC in this year's Super Bowl. During Aaron Rodgers' storied career, it's easy to forget that he has played in and won the Super Bowl just once. It was back in the 2010-2011 season when he defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25. Rodgers has only made it to the Conference Championship game four times, in 2010, 2016 2019, and 2020. Tom Brady is 9-4 in Conference Championship games and is 6-3 in the Super Bowl. The...
Due to the Seahawks upset last week, Green Bay will host the Rams instead of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Los Angeles Rams had three key players injured last week. John Wolford is day to day with a neck injury, defensive tackle Aaron Donald is expected to play despite a rib injury, and Cooper Kupp should play with bursitis in his knee. Again, the question is, who will be the Rams starting quarterback. Will it be Jared Goff, recovering from recent thumb surgery, or John Wolford, who didn’t make i...
This week Seattle hosts the Los Angeles Rams in what will be their third matchup this season. Seattle lost the first game in Los Angeles 23-16 in a game that Russell Wilson had two interceptions and a fumble but no touchdowns. Seattle won the rematch in Seattle 20-9 behind Wilson’s two touchdowns, one throwing, one rushing. The biggest question coming into this game is who will be the starting quarterback for the Rams. Jared Goff or John Wolford? Jared Goff had surgery to stabilize a broken r...
If it seems like I’ve been writing a lot of articles about Baseball Hall of Famers that we’ve lost this year, it’s because I have. Phil Niekro makes number seven; he passed this week at age 81. He got a late start on his baseball career. He couldn’t manage to stay at the major league level until he was 21 years old; however, he would go on to pitch 20 more years until the age of 48. He bounced between the majors and minors for so long due to control problems with the pitch that would eventua...
With last week’s win over the Rams, the Seahawks have won the NFC West and are guaranteed the #3 seed for the NFL playoffs. They can move up to the #2 seed with either a Saints or Packers loss this week or to the #1 seed if both teams lose their games this week. The NFL smartly groups the last games of the season into time-slots so teams won’t know the outcome of other games critical to their playoff chances. The Saints, Packers, and Seahawk games all start at the same time on Sunday. The Green Bay Packers game against the Chicago Bears wil...
With last week’s win over the Washington Football Team, the Seahawks have secured a place in the NFL Playoffs. Instead of going over this week’s matchup with the Rams, I thought I’d go through the various playoff scenarios for Seattle instead. The other teams to keep an eye on the next couple of weeks are the Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams, Arizona Cardinals, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let’s start with the best case for Seattle. That would be clinching the #1 seed in the playoffs. For that to happen, Seattle has to...
This week Seattle travels to Landover, Maryland, to play the Washington Football team. Washington is 6-7 for the year and is now in first place for the NFC East after winning their last four games. Seattle can clinch a playoff spot with one more victory during the regular season. While Seattle’s three remaining games are important for playoff seeding, this is a game the Seahawks could lose and still win their division by finishing off the season with wins against the Rams and 49ers. Starting q...
After an upset loss to the New York Giants last week, the Seahawks have dropped down to the fifth seed in the playoffs. If the Seahawks end the season as the fifth overall seed, they would have to travel to New York for a rematch against the Giants in the first round of the playoffs. The December 27th game in Seattle against the Rams will likely determine the NFC West division winner this season. This week the Seahawks host the New York Jets. The Jets are now 0-12 on the year after a...
Seattle’s win last week, coupled with San Francisco’s win over the Rams, put the Seahawks into first place in the NFC West. It also moved them up three positions into the second seed for the playoffs. Only the New Orleans Saints are ahead of them with a 9-2 record. Being the top seed in the playoffs is more important than in past years with the expanded playoffs in place this year. Since seven teams in each conference make the playoffs this year instead of six, it means only the top seed will ge...
The Seahawks win last week over the Cardinals and the Rams win over Tampa Bay gives both teams an identical 7-3 record with six games left to play. Seahawks fans may have been hoping for the Buccaneers to beat the Rams in the Monday Night Football game, but the result could ultimately help the Seahawks playoff seeding. As I mentioned last week, Seattle’s schedule is favorable for the next four games playing the Eagles, Giants, Jets, and Washington. After that, they have two remaining division games. One at home against the Rams could decide t...
What a difference a few weeks can make. The last time these teams met, Seattle was 5-0 and on top of the NFC West division. The Seahawks have gone 1-3 since, including the overtime loss to Arizona, and find themselves in a three-way tie with the Cardinals and Rams with a 6-3 record. Since Seattle has lost to both these teams, they currently would not hold the tiebreaker to determine a division title or wild-card spot. A loss in this game would start to complicate Seattle’s post-season ambitions....
This week Seattle travels to Buffalo to play the AFC East leading Bills. The Bills are 6-2 this year and just came off a big win against the New England Patriots, who they hadn’t won a game against since 2016. At this point, Buffalo looks like a playoff team; however, they are a team that does a lot of things well but nothing exceptional. At quarterback for Buffalo is Josh Allen. Allen was the seventh overall pick in the 2018 draft. Now in his third season in the NFL, Allen has put up some i...
Seattle hosts the San Francisco 49ers this week. This is the first game against San Francisco this year, and they won’t play again until the last week in the regular season. If Seattle doesn’t want that to be a meaningful game, they need to win this one. Last week Seattle lost its first game of the year to Arizona in overtime. It was a game they let slip away. This week they play a 49ers team that is 4-3 on the season and continues to have injuries pile up on their roster. Running back Jeff Wil...
Seattle travels to Arizona to play the Cardinals this week. It will be Seattle’s first divisional opponent this season and also their most formidable opponent so far. Seattle is a slight favorite to win this game, but Arizona needs the win much more than Seattle at this point in the season. A Seattle win would propel the Seahawks to a 6-0 record and drop the Cardinals to 4-3 with the rematch in Seattle just a few weeks away in week eleven. For Arizona, like Seattle, the offense revolves around their quarterback Kyler Murray. The second year, t...
Three baseball Hall of Famers, Bob Gibson, Whitey Ford, and Joe Morgan, all passed away within nine days from October 2 to October 11. Together their combined careers spanned from 1950 to 1984. All won multiple World Series Championships. Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford (October 21, 1928 – October 8, 2020) Whitey Ford played his whole sixteen-year career with the New York Yankees. He was named to the All-Star team ten times and won six World Series for New York. He still holds Yankee team recor...
Seattle will host the Minnesota Vikings on NBC’s Sunday Night Football this weekend. It will be Seattle’s fifth matchup with a non-division opponent this year. Next week they will begin playing teams inside their division. This is a good matchup for Seattle as Minnesota is off to a poor, 1-3 start this season. Additionally, the Vikings have not had an effective passing team so far this season. Their primary strength is their running game, which Seattle will easily match with the Seahawks’ excel...
The Seattle Seahawks find themselves in first place in the NFC West with a perfect 3-0 record. This week they travel to Miami to face the 1-2 Miami Dolphins. This should be an easy win for Seattle even though Seattle is currently ranked last on defense in yards allowed per game and passing yards allowed. At quarterback for Miami is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick is with his eighth team and is playing in his sixteenth season in the NFL. He has a career record of 56-85-1, and his 2015 season with...
The Mariners’ chances to finish second place in the division and make the playoffs took a big hit last week when they had to travel to San Francisco and San Diego to play five games on the road. These games would have been played in Seattle if not for the hazardous air quality caused by wildfires. Losing four out of five of those games has them facing elimination against the Houston Astros in head to head play. With six games remaining in the season and a 24-30 record, the Mariners would need to sweep the series against Houston and win their f...
In week three, the Seahawks host the Dallas Cowboys at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. The game is on Sunday at 1:25 PM on FOX. Seattle has managed to win its first two games of the season due to great offensive performances by Russell Wilson. The defense has struggled to stop the passing game this year and lost two defense players last week to season-ending ACL surgery. Those players are Marquise Blair and Bruce Irvin. For Dallas, Dak Prescott has completed fifty-nine of eighty-six passes for...
In week two, the Seahawks will host the New England Patriots on Sunday Night Football. The nationally televised game is at 5:20 PM on NBC. The Patriots have had some roster changes; the biggest is new quarterback Cam Newton, who takes over for Tom Brady, who now plays for Tampa Bay. Cam Newton missed all but two games last year with the Carolina Panthers with a foot injury. He looked fine last week in New England’s win over the Miami Dolphins, completing fifteen of his nineteen passes for one h...
The Mariners have gone 14-7 in their last twenty-one games and find themselves in third place in the American League West. The Houston Astros, who are currently in second place, have gone 8-13 over their last twenty-one games and had a six-game losing streak in the middle of that span. This puts the Mariners just one and a half games behind the Houston Astros with twelve games left to play, including three games against Houston in Seattle. For Seattle to have a chance to move into second place and guarantee a playoff spot, they will probably ne...
Baseball lost two Hall-of-Famers this week. Tom Seaver and Lou Brock passed within six days of each other. Tom Seaver was seventy-five years old, and Lou Brock was eighty-one. During their careers, they would face each other one hundred and fifty-seven times. Brock hit .250/.274/.362 off of Seaver with ten doubles and a home run. Seaver struck Brock out twenty-one times and walked him four times in all of those at-bats. The two first met in a locker room before the 1967 all-star game. Tom Seaver...
The Mariners marketing department must be wondering if it is still a good idea to sell jerseys with names on the back. Dan Vogelbach, Taijuan Walker, Taylor Williams, Austin Adams, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Nola will all be wearing different uniforms next season. The Mariners were very active during this year’s trade deadline and have made deals with the Toronto Blue Jays and the San Diego Padres. Here is a breakdown of the trades starting with the two Toronto moves. Mariners acquired cash from the Toronto Blue Jays for Dan Vogelbach. D...
A disappointing two weeks find the Mariners in last place in the American League West. After a promising 4-4 start to the season, the Mariners have lost thirteen of the last sixteen games. Like in the previous year, pitching has been the issue. The team is currently allowing six runs per game, which ranks twenty-seventh out of thirty teams. Only the last-place Red Sox and Giants allow more runs per game. The next three series against the Dodgers, Rangers, and Padres will determine if the Mariners stay relevant past August in the AL West. The tr...
According to ESPN reporting, college football season will either be pushed back to start on September 26th or postponed until spring. What is certainly clear right now is that there is not a detailed league-wide plan to deal with the pandemic. Each college is making its own decision on whether or not to play. The NBA has succeeded so far with the “bubble” experiment in Orlando. MLB baseball, despite the cancellation of several games in the first week, has managed to keep their season going wit...
