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As we wrap up week 17 in the NFL season, we have the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Buffalo Bills in which this game is for the number one seed in the AFC and it’s probably one of the biggest games of the season thus far. 

In the first quarter the Bengals scored a quick offensive touchdown with Tyler Boyd catching a 14 yard touchdown pass to take an early 7-0 lead, the Buffalo Bills drove down the field rather quickly and kicked a short yard field goal as they were shut out in the red zone. 

This game took a very shocking turn as Buffalo Bills safety, and second year player Damar Hamlin went down trying to tackle Bengals player Tee Higgins and took a massive hit as he was hit to the ground, and as he got up, Hamlin stood there for a couple seconds and fell backwards as he seemingly passed out, and potentially suffered a concussion when he fell backwards onto the field, hitting his head very hard.

With ambulances and medical officials rushing to the field, Hamlin’s condition was not looking good as he was reportedly getting CPR on the field and was essentially rushed to the Cincinnati hospital as he is reportedly in critical condition.

With all the Bills and Bengals players sending their prayers to Hamlin and his family, the rest of the world took to social media, sending out their thoughts and prayers as well. The NFL did release a statement saying they are postponing the game and will reschedule it further down the line.

My Prayers out for Damar Hamlin.

Week 17 in the NFL was nothing short of spectacular, some underdogs won and some teams are still on fire. Let’s go through my three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s games and why they should or shouldn’t be worried about their season.

NFC wildcard team dominance 

As the wildcard race in the NFC is coming down to the wire, essentially all of the wildcard teams have dominant wins to boost their chances of making the playoffs in the NFC. With the New York Giants clinching a playoff spot thanks to a win over Indianapolis, Green Bay blowing out the Vikings at home, the Seahawks with a dominant win over the New York Jets and lastly, the Detroit Lions blowing out division rival Chicago Bears. With the Packers, Lions and Seahawks all fighting for the last two playoff spots, this is all going to come down to the wire in week 18.

Raiders fall to 49ers in Overtime 

In a shocking game, we had a shootout between the Las Vegas Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers, with both teams starting below average quarterbacks. This game was an unexpected gem in the 4 o’clock window as the San Francisco 49ers edged out the readers 37-34 in overtime as they look to still fight for the number one seed in the NFC playoff bracket.

Dolphins and Eagles sputtering 

Are the Miami dolphins and Philadelphia eagles sputtering? With the Dolphins losing to the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles losing to the helpless New Orleans Saints, both teams may have peaked too early. Both teams are dealing with lots of injuries to their quarterbacks and roster all around with the Eagles losing to the Saints, they put themselves in a bad position as they give the rest of the NFC a chance for the number one seed, and Miami Dolphins most likely playing themselves out of the playoffs in a shocking fashion.

Today is the best day for a NFL fan, as every Sunday is considered NFL day during the football season. Let’s look at each game in time order being played on Sunday, predict the scores and outcomes. 

    Atlanta Falcons vs Arizona Cardinals

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 21-17 Falcons win 

    Detroit Lions vs Chicago Bears

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 28-27 Lions win

    Jacksonville Jaguars at Houston Texans

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 27-21 Jaguars win 

    Kansas City Chiefs vs Denver Broncos

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-20 Chiefs win

    Miami Dolphins at New England Patriots 

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 21-17 Patriots win

    New York Giants vs Indianapolis Colts

When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-20 Giants win

    Philadelphia Eagles vs New Orleans Saints 

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 27-21 Eagles win

    Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers 

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-23 Buccaneers win

Washington Commanders vs Cleveland Browns

When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-20 Commanders win

    San Francisco 49ers at Las Vegas Raiders 

    When: 4:05 PM ET

    Score: 31-17 49ers win

    New York Jets at Seattle Seahawks

    When: 4:05 PM ET

    Score: 24-23 Seattle wins

    Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers 

    When: 4:25 PM ET

    Score: 24-21 Vikings win

    Los Angeles Chargers vs Los Angeles Rams

    When: 4:25 PM ET

    Score: 24-20 Chargers win

    Baltimore Ravens vs Pittsburgh Steelers 

    When: 8:20 PM ET

Score: 24-21 Ravens win

With Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr being benched for the rest of the year and announcing he will be away from the team completely. It’s widely viewed around the league that Derek Carr will be available via trade, or he might be released. With a stacked free agent class of quarterbacks coming up this off season let’s go through my top three landing spots for who could and possibly should trade for Derek Carr.

New York Jets

The Jets make a lot of sense and are one of the teams linked to Derek Carr already, New York could make a big quarterback upgrade as they have one of the league’s best defenses and great offensive weapons that are young and cheap. Many view Derek Carr on this Jets roster as a possible playoff team and could potentially win a playoff game in a stacked AFC East division.

New York Giants

As the Giants are in a somewhat similar situation to the New York Jets, the Giants are probable to make the playoffs this season with a below average quarterback. The New York Giants have pieces on both sides of the ball that could help. With Carr on this roster he could win a lot of games. The Giants have a proven offensive head coach who looks like a guru on his side of the ball, Derek Carr could win a lot of games on a rebuilding Giants team that is in a terrible NFC conference, and a wobbly NFC east.

Indianapolis Colts

Another team that is widely linked to Derek Carr are the Indianapolis Colts, the Colts have a lot of great pieces on both sides of the ball with a great offensive and defensive line, the Colts are missing two of the biggest pieces on a championship team, as that is a head coach and a star quarterback. Even though the Colts don’t have a superstar wide receiver, they still have many good skill position pieces that are young in ascending, the Colts are also in a very wobbly division that could be up for grabs any year.

With week 17 starting in the NFL season, we have a primetime matchup of the Dallas Cowboys, taking on the Tennessee Titans on Amazon prime. With the Cowboys still fighting for higher playoff seeding, and the Tennessee Titans fighting for their playoff lives. Each team has extra motivation to win this game. Let’s go through each half of football and give my overall thoughts of the game.

In the first quarter the Dallas Cowboys scored rather quickly with a Ezekiel Elliott run into the end zone to give Dallas a 7-0 lead in the ball game, in the second quarter Dallas forced a fumble on the Titans that gave them great field position in Dallas came out with a field goal as they took a quick 10-0 lead. The Titans did drive down the field and kick two field goals to make it a one score game going into half time.

In the second half Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott struggled as he let the Titans stay in the game for the most part throwing two interceptions but with Dallas pulling away in the fourth quarter scoring 10 points with a Ezekiel Elliott rushing touchdown once again and a field goal this Dallas team put away the Titans late in the fourth. Cowboys tight end Dalton Schultz had a really nice game as he had two touchdowns and has really made a late season push as to why he should get paid in free agency this summer.

Overall, my prediction was right as I had the Cowboys winning rather comfortably. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Tennessee Titans on Thursday night football 27-13 as Dallas advances to 12-4 as the Tennessee Titans fall to 7-9 and likely have lost their playoff hopes.

Future football Hall of Famer, JJ Watt has announced on Instagram that he is retiring from the NFL after this season is finished. After playing his last NFL home game in the Cardinals stadium white announces retirement the next day and took the football community by storm with essentially every fan, media member and players reacting to his retirement post with gratitude and appreciation for the player he is.

Watt is a no brainer Hall of Famer as he is going down as one of the best defensive lineman to ever play the game, Watt is a 12 year veteran who played 10 seasons with the Houston Texans, who originally drafted him in 2012 with the number 11 overall pick in the draft and his last two seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. JJ has accumulated over 111 sacks, 27 forced fumbles, 313 QB hits, 191 tackles for loss and multiple touchdowns as a tight end on offense. 

JJ is a phenomenal player even late in his career with Arizona and his personal achievement in the NFL are some of the best buy any defensive player ever as he’s wrapped up five pro bowl selections, five all pro teams, a Walter Payton Man of the year award, 2010s Hall of Fame team and three defensive player of the year awards, which is a very short list of players who have achieved nearly half of what JJ has achieved.

With Watt having injury rattled seasons over the last half a decade and a heart scare most recently. It made sense for JJ to hang it up after this year, and be more with his family while he’s still young.

Capping off week 16 of the NFL season we have the Los Angeles Chargers taking on the Indianapolis Colts. With the Chargers clinching a playoff birth with a win tonight, they’ll look to win this game and make the playoffs for the first time since 2018 when quarterback Phillip Rivers was on the team. Let’s go through each half of football and give my overall thoughts on this game.

        In the first quarter this game was a really slow game as each team struggled to get any offense going and even get in field goal range, but with the second quarter getting going both teams did in fact score, the Chargers scored with a nice Austin Ekeler run to the end zone to a early lead, the Colts then did score to make it a 7-3 game. The Chargers did in fact kick another field goal to make this game a touchdown difference going into halftime.

        In the second half this game was all about the Chargers as they scored another touchdown with Austin Ekeler running into the end zone once again. With this Chargers defense getting healthy over these last few weeks, they really shut down this bad Colts team and forced Colts quarterback Nick Foles into three interceptions to make this game a very lopsided win for Los Angeles.

Overall this game wasn’t even competitive in the second half as this Colts team coached by Jeff Saturday has been possibly the worst team in the league over his head coaching career. Chargers fans and players have to feel great as they beat the Colts 20-3 to clinch a playoff berth and continue their win streak. Colts fall to 4-10-1 as the Chargers advance to 9-6.

As we are in the midst of week 16 of the NFL season we had a huge slate of games on Christmas, and many great games that came down to the wire and some blowouts. Let’s recap each of the Christmas slate of games.

Green Bay keeps playoff hopes alive 

The Green Bay Packers live to see another day as they beat the Miami Dolphins 26-20 in Miami and keep their playoff hopes alive, with both quarterbacks really struggling in this game Aaron Rodgers came out on top with a decent running game and kept the Packers offense afloat. The Miami Dolphins on the other hand played poorly as quarterback Tua Tagovailoa really struggled and had three interceptions in this game, wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen waddle both had phenomenal days, but did the best they could to keep this Miami offense alive and get past this struggling Green Bay team.

Broncos get blown out by terrible Rams

Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos got blown out 14-51 by the Los Angeles Rams on the afternoon window, with Russell Wilson having one of his worst games of the year he had three interceptions, and the Broncos were down by over four scores going into halftime. Baker Mayfield had one of his best games in years as he had over a 80% completion percentage and a relatively clean game, this Rams offense worked great with Cam Akers having himself a game with three touchdowns, tight end Tyler Higbee had a great game also with two touchdowns, and just about 100 receiving yards, which is the best game he’s had maybe in his career.

Bucs survive OT thriller

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers survive a wild game against the helpless Arizona Cardinals as they win in overtime 19-16 off a game winning field goal. Both quarterbacks, Tom Brady and Trace McSorley really struggled in this game as they each had interceptions and couldn’t really find the end zone. The Buccaneers live to see another day as Tom Brady set up the game tying field goal to send the game to overtime and get the Bucs in field goal position in overtime as well. With both teams relying on their defense to win this game, the Bucs offense stepped up when it was needed.

As we are in the midst of week 16 of the NFL season we had a huge slate of games on Christmas eve, and many great games that came down to the wire and some blowouts. Let’s go through my top three takeaways from the Christmas eve slate of games.

    NFC wildcard still wide open

With essentially all the NFC wildcard teams all losing in Saturday’s slate of games, the race for the last two playoff spots in the NFC are going to come down to the wire as no team has pulled forward with a win in Saturday’s games. The Giants losing by a 61 yard field goal, the Lions getting blown out by the Panthers, the Commanders losing to the 49ers and Seattle also getting blown out by Kansas City, this playoff race will likely come down to week 18 and who can seemingly squeak out a win. 

Race for the 1 seed in the AFC still alive

With the Bills, Chiefs and Bengals all winning on Saturday this number one seed for the AFC playoffs is seemingly going to be a great watch as week count down these last few weeks in the regular season. Next week is going to be huge as the Buffalo Bills take on the Cincinnati Bengals in week 17 which will essentially shake up the AFC playoff chart and who will want to be what seed in the coming weeks.  

Cowboys top Eagles in wild shootout 

The Dallas Cowboys finally got their revenge as they beat the Philadelphia Eagles in a wild shootout. This game has been all the media and fans talked about over the last month, with the Cowboys beating Phili 40-34 they have locked up a playoff spot and have advanced in the playoff seeding. With Jalen Hurts missing this game it dropped his MVP case by a lot and essentially took him out of the MVP race, but with Hurts dealing with a shoulder injury sustained in last week’s game against the Bears, the Eagles are playing it safe, making sure Jalen is 100 percent for the playoffs. Credit to the Cowboys as quarterback Dak Prescott played a great game, throwing three touchdowns to just one interception.