NFL: Eagles, Bills, Vikings & Jeff Bezos

The 2022-23 NFL season is here, and crazy things have already begun to take place. The Bills have shown that they are capable of choking leads in the strangest ways, the Jets are a team that needs Bryce Young as soon as possible, the Packers and Buccaneers may not make the playoffs, and the Eagles are proving the doubters wrong, week by week, and sit atop the NFL. The new overtime rule for the postseason that states if a team gets the ball first and scores a touchdown, the other team will get a chance to score, might need to be put into place in the regular season. There have been a handful of overtime games this season where a team scored a touchdown on its first drive and the other team’s offense did not see the field. Most of these games, however, have gone down to the wire, such as Vikings @ Bills in Week 10. The Bills had dominated most of the game, but let the Vikings come back into it. They would get a huge stop on 4th down at the half yard line with 42 seconds left. The score was 27-23. All Josh Allen had to do was run it or throw a quick slant to get a first down, and it would be over. Somehow, the center and Allen mishandled the snap, and it resulted in a Vikings defensive TD. The Bills would get the ball back and get a field goal to tie at the end of regulation, but the Vikings pulled through and came out with a victory that included Justin Jefferson’s version of OBJ’s one-handed grab on a 4th&18. The Vikings recently got smacked by the Cowboys in Week 11 on their home turf on national television, 40-3. It was so bad that CBS switched the national broadcast to the Bengals-Steelers game because it was so atrocious. The Bengals are looking to get their WR1 Ja’Marr Chase back in Week 12 against the Titans. They are looking like they are starting to figure out some key pieces on their team and are gaining some momentum. The Chiefs are playing like the Chiefs per usual. The trio of Mahomes, Kelce, and coach Andy Reid are sitting atop the AFC currently and are looking really good without Tyreek Hill, who went to Miami and has made Tua and fellow WR Jaylen Waddle better. Waddle and Hill are in the top 5 in receiving yards, and Hill leads in the receptions category as well. Turning to the NFC Beast, the Giants are looking like they will make it to the playoffs for the first time since 2016. People are unsure if they are for real because they think the Giants have not played anyone, but they did beat the Ravens in Week 6. The Eagles are looking like the best team in the NFC, especially since the teams right behind them are teams that they beat in the Vikings and the Cowboys. The Cowboys have played well when the expectations are low, but when the pressure rises, they fall. They stomped the Vikings 40-3 because nobody was expecting too much of a beatdown. But when backup QB Cooper Rush was in, and Michael Irvin was calling him the next ‘Rush Hour,’ they would fall under the pressure against the Eagles in Week 6, and they also lost to the Bucs in Week 1, who have not looked their best this season. And the Commanders…well, let’s just say that the best thing that might happen to them this year is Dan Snyder leaving and Jeff Bezos arriving to take over ownership, possibly with Kevin Durant or Jay-Z. Heiniken is nice, but I don’t think that they will be able to make that 7th seed in the NFC. Last but not least, the Detroit Lions may make a late playoff push. They just lost to the Bills on Thanksgiving, but in a game where they picked off Allen multiple times and had a 3-point lead with 23 seconds left. Those 23 seconds would give Allen time to find the man out of Gaithersburg, MD, Stefon Diggs for a 40 yd gain that would set up a tying FG. The Bills would escape in OT, but not before Detroit showed they could hang with a top AFC team.