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What a great week-end of the NFL Playoffs. Timmy Russert is looking down from heaven with that grin of his. Buffalo, Cleveland, and Tom Brady are advancing to the second round of tournament play.
Plus…the Thunder won their third in a row with a nice victory over Kevin Durant. I have to give Sam Presti some slack on this win. There is one supreme rule to tanking to this season….you never tank against either Kevin Durant or James Harden this season. You play those games to the death like it’s a Game 7. Especially with the Rockets who now occupy the 13th seed in the West with us having their first round pick unprotected beyond 1-4 in the draft. It was really a great game for the Thunder.
Gotta give Diallo and Shai a shout out… they were magnificent for the second game in a row.
Now… on to the national storylines which quite frankly are what I like to follow on my blog. The NHL season is getting ready to start as well. I’m doing more hockey this season since the Thunder are a third tier level story this NBA season. I’ll do my best to keep the Thunder involved in some storylines on my blog since the domain is okcthunderground.com.
This is a good season for the intern minions at the Daily Thunder to work on their craft and cultivate some uniqueness to their collective writing voices. Quit trying to copy Royce Young or Little Nick Gallo. Please evolve with your own unique writing voices and your own individual narratives. Blind lemming cult sychophants come a dime a dozen in these days of the Trump phenomenon…..just saying. 2nd Rule of Coaching–You Coach With Your Own Distinctive Character and Personality Traits. I’m trying to help you so your blog will be more interesting to read.
The Cleveland Football Browns cleared their slate of some demons past in Pittsburg with a 48-37 win over their hated rivals the Steelers last night.
From the point Odell Beckam Junior was injured and lost for the season the Browns turned themselves into a playoff team. Baker Mayfield answered all of his many detractors and got it done along with Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, Jarvis Landy, Miles Garrett, and an excellent offensive line. Rookie head coach Kevin Stefanski should be the NFL coach of the Year regardless of what the Buffalo Bills did this season.
For the first time in 18 years the Browns made the playoffs. For the first time in 26 years the Browns won a playoff game. And for the first time since 1969 the Cleveland Browns won a road playoff game.
Granted Patrick Mahomes and the world champion Kansas Chiefs await the Browns at Arrowhead… you never know. In a season in which the Covid pandemic cursed the Browns more than any other NFL team coming down the stretch—these Cleveland Browns showed a resolve completely out of character from recent Browns’ teams.
I would guess they’ll travel to Kansas City being somewhere around a nine or ten point road underdog, but you never know what can happen when a team gets hot coming out of the wild card round. Maybe Tyreke Hill or Kelce or even Mahomes get injured or have a Covid issue. You just never know and that’s why you go play the game. You throw a couple of haymakers and hope something lands. But what you really do is run the football with Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, and that marvelous offensive line. If you can run the football and not turn over the ball that’s what generally translates into NFL post season success.
But beyond the Browns…. look at the quarterbacks we as passionate NFL fans have moving into the seond round of the NFL Tournament. We have in this order in my ranking system 1 Patrick Mahomes, 2 Tom Brady, 3 Aaron Rodgers, 4 Drew Brees, 5 Lamar Jackson, 6 Josh Allen, 7 Baker Mayfield, and 8 Jared Goff.
And even with the LA Rams having the weakest quarterback still playing nobody wants to play that Rams’ defense. Green Bay better be ready play to play next week-end at Lambeau.
I will not leave the house at the Deer Creek ranch other than except for stocking up on pizza and taking Pauli out for search walks for the mountain lion which still haunts her. She can’t just let that go…she’s got some White Fang in her for certain. No beta in this diva lab.
What a great week-end week-end minus the tragedy in our Nation’s capitol.
Who would have thought Tim Russert up there with the NFL gods could even be contemplating an AFC Championship Game with the Cleveland Browns visiting Buffalo for the right to advance to the Super Bowl.
Tim Russert has a big grin on his face right now as does the NFL.