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Hacksaw’s Monday Bonus Podcast…1:30pm
You Tube-Lee Hacksaw Hamilton
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Alot of football..frantic 4th quarters…as I thought it would be a wild-Wildcard Weekend. What I saw-What I think:
CHARGERS-PATRIOTS
..It started bad-ended worse..Justin Herbert had no chance-no help from his offensive line..his receivers seldom got open..and the Chargers defense died in the 2nd half-gashed by 10-chunk plays in the second half…Herbert took a fierce pounding in the 2nd half…fumbled 3-times in the game..The rag tag OL allowed 6-sacks-12 pressures and 6-additional hits…Despite all that Herbet showed great moxie (159P-57R)..but Drake Maye kept making big plays (268P-66R)…He survived 5-sacks and made 13-chunk plays in the win…Herbert now (0-3) in his career in postseason..Herbert finishes the season with 60-sacks…231-pressures…135-hits.
RAMS-CAROLINA
..Courageous comeback by Matthew Stafford, playing with sprained finger on throwing hand…Survived alot of negative stuff around him….Sean McVay’s blown 4th down play call when a field goal would have given LA a (20-7) lead…Instead momentum changes-the Panthers roared back and took the lead…Stafford survived a 4th quarter full of blitzes…7-dropped passes…an unseemly 9-penalties for 83-yards…The Rams kept making mistakes-the QB bailed them out….But that is 4-straight road games they have not played well…Why does it feel as if the Rams are living on borrowed time?
BEARS-PACKERS…Amazing comeback by Chicago, or an amazing collapse by Green Bay…The Pack blew a (21-3) lead in the fourth quarter…Caleb Williams led 4-scoring drives in a row in the fatal 4th quarter, outgunning Jordan Love…The Packers pass rush disappeared and it took a 4th down stop on the final drive by the leaky Chicago defense to save the day after Williams won it for him…Bad taste in everyone’s mouth, towards Matt LaFleur’s failures at the end of the game and Ben Johnson’s ‘no class’ comments in the victors lockeroom.
49ers-EAGLES…Just too much Green for SF to defend..but that group did not play 60-minutes…The battered Niners survived all those injuries all season, then lost George Kittle…and survived 3-Brock Purdy turnovers and won…So bad by the middle of the 3rd quarter, Eagles fans were booing last year’s Super Bowl team….Hard to believe a team with Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, the wideouts Smith-Brown, the TE, not to mention the Eagles pass rush..lose…The Niners-so undermanned-so banged up..found a way to win.. So hard on Brock Purdy, once Philly put the lid on the run game-taking away Christian McCaffrey..but the team survived every-which way to pull off a 4th quarter shocker…The way the weekend went.
BILLS-JAGUARS…The best QB-biggest QB in the NFL put on a dazzling show…Josh Allen throwing, Josh Allen running, Josh Allen leading the Bills to a really tough win in Jacksonville…Some 4th quarter, backs to the wall, hits a key 36Y-pass…backs to the wall on a must get 4th down-QB sneak-he goes for 10-yards and eventually got into the end zone…First road playoff win in 33-years (1992)…Allen now had 42-TDs this season.
HOUSTON-PITTSBURGH….You wonder if the Texans will give the Steelers a dose of their own medicine-beat them with their brand of defense….Aaron Rodgers has had a good season and gotten better and better as the season has moved on-but this is a 47-sack Houston defense with 29-takeaways…How many scoring drives can Rodgers put together?
Some wildcard weekend and now Denver and Seattle join the party next weekend
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