If it weren’t because we are in the season dubbed the greatest of allRight now we would be talking about the end and the possible winners of MVP awards, offensive of the year, rookies, etc.
But there is still one more week on the calendar. The first Sunday of 2022 he left several teachings, some more important than others:
On Friday afternoon, on New Year’s Eve, the population of several Ohio cities had to deal with a severe sporting blow that broke several hundred hearts: The University of Cincinnati Bearcats couldn’t finish their Cinderella story when the powerful Alabama program he overwhelmed them in the semifinals of the NCAA Playoffs.
On the second day of 2022, smiles returned to the Cincinnati area.
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Things that although close are distant.
And it is that the football fans in the city appreciated how Bengals against most odds –here we did believe in his triumph— defeated the Chiefs with a couple of players who are turned into the biggest threat a defense can face today.
Just as it can be threatening and horrifying to any of us standing on the scale and learning the weight gained during the holiday season, It is for a back or linebacker to see Joe Burrow and Ja´Marr Chse.
The Bengals overcame a 14-point deficit to defeat Kansas City, 34-31, and took the North title for the first time since 2015.
This team that last season finished last in its division, now he’s on his way to the postseason. And they do it with style.
Burrow continues his supernatural game.
After throwing for 525 yards last week and four touchdowns, he was about to do it again, hitting 30 of 39 for 446 yards and four more touchdowns. Not only are they the best back-to-back games in Bengals history, but they aree was just four yards from the two most prolific games in a row in NFL history.
Burrow has 971 passing yards in his last two games, beating Phil Simms with 945 in weeks 5-6 of 1985. Dak Prescott is the only one to beat him with 974 yards in weeks 3-4 of 2020.
With 266 receiving yards Sunday, Chase outscored Jerry Butler. (255 receiving yards on Sept. 23, 1979) in the most receiving yards by a rookie in a game.
These pair of players have returned the smiles to a hobby used to the great disappointments.
The Buccaneers are flat on the field and bumpy off the field.
For the third consecutive week the Buccaneers played at the level of their opponents and it was a very low. They barely beat the weak Jets in a game where eThe drama was put by Antonio Brown when he left the field. The good news is that Tom Brady continues the good habit of guiding his teams when they have a deficit on the scoreboard.
The downside is that the level of play like that of the Jets, they won’t find it in the postseason.
Ubicatex a los Cowboys
A week ago I read in some media specialists about NFL saying that the Cowboys scared the rest of the NFC for the biblical beating of Washington. Nothing further from reality.
The Cowboys had a chance to remain the NFC’s second seed with a win entering the final week of the regular season. They are now fourth in the standings and could probably see the Cardinals again in the wild card round.
The Cardinals ended a streak three consecutive defeats thanks to productive displays from both sides of the ball. The offense played as well as it has in weeks, and the defense kept a team that racked up 56 a week ago to less than half.
Advance Wild Card Game
All the Chargers needed was a win (along with losses to the Dolphins and Ravens) to get back into the playoff bracket. Now we have a showdown next week between the Chargers and the Raiders for a wild card spot in the AFC playoffs.
The streak of the Dolphins was useless
So far the brave Dolphins playoff run. His seven-game winning streak was stopped at Nashville, when Mike Vrabel’s team relentlessly leaned on the rush for 198 yards in 40 attempts.
Miami is already thinking of September 2022.
