With Super Wildcard Weekend upon us, it was time for me to give you my full predictions, leading all the way up to Super Bowl LVII. I analyze all 14 teams, break down each matchups schematically and give my reasoning for who I think advances.
Of course the very first thing I saw once I finished recording were the news on Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa already being ruled out for this weekend. So a couple of my thoughts on him are irrelevant for now, but it doesn’t really change anything.
What’s happening readers!! Happy 2023!! It’s been a while since my last written review and I apologize for that but I’m back and my first screening of the year was a fun flick!!
This past Wednesday I attended an early screening of the latest horror thriller from Blumhouse. I’m a fan of the studio so when I saw the trailer last year I was in. The PG-13 rating was a bit of a disappointment but the movie was a good time. The story is familiar (see the Child’s Play remake) but overall enjoyable in my opinion. In the film a robotics expert named Gemma becomes caretaker of her niece Cady after a tragic car accident. Gemma has a hard time bonding with Cady and helping her deal with grief so she decides to use M3GAN, an android equipped with artificial intelligence, to befriend Cady and hopefully make her happy.
Things go well between Cady and M3GAN at first, but as M3GAN learns more she becomes obsessive and deadly in her protection of Cady. What happens next….well you’ll have to find out for yourself.
I enjoyed M3GAN! It was a good time at the screening and I’d watch it again. It’s a film that’s perfect for a discount day or a matinee. I thought this movie would have an R rating but the director toned down the gore and language to make it PG-13. It still worked but I won’t be surprised if there’s an unrated cut when it released on dvd/blu-ray. Gruv.com already has the film available for pre-order.
It’s going to be a fun cinematic year! Stay tuned for my 2022 Cinematic Review….coming soon!
Check my live review of M3GAN here: https://www.facebook.com/MoviesWithMigs/videos/5413287918773430
CHEERS!
Migs Rodriguez
I struggled to just let this write-up flow as I was typing it up, once I had collected all the information, due to the remaining uncertainty about the health of Bills safety Damar Hamlin. This is a major challenge for all parties involved and what actually happens on the field seems secondary right now, but NFL life goes on and maybe just talking some ball will be welcome change for people, who don’t quite know how to deal with all of this. Plus, we’re continuing to get positive news about the young man, thankfully. I actually couldn’t state some things definitely, as it pertains to the effect of remaining regular season games on the final playoff picture.
There’s one more week left in the 2022 regular season, to finalize the playoff picture and upcoming matchups, along with whatever the NFL does with the Bills-Bengals matchup. Before we get into those and the specific X’s and O’s, I wanted to look at all the teams in the running and talk about the ten biggest strengths or most dangerous elements across them. All but one of these groups associated with them have already clinched a playoff spot, along with the Dolphins, who will host the Jets in basically a pick’em this Sunday and need a win in combination with the Bills beating the Patriots – a matchup that still brings some questions with how relevant it will be for playoff seeding. Still, therefore Miami actually has a slightly higher chance at a Wildcard spot than their division rivals.
So without any further proclamations, here are the ten elements that stood out most to me from this pool:
Breaking down how the Panthers gashed the Lions defense for a franchise-record 320 rushing yards, along with some of the wrinkles they installed off that!
We’re just three weeks away from the regular season being wrapped up and as I went through the remaining schedule, there’s literally just one game left with zero playoff implications and two others that by all likelihood will have no impact at all. Therefore, I decided to break down a bunch of these different scenarios, by formulating five questions that are most prevalent as it pertains to the ultimate playoff picture, and handing out my predictions for how I believe things will play out.
Once again, I want to thank playoffpredictors.com, for helping me not go completely insane as I went through this exercise, working through all the different possibilities and having to go down the steps of tie-breaking procedures, depending on two or three teams having the same record, etc.
I decided to not make a separate point for “who will earn the final Wildcard berth in the AFC”, since the Chargers have a playoff probability of about 80+ percent and the Ravens sit above 98% right now. So really it should be a three-headed race between the AFC East teams not named Buffalo, and since I don’t have much belief in the Patriots, this will most likely come down the season finale between the Dolphins and Jets, as the atter would hold the head-to-head tiebreaker with a win and same record ultimately. A paragraph was enough to cover this and maybe I’ll do a full preview of that contest anyway, if things break the right way.
Now let’s get to my five actual questions:
Join me in filling out my final Pro Bowl ballot, as I run through every position & explain my choices!
Where do you agree/disagree? Let me know in the comments! ⬇️
We’ve now played 13 of 18 regular season games, which puts us exactly at the three-quarter mark of the season at this moment in the middle of the week. And just like I did after the first month of the season, I thought it was time for me to rank and tier all 32 NFL teams yet again.
As I always say – these are power rankings, based on what I perceive teams to be right now, rather than listing them by record and basically creating a standings table. Some squads may have started off slowly but are starting to hit their groove, while others have fallen off, as the season has progressed. Funnily enough, numbers one and 32 are still the same today as they were for me back on October 5th, but there’s been plenty of shake-up between those two.
Here’s my list:
After winning a late-season thriller & then overcoming a 21-3 deficit in the AFC title game, the Bengals are now set to play the Chiefs for the third time in less than a calendar year.
How are both sides different schematically compared to when they last met, who has the upper hand in certain matchups & what can we expect on Sunday?
You can check out the full video at youtube.com/@halilsrealfootballtalk
The Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers travelled to Munich this past Sunday for the first ever NFL game in Germany. After a very interesting matchup, with both these teams now entering their bye week, I thought this was the right time to analyze how the things we saw fit into the rest of their seasons. Based on that, I will conclude with my thoughts on both squads going forward and which roles they may play in the NFC.
Defy Life 