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Super Bowl LII The last football game of the year is the Super Bowl. Super Bowl Sunday, February 4th 5:30 PM CST in Minneapolis, MN NBC Gameday Temp... 10 degrees. Burrrrrr. Who is playing in the Super Bowl? I'll give you three guesses. Patriots? Patriots? Patriots? Yup. You'll always be safe guessing the Patriots. Until Brady or Belichick retire. The Patriots are in the Super Bowl for the 10th time. They have 5 Super Bowl Titles - and will most likely have 6 by the end of this week. I'm not saying the Philadelphia Eagles can't win ( that's their opponent ), but it will be an uphill battle. You see, Bill Belichick, the Patriots Head Coach, likes to play mind games with the other teams players and coaches. Like last year in the Super Bowl... they let Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons wear themselves out for three quarters. Then, they pounced. They came back from down 25 to score 31 unanswered points in the last quarter of the game. V...

COWBOYS - Off-season It's been a while since I've written... sometimes, it's just too hard to say all the things you're feeling about a season that had so much potential. We had the #1 Running Back, Ezekiel Elliott. The #1 Offensive Line. A Sophomore QB, coming into the 2017 season with a 104.9 Passer Rating. A decent Defensive Line, and Sean Lee as our "star" linebacker. The best kicker in the league, Dan Bailey. So, what happened? We struggled early and got a W, L, W, L, L... We had a few defensive players suspended and injured... We finally figured out how to get other WR's involved... Butler, Williams and Beasley. Dez is still more of a distraction for the Cowboys than for the opponent. We win three in a row... In the first game of that win streak, Bailey goes down with a groin strain... he was out until Week 11, but still played injured, and missed 5 field goals on the season. Field goals that he would have made 100% if he...

COWBOYS 8-7 (losses-wins) Sunday, December 31 (New Years Eve) Dallas Cowboys vs. Philadelphia Eagles ( home team is second ) 12:00 Noon (CST) on FOX Why did the Cowboys lose last week to a Seattle team that only had 136 Offensive yards, when we should have won! Final score, 21-12. Not at all what I predicted. The Cowboys had 283 Offensive yards, we owned time of possession with 32:50 minutes, and we had 21 First Downs vs. Seattle's 15. Why God, why??? So, where did we lose? We had two interceptions and one fumble. Seattle had none. Seattle converted in the red zone 2-2, we were 0-2 in the red zone. Which means, Dan Bailey had to kick 6 field goals, 4 of which he made, and accounted for all of the points on the board, 4x3 = 12. Momentum. You have Zeke, you win. You take Zeke out, you lose your first three games. You figure out how to win without Zeke, you win your next three games. You add Zeke back in, you lose your chance at a Playoff run. Should we be ab...

COWBOYS 8-6 (losses-wins) Sunday, December 24th (Christmas Eve) Seattle Seahawks vs. Dallas Cowboys ( home team is second ) 3:25 PM CST on FOX Did you see the game last week?? Trick plays, interceptions, index cards and fumbles in the End Zone. Dude. We won 20-17 over the Los Angeles Raiders. The only reason I felt a little bad is because Derek Carr, their QB is a great guy, and no one wants to lose the game fumbling the ball in the End Zone. But, a W is a W. And at this time of year, that is all that matters. So, what does the Playoff picture look like for the Cowboys? There are a lot of great articles out there about how the Cowboys will make it into the playoffs. Anyway you look at it. We have to win . If we don't win this game, we're out. ***This is a glimpse of what we need to happen*** Guess who's back... Zeke!!! And? Yeah, it basically complicates things, in a good way. Not like dating. Zeke was out for 6 games. We lost the first t...