Saturday vs Sunday

NFL divisional round picks and preview. Join us as we talk through our picks and how we think the games might go.

Texans at Chiefs

We think the Chiefs are going to keep it a low scoring game and control the Texans offense. We're threading the needle on this game taking the Chiefs to cover and the under.

Commanders at Lions

We are taking the over even though this is the highest total of the weekend. The Lions should be able to move the ball on the Commanders but also give up some points.

Rams at Eagles

Rams defense is looking outstanding while the Eagles offense seems to be under performing. We think this is going to be low scoring so we're taking Rams to cover and the under.

Ravens at Bills

Two of the remaining three best QBs squaring off and both teams look like they're peaking right now. This is as close to a 'pick em' game as you can find. We are taking Baltimore giving them the slight edge because of Derrick Henry.

NFL wildcard weekend is in the books.

Buffalo dominate the Broncos with a balanced attack on the ground and through the air. Buffalo dominated time of possession, and score 31 unanswered points after the first Broncos drive. This game was no contest. Allen looked like an MVP and this team looks like it can go all the way when they can run the ball effectively.

The Rams sacked Sam Arnold 9 times highlighted by Jared Verse's 57 years scoop and score TD, leading the Rams to another dominant defensive performance. Darnold was seeing ghosts all game long and looked like he's regressed back to the player that got benched in New York and Carolina. LA has now gone 4 games (where starters played) giving up less than 10 points. This team is dangerous with a stellar defensive line and a Super Bowl winning QB under center.

The Eagles win despite being out gained by the Packers. Green Bay played the worst first half of football you'll ever see. The Packers fumbled the opening kick which resulted in an immediate TD for the Eagles. Jordan Love continued the brutal performance throwing 3 interceptions. Despite all of the turnovers the Packers still had a chance to take the lead in the 4th quarter.

Philadelphia won the game, but the passing offense looks anemic. They will have to rely on their run game and defense to get them through the playoffs as there seems to be something fundamentally wrong with their passing attack.

Washington beat the Buccaneers as Jayden Daniels gets his first career win. This game was played with a heightened degree of violence and aggression. The only turnover in the game came on a muffed hand off by the Bucs and ultimately was the difference in the game.

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The Ravens rushed for 299 yards and held the Steelers to 29 yards on the ground in a dominating performance.

At one point in the first half the Ravens had a TD drive that consisted of 13 run plays in a row. This is one of the most dominating rushing performances we've ever seen in an NFL game, let alone a playoff game.

The Steelers were completely overwhelmed going done 21-0 in the first half and being out gained by almost 300 yards.

Pittsburgh came out with some life in the second half scoring a TD and getting a defensive stop. But shortly after the Ravens answered again and proved to be far too much for the Steelers defense to handle.

Pittsburgh fans must be getting tired of the same old story of being one and done in the playoffs. It's not been 9 years since they've won a playoff game.

The Ravens fans have to be happy about everything they saw except for the few moments in the second half where the Steelers burned them on deep passes. If there is a weakness on the Ravens team this year, it was the secondary, but they cleaned this up over the past 4-5 weeks.

In this wild card game, some of that passing game weakness showed itself again, and might be giving Ravens fans just a touch of anxiety going into the next round of the playoffs.

Overall the Ravens look like a legitimate Super Bowl contender and one of the only teams that seems like it's got what it will take to beat the Chiefs.

The Steelers have serious questions marks on offense, and with this performance the defense is now also in question.

The Texans defense completely overwhelmed the Chargers offense sacking Herbert 4 times and picking him off 4 times.

Houston won the time of possession 40mins to 20mins as the Chargers completely unravel in the second half.

IT was a good year for the Chargers, Harbaugh is certainly an improvement over Staley, but there is clearly more work to be done. The Chargers cannot run the ball, and showed no ability to protect Herbert in the pass game.

The Texans limped into the playoffs with some underwhelming performances in the final few games of the regular season. This performance will make all of that feel like a distant memory.

Whoever has to play the Texans in the second round is going to have their hands full with this defense playing as well as it is.

Notre Dame wins a thriller on a walk off field goal.

Penn State played a strong first half highlighted by a 90 yard TD drive taking a 10-0 lead. ND closed the first half with an important field goal to cut the lead to one score and take some momentum back.

The second half was a different story:

The Irish drove straight down the field for a TD on the first possession of the second half and proceeded to dominate the third quarter with 17 unanswered points (including the FG before half) taking a 17-10 lead.

Penn State fought back and tied the game 17-17 at the 10 min mark of the 4th quarter.

Both offenses were running the ball effectively between the tackles. Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton combined for 160 yards on the ground as Penn State piled up over 200 yards rushing.

Notre Dame answered with 116 yards rushing with gritty runs from Riley Leonard and Jeremiyah Love.

Both teams played a relatively clean game with very few penalties but the difference was the down field passing game.

Notre Dame completely shut down Penn State’s passing game. Conversely Riley Leonard consistently found wideout Jaden Greathouse for critical big plays.

James Franklin detractors will point out that he has still yet to win the big one given the previous two playoff opponents were decidedly weaker teams with inferior rosters.

Marcus freeman looks like a great fit with the Fight Irish and the fan base has to be ecstatic about the future.

Conversely the Penn State fan base may be thinking it's just the same old story and Franklin just cannot win the big one when it matters.

Wild card weekend is here, join us as we preview the games and share our picks.

Games we're picking:

Steelers at Ravens

Chargers at Texans

Packers at Eagles

Broncos at Bills

Vikings at Rams

We don't feel confident enough to make a bet on the Commanders Buccaneers game, but we're going to be excited to watch it.

We have arrived at the college football semi finals.

Ohio State is arguably the hottest team of the four with back to back dominant games.

Texas needed overtime to get past Arizona State and gave up over 500 yards in the process.

Penn state has handily disposed of both its opponents, however their detractors will claim both SMU and Boise state were not true contenders.

Finally Notre Dame got past Georgia in a rock fight of a game where yards and points were hard to come by. The Irish’s best offensive weapon Jeremiah Love left the game with an injury and his status is still unknown.

Ohio State is now the heavy favorite to win it all.

NFL week 18 and the regular season is done.

The Lions and Ravens finish strong and look like two teams that can win it all.

The Broncos finish on a high note even though it was against the Chiefs backups.

The Bucs, Chargers and Commanders take care of business going into the playoffs on a win.

On the other side of things, the Steelers go into the playoffs on a 4 game losing streak with an anemic looking offense.

The Packers also drop their final game of the season and lose Christian Watson in the process.

The Vikings looked totally overwhelmed against the Lions in a surprising outcome.

The Falcons defense lets them down and spoil a great performance by Robinson.

The playoff stage is set.