We are past the halfway point of the NFL season. We have a new start date for the NBA and another legend gone. Here’s my sports observations for the weekend.

  1. In my heart of hearts, I know that I could never succeed on Jeopardy. However, when they decided to put a sports category up there, I was suckered into believing I could win it all. One of my favorite things about that show was the host, Alex Trebek. Jeopardy won’t be the same.
  2. Trevor Lawrence couldn’t play this weekend because he was still out from the Coronavirus. I guess its ok to miss a game for that reason but still stand on the sidelines and cheer them on? I’m going to need some clarification on this please.
  3. This is my favorite tweet from the weekend.
  4. Crazy sequence towards the end of the half yesterday in Dallas. Cowboys were up 13-6 on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh decided to try a 54 yard field goal at the end of the half. The kick was no good. Wait. Stop. The play never happened because their was a flag thrown with a false start on the Steelers. The ball was spotted five yards further back. Mike Tomlin elected to try another field goal and this time it was good from 59 yards.
  5. Can we all just take a moment and be happy for Alex Smith. After the leg injury that threatened his life, he fights back and gets a chance to play again. Yesterday he comes in for Kyle Allen and throws a touchdown pass. His first one since 2018.
  6. With that said, can we all take a moment and say a prayer for Kyle Allen. That was a pretty guesome leg injury. Hopefully he recovers quickly and gets back out there for Washington.
  7. I didn’t get to see it because of the Dallas/Pittsburgh game here locally, but that Arizona/Miami game looked like crazy fun. I’m not sold on Tua Tagovailoa yet but he had a pretty nice game yesterday. On the other side, Kyler Murray is just so much fun to watch.
  8. Speaking of young quarterback, how about a bounce-back performance from Josh Allen. After a couple of mediocre games, he diced up the Seahawks defense to the tune of 413 yards. The stat that sticks out to me the most, though, is that he finished 31 of 38 on completions for 81.57%. That’s insane for someone who was completing under 60% coming into this year.
  9. Dallas almost beats Pittsburgh with a fourth string quarterback who never started a game and New Orleans wipes the floor with the Bucs while Tom Brady has one of the worst games of his career. Meanwhile, Drew Brees was phenomenal once again. Who in the world would have ever thought we’d see a duel between two of the greatest quarterback to ever play the game and it would be one of the worst games of the weekend.
  10. Peter King had this note in his weekly column:

“If Russell Wilson has a 16-year career quarterbacking the Seattle Seahawks, he will never play in front of the fans of Buffalo……..it’s pretty amazing to consider that the first time Bills’ fans might lay eyes on one of the great quarterbacks of this century will be in the season Russell Wilson is 40.”