Category: Sports

In Sunday’s matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos, the Broncos dismantled the Chiefs a shocking 38-0. Now, this is shocking for two reasons. First, the Chiefs are the best team in the NFL, even though they rested several of their starters an offensive mastermind like Andy Reid getting held scoreless is shocking. Second, the Cincinnati Bengals, who have been on a hot streak the last half of the season got eliminated from playoff contention with the Broncos winning. Is this mind boggling blow out connected to the fact that the Bengals are the only AFC team to beat the Chiefs in the last 5 playoffs? That is just speculation at this point but what’s definitive is that the Broncos are in and the Bengals are out.

Sitting on History

Saquon Barkley was 100 yards away from the single season rushing record. 100 YARDS!!! For a guy who averaged 5.8 yards a carry that is chump change. But in a record robbing move, Nick Sirianni decided to sit Saquon in their last game of the regular season. Now, if the Eagles end up winning the super bowl then this was a stroke of genius, but if they don’t then this may go down as one of the dumbest moves in Eagles History. 

6 time Super Bowl coach, Bill Belichick signed a 5 year, 50 million dollar deal to be the next coach for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels football program. The future hall of fame coach joining the football program makes UNC a team to watch closely heading into next season.

 Currently, the single season rushing record is held by Eric Dickerson with 2,105 yards from scrimmage in a single season. He set this record in 1984 while playing for the Rams, and while this record has stood for forty years strong, Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles is well on his way to beating that record. After an Eagles’ record setting game of 255 yards last week and 107 yards this week, Barkley is on pace to hit 2,151 rushing yards on the season, which would eclipse Dickerson’s record by 46 yards. He has dealt with injury issues in the past but, if Barkley can stay healthy, we may be looking at a new running back taking Dickerson’s long held mantle.