It’s morning. While you get out your favorite coffee mug, pour a glass of orange juice, and make sure you have enough milk for your bowl of cereal, get yourself back up to date with the happenings in, or at least somewhat near, the sporting universe.
The following are links that we’re certain Emmy Rossum would love.
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– Well, that was a pretty good opening playoff weekend, yes? The Packers discovered a running game in rookie James Starks (23 carries, 123 yards) at a relatively decent time to compliment the precision of Aaron Rodgers in Philadelphia; the Green Bay defense consistently harassed Michael Vick and made nothing easy for the terrifying Philadelphia offense. Should-be Pro Bowler Tramon Williams capped another incredible performance in the defensive backfield with the game-ending interception of Vick in the end zone as Philadelphia was closing in on a comeback. A heart-healthy game, to say the least.
Green Bay will play in Atlanta on Saturday night, meaning I have one less day to settle down.
– Baltimore started slow, but it didn’t take long for them to assume control. Matt Cassel looked terrible, while Joe Flacco and the Baltimore offense took advantage of the multitude of Kansas City turnovers, controlling the ball for almost 42 minutes of the game. I’ll be honest, I watched about 7 minutes and 24 seconds (real-time) of this one, and I don’t feel too bad about it.
Baltimore goes to Pittsburgh next Saturday. There will be blood.
– Back to Saturday for a minute: This is all you need to know about the Seattle Seahawks’ upset win over the New Orleans Saints. One of those games where you kept waiting for other shoe to drop, for the big mistake to come, for the craziness of what Seattle was doing to finally hit them, and for them to eventually crumble underneath it. That never happened; Lynch’s run was the exact opposite, actually.
Though the Seahawks outplayed New Orleans for a lot of this game, the outcome would have been all the more confusing, or hard to grasp, had they simply ran the ball out or taken a few knees. Lynch’s unrelenting stomp towards the dagger touchdown gave us all the moment in which we knew Seattle not only deserved to win, but also the assurance that this wasn’t a fluky, ball-bounced-our-way escape of a victory. It was a defiant run, encapsulating the upset as a whole and making it, for all intents and purposes, inarguable.
Seattle will head to Chicago next Sunday. They won’t have the 12th man of Qwest Field behind them, but they will have a honest-to-goodness playoff win over the defending world champions. That should be good for now.
– In Indianapolis, we have plenty of coverage of the Colts loss here and here. With 53 seconds left, Mark Sanchez got his team where they needed to go, with the help of Braylon Edwards, of course. For all the talking and for the desperation, real or overstated, towards defeating Manning’s Colts, the Jets, though they created most of the high-wire tension themselves, did indeed save their season.
Now, after leaping the Indianapolis obstacle, they head back to their woodshed in New England on Sunday afternoon. The Jets won’t have to tell us how much this one means.
Happy National Championship Monday, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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