The Basement View

  “Super” Wild Card Weekend wasn’t the 2021 Divisional Round, or the Semi Finals of the College Football playoffs this year, in terms of drama or highlight reels, but it still was entertaining and telling football. It was a coming out party for Brock Purdy, Daniel Jones, and Dak Prescott, it was maybe a pink slip for Brandon Staley and Brett Maher, and it might be the end of the road for Tom Brady. Wild Card Weekend didn’t answer any questions that were posed at the beginning of the playoffs—the games played added to those questions. However, good weeks of football do that. Not until the Super Bowl has gone final should you have all the answers to your questions. So, whatever questions you had going into the playoffs, let’s add and examine 10 questions that sprouted from a good playoff football weekend. 1. Can Daniel Jones lead the Giants to the Super Bowl? If you’re a part of Big Blue you’re getting the arrangements together to start to party like it’s 2007. The team nobody had ...

Congratulations! We’ve made it to the NFL Playoffs. After another wild, utterly bizarre, NFL season us football fans finally get to enjoy the purest form of football by the best football teams 2022 has to offer. I’ll agree to a degree that the overall slate isn’t as sexy without Aaron Rodgers, or Mike Tomlin, or the craziness that comes with the Dan Campbell led Detroit Lions. But here we are. However, it could still turn out to be a fun weekend. This weekend offers us two up and coming quarterbacks making their playoff debuts that we figure to be mainstays in postseason for the next decade in Justin Herbert and Trevor Lawrence. The Elite B Tier of quarterback Joe Burrow and Josh Allen (if Mahomes didn’t exist this “B Tier” would be on pair talent wise with Peyton and Brady class from the mid-2000’s) get to add another playoff game to their growing catalogue. We also get dare I say a throwback 2007-ish New York Giants team with Eli Manning’s lookalike and perhaps the next great Giant H...