Hello sports fans and friends, family, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, cousins and aunts of sports fans.
For many NFL football fans, this coming weekend is the best weekend of sports for the year. Like last weekend, there are four playoff games over two days. What makes it even better than last weekend is that the four teams with the best records in the league rested last weekend and now all host the winner of last weekend’s games. It’s the NFL Divisional round of the playoffs! To help prepare for the games, I invited my old friend Brendan Gilfillan to join me in a series of podcasts. We’ll go through each NFL playoff game and talk through the most interesting characters, the basic plot of the game, who we want to win and who we think is going to win, and just for fun, we’ll share our favorite player names from each playoff team. I hope you enjoy it.
The NFL Wildcard Round
NFL Football — Saturday, January 10, 2015 — Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks, 8:15 p.m. ET on Fox.
- Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman — why he might be the most dangerous defensive back in the league.
- Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch — is he unhappy or do the Seahawks just not want to pay him next year? And what’s up with the Skittles?
- Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson — on his knack of not making mistakes and not getting hit.
- Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton — how injured is he?
- Carolina Panthers fullback Mike Tolbert — an unsung hero.
- Carolina Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart — after many years of being criticized for underperforming or being injured, he’s played wonderfully for the past few weeks. Can he keep it up this week?
- A plot synopsis of the game — this really should be the end for the Carolina Panthers. Seattle is the defending champions and they look great. To add injury to insult, Carolina’s best defensive lineman broke his foot in practice this week. Seattle’s home field advantage is the best in the league.
- The players on both teams whose names we most envy and enjoy
- Who we want to win and who we think is going to win
- And much, much more!
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Music by Jesse Fischer.