Quick Slant: SNF - A Touch of Winter for Your Fall
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Lions * Chiefs The Andy Reid/Patrick Mahomes Chiefs used to bring about such excitement in their infancy together that it seemed to ride on old momentum for two more. It took a while for our emotions to catch up, but finally, we logged it in
Quick Slant: TNF - Separated by the Width of New Jersey
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Eagles * Giants This wasn’t how the weekend was supposed to go. The Eagles—the reigning champs, winners of 20 of their last 21—were rolling. QB Jalen Hurts reared back and fired along the right sideline, plunking a moon ball into the chest of
Quick Slant: SNF - Two Suns in the Same Sky
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Patriots * Bills “I think with this field position, you have to just run it out. You have to play for overtime.” Describing John Madden’s voice as a bullhorn is facile. As tinny or coarse? Possibly, but with nuance, because he also sounds like an
Quick Slant - TNF: These 60 Minutes
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * 49ers * Rams Heading east from Ray Muth Park, where you’d detect children laughing, whistles blowing, and the scent of hot dogs and cotton candy on the air, you’d turn right onto Marblehead. On a slow Saturday, traffic would be predictably light; sleepy maples
Quick Slant: SNF - The Bridge That Led Back Was Reduced to Ashes
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Packers * Cowboys One February night, peacefulness settled over Dallas. The air was 45 degrees, clear and tranquil, ideal for a small sect of socialites wandering beneath the neon of Victory Plaza, as still as a suburb. The news cycle was light: the Dallas Open was
Quick Slant: TNF - A Hammer Falling on the Same Anvil
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Seahawks * Cardinals Since Arizona moved from the East (where they were always peculiar) and Seattle from the AFC, the Seahawks and Cardinals have worked dutifully to manufacture rivalry from thin air. Recently, it has been as one-sided as rain on stone. Rivalries flourish on mutual
Quick Slant: SNF - Just Keep Bailing
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Chiefs * Giants How they arrived here couldn’t have felt more different, but they’re here just the same. The Chiefs have been the league’s standard-bearer, led by the most familiar QB of a generation, himself, a machine that mass produces overcoming. The Giants
Quick Slant: TNF - Nothing Matters But Conquering the Moment
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Dolphins * Bills On the shores of Lake Erie, winter comes as inevitably as rust, and with it, all of its drab skies, fluffy snow, mittened hands, and Seasonal Affective Disorder. In South Florida, summer stretches long overdue again, as it does each September; sunshine permeates