Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 3 - And to All, a Good Night
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Broncos * Chiefs 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the town, The Broncos were dreaming of wearing the crown. Their jerseys were folded, packed up with great care, in hopes that a West title soon would be theirs. The players were nestled all
Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 2 - Jettas, with Your Grill So Bright...
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Lions * Vikings Gary: (With a slight nod) If I live to be a hundred, which seems optimistic under the circumstances, I doubt I’ll ever forget that snowstorm a few winters back. It arrived politely, then stayed, the way weather does here, until the world
Quick Slant: Christmas, pt. 1 - How Major Tuddy Stole Christmas
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Cowboys * Commanders Every fan down in Big D liked the Cowboys a lot, but Major Tuddy, who lived just north of Rockville, did NOT! The Hog hated Dallas, the whole football season. Now, please don’t ask why; no one quite knows the reason. It
Quick Slant: SNF - Not Dead Yet
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * 49ers * Colts On Monday, December 8, Philip Rivers turned 44. In the quiet southern tradition of his Alabama home in picturesque Fairhope, just off the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, it should have been a day of birthday cake celebration for the St. Michael Catholic
Quick Slant: SNF - As Perennial as Peonies
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Patriots * Ravens Where the Ravens under HC John Harbaugh stand is somewhat unfamiliar. They are a franchise that always seems to maintain their cool—a thoughtful, measured, and steady team that is almost always in the mix come playoff time. The Ravens blend toughness and
Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - Sentiment Gives Way to Modern Consequence
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Packers * Bears Stepping off the Northwestern Elevated Line at the Wilson station, your foot would clunk over wooden planks bolted to a riveted steel skeleton suspended some 16 feet above Wilson Avenue. You’d head south toward Broadway and the headhouse, utilitarian and cold, made
Quick Slant: Saturday Edition - To Reclaim Winning as Their Default Calibration
Mat Irby's Quick Slant * Eagles * Commanders In social cognitive psychology, a loss of confidence can often be traced to a decline in self-efficacy, a term coined by Albert Bandura in a 1977 article for Psychological Review. Simply put, self-efficacy is the belief that one can do what is
Quick Slant: TNF - Belief Is Provisional
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Rams * Seahawks For the Seahawks, there seemed to be no grand championship plan, just items going off the shelf and replacements shipping in, like retail. Geno Smith was out, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Dre’Mont Jones. Sam Darnold, Cooper Kupp, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Josh Jones