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Mat Irby's Quick Slant
Quick Slant: Friday Night - Time to Flip the Script?
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Chargers * Chiefs Hollywood is a land of dreams; it feels like a metropolitan sprawl of 18 million waiters and valets spread along 33,000 square miles, each preparing for their place on the couch next to some late-night talk show host. It’s a city
Quick Slant: TNF - Not Peak, but Prologue
Mat Irby's Quick Slant * Eagles * Cowboys If the rivalries of the NFC East are like embers that never snuff out, Philadelphia and Dallas’ is a perpetual conflagration. Their rivalry isn’t seasonal, but generational—each offseason a Cold War, and their annual meetings, seven hours spilling out over
Quick Slant: MNF - This Incredibly Long Journey Through Attrition (One Last Haymaker)
Lions @ 49ers, Monday @ 8:15 PM I’m not saying Dan Campbell is a vengeful man, but I’m also not certain he wouldn't get a grin out of a little cosmic justice. The Cowboys were gifted a victory against his Lions late last year after a penalty
Quick Slant: SNF - Two Ouroboros-es-es for Christmas
Falcons @ Commanders, Sunday @ 8:20 PM The Ouroboros, an ancient symbol of a serpent devouring its own tail, represents the endless cycle of life, death, and renewal. It embodies the relentless rhythm of existence, where the past and future are forever intertwined, and nothing truly begins or ends. The Atlanta
Quick Slant: TNF - Where These Teams Might Belong Tomorrow
Seahawks @ Bears, Thursday @ 8:15 PM The magnitude of Thursday’s game might be a matter of who you ask; for Chicago, it is that moment, suspended in time before an inevitable impact—where there is no longer hope of avoiding the sickening crunch, the busted glass; there is only
Quick Slant: Christmas Day - Sugar Plums, Championship Payouts, and a Bowl Full of Jelly
Ravens @ Texans, Wednesday @ 4:30 PM ‘Twas the ev’ning of Christmas, and through NRG, Rose the smell of Coors, brisket, and cotton candy. The Texans had clinched the AFC South, And next would come nachos, inserted to mouth. ‘Neath this easy feeling, a rumble did stir, Not by indigestion
Quick Slant: Christmas Day - A Wrap on the 2024 Fantasy Season; May All Your Dreams Come True
Chiefs @ Steelers, Wednesday @ 1:00 PM In western Pennsylvania, there are things to remember and forget; Acrisure Stadium stands as a mighty monolith—a den as feared as the wolves within it—and as a filter directing Pittsburghers to know which is which. There, bold as brass against the Allegheny
Quick Slant: MNF - This Momentary Distraction
Saints @ Packers, Monday @ 8:15 PM It is fitting that snow is expected in Green Bay on Monday night; the 2024 Saints are reminiscent of Napoleon’s Grande Armée. They swaggered past Week 2, much like Napoleon cantered towards Moscow. Banners flapping in the wind, drunk on hubris and adrenaline;