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You have to wonder if professional wrestling is reaching its oversaturation point. As of right now there is 15 hours of professional wrestling available on television right now and soon there is going to be more added.

Right now, World Wrestling Entertainment airs three programs that cover seven hours of television time. WWE programming airs Monday, Tuesday and Fridays currently. All Elite Wrestling also airs three programs that cover five hours of television time. AEW’s programming airs on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Impact wresting or Total Non-Stop Action as they’re going back to using have one two hours television program that airs on Thursday night. Finally New Japan Pro Wrestling has an hour-long program that airs right after TNA’s show on Thursday night.

That’s quite a bit of wrestling and it’s on almost every night, but soon will also have the National Wrestling Alliance on television.

Last week it was announced that the NWA has agreed to a deal with the CW Network to air two wrestling based shows. Reports are that one of the shows will be a regular wrestling show with matches while the other show will be a reality based behind the scenes look at the NWA.

It hasn’t been announced what night either of these NWA shows will air or what names they might use. The NWA had a YouTube show called NWA Powerrr, but it’s unclear if that’s the name they’ll be using going forward.

The origin of the NWA dates back to around 1948, but since 2017 it’s been owned by Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan. In reality Corgan’s Lighting One Inc. is the official owner of the NWA.

The NWA features four men’s singles titles and two women’s singles titles. They also have two men’s tag team championship and one woman’s.

On the men’s side the NWA has a heavyweight title, a world television championship, a junior heavyweight championship and national heavyweight championship for singles titles. The women’s singles title are the World Championship and the Women’s Television Championship. Both the men and the woman have a World tag team champion while the men also have the United States tag team titles.

It’s unclear how many wrestling fans will know the wrestlers that wrestle in the NWA, but I’m sure there will be a few familiar faces. It’s also quite possible that with some new television money coming into the promotion that the NWA might sign some of the wrestlers that have been or might be let go by WWE or AEW.

So, if you’re watching wrestling on television right now, I’m interested to know what shows you’re watching. I don’t think that I know anyone who watches all 15 hours of wrestling that are currently available, but I’m sure there are people out there that do.

I’m also interested to know if you’ll be watching the NWA when their shows start to air on the CW Network. I will probably record the show and see if it’s anything that I’m interested in adding to my weekly wrestling viewing.

The American League championship series has played out kind of odd through the first five games. It’s a 2-3-2 series set up game wise and so far, no home team has managed to win a game.

The Texas Rangers won the first to games in Houston and then the Houston Astros turned around and won the next three games that the Rangers hosted. The Astros happen to have home field advantage in this series, but with the way the series has played out so far you have to wonder if that’s actually a good thing.

Jose Altuve hit a game winning 3-run home run for the Astros in the Top of the 9th inning last night to give the Astros a 5-4 in game 5 and allow the Astros to take a 3 games to 2 lead in the series.

The ALCS is off tonight as the teams return to Houston for game 6 tomorrow night. Nathan Eovaldi will be the rangers starting pitcher tomorrow night and he’ll try to keep Texas alive in the series. The Astros are starting Framber Valdez with the hope that he’ll be able to help Houston get their first win at home and advance to the World Series for the second consecutive year.

The National League championship series has played out more traditionally. The Philadelphia Phillies won the first two games of the series in their home ballpark. The Arizona Diamondbacks bounced back to win game three and four in their ballpark. The Diamondbacks are the hosts for game 5 tonight, so we will see if the trend of home teams winning these games continues.

As both teams look to get a game advantage in the series Philadelphia will go with Zack Wheeler as their starting pitcher while the Diamondbacks are going to counter with Zac Gallen.

With the way these championship series have played out it made me wonder if there’s ever been one series where the road team won all the games and then in the other series the home team won all of the games.

With the baseball playoffs going on and the National Football League up and running there may be people out there that don’t know that the National Hockey League season has started.

It’s very early in the NHL season as no team has played more than five games, but even though the teams haven’t played that many games there are only three undefeated teams left. The Boston Bruins are 3-0, the Colorado Avalanche are 4-0 and the Vegas Golden Knights who are one of the teams that have played five games are a perfect 5-0.

It is kind of interesting that the Bruins, Avalanche and the Golden Knights are the remaining undefeated teams as they were three of the pre-season favorites to possibly win the Stanley Cup.

On the other end of the spectrum the San Jose Sharks are the only team that hasn’t managed to get a win early in the season. San Jose has lost all 4 of the games they’ve played with one of those losses coming in overtime.

So let me know if you’re following along with the early season NHL or are you a little more tied up or interested in the MLB playoffs or the NFL.

As always don’t forget to look for me on X, I’m @Burketime.

The Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay announced earlier today that rookie starting quarterback Anthony Richardson would have surgery on his throwing shoulder and will miss the rest of the season.

Richardson was the 4th overall pick in the draft and sustain an AC joint sprain in his throwing should on October 8th in a game against the Tennessee Titans.

The Colts medical staff as well as specialists that the team got opinions from discussed Richardson’s situation and came to the decision that the best course for him was surgery. This is accord to owner Irsay.

Richardson ends his season having appeared in four games, completing 50 of 84 pass attempts for 577 yards and three touchdowns. Richardson also rushed 25 times for 136 yards, scoring four rushing touchdowns. His dual-threat status proved difficult for defenses, but it also exposed him to hits. Richardson was injured on a designed run, with Titans linebacker Harold Landry driving Richardson’s shoulder into the turf on a tackle.

Richardson’s injury has brought up a question from quite a few media members about the way he plays the game and if he needs to change the way he plays. Of course, these are the same media members that thought Richardson could be a franchise type quarterback because of his ability to run. Now he gets injured, and they expect him to completely change the way he plays quarterback.

Yes, that’s incredibly stupid of them to suggest, but that’s what they do. It’s much easy to play both sides of the coin than admit that you were wrong about something. In most cases they just hope that people don’t remember their original comments and they can go at it from their new position without any blowback.

Gardner Minshew will take over as Indianapolis’ starting quarterback with Richardson out. Minshew has already started two games for the Colts this season and in his five-year NFL career has made 24 other starts.

Minshew is 1-1 as Indianapolis’ starter and the team itself is 3-3 and tied for 2nd place in the AFC South with the Houston Texans.

Minshew has actually appeared in all six of the Colts game this season. He’s completed 90 of the 138 passes he’s attempted for a 65.2 completion percentage. Minshew has thrown for 882 yards with 3 touchdowns and 3 interceptions for the Colts this season.

Minshew played his first two seasons with the Jacksonville Jaquars before spending two seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles. Minshew signed with Indianapolis as a free agent this past off season.

Minshew’s next two starts will be at home. This week the Colts host the Cleveland Browns. Then in Week 8 the New Orleans Saints visit Indianapolis.

Since Minshew is a veteran quarterback it’s possible that Indianapolis will be able to stay in the Race in the AFC South since no team has shown that it’s head and shoulders above the other ones.

Now it’s your turn. With Richardson officially done for the season and 11 games left to be played do you see the Colts making the playoffs with Minshew as their starting quarterback. As a matter of fact, let me know what you think that Indianapolis’ record will be over these final 11 games with Minshew as their starting quarterback.

Now Richardson isn’t the only starting quarterback who’s dealing with an injury he’s just the one who’s season is over.

Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields has a dislocated thumb on his throwing hand, and it appears as though he’ll miss at least this week Bears game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has missed the Browns last two games with a rotator cuff strain of his throwing shoulder. Watson said today that he “can’t put a timeline” on a return. Daniel Jones of the New York Giants missed last week’s game against the Buffalo Bills with a neck injury. It hasn’t been made clear if Jones will return this week for the Giants game against the Washington Commanders. There have even been some questions about Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen’s throwing shoulder. Allen said that there is “no concern” about mobility or pain with his right shoulder injury and that “we’ll be ready to go” for the team’s game against the New England Patriots on Sunday. There are also questions on if Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo will be ready to go this Sunday. Garoppolo left the Raiders game last week and was sent to the hospital as it was thought that he could have an internal injury. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case, but it’s still unclear if Garoppolo will play this week.

I believe that’s all of the injured quarterbacks, but there may have been some that I missed as it seems as though there are quite a few currently injured. Even with the NFL adapting the rules so quarterbacks can no longer really be hit they still seem to be getting injured. Hopefully the league doesn’t overreact and make more rule changes to protect the quarterback, but you never know what they’ll do.

They did just add flag football to the Olympics as a sport, so maybe that’s the next step the quarterback wears flags. I’m just kidding about that, and I don’t think that will happen.

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The championship series are set-in Major-League Baseball and out of the four teams to advance only one of them was a division winner.

In the National League the Philadelphia Phillies advanced by knocked out the Atlanta Braves for the second year in a row. The Phillies will face the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks who swept the Los Angels Dodgers out of the playoffs.

Over in the American League the only division winner left the Houston Astros moved on by beating the Minnesota Twins. The Astros will face the team that they actually tied for the American League West title the Texas Rangers.

There were three teams that won over 100 games in the Major League Baseball regular season the Braves, the Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles. Those three teams combined to win 305 regular season games, but in the playoffs those same three teams combined for just one win.

While it was a surprise that the Orioles won as many games as they did the Braves, and the Dodgers were expected to be contenders coming into the regular season. It’s unclear why these three teams that should’ve been favorite went out so quickly and easily in the playoffs.

If I had to take a guess, I’d have to say that the five-day layoff these teams received for being division winners had something to do with their quick exits. I think in any other sport this wouldn’t be any type of an issue, but Major League Baseball teams aren’t used to that type of time off. Any momentum that teams had coming out of the regular season would have ended with having five days off.

I believe that the commissioner of Major League Baseball Rob Manferd has spoken on the time off issue for division winners and mentioned that there are no plans to change the playoff format. I can’t say that’s a surprise since the playoffs are still going on but will see if something comes up this off season.

If Major League Baseball was to change the playoff format, there’s really only one way they can do it and that would be to add two more teams. Obviously, they could just eliminate two wild card teams, but no sport is going to take away playoff teams and give away that television money. By adding two teams it would eliminate the 1st round byes and there would no longer be those periods of long time off for division winners.

This past season it might not have been such a big deal to add two more teams as there were multiple teams that stayed in the playoff race until the final game of the season. The problem down the line with adding two teams is it would increase the chance of a team that went under .500 in the regular might get into the playoffs.

I’m not sure how people would react if a team that went say 80-82 during the regular season got hot and ended up winning the World Series. Obviously, the fans of that team would be ecstatic, but I don’t think too many other people would be.

If Major League Baseball added two teams to the playoff format it wouldn’t change the setup of the 1st round at all. The 1st round could still be three game series if necessary hosted by the team with the better record. It would just be the process of adding two more teams to make this happen.

As we go back to focusing on the championship series. I have to say it’s really tough to say who the favorites are.

You’d have to think that the Phillies would be the National League favorite mostly because no expected the Diamondbacks to be here. Of course, that’s the thing that might play right into Arizona’s favor. At this point the Diamondbacks are playing with house money, so there shouldn’t be any pressure on them while Philadelphia will be expected to advance to the World Series for the second year in a row.

In the American League should the Astros be the favorite because they were technically the division winner? The Rangers might be the best hitting team left in the playoffs and while people have questioned their bullpen it’s done the job for them so far. It’s just really tough to say that one of these teams is better than the other one.

In all honesty I’d like to see the Diamondbacks win just because they’re not supposed to be here and it’s a good story. For that same reason I’d like to see Arizona go on and win the World Series, but sadly I probably just jinxed them.

I also wouldn’t mind seeing the Rangers advance just so we could have a couple of different teams in the World Series this season. Also, the Rangers have never won a World Series in the team’s history, so I wouldn’t mind seeing them win one for the first time.

So, let me know what you think about this. I want to know who you think will advance to the World Series and I’d also like to know if you think that Major League Baseball will change the playoff format.

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It’s that time of the year where we are just flushed with sports. The Major League Baseball playoffs are into the divisional series. The National Football League season is moving along as well as the college football season. Just last night the National Hockey League started their season with three games.

In the first game the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Nashville Predators 5-3. In the second game the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 and in the third and final game of the night the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Seattle Kraken 4-1.

Of course, the interest in the area where I live was the debut of Connor Bedard. He was the #1 pick in this past draft and there’s a lot of pressure on him to lead the Blackhawks back into Stanley Cup contention. There was even a betting line on if Bedard would score the first Blackhawks goal. Now Bedard didn’t end up getting a goal at all, but he did get an assist on the Blackhawks first goal.

Bedard had the most ice time of any of the Blackhawks forwards at 21 minutes and 29 seconds. That was the second highest total of ice time on the team behind only defenseman Seth Jones who was on the ice for 25 minutes and 28 seconds. Besides the one assist Bedard had 5 shots on goal.

With the exception of not getting that first goal it was a solid all-around game for Bedard. About the only negative you could have been that he lost 11 of the 13 faceoffs he was involved in. You have to think that’s something he’ll improve on the more he faces NHL competition.

While Bedard’s debut and the Blackhawks might’ve been the big story where I live the other sports story that should catch your eye is what the Texas Rangers did.

The Baltimore Orioles hadn’t been swept in a series in about a year and a half, but the Rangers took the Orioles right out of the American League playoffs by winning three straight games. The Rangers sent the Orioles home with a 7-1 win in Game 3 last night.

This brings me to an interesting question about the MLB playoffs. Why aren’t the teams re-seeded after the wild card round.

I don’t believe that it would’ve changed the match ups in the American League, but the National League match ups would be the complete opposite of what they are.

The Atlanta Braves had the best record in Major League Baseball, but somehow, they ended up being matched up against the #1 wild card team in the divisional series. How is that a benefit of having the best record? You’d think that the Braves would’ve had to face the Arizona Diamondbacks who were the actually the final National League wild card team.

I’m sure if Major League Baseball actually answered this question, they’d say something to the effect of the fact that the Braves have home field advantage, but shouldn’t they have that and the better match up.

Of course, it’s possible that the way this ended up shaking out will work out for the Braves. The Diamondbacks might be playing the best baseball out of all of the playoff team and currently lead the Los Angeles Dodgers two games to none in their National League division series. The Braves are currently even in their series with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Of course, will have to see how each series plays out, but Arizona has a chance to end their series with the Dodgers tonight at home while the Braves and the Phillies will try to win game three to take a lead in that series.

We also have game four of the American League division series between the Minnesota Twins and the Houston Astros. The Astros are leading that series two games to one and they’ll look to close out that series tonight while the Twins will try to stretch it to a make-or-break game five.

Jump in here and let me know what you think of the way Major League Baseball set up the divisional round. Should they have re-seeded? Or do you think it’s okay this way?

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Last week I asked you if it was actually possible that having the buy into the division series might actually be a bad thing. Well unfortunately I didn’t get a lot of comments on that post, but I’m very interested to know what everybody is thinking after the start of the National and American League division series yesterday.

Out of the four-division series that started yesterday three of the four opening games were won by teams that advanced out of the wild card round.

The only team that won a game and got a bye through the wild card round were the Houston Astros who beat the Minnesota Twins 6-4.

In the other three games the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2, The Philadelphia Phillies shutout the Atlanta Braves 3-0 and in the final game of the day the Arizona Diamondbacks blew out the Los Angels Dodgers 11-2.

Now it’s just one game and it will take all the teams that won yesterday two more wins to advance to the league championship series, so while they got out of the gate with an advantage these series are nowhere close to being over.

While the first three games of the division series round were close the surprise for me came in the final game of the day.

The Dodgers were one of the favorites to get into and possibly win the World Series while the Diamondbacks are just a young up and coming team that hasn’t shown that they’re affected by the playoff pressure.

The Diamondbacks had a quality starting pitcher going in Merrill Kelly, but his opponent on the mound for the Dodgers was sure to be Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.

The Dodgers were looked at as the favorite to win last night’s game and the series, but it sure didn’t start off that way.

Ketel Marte started off the game with a double on a ball that probably should’ve been caught and that was the start of a 6-run 1st inning for Arizona. Kershaw lasted just 1/3rd of the 1st inning and was charged with all 6 runs that the Diamondbacks scored.

In his 1/3rd of an inning Kershaw threw 35 pitches. He gave up 6 runs on 6 hits while walking 1 batter. One of the 6 hits Kershaw gave up was a home run to Arizona catcher Gabriel Moreno.

After Kershaw’s early exit the Dodgers used five pitchers to cover the remaining 8 2/3rds innings of the game. As the series goes on will have to see if covering this large amount if innings to start the series has any effect on the Dodgers bullpen.

Today the National League teams are off, so both of the American League divisional series take center stage. Both games will be televised on FS1 with the first game having a start time of 3:07 p.m.

The opening game will again feature the Texas Rangers visiting the Baltimore Orioles. Jordan Montgomery will make the start for the Rangers while Grayson Rodriquez will be the Orioles starting pitcher.

The second American League division series game has the Houston Astros hosting the Minnesota Twins. Framber Valdez will be the Astros starting pitcher today while the Twins are going with Pablo Lopez.

The National League division series re-starts on Monday. Both of the National League divisional series games will be televised on TBS with the first game scheduled to start at 5:07 p.m.

The Braves and the Phillies will be the opening game on Monday. Zach Wheeler will be the starting pitcher for Philadelphia while Max Fried will be the Braves starting pitcher.

In the second National League division series game the Dodgers will try to even their series with the Diamondbacks. Zac Gallen will be making the start for the Diamondbacks while the Dodgers are going with Bobby Miller as their starting pitcher.

So let me know if you think that the time off that the Orioles, Braves and Dodgers had hurt them in the first game of their divisional series match ups.

As always don’t forget to look for me on X@ I’m @Burketime.

The Major League Baseball playoffs started yesterday, and I’m wonder if it’s an advantage to be one of the teams that has to continue to play after the regular season ends.

The four division winners with the best records get byes, but they have to figure out how they can stay sharp while the wild card round goes on.

Now teams can play intersquad games, but it’s difficult to simulate a real game like that. It’s the same with going through situations. It’s going to be different than it will be in an actual game.

Obviously the one big plus is that injured players can have the time to rest and recover. I’m just not sure that off sets the waiting time for these teams.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Philles won Game 1 of their wild card series. That means that those four teams are now just win away from advancing to the next round.

Out of yesterday’s four winner the Diamondbacks were the only road team that picked up a victory. In the wild card round all three games are played at the team with the best records home field.

Depending on the outcome of today’s game the winner of these wild card series could have two or three days off before starting their next series on Saturday.

So, my question to you is would you rather be the team with the extended time off or would you prefer to be the team that has had to continue to play.

The four teams that received byes the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros won’t have played an actual game since Sunday October 1st. Those four teams will go five full days without playing an actual game.

I’m not sure if five days is enough for players to develop any kind of rust, but you have to think that it might take hitters an at bat or two to adjust to game speed. Since pitchers are handle so differently in today’s game the time off might be good for them. It’s not like any pitcher is going to throw a complete game.

While I’ve got you hear why don’t you make some predictions for me. Do you see any of the teams that lost yesterday coming back to win that series?

Also let me know who you think will win the National and American League pennant. Of course, I also want to know who you think will win the World Series.

Don’t forget to look for me on X, I’m @Burketime.

On Friday I was watching one of the sports channels I generally watch, and they had breaking news come across the bottom of the screen. It was the announcement that the San Francisco Giants had fired their manager Gabe Kapler.

I thought this was kind of odd move since the Giants only had three games left in the regular season and it seemed very strange that they just wouldn’t let Kapler finish out the year. I understand that teams sometimes fire a manager early so they can get a head start on other teams who will also be making changes at the manager spot, but three games before the end of the season isn’t much of a head start.

Kapler was in his fourth year as Giants manager. He took San Francisco to the playoffs in 2021. The Giants won the National League West with a record of 107-55, but they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series.

After that 2021 season Kapler was named national League Manager of the Year.

Kapler had an above .500 record as the Giants manager. He went 295-248 in his four seasons there. Besides the one division title the Giants finished 3rd twice under Kapler. This season it looks as though the Giants will end up in 4th place in the N.L. West.

As of right now no names have been associated with the Giants managerial position, but there could be a lot of qualified candidates available.

Terry Francona is retiring as Cleveland Guardians manager while Craig Counsell of the Milwaukee Brewers, Dusty Baker of the Houston Astros and Phil Nevin of the Los Angeles Angels are all working on contracts that expire at the end of this season. There is also the possibility that Buck Showalter who’s currently managing the New York Mets or Bob Melvin who’s currently the San Diego Padres manager could also be available this coming off season.

Whoever ends up as the next Giants manager should inherit a team with a lot of payroll flexibility. As of now the only San Francisco player signed past the 2025 season is starting pitcher Logan Webb.

Of course, this type of situation isn’t really new to the Giants or their fans. It seems as though every off-season San Francisco says that they’re interested in whoever the top free agents might be, but they never seem to end up signing them.

When Bryce Harper was a free agent, the Giants were said to be interested in him. Remember just last off-season the Giants thought they had a good chance to sign Aaron Judge because he was from the Bay area, but he didn’t sign with San Francisco. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that right after the announcement of the Kapler firing there was talk of how the Giants would be one of the teams trying to land coveted free agent Shohei Ohtani this coming off season.

It’s come to the point where you have to start to wonder if the Giants are really willing to sign one of the big-time free agents to a big money deal or if they just try to keep their name in the conversation to try and make their fans think they’re trying to improve the team.

Obviously, Ohtani will be far and away the biggest free agent name on the market, but he can only sign with one team. There are other quality player that will be on the free agent market very soon and will have to see how many of these players San Francisco ends up being linked to and if they actually manage to sign any of them.

Tomorrow ends the Major League Baseball regular season and there are just two wild card spots left to be decided. All we’re waiting to find out is who will be the third and final wild card teams in each league. As of right now the Houston Astros hold that spot in the American League while the Miami Marlins are in the third National League wild card spot.

It looks as though the Marlins are in a very good spot to claim that last National League wild card spot as they hold a 1 1/2 lead over both the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs. That pretty much means that the Reds and the Cubs would have to win out while the Marlins would have to lose the remainder of their games for anything to change.

The Astros currently have a 1 game lead on the Seattle Mariners. Houston is wrapping up the season against the Arizona Diamondbacks while the Mariners are hosting the Texas Rangers. Both the Diamondbacks and the Rangers are still playing for something. Texas would like to win the American League west while Arizona would like to hold onto the second National League wild card spot.

With these two wild card spots still to be decided it should make the final two games of the regular season interesting at least for these teams and their fans.

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We discussed it a little over the weekend when the media jumps the gun and anoints a team the best in their league.

Well after last Thursday night’s game it may have been just a little too early for the media to crown the San Francisco 49ers the best team in the National Football League.

I don’t know about you, but the Miami Dolphins looked pretty good hanging 70 points on the Denver Broncos and the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs also looked good as they easily beat the Chicago Bears.

Don’t get me wrong the 49ers are a very good team. San Francisco is one of just three unbeaten teams left in the NFL. The Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles are the other two. I was just trying to get across the point that after three games it’s tough to say that one team is the best and I think that was proven.

However, I think that you might be able to say which teams are bad as there are four winless teams. The Bears, Broncos, Minnesota Vikings and Carolina Panthers are all looking for that first win. Now two of these teams will get that first win in Week 4 as the Bears host the Broncos and the Vikings travel to Carolina.

Now it’s no surprise after the season ending Aaron Rodgers injury in Week 1 that a lot of the focus has been on the New York Jets quarterback position. After acquiring Rodgers there were many who thought that the Jets would be a playoff team. Well, New York is off to a 1-2 start, and it seems as though the blame is being placed on Zach Wilson.

There was a lot of talk about the Jets trying to add a top name veteran quarterback, but Matt Ryan turned them down and there really hasn’t been any comment from Tom Brady. There was some talk of trying to work out a trade with the Vikings for Kirk Cousins, but that seems like it was just a rumor. Now the Jets did add a veteran quarterback to their roster, but it’s doubtful that it was anybody who’s going to take over as the starter. New York added journeymen backup quarterback Trevor Siemian.

This is actually Sieman’s second stint with the Jets. He started one game for them in 2019. Sieman spent three years with the Broncos before that season with the Jets. He was out of the NFL in 2020 but returned with the New Orleans Saints in 2021 and last season played for the Bears.

Sieman does have 30 career starts in the NFL but most of those (24) came when he was with the Broncos. His teams are 13-17 in his 30 starts.

The other part of the Jets quarterback story is Colin Kaepernick wrote a letter to Jets general manager Joe Douglass. I haven’t seen the letter, but it was posted by rapper J Cole on his Instagram page if you’re interested in looking for it. Apparently in the letter Kaepernick talks about being signed to the Jets practice squad.

I think we’re all very familiar with Kaepernick’s saga. Kaepernick hasn’t played in an NFL game since January 1st of 2017.

Kaepernick is 35 years old and will turn 36 next month, but he should be 100% healthy since he hasn’t had NFL contact in such a long time. Is it possible that he could help the Jets?

Jump in here and let me know what you think about the Jets quarterback situation and what you think that they might do. They did announce that Wilson will be the starter for this Sunday’s game, so we know that much.

As always look for me on X, I’m @Burketime.

This may be one of those issues were I’m the only one who has a problem with it, but it bothers me when the media anoints a team as the best after playing very few games. I had it happen again this week and I get that the media needs talking points, but you look stupid if you start pushing a team as the best in their league after just a few games.

We’re actually just starting Week 3 of the National Football League season, but after there 30 to 12 win over the New York Giants I head multiple media members pushing the San Francisco 49ers as the best team in the NFL.

With the win San Francisco improved to 3-0 on the season and the Giants fell to 1-2. So, San Francisco now has wins over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Rams and the afore mentioned Giants. There were people who saw the Steelers and Giants as possible playoff teams, but I don’t think anyone had either of those teams as a serious Super Bowl contender.

I get it a win is a win and you can only play who’s on your schedule and all that stuff, but maybe we could reserve judgement on who the best team in the NFL is until we get a little deeper into the season.

heading into the remainder of the games this weekend there are eight teams that are 2-0. Couldn’t it be possible that one of those teams is the best team in the NFL? Interestingly enough the Kansas City Chiefs aren’t one of those 2-0 teams, but Kansas City is expected to be a Super Bowl contender.

It’s all together possible that the 49ers end up representing the National Football Conference in the Super Bowl as they look like a very good team and should be considered a contender to make the Super Bowl, but there are other teams beside San Francisco that have also looked very good. Plus, in the NFL there always seems to be a team that no one talked about during the pre-season that has a much better year than expected.

This early in the season it’s almost impossible to point to one thing that the 49ers have that head and shoulders above what some of the other 2-0 teams have. San Francisco has a good running game with Christian McCaffery, but there are other teams with good running games. Brock Purdy has played well at quarterback, but again so have other quarterbacks. San Francisco has one of the better defenses in the NFL, but there are other teams with defenses that measure up to the 49ers.

Like I mentioned earlier when it’s all said and done San Francisco may end up being the best team in the NFL, but February 11th is a long way away and a lot of things will happen between now and then. I wouldn’t be surprised if between now and February 11th the media extolls three four or even five other teams as the best in the NFL.

The NFL schedule for Week 3 is very interesting as there doesn’t seem to be one game that jumps out at you.

I’ve heard some people who are very interested in the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Detroit Lions. The Falcons are one of those eight 2-0 teams and there’s a lot of buzz about their rookie running back Bijan Robinson. I Week 1 Robinson put up big numbers as he rushed for 124 yards on 19 carries in the Falcons win against the Green Bay Packers. Last week Robinson didn’t get as many carries just 10, but still rushed for 56 yards as Atlanta beat the Carolina Panthers. Robinson is averaging 6.2 yards per carry and has added 11 receptions for 75 yards and a touchdown in his first two weeks in the NFL. The Lions aren’t looked at as a great defense, so it will be interesting to see what kind of numbers Robinson put up tomorrow.

I’d like to know what you think the best game of Week 3 is. Do you like the Sunday night match up which features the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Las Vegas Raiders? Maybe it’s the first Monday night game this week as the 2-0 Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the 2-0 Philadelphia Eagles. Let me know what if any Week 3 NFL match up catches your eye.

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