Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
I would like to start things off today by apologizing to the NFL. When they decided to change the name of “Wild Card Weekend” to “Super Wild Card Weekend,” I thought it was going to be the one of the three biggest marketing failures, but I was wrong. The name change works and that’s because “Super Wild” is the only way to properly describe what transpired over the weekend.
In a span of 36 hours, we saw:
We’ll be covering all of that, plus more in today’s newsletter, so let’s get to the rundown.
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1. Today’s show: Full recap of Super Wild Card Weekend
It’s Monday, which can only mean one thing: I stayed up until 3 a.m. last night recording a podcast with Will Brinson and Ryan Wilson that touched on everything you need to know about Super Wild Card Weekend, and let me just say, it’s probably for the best that you listen.
One thing we do every week is hand out our weekly winners and losers from Sunday’s action. Here’s a look at who made our list.
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- Winner: Doug Pederson and Trevor Lawrence. In his first playoff game of his career, Lawrence tripped over his own feet coming out of the gate with FOUR interceptions in the first half, but the Jaguars QB recovered to also throw four touchdowns as the Jags shocked the Chargers 31-30 in a game where Jacksonville trailed 27-0. One reason the Jags were able to pull off the comeback is because Doug Pederson was the much better coach in this game. Not only did the Jags go for it — and convert — on multiple fourth downs, but Pederson also called for a two-point conversion after Jacksonville had cut the lead to 30-26. Most NFL coaches would have gladly taken one point to make it 30-27, but Pederson went for two and the successful try ended up being the difference in the game.
- Loser: Kirk Cousins. The Vikings QB has a reputation for being Captain Checkdown and he took that reputation to a whole new level on Sunday when he checked down on fourth-and-8 on Minnesota’s final offensive play of the game. You absolutely can NOT check down in that situation, but Cousins…
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