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So last week, I got some of the picks correct and some of them wrong. For instance, I predicted that the Packers would beat the Rams 38-23, but the final score was 32-18 Packers over the Rams. The Packer offense was pretty much unstoppable and they only had to punt just one time! The Rams defense just did not play as well as they did last time to get a win against the Seahawks. I predicted that the Ravens would beat the Bills 29-23, but the final score was 17-3 Bills over the Ravens. The Bills defense played very well against the Ravens offense who were very effective on running the ball early in the game. Later in the second half, things started to not go well for the Ravens. The Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson threw a pick six in the red zone and then he got hurt and he was out for the rest of the game. Not the night the Ravens were hoping for. I felt like Lamar could have just tried to run it at least get close to the goal line instead of forcing the ball in the red zone. They also got away from their really good run game and they had to throw a lot in the second half and yet, they did not even score a touchdown. I predicted that the Chiefs would beat the Browns 41-32, but the final score was 22-17 Chiefs over the Browns. The Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had to leave the game because he injured his neck while he was getting tackled. The Chiefs need him to come back and play against the Bills because they have a pretty good challenge coming up tomorrow. I believe that he will be back on time unless something changes automatically. The Chiefs head coach Andy Reid made the best call of the season by throwing the short pass to wide receiver Tyreek Hill to seal the win over the Browns on 4th and 1. I predicted that the Saints would beat the Buccaneers 31-28, but the final score was 30-20 Bucs over the Saints. The Saints quarterback Drew Brees threw 3 picks in the game on his final home game in New Orleans. Yeah, that is not the way to end your career, throwing 3 picks and the tight end for the Saints Jared Cook fumbling the ball to give the Buccaneers some good fielding position. You just got to let it go if you are a Saints fan even though you are very disappointed in them.
So, I got 2 picks correct and 2 picks wrong!
Now let’s move on to the AFC and NFC Championship game picks, shall we?! The first game I will predict is the Buccaneers @Packers game. This is going to be a very close game between the dangerous Packer offense and Aaron Rodgers and the Buccaneers really good run defense and Tom Brady. The Bucs are looking to go to the Super Bowl for the first time in decades and the Packers are looking to get their running game involved early in the first and second half. So, this is going to be a good game. I think the Packers will barely edge out the Bucs with the win in a very close game 30-24 because I think the Packers running game will do just enough to wear down the Bucs defense and possibly rough Tom Brady a little, but not too much. And of course, Aaron Rodgers will find a way to get time in the pocket and find some open receivers to seal the game for the Packers. The next game I will predict is the Bills @Chiefs game. This will also be a good game to watch to see who will go to the Super Bowl this year. If Patrick Mahomes comes back on time tomorrow to play then I think the Chiefs will beat the Bills in a really close game 31-27.
So based on my picks, I think the Super Bowl teams on February 2nd will be the Packers and the Chiefs! We will see what happens tomorrow! I can’t wait to find the results tomorrow!
So, what do you guys think about the NFL Championship game picks?!
I would like to hear some comments, thoughts, concerns, or opinions down below!
Stay tuned for NFL Championship game pick updates!
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As we reported earlier, Danielle Brooks, perhaps best known for her role as Taystee in Netflix’s hit series “Orange is the New Black,” is set to portray legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in a new film.
Last weekend, in promotion of the film “Good Morning America” debuted the first look from the television movie, produced by Robin Roberts.
Directed by Kenny Leon (The Wiz Live), the film follows Jackson’s life as a gospel star as well as the role she played in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s inner circle.
In addition to scenes from the film, Brooks also spoke personally about the lasting legacy Jackson left on this earth.
“A lot of people don’t know that there would not be the famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech without Mahalia Jackson. She shouted out, ‘Tell them about the dream!’ Mahalia Jackson was the voice for the people. Her music moved people. It did something. It changed people’s heart. We have to, have to remember Mahalia Jackson.”
The official description for the film from Lifetime reads as follows:
“Born in New Orleans, Mahalia began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in U.S. history, melding her music with the civil rights movement. Her recording of the song “Move on Up a Little Higher” sold millions of copies, skyrocketing her to international fame and gave her the opportunity to perform at diverse settings including in front of a racially integrated audience at the prestigious Carnegie Hall and at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural ball. An active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, Jackson sang at numerous rallies, including the March on Washington in 1963 alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in hopes that her music would encourage and inspire racial equality.
As we also reported Jackson’s story will be told in another feature film project starring singer Ledisi as Jackson and Columbus Short as Dr. King.
You can watch the trailer for the Lifetime movie, coming Saturday, April 3, in the video below.
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The New York Post published a front-page op-ed Sunday by Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who used the massive platform to complain about the “muzzling” of conservative voices in America.
Again, that’s a sitting member of Congress taking over the front page of a major national publication to complain about being silenced. If irony wasn’t already dead, Josh Hawley has surely killed it.
Hawley’s op-ed is exactly what you’d expect it to be, yet also somehow worse. He condemns “cancel culture” and complains about “social credit scores” (“the latest corporate import from Communist China”) and how they have the power to derail conservatives’ personal lives and professional standings.
Hawley’s social credit score has taken a hit recently and you can tell because some hotels canceled his political events, his publisher canceled his book (and then re-bought it under a conservative imprint) and because with Parler shut down, the only platforms he has left from which to espouse his views are the NY Post, Fox News, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and, oh yeah, the Senate floor.
Hawley makes up a lot of hypotheticals for his article. He says that “Karens” are being doxxed online for “[cutting] the wrong person off in traffic” (instead of, you know, racism). He predicts that encrypted communication apps will get shut down by big tech “for interfering in efficient social credit markets.” He says those same “tech titans” will try to expel “half the House Republican conference” from Congress because of their conservative views.
What he does not mention, not even once, is the recent riot at the Capitol that left five people dead and many more injured. The riot where violent domestic terrorists are believed to have hoped to kidnap and in some cases, even kill lawmakers. The riot that Josh Hawley actively, publicly encouraged.
It’s pretty amazing that Hawley could write a few hundred words about how people are trying to silence him and never once mention what he has said and done to actually deserve to lose his platform. Which, to be clear, he hasn’t. If he were being “muzzled,” well, he probably wouldn’t be able to use the front page of a tabloid newspaper to tell us so.
You do realize, if you were truly muzzled, you wouldn’t be able to tweet that you were standing up to muzzling by talking about the matter in a newspaper article, right?#CapitolRiot #TwitterBan https://t.co/pNSw5L33W4
— Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) January 25, 2021
“I’m being muzzled!” he screams in the pages of one of the largest newspapers in the country’s biggest media market. https://t.co/Y4JuSt463F
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) January 25, 2021
saying youre being muzzled in a front page op-ed in a major newspaper in america’s biggest media market is the kind of thing only republicans can pull off
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 25, 2021
For somebody who claims he’s been consistently muzzled, Hawley is somehow in my face in major media outlets all the time. I would think muzzling would mean I wouldn’t have to listen to this treason weasel anymore, but apparently not. https://t.co/VG5GfUOtCj
— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) January 25, 2021
Every time I hear @HawleyMO is being muzzled, ironically, I hear it from Josh Hawley himself.
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 25, 2021
No one is “muzzling” Josh Hawley. He doesn’t have a guaranteed right to a book deal (which he hasn’t even lost!), or to have his events hosted and publicized by a major hotel chain. He can say whatever he wants and then others can choose how to react. To insist otherwise—to say that no one else gets to decide what they say and do in response to his actions—is itself “muzzling” of others’ voices, something Hawley is actually very familiar with.
Josh,
Do you remember when you came to my Yale talk on the history of affirmative action? You disrupted it, aggressively held the floor during Q&A, wouldn’t let anyone else ask a ?, & refused to sit down. When I said you were rude & had no right to muzzle the audience, you left. https://t.co/EHIonqdIfL— Dr. Glenda Gilmore (@GilmoreGlenda) January 25, 2021
Not to mention:
You left out the part where you tried to cancel millions of votes. https://t.co/BIYJiqreBw
— Patterico (@Patterico) January 25, 2021
There is a huge difference between being silenced and being, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put it, “deeply unpopular.”
You were given prime space to say this in a billionaire-run rag that specifically amplifies right-wing views, part of a entire subsidized industry of right-wing outlets.
You’re not “muzzled,” Hawley. You’re just deeply unpopular, and aided insurrection.
And you need to resign. https://t.co/VjNucSfhrT
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 25, 2021
In the words of possibly my favorite TikTok of all time, “You’re not getting bullied. You’re picking a fight, then losing that fight.”
@yourpal_austin@riannasun I didn’t have to go this hard. But also… I kind of did. #oroginalsound♬ original sound – Austin Archer
Honestly, Josh Hawley should start playing that song and his rallies and political events—if he can find a venue that’s willing to host him.
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