By Roy J. Akers — www.skyviewsports.net
The NFL week 18 put some teams in the drivers seat clinching the playoffs such as Philadelphia, New England, and Philadelphia. Some teams need multi-team miracles, and some just want the season to end.
No jumping on our bandwagon – They Said It… NFL Week 15
It’s the sort of victory that can bring the attention and respect that the Jaguars felt was missing a couple of weeks ago, but defensive end Travon Walker said he’d rather people keep the same opinion about the team that they’ve held all season.
“They just gonna hop on the bandwagon right now,” Walker said on the team’s postgame show. “Everybody in this locker room on the Jaguars team, even upstairs, we know everybody’s probably going to try to hop on this bandwagon now, but we don’t want anybody. They can stay where they’re at. It’s us. It’s all about the Jags. F—k everybody but us. Excuse my language, dad, grandmama, but f—k everybody but us.”
A wake up call is what the Patriots needed
“It was kind of a wake-up call last week — we got a chance to win the game with a game-winning drive, and this week it was like, man, let’s not have that feeling two weeks in a row,” Drake Maye said, via Noah Trister of the Associated Press. “It was kind of the elephant in the room.”
Bryce Young on what the Panthers learned
“Yeah, it feels great, and it’ll feel great for the next 24 hours,” Young said, via the team’s website. “After that, it’s not going to matter. This is what, Week 16? That’s not when the playoffs start. So there’s still a lot more work to be done. There’s still a lot more football to be played. Again, 24-hour rule, we’ll celebrate this one, but we know that we have to refocus.”
The Lions Dan Campbell”It’s all on me man.”
“There’s a lot of errors that have popped up. We’ve got some mental errors here or there, or a lack of self discipline. And ultimately I put that stuff on me. That’s on me. There’s no other way to cut it, other than it’s the head coach. So it’s on me, man.”
Jared Goff on the last two weeks
“Find out who we are character-wise,” quarterback Jared Goff said of these last two weeks. “Find out what we’re made of. We know the percentages and what not, but we’re not eliminated. We know we need some things to go our way but find out who we are and see if we can win these last two and see if we can get it and we’ll be dangerous if we can.”
NBC Sports on the Lions
Jason McCourty on Detroit’s loss to Pittsburgh: “Injuries. Defensively, their whole secondary has been hurt. Instead of playing a lot of man, they switch it up to play a lot of zone. It’s hard at this point in the season to switch and try to do new things. They suffered a little bit against Aaron Rodgers.”
Jason Garrett: “That’s not who they are. They’re an aggressive team. They like to get in your face, and we saw that Pittsburgh had a really good day offensively against that depleted defense. They haven’t been the same team like they’ve been. They’re not out of it yet. They win the last couple games, and some things happen, they still can get in. Bad day for the Lions.”
The Detroit Lions have to win their last two games on the road and hope Green Bay loses their final two games.
Roy J. Akers covers the NFL for www.skyviewsports.net
