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League walk on music credits: 

• T&F - All Good Things -  For The Glory 

• S&F - Imagine Dragons - Believer 

• R&B - The Score - Legend 

The game in Hell’s Sports Bar - On a weekend where several teams played in terrible weather, last week the Vikings and Raiders played in the climate-controlled comfort of Las Vegas last week and scored three points between them—narrowly avoiding the dreaded 0-0 tie at the end of regulation.  The last time that happened, America was at war…in 1943!  It was the first 3-0 game since Pittsburgh beat Miami on Nov. 26, 2007, the third in the past 40 years and the seventh in the Super Bowl era; it was also the only such game played indoors.  All the others (the Steelers/Miami game, for example, was played in rain so intense that a punt stuck in the field like a lawn dart!) were outside and in some sort of weather. 

Mostert is the Most - Raheem Mostert’s rushed for his 17th touchdown of the season, a Dolphins team record. It's the fourth-most in a season by an undrafted player in the common-draft era.

Tua may have an arm  - Tua Tagovailoa’s 60-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle traveled 48.59 yards in air distance. It was only Tagovailoa’s seventh-farthest tracked completion this year, he has six he has thrown father...which is crazy.  

Tee Higgins finally got going: Lost in Jake Browning's incredible second-half comeback was the resurgent play of Higgins, who caught his first touchdown pass since Week 2 in Saturday's victory. Higgins caught not one, but two, touchdown passes as he finished with four catches for 61 yards. Playing in just 10 of 14 games, Higgins has just 36 catches for 497 yards and four touchdowns, but significantly stepped up with the absence of Ja'Marr Chase (shoulder). The Bengals will need Higgins to be the No. 1 he's capable of being down the stretch, especially with Chase expected to miss time. 

Maybe he should have gone before Round 7? Week 15 marked Brock Purdy's 13th career start with a 100-plus passer rating. Purdy's 13 such games only trail Patrick Mahomes (16) and HOFer Kurt Warner (14) for most games with a 100-plus passer rating in a QB's first 20 starts since 1950.

 Remember the Titans – How crazy was the Titans’ 28–27 comeback win over the Dolphins last week?  Teams down 14 points with less than three minutes to go in regulation were 0–767 since 2016 until the Titans pulled off their win.  The Titans were also the first team to be down 14 points with less than 2:55 left and win without overtime.

 Trade Joe Burrow??? - Bengals backup quarterback Jake Browning has a 79.3 completion percentage in his first three career starts, the highest by any quarterback in their first three starts.  Browning is the second quarterback since 1950 to complete at least 70 percent of his passes in his first three career starts, joining Chad Pennington, who did so in 2002 with the Jets.  In addition to his 79.3 completion percentage, Browning has 856 passing yards in his three career starts. Browning and Justin Herbert (2020) are the only quarterbacks since 1950 with at least 800 passing yards and a completion percentage of 70-plus for their first three starts. Oh, and as of today… the Bengals are in the playoffs. Who would have thought that a few weeks ago?

 Football Trivia Answer - 14 is the record, and three games are tied for that “honor” all before the Super Bowl Era.

• Washington Redskins (8) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (6), November 14, 1937

• Chicago Bears (7) vs. Cleveland Browns (7), November 24, 1940

• St. Louis Cardinals (8) vs. New York Giants (6), September 17, 1961 

 Pop Culture Trivia -  Four movies have won 10 or more Oscars.  

1.   Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003) - 11 

2.   Ben-Hur (1959) - 11

3.   Titanic (1997) - 11

4.   West Side Story (1961) - 10