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The Real Democrat Autopsy They Can’t and Won’t Release
May 30th, 2026April 2026 Tygrrrr Express Texas and Washington speaking schedule
April 1st, 2026Thursday, April 2, 2026 — Republican Women’s Club of Katy, Texas at 10:30am. Palacio Maria, 21728 Highland Knolls, Katy, TX 77450
Friday, April 3, 2026 — Clear Creek Republican Women in League City, Texas. Lunch. 11:15am. La Brisa Mexican Grille 501 N Wesley Drive, League City, Texas
Monday, April 6, 2026 — Golden Triangle Republican Women in Beaumont, Texas. 11am. MCM Elegante Hotel. 2355 I-10, Beaumont, TX 77705
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 — Eastside Republican Club in Seattle, Washington. Evening.
Thursday, April 16, 2026 — Evergreen Republican Women near Seattle, Washington. 6pm. Shawn O’Donnell’s Irish Restaurant & Pub. 122 128th St SE, Everett, WA 98208
Monday, April 20, 2026 — Bothel Republican Women near Seattle, Washington. 11:30am. Judith Finney
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Regime change in Iran, Minneapolis and Harvard NOW!
March 12th, 2026Regime change in Iran, Minneapolis and Harvard NOW!
2026 quickly put 2025 to bed. 2025 began with a terrorist attack in New Orleans and ended with the terrorist attack in Bondi Beach, Australia. God forbid innocent Americans enjoy Bourbon Street or innocent Jews celebrate Hanukkah without being murdered. Next time will be elsewhere. Innocents will grieve. Nothing will change.
Wrong. Things can change. Change just requires a global iron will nonexistent since George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Jose Aznar and John Howard led the Anglosphere. The Taliban and al Qaeda were routed. Saddam Hussein was removed from Earth. Barbarians were on the run.
Yet given a chance to finish Islamist Jihadists, the world blinked. The Madrid bombing cowed Spaniards into electing a leftist peacenik. Australia replaced John Howard. Americans rejected war hero John McCain in favor of leftist faculty lounge academic Barack Hussein Obama. England’s Labour Party descended into madness, led by anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn.
It is long past time to admit the Neocons were right about virtually everything. The way to stop innocent people from being murdered is to take the fight to the enemies. With Islamists, drug traffickers, human traffickers and their enablers, diplomacy is useless. Force is the only solution.
Let leftists and Ron Paul stoners melt down. They had their chance on the world stage. They failed. It was time to bring back the adults and eliminate threats to the civilized world.
The adults began 2026 by laying down the law within the bounds of international law. Trump blew up drug boats and seized Venezuelan oil tankers. He ousted and captured Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro, a drug lord who illegally seized power. Maduro’s Fentanyl killed many more innocent Americans than Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had every right to send a third world drug thug a militarized hug. The holiday greeting was “Dear Narco…Love, Marco.”
The message was clear. To make America and the civilized world safer, send the diplomats to bed. Let the adults handle things. Venezuela is proof that force works.
Regime change is the only answer.
Go beyond Venezuela. Enact regime change in Iran. All the mullahs must go. Taking out Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be only the beginning. President Donald Trump can stop pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize he will never receive. His peace agreements will mean little if the world’s worst global sponsor of terrorism survives. For reasons only he knows, Trump was reluctant to finish off Iran’s mullahs. He must embrace his successful Venezuela policy clearly in Iran. At the very least, let Israel finish the job. Every day the mullahs rule Iran is a foreign policy problem. For all Trump gets right, the world will go up in flames if he does not get the biggest foreign policy problem right. War against Iran is a giant step in the right direction.
Beyond Iran, regime change is necessary in Minneapolis. Stop buckling to false accusations of racism, sexism and Islamophobia. Minneapolis is drowning in corruption that directly affects public safety. Widespread fraud showed evidence of money-laundering that funded Islamist groups in Somalia and elsewhere. The federal government must crack down hard on Minneapolis. Hand down RICO indictments. ICE has largely left, but they can always return and make massive numbers of arrests. If a sitting congresswoman after a fair trial is convicted, strip her citizenship and deport her. Send a message to every elected official with Islamist or other terrorist ties. Deporting Ilhan Omar would have Ayatollah Mamdani quaking in his wife’s designer boots. Innocent Muslims will have nothing to fear. The guilty should fear every day they infect this planet.
Finally, accomplish regime change at Harvard and other Ivy League Universities. These colleges charge parents hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for turning America’s children into America-hating lunatics. Self-policing failed. The First Amendment does not give universities a right to create a new generation of violent revolutionaries. The federal government must use extreme measures to combat extremism. Rogue university presidents must be deposed. If they resist, shut these colleges down.
Shut them down. Under the George W. Bush Doctrine, any entity that shelters, harbors or finances terrorism is as guilty as the terrorists themselves. Guilty universities must be financially decapitated. Campuses can protect Jews or cease to exist.
Islamist terrorists are murdering Jews while Narco terrorists endanger all Americans. Money from Iran and Minneapolis funds global terrorism. Money from Iran, China and Qatar funds American university curriculums, which creates more domestic terrorists. This new Axis of Evil must be strangled financially and politically.
Beyond their presidents, all members of Iran, Minneapolis and Harvard’s leadership must be replaced. Forcible regime change is the only way Americans can have a chance at safety.
To non-Jews in America wondering why we cannot just focus on America, wake up. Islamists and other terrorists are already coming for us all. Europe is finished. America can stand up against terrorists or embrace isolationism and eventually fall to the Caliphate.
To Jews under siege, stock up on guns and ammo. Happy Purim and early Passover.
Renee Good Was Bad and Alex Pretti Was Ugly
March 11th, 2026Renee Good Was Bad and Alex Pretti Was Ugly
Operation Metro Surge officially ended. The Minneapolis operation removed 4,000 violent criminals off the streets, but Democrats remain determined to descend into third world lawlessness. It is imperative to cut through the fog and deliver real truth. This means understanding who is committing violence, and more importantly, why. Liberals are the new Palestinians. Like Palestinians, liberals resort to violence because they cannot and will not accept that their opponents have a right to exist.
Palestinians turned their own people into suicide bombers. Democrats emulated this violence. Weaponizing a vehicle was once unheard of outside of Gaza. Now Democrats create martyrs to distract from their own bad behavior.
Two recent leftist martyrs were Renee Good and Alexander Pretti.
Ms. Good was shot dead by an ICE agent after injuring him with her car. The same zealots who glorify the supposed poor, oppressed Gaza suicide bombers rushed to defend Good. She was a lesbian, as if that is a valid criminal defense position. She was a poet. She could have been a poet, a puppet, a pauper, a Piper Parebo, a Parker Posey, or a Porky or Petunia Pig. Platitudes about her being peaceful are positively preposterous.
Whether she intentionally tried to hit the officer with her car remains irrelevant. She was violent before ever moving her car forward. Once she shifted in reverse before going forward, she was already defying a lawful order to exit her car. Long before reversal, her initial behavior was violent. She used her car to deliberately impede law enforcement.
Contrary to leftist la-la-land lunatics, blocking traffic is violent, not peaceful. Picture a fire truck racing to extinguish a blaze. Imagine a police officer transporting a shooting victim to the hospital. Think about an EMT desperately trying to get a pregnant woman suffering complications to the maternity ward. Now see innocent people die and decide if blocking traffic is harmless. Precious seconds can separate healthy births from miscarriages and an operating table patient recovering or coding.
Thoughtless leftists happily sacrifice pawns in their desperate rage. Alex Pretti was a nurse, a supposedly holy untouchable. Nurse Ratchet was also a nurse. So were unvaccinated nurses liberals cast out like garbage from jobs they loved. Somehow one nurse deserves a free pass for violence. Pretti had a history of ugly behavior. The Second Amendment allows private citizens to own guns, but violent felons can lose rights. One week before being shot, Pretti engaged in violence toward ICE officers. He went to the violence well once too often, and his luck ran dry.
Good and Pretti are plankton. Big fish are fomenting violence. Leftists and Islamists are again united in tactics and strategy. For Gaza Muslims, the end game is overthrowing Israel’s government and expelling all Jews. For leftists in Minnesota and other blue states, the goal is overthrowing Trump’s government and making it impossible for conservatives and Republicans to ever govern again.
This leftist Initifada is sophisticated. Democrats start by importing massive numbers of illegal immigrants. Taxpayer dollars are then funneled through various organizations to new migrants, who in return illegally vote Democrat. Some money is funneled overseas to Somali and other foreign terrorist groups. Democrats and Islamists work hand in glove to wash, rinse and repeat the cycle of money and power. President Donald Trump is the enemy for trying to break this corrupt criminal enterprise.
Governor Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey and Attorney General Keith Ellison are up to their eyeballs in this fraud scandal that siphoned billions of taxpayer dollars to illegal causes and entities. All roads appear to lead to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. She controls the Minneapolis voting bloc and therefore the state. Frey and Walz are terrified of criticizing her because she is black and Muslim.
To cover up financial crimes, Omar Democrats use physical violence to stymie and bully investigators and law enforcement agents. Like Israel’s IDF just trying to prevent murdered Jews, ICE in America is trying to prevent murder victims. Like Palestinians who start conflicts and then cry victim, blue state liberals are willing to die to protect their narrative, their ideology, and their violent crimes committed in furtherance of their goals.
This is war. When dealing with zealots, diplomacy is useless. The IDF needed to burn Gaza to the ground until Hamas and Hezbollah were broken. The Trump administration needed to bring more force, not less. They needed as many law enforcement personnel necessary to crush the Minnesota Democrat Intifada. If that meant a bad time for Good or getting ugly on Pretti, so be it. Democrats started this war and refuse to stop. At some point Republicans must finally have the guts to finish the job with as much force as legally necessary to permanently break the resistance and restore law and order.
Anti-Jewish violence requires a forceful response
March 10th, 2026Anti-Jewish violence requires a forceful response
Anti-Jewish violence in 2025 saw deadly attacks on Jews in Washington, D.C., Boulder, Colorado, Syracuse, New York, Manchester, England, Bondi Beach, Australia, and other areas. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro had his home torched while he and his family slept. 10 days in, hope for a safer 2026 climate was quashed. Terror against Jews continues unabated, including campus attacks at MIT and Brown.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is somehow worse than expected. An antisemitic mob stormed a Jewish neighborhood shouting “We support Hamas.”
The only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi , Beth Israel was attacked and rendered unusable. Chabad Lubavitch global headquarters in Brooklyn, New York was attacked by a mentally deranged individual.
These events will keep happening until forceful actions are taken to stop them.
Some actions will make politically liberal Jews uncomfortable, but times change. So must they.
For starters, Jews must acquire mass wealth and power. Get rich. Power follows money. Political power requires economic power. Too many Jews enter low-paying industries including education and social work. We have enough bleeding hearts. Jews need to dominate Wall Street, technology, medicine, and yes, big oil. We need corporate lawyers, not legal aid attorneys. The down-trodden can find other help. Right now, we Jews are the down-trodden. Maximum political power will end the days when one George Floyd matters more than an entire people of Jews. Jews must be more powerful throughout America than Pennsylvania Catholics, Minnesota Somali Muslims and San Francisco gays combined.
That is the macro picture. The micro picture means Jews embracing America’s gun culture. Those firebombing synagogues are terrorists, and dead terrorists don’t become recidivists. Every synagogue must budget for 24-hour private security. If that means skimping on alcohol, so be it. Congregants must be well-trained in guns.
Jews must vote for politicians who will guarantee Jewish safety. This means spending city funds on cameras on all streets within 1,000 yards of any synagogue. Many Democrats need the votes of Jew-haters to get elected. That must change. If internal reform fails, liberal Jews must swallow hard and vote Republican. This beats dying. Dead people are useless in advancing social causes.
Most importantly, the coddling of violent criminals must end. Law enforcement agencies must be strengthened, not weakened. Return law and order. Crack down hard on those who impede law and order, including the professional rioter class who are no friends of Jews.
Until Jews are safe, nobody else deserves safety.
Candle-light vigils only benefit those selling candles. If we can seize Venezuelan oil tankers and eliminate Iranian mullahs, surely we can seize people sheltering, harboring and financing domestic anti-Jewish activities. When enough of these terrorists are imprisoned or executed, the terrorism will stop. Everything else is surrender to the next antisemitic attack.
Let’s start by saving Beth Israel. Give the congregation whatever they need to rebuild stronger and better.
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Carrie Prejean fails to understand religion, geopolitics, and virtually everything else
March 10th, 2026Carrie Prejean fails to understand religion, geopolitics, and virtually everything else
In 2009, the Miss USA runner-up was about to be stripped of her Miss California title. Carrie Prejean violated pageant rules by participating in a sex tape. Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump, an avid golfer, gifted Prejean a mulligan.
Miss Prejean wasted her second chance, skipping mandatory pageant activities. She was terminated for cause, losing her crown.
After public humiliation, Prejean married NFL quarterback Kyle Boller, started a family, and wisely went relatively quiet. Despite being bullied more than anyone outside of Monica Lewinsky, Prejean remained dignified. In person, she was warm and gracious. My own experiences can attest to her kind, caring nature. Her father Wil was an exceptionally good man, a stable rock. His daughter could have achieved her happy ending.
Sadly, she reentered the spotlight and squandered an opportunity to do good. President Trump named her to his 2026 commission on antisemitism. She showed up to a hearing wearing a “Palestine” flag pin. She grilled a witness about a mythical Gaza “genocide” that has been thoroughly debunked. Trump, who’s eldest daughter Ivanka is Orthodox Jewish, had heard enough. Despite a personal distaste for firing people, Trump added Prejean to the exclusive Omarosa Manigault club of people he fired at least twice.
This time, Prejean did not go gently into that good night. The same social media that made her a bullying victim helped her become a bully. She unleashed online tirades against Israel and Zionists.
She is out of mulligans. Understanding why a 38-year-old spouts off on topics she knows nothing about is pointless. What matters is swiftly rebutting her combination of idiocy, ignorance and ugliness.
Prejean does not understand Judaism or Zionism. Ant-Zionism is 100% Jew-hatred, to the consternation of those using anti-Zionism as a convenient fig leaf. Zionism is the right of Jews to live in the Jewish state of Israel. Zionism is the heart of Jewish existence. Anti-Zionism defines a hostility toward Jewish existence.
Prejean does not understand the Middle East or Arab-Israeli conflict. “Palestine” is fictional. “Palestinians” are displaced Egyptian and Jordanian Arabs. These Arabs have no unique language, culture, currency, history or archeology. Before 1964, they never existed. “Gaza” and the “West Bank” are part of Judea and Samaria. Historical evidence shows Jews lived there over 3,000 years ago. Jews currently in Israel are direct descendants of original Jewish lineage.
Prejean’s attacks on Jews directly stems from her April, 2026 conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. Sadly, Prejean fails to even understand her own newfound faith. Just as Islamists pervert Islam, her virulent fringe strain of Catholicism perverts Catholicism. Pope John Paul II epitomized doctrinaire Catholicism. He officially condemned antisemitism as a sin, calling Jews “elder brothers.” Pope Leo XIV stated that the Church “does not tolerate anti-Semitism and fights against it, on the basis of the Gospel itself.”
Pontiffs aside, nobody is more Catholic than Catholic League President Bill Donohue. Mr. Donohue has fought anti-Catholic bigotry for over 30 years. Anyone unfairly attacking Catholics faces his swift wrath. His comments regarding Prejean were unequivocal. “She does not run a Catholic organization, has no Catholic credentials as an author or instructor, and indeed represents no one but herself. For her to say, without qualification, that ‘Catholics do not embrace Zionism,’ is presumptuous and arrogant.”
True Catholics understand Nostra Aetete (In our time). This seminal 1965 declaration from the Second Vatican Council transformed the Catholic Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions, emphasizing unity, love, and mutual respect.
If Prejean’s Catholicism is sincere, she has two stark choices. She can spiral down into rage, hate and madness. Conversely, she can stop wasting chances her former boss gave her and truly change. She should start by sitting down with Ivanka and just listening. Ivanka is bright and poised. She can educate Prejean about Judaism, Zionism, history, geopolitics, and even help Prejean become a better Philosemitic Catholic.
Super Bowl LX (60) Recap
February 8th, 2026Super Bowl LX (60) Recap
Sunday, February 8, 2026, 6:30pm
AFC New England Patriots at NFC 14-3 Seattle Seahawks — The Patriots under first year head coach Mike Vrabel and second year quarterback Drake Maye built a good team with a great defense. They won the AFC East for the first time in five years. The Patriots went on the road and played the AFC Title Game in a blizzard. The Patriots survived Denver 10-7 in a winter wonderland slugfest. The Seahawks under second year head coach Mike McDonald and first year quarterback Sam Darnold built a team with a tenacious defense in winning the NFC West. While not as flashy as the vaunted Legion of Boom, this defense is brutal. After blasting San Francisco to pieces, the Seahawks survived the Rams 31-27 in the NFC Title Game.
As fans know, these teams met in the Super Bowl 11 years ago. Rather than hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch at the one yard line, the Seahawks opted to throw an interception and lose the Super Bowl. These are two completely new teams that rebounded far quicker than rival fan bases wanted. With Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll elsewhere, these teams were supposed to go through long rebuilds. Instead, great coaching got them right back on top. Vrabel is a belichick disciple and former teammate of Tom Brady.
Both teams love stone age football, running and defense. Maye and Darnold are both competent quarterbacks who will not lose a game for their team. Darnold was cast aside last year after going 14-3 in Minnesota. Vrabel was fired from Tennessee after injuries derailed them team one year after being the top seed. Minnesota and Tennessee both made big mistakes and became cellar dwellers.
Vrabel, like Belichick and Belichick’s mentor Bill Parcells, know how to develop game plans to take down supposedly superior opponents. Parcells’s 1990 Giants stopped the supposedly unstoppable Buffalo offense. Belichick began the Patriots dynasty in 2001 by shocking the Rams Greatest Show on Turf.
Yet those defeated teams won with offense. The Seahawks have a fast, tough and nasty defense. With weather not being a factor, the Seahawks were expected to utilize their speed. On offense, they love to pound the ball. The Patriots were playing in their NFL record 12th Super Bowl, with 10 of them being this century. The Seahawks were in their 4th Super Bowl.
The first three quarters were all defense, with the Seattle defense in particular suffocating the New England offense and sacking Maye multiple times. Jason Myers hit field goals of 33 three minutes into the game, from 39 in the second quarter, from 41 to end the half, and after a lengthy delay called a halftime show that has nothing to do with football, from 41 in the third quarter for a 12-0 Seahawks lead. At the end of the third quarter, Maye was hit and fumbled for the first turnover of the game. The Seahawks began the fourth quarter at the New England 37. Darnold went to AJ Barner for 11. On 3rd and 9 from the New England 25, Darnold went to Cooper Kupp for just enough. Darnold went to Barner for a 16 yard score. New England’s stout defense finally broke. The first touchdown of the game had the Seahawks up 19-0 only 90 seconds into the fourth quarter.
The lowest scoring Super Bowl in history featured 16 points. This game now had 19 points. No team had ever been shut out in the Super Bowl. Two teams had been limited to 3 points and one team scored their only 7 points on a kickoff return touchdown. All those records quickly fell by the wayside. The Patriots took over at their own 35. Maye went deep to Mack Hollins between 4 defenders for a 24 yard gain. Maye then went deep to Hollins again for a 35 yard touchdown. That drive took only 60 seconds as the Patriots were on the board down 19-7 with 12 1/2 minutes left in regulation. The Patriots held on defense and had all the momentum when a great punt pinned the Patriots at their own 4 yard line. They moved to their own 44. Maye went deep over the middle and was intercepted by Jobe Love, who returned the pick 35 yards to the New England 38. With 8 1/2 minutes left, the Seahawks had another chance to finally put the game away. Myers hit his 5th field goal from 26 to make it 22-7 Seahawks with 5 1/2 minutes to go.
One minute later came the exclamation point that made the vaunted Legion of Boom proud. This modern iteration is known as The Dark Side. On 1st and 10 from the Seattle 44, Maye was belted down hard and fumbled. The 7th sack of Maye tied a Super Bowl record. Witherspoon forced the fumble and Nwosu picked it up and rumbled 44 yards for the defensive touchdown. With 4 1/2 minutes left, the exclamation point had the Seahawks up 29-7. he Patriots got a garbage touchdown with 2:20 left, but this game was no contest. The Seahawks held up the Vince Lombardi Trophy for the second time in franchise history. The 2025 NFL Season is now in the history books. The NFL Draft is in 3 months. 29-13 Seahawks
Super Bowl LX (60) Prequel
February 8th, 2026Super Bowl LX (60) Prequel
Sunday, February 8, 2026, 6:30pm on NBC
AFC 14-3 (2) New England Patriots at NFC 14-3 (1) Seattle Seahawks (-4 1/2)
How we got here:
AFC: The Patriots under first year head coach Mike Vrabel and second year quarterback Drake Maye built a good team with a great defense. They won the AFC East for the first time in five years. The Patriots went on the road and played the AFC Title Game in a blizzard. The Patriots survived Denver 10-7 in a winter wonderland slugfest.
NFC: The Seahawks under second year head coach Mike McDonald and first year quarterback Sam Darnold built a team with a tenacious defense in winning the NFC West. While not as flashy as the vaunted Legion of Boom, this defense is brutal. After blasting San Francisco to pieces, the Seahawks survived the Rams 31-27 in the NFC Title Game.
As fans know, these teams met in the Super Bowl 11 years ago. Rather than hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch at the one yard line, the Seahawks opted to throw an interception and lose the Super Bowl.
These are two completely new teams that rebounded far quicker than rival fan bases wanted. With Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll elsewhere, these teams were supposed to go through long rebuilds. Instead, great coaching got them right back on top. Vrabel is a belichick disciple and former teammate of Tom Brady.
Both teams love stone age football, running and defense. Maye and Darnold are both competent quarterbacks who will not lose a game for their team. Darnold was cast aside last year after going 14-3 in Minnesota. Vrabel was fired from Tennessee after injuries derailed them team one year after being the top seed. Minnesota and Tennessee both made big mistakes and became cellar dwellers.
Vrabel, like Belichick and Belichick’s mentor Bill Parcells, know how to develop game plans to take down supposedly superior opponents. Parcells’s 1990 Giants stopped the supposedly unstoppable Buffalo offense. Belichick began the Patriots dynasty in 2001 by shocking the Rams Greatest Show on Turf.
Yet those defeated teams won with offense. The Seahawks have a fast, tough and nasty defense. With weather not being a factor, the Seahawks should be able to utilize their speed. On offense, they love to pound the ball.
The Patriots are in their NFL record 12th Super Bowl, with 10 of them being this century. The Seahawks are in their 4th Super Bowl.
The main difference between these teams is that the Patriots are a good team and the Seahawks are a great team. The Seahawks are a wrecking machine. They are the favorites, and will play like it. Seahawks cover
2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame Predictions
February 5th, 2026NFL 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame Predictions:
Bill Belichick deserved to be denied for one and only one reason. He may not be done coaching Pro Football. This is what kept Bill Parcells out initially. Parcells kept retiring and unretiring. Once it is determined that Belichick is definitely done, he gets in. He is 15 wins shy of Don Shula. His coming back to break the record is plausible, delaying his enshrinement.
So who gets in?
Drew Brees. He is why we have a Hall of Fame to begin with.
Larry Fitzgerald: He is why we have a Hall of Fame to begin with.
Both of these men are also exceptional human beings off the field and represent everything that is right about football.
Terrell Suggs: The second iteration of the vaunted Baltimore defense got over the hump with him.
Jason Witten: He was a true difference maker in Dallas, a rock of stability.
The last one means other deserving nominees have to wait. Adam Vinatieri is the most clutch kicker of all time but he is still a kicker. Reggie wayne, Torry Holt and Frank Gore all face a logjam.
Eli Manning was Hall of Very Good.
The last name may be a shocker because of his short career, but on merit alone:
Luke Kuechly deserves to get in. He was the heart of the Carolina Panthers defense.
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Conference Title Games Recap
January 26th, 2026The NFL 2025-2026 Divisional Playoff Games are in the books.
The Conference Title Games are set. Both games are played on Sunday, January 25, 2026.
AFC Title Game: New England Patriots (2) at Denver Broncos (1) — The Patriots defense forced CJ Stroud into 4 interceptions in the first half alone. The offense was not flashy, but did enough. Drake Maye did not have his best game, but he is a confident leader. Mike Vrabel has built a physical squad. The Broncos won a controversial home game last week against Buffalo due to horrendous officiating in overtime. It was a costly victory that saw Bo Nix suffer a broken ankle on one of the final plays. Nix is done, and Jarrett Stidham started the biggest game of his life. Sean Payton is a quarterback whisperer, but Denver’s very stout defense would have to play better than they ddi last week. Just like 10 years ago, these teams seemed destined before the start of the playoffs to be on a collision course. The first half featured light snow but the second half was played in a blizzard. Field goal kicking was nearly impossible but both teams tried. This game turned into an old school stone age NFL boneblack.
A field position game in the first quarter had the Broncos facing 3rd and 10 at their own 41. Jarrett Stidham went bombs away to Marvin Mims for 52 yards. Stidham hit Cortland Sutton for a 6 yard touchdown. The Broncos led 7-0 but their offense took much of the next 55 minutes off. In the second quarter the Broncos held the ball on a 6 1/2 minute drive and moved to 4th and 1 at the New England 14. Rather than kick a 32 yard field goal and go up 10-0, Sean Payton gambled. He came up snake eyes when Stidham threw incomplete. With 3 minutes left in the half the Denver defense was dominating. New England’s offense did nothing. A key play in the game came on 3rd and 4 from their own 33. Stidham was sacked and fumbled. After a mad scramble the Patriots recovered all the way at the Denver 12. Two plays later Drake Maye ran for a 6 yard touchdown for a 7-7 ballgame. With 24 seconds left in the half, Wil Lutz missed a 54 yard field goal try that would have given Denver the lead. Alex Borregales missed a 63 yard kick to end the half. With the field blanketed in white, neither team would reach the end zone in a brutal second half.
The Patriots began the second half with a staggering 16 play, 64 yard drive that took 9 1/2 minutes off of the clock. This was Mike Vrabel smash mouth football. Yet on 3rd and goal at the 3, Maye was sacked. Borregles hit the 23 yard field goal to give the Patriots the lead. The final 20 minutes of football were w winter wonderland slog. Late in the third quarter, Borregales missed a 46 yard field gaol try that would have extended the lead. Midway through the fourth quarter the Patriots punted on 4th and 11 from their own 7 yard line. A shanked 26 yard punt gave the Broncos gift field position at the New England 33. Yet all the Broncos could muster was 5 yards. With 4:46 to play Lutz came in for a 45 yard field goal try. Blocked! The Broncos got the ball back with 3 minutes left at their own 32. Two plays later Stidham went deep and was intercepted. The Broncos defense had played lights out all game and needed a stop to give their offense one more chance. The Patriots took over at their own 36 with 2:11 left needing one first down to win. With 1:57 left, everything came down to 3rd and 5. Maye rolled out, faked a pass, and went with a naked bootleg that gained 7 yards. Denver was dead. The Patriots came in on the road in a hostile environment and gutted out a brutal win. The Patriots won the Lamar Hunt Trophy. They will be playing in their NFL record 12th Super Bowl. mike Vrabel’s first season coaching the team he played for was successful, and Maye in only his second season has a chance to be a New England legend. For Denver, it was a gut-wrenching defeat. With a backup quarterback who had not played in 2 years, they came up one field goal short. 10-7 Patriots
NFC Title Game: Los Angeles Rams (5) at Seattle Seahawks (1) — The Rams showed that a warm weather team can go on the road in cold conditions and gut out a win. The Rams ended Chicago’s season last week in overtime. Matthew Stafford is playing as well as anyone. Sean McVay is an offensive wizard, but he showed that he can go from pinball to ugly smash mouth when necessary. The Seahawks obliterated San Francisco with a defense less flashy than the Legion of Boom but still very tough. Mike McDonald likes to pound the ball, which may be tougher with Zac Charbonnet now injured. These teams split the season series. In the late regular season game in Seattle, the Rams dominated for most of the game in building a 30-14 lead. The Seahawks stormed back for a 38-37 overtime win. Last year Sam Darnold started 14-2 before losing the regular season finale, and the division. The first 14-3 team to play a road Wildcard game was bounced out of the playoffs in the opening round by the Rams. Minnesota got rid of Darnold. Now after a second consecutive 14-3 season with 2 different teams, Darnold had the home field advantage that eluded him last year. With much of the nation suffering snowstorms, the weather in Seattle was balmy and pleasant. The rubber match was another classic. The 12th man was as loud as expected.
The Seahawks began their opening drive at their own 19. On 3rd and 5, Darnold went bombs away to Rashid Shaheed for 51 yards. Darnold then hit Jaxon Smith-Nigba for 16. Kenneth Walker III did the rest, running for 3, 4, and the 2 yard touchdown to make it 7-0 Seahawks. Harrison Mevis hit a 44 yard field goal to get the Rams on the board. The Seahawks embarked on a 7 1/2 minute drive that reached the Rams 9 yard line, but offensive holding killed the drive. Jason Myers hit a 27 yard field goal to have the Seahawks up 10-3, but 14-3 would have been a bigger deal. The Seahawks had the momentum, but the Rams showed resiliency. In the second quarter Mevis hit from 50 to get the Rams within 10-6. The Rams got the ball back at their own 13. Blake Corum ran for 8, 3 and 5. Stafford went to Puka Nacua for 21. Corum ran for 19. On 3rd and 1 from the Seattle 16, Kyren Williams gained 5. Stafford went to Williams for a 9 yard touchdown. The 12 play, 87 yard drive chewed up 7 1/2 minutes and had the Rams up 13-10 with 1:55 left in the half. The Seahawks went 3 and out, taking only 22 seconds off the clock. The Rams had the ball at their own 28. They could have just run the ball and gotten to the half with the lead, but Sean McVay decided to keep his foot on the gas.
Sean McVay is a phenomenal coach, but this time his strategy backfired. Incompletions kept stopping the clock and took only 30 seconds off the clock. The Seahawks got another chance at their own 26 with 54 seconds left in the half. Darnold went to Smith-Nigba for 10. Arnold then went deep to Smith-Nigba for a 42 yard gain. Darnold hit Holani for 13. With 20 seconds left in the half, Darnold went to Smith-Nigba for 14 yard touchdown. The Seahawks seized momentum back and took a 17-13 lead to the locker rooms. The key play in the game came early in the third quarter. The Seahawks went nowhere on offense and punted. Smith stumbled and fell backward trying to catch the punt and fumbled it. The Seahawks recovered at the Rams 17 yard line. One play and 5 seconds later, Darnold went to Bobo for the touchdown as the Seahawks built a comfortable 24-13 lead.
The Rams took over at their own 25 and struck quickly. Stafford went deep to Colby Parkinson for 40 yards. Stafford then hit Davantae Adams for 29. Stafford went back to adams for a 2 yard touchdown to quickly get the Rams within 24-20. The Seahawks took over at their own 35. Darnold went to former Rams receiver Cooper Kupp for 12. Walker ran for 11. Darnold went to Holland for 9 and to Smith-Nigba for 12. On 3rd and 3 from the Rams 13, Darnold went to Kupp for the touchdown and the 31-20 Seahawks lead. The Rms took over at their own 13 and again moved quickly. Stafford went deep to Adams for 35. On 3rd and 12 just past midfield Stafford threw incomplete. The Rams were ready t punt when defender Woolen lost his mind. He talked trash to the entire Rams bench in a long victory lap. He was flagged for a 15 yard taunting penalty. Instead 4th and 12 and a punt, the Rams got a second chance. On the very next play, Stafford went deep to Nacua for 34 yard touchdown. Instead of being on the verge of getting iced, the Rams were again right back in it down 4 points.
The third quarter was a track meet with 4 straight touchdowns, 2 by each team. Yet after a third quarter that was all offense. The fourth quarter was all defense. The Rams got it back at their own 10 and moved 84 yards in 14 plays, taking 7 1/2 minutes off the clock. The Rams had 2nd and 4 from the Seattle 6. Looking for the lead, a run went nowhere and then Stafford threw incomplete. The decision was a no-brainer. With 5 minutes left, there was plenty of time to kick a chip shot 23 yard field goal, get within 31-30, get a stop, and win the game 33-31 with another field goal. Instead, Sean McVay went for it all. This was a high risk strategy that has become far too common in recent years. The right call is to kick the field goal. McVay gambled and again lost as Stafford again threw incomplete.
Yet while grinding down the clock was definitely now the right move for Mike McDonald, he also went high risk. On 2nd and 6 from his own 10, he gambled on a pass play. Darnold hit Walker for 15. Another incompletion stopped the clock. On 3rd and 7 from his own 28, McDonald again went aggressive. Darnold hit Kupp for just enough by maybe an inch. Sean McVay wanted to challenge the slo but could not afford to risk losing a critical timeout. The call was that close and could have gone either way. McVay decided not to challenge the spot and the Seahawks had a key first down. Again the rams ere expecting a run, and again McDonald called a pass. Darnold hit Smith-Nigba for 14. By the time the Rams got a stop, they were in dire straits.
A great punt pinned the Rams at their own 7 yard line. Only 25 seconds remained. Because the Rams were down by 4, a field goal would not cut it. They had to go 93 yards in 25 seconds with 0 timeouts. Stafford went to Nacua for 23 and spiked the ball to stop the clock with 11 seconds left. From his own 30, Stafford needed about a 15 to 20 yard completion to have a shot at a Hail Mary. Stafford found Nacua near the sideline for a 21 yard gain just past midfield. Nacua was desperate to get out of bounds and defender Witherspoon was equally desperate to keep him in bounds. Nacua initially appeared to get out of bounds with 2 seconds remaining. Yet there would be no Hail Mary. On further review, Ncua’s knee clearly landed just in bounds before sliding out. The clock kept running. The game was over. The Rams were game, but the Seahawks survived a wild and woolly one. They held up the George Hals NFC Championship Trophy and are headed to the Super Bow. 31-27 Seahawks
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