ESNY’s Tuesday Morning Shootaround

Rams dominate Wild Card weekend finale.

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Welcome to the Morning Shootaround!

Monday’s motion was capped by a blowout to near out the weekend for the NFL playoffs. The Arizona Cardinals considered they had a gameplan. Then the Rams place it on them early and often.

We’re trying to keep Budda Baker in our feelings right now immediately after a scary hit had him headed to the clinic.

We’ll now wait to see what the fallout is in Arizona and glimpse forward to the divisional round of the NFL’s playoffs. Who’s your Super Bowl choose now?

What we’re viewing on Tuesday:

  • NHL: Islanders @ Flyers — seven PM ET
  • NBA: Timberwolves @ Knicks — seven:thirty PM ET
  • CBB: Canisius @ St. Peter’s — two PM ET
  • CBB: Niagara @ Manhattan — seven PM ET
  • CBB: #15 Iowa Point out @ #eighteen Texas Tech — 9 PM ET

Bridges over troubled waters

The Knicks hosted the Hornets in a matinee at MSG on Monday. It did not go as nicely as the Knicks devoted would have hoped. Miles Bridges had a career working day and Charlotte built a huge lead in the initially 50 % that the Knicks couldn’t triumph over.

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No Kevin Durant intended problems for the Nets in Cleveland on Monday. Darius Garland and Evan Mobley were being fantastic for the Cavs as they were being in a position to pull away in the fourth quarter for a 114-107 win.

Isles knock off Flyers

The Islanders received targets from four different skaters and Ilya Sorokin stopped 26 pictures in a pleasant win on Monday night. No staff in the NHL has skipped a lot more game titles because of COVID, so there’s even now time for the Isles to correct the ship and get back again into the playoff dialogue.

Activity of the Working day

The finest game yesterday was in the Major Ten the place #4 Purdue and #17 Illinois needed two (two) overtimes to decide a winner. The game had almost everything you would want from a regular year college or university basketball game. Purdue arrived away with a huge win from an Illini squad that hadn’t missing in Major Ten enjoy.

Bottoms up for Pronger

At his jersey retirement in St. Louis, Hall of Fame defenseman Chris Pronger took it to one more stage. Cheers on a single helluva career, Chris!

Mayock out in Vegas

Insert the Raiders to the developing number of groups searching for a new typical supervisor — and perhaps head mentor. Mike Mayock was relieved of his responsibilities on Monday immediately after the Raiders’ year from hell arrived to a near. We’ll see what this means to the long run of Derek Carr as nicely.