Back with another short blog, some insights on college hoops, the NHL race in the east and QB matchmaking. 

College Hoops Games To Track This Weekend

UCLA Purdue: Purdue has slid in recent weeks. Meanwhile Mick Cronin and this UCLA team are looking to get hot going into March.

Auburn Kentucky: Mark Pope gets a home date against the best coach in the SEC and maybe the sport, Bruce Pearl, if Kentucky can get a win here it would go a long way to propelling them toward a top 3 seed in the tournament.

Arkansas South Carolina: Cal needs to keep winning, but if he catches South Carolina here and finishes strong with an SEC tournament win or two the hogs should be in the mix for Dayton.

Texas Tech Kansas: A chance for Texas Tech to cement itself as a team that should firmly be in consideration for a two seed. Even a win against slumping Kansas is still a win against Kansas.

Ole Miss Oklahoma: Can Porter Moeser get on the bubble? He’ll need to beat tourney team Ole Miss if he wants to be.

Alabama Tennessee: A styles make fights battle, grinding Tennessee defense against high flying Alabama offense, who prevails, who locks up a one seed?

Utah State CSU: Colorado State isn’t a bubble team or a team that profiles as a threat to go dancing. They are however still a 20 win team with a chance at home against a very good Utah State team, could be an upset brewing.

Georgia Texas: As bubbly as bubble games get, and truthfully both these teams’ last stand.

Gonzaga San Fransisco: Gonzaga has been ass lately, shout out Tbal shout out Matt Norlander, San Fransciso profiles more as the WCC rep for the big dance. Big game to prove that.

QB Matchmaker

NFL free agency is about to be under way so on last night’s Endzone pod my co host Mason and I set up the most fun QB carosel for next year. Kirk Cousins stays put in these predictions. QB Matchmaker.

Giants: Matthew Stafford. Finally Brian Daboll gets his QB to cook with. The Giants take offensive weapons in the later rounds of the draft, sign a depth free agent WR and fly with an offense that features Stafford throwing to young super star Malik Nabers. The Giants instantly become watchable for the first time in about a decade.

Rams: Jameis Winston. Hear me out, this ones more just something we have fever dreams about. It sort of makes sense though. The Rams are still in a rebuild and clearly looking for a new QB of the future. They could trade Stafford for the third pick, take a QB or more likely best player available, and sign Winston to a one year deal with Jimmy G as the backup. You could take a flyer on a Ewers type in the second round and call it good. Imagine Jameis Winston in a Sean McVay offense, if the lord can deliver him from pick sixes who knows, Winston could have a nice stint in Los Angeles.

Raiders: Sam Darnold. Pete Caroll seems like he would really jive with a dude like Darnold, Sam would continue to have a do it all safety blanket in TE Brock Bowers and the Raiders could add some receiving help through the draft or add a running back. Darnold just makes sense as a Raider, would he be a franchise answer? No but he’d be the best guy under center for them since the departure of Derek Carr. Speaking of.

Jets: Derek Carr. Just feels like the most Jets move possible, try to sell the fan base on a completely middling QB with no upside and hope to draft a game changer in 2026. It’s just such a perfect Jets move.

NHL Eastern Playoff Race

We’ve whittled this race down to about five teams. The Detroit Red Wings, Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens.

The Senators were thoroughly dominated by the Winnipeg Jets at home last night. They get the Sharks this weekend and the Capitals in Washington on Monday.

The Rangers ended the Isles playoff hopes with a 5-1 demolition on Tuesday and have scored 4 plus goals in three of their last four wins. They get the Leafs on Friday night in the garden and open March on Sunday against the Predators.

The Blue Jackets might have gotten the most impressive win out of all bubble teams currently with a 6-4 drubbing of the Dallas Stars at home on Tuesday night. They play Detroit now, who beat Minnesota on Tuesday, twice over the next four days first in Detroit tonight and then in the horseshoe in Columbus on Saturday for a stadium series game. For both these teams if either could get a sweep it would go a long way in knocking one down and furthering the playoff hopes of the winner.

Some thoughts on what these teams could do at the deadline from ESPN, here.