2020 NFL Season Week 2 NFL Predictions From Zennie Abraham Of Zennie62Media

2020 Nfl Season Week 2 Nfl Predictions From Zennie Abraham Of Zennie62media

2020 NFL Season Week 2 NFL Predictions From Zennie Abraham Of Zennie62Media
From YouTube Channel: September 20, 2020 at 01:40AM
ONN – 2020 NFL Season Week 2 NFL Predictions From Zennie Abraham Of Zennie62Media

Here are the games, and I’ll tell you who’s going to win and why:

Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns (Thu)8:20p (ET)8:20p
NFLN Sunday, September 20, 2020
New York Giants at Chicago Bears12:00p (CT)1:00pCBS
Atlanta Falcons at Dallas Cowboys12:00p (CT)1:00pFOX
Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers12:00p (CT)1:00pFOX
Minnesota Vikings at Indianapolis Colts1:00p (ET)1:00pFOX
Buffalo Bills at Miami Dolphins1:00p (ET)1:00pCBS
San Francisco 49ers at New York Jets1:00p (ET)1:00pFOX
Los Angeles Rams at Philadelphia Eagles1:00p (ET)1:00pFOX
Denver Broncos at Pittsburgh Steelers1:00p (ET)1:00pCBS
Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers1:00p (ET)1:00pFOX
Jacksonville Jaguars at Tennessee Titans12:00p (CT)1:00pCBS
Washington Redskins at Arizona Cardinals1:05p (MST)4:05pFOX
Baltimore Ravens at Houston Texans3:25p (CT)4:25pCBS
Kansas City Chiefs at Los Angeles Chargers1:25p (PT)4:25pCBS
New England Patriots at Seattle Seahawks5:20p (PT)8:20pNBCMonday, September 21, 2020
New Orleans Saints at Las Vegas Raiders (Mon)5:15p (PT)

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Rich Eisen’s Jameis Winston And Tom Brady Tweet Was Purely Racist, Not Funny

Rich Eisen

Prior to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints game, NFL Network Analyst Rich Eisen, not known for his ability to understand a football playbook enough to hold a coaching clinic, said of the Bucs now former QB “Literally every time the ball is thrown, I hold my breath.”

And that was in the same 2019 game pitting Tampa Bay against the Houston Texans, where Eisen kept mistaking Jameis Winston for Deshaun Watson on air!. He did this repeatedly, six times in the first half of the game, and as if he was trying to send a message that he was saying he could not tell black quarterbacks apart. I am not kidding:

And while Rich Eisen is on record as saying that Winston would return to the team after the 2019 NFL Season, and said “I think [the Bucs] are going to be smart enough to figure it out. Jameis is not wrong when he says to check his numbers,” and then went on to present the impressive list of statistics Winston put up that year as evidence for why Bucs fans should expect him to return, Eisen failed to defend the Heisman Trophy winner when it mattered most.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Head Coach Bruce Arians, not willing to see the truth that it was his offensive system and not Jameis Winston that was the problem, went hunting after Tom Brady. Arians made a number of statements that were awful then, and completely baseless and cruel in the wake of Brady’s two interception, one-a-pick-six, and in total completely sloppy performance in The Superdome, losing 23 to 34 to the Saints.

Before that Bruce Arians said of Jameis Winston in an interview with Rich Eisen “It didn’t work out for us only because Tom Brady was available.” In other words, Bruce Arians expected Tom Brady to come in and be an automatic upgrade from Winston. Eisen never challenged that idea, but I did, vlogging:

Tom Brady To Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Will Not Play Well In Bruce Arians Deep Passing System

and…

Tom Brady Can’t Fix Bruce Arians Outdated Bucs Offense; Jameis Winston’s A Better QB

So, during the sturm-und-drum of the Bucs clobbering at the hands of the Saints, when Brady threw an interception to Janoris Jenkins on 2nd and 15 in the third quarter of the game, and returned it for a touchdown, putting the Saints on top by 17 points, you would think that Rich Eisen would at least try and come to Winston’s defense, and tweet something like: “Well, you know, maybe it’s time to ask if it really was Jameis Winston’s fault in 2019?”

Nope. Rather than do that, Rich Eisen elects to keep up the white media (because it does divide along racial lines) habit of making fun of Winston and expecting nothing good from him. Eisen tweets out this:

It was awful, and so much so that the more measured NFL Network anchor Ian Rapport tweeted…

And NFL Nework’s reporter Steve Wyche, who broke the Colin Kaepernick story, had this tweet:

And yet more to display their displeasure with Eisen’s words:

In short, and on a day when racism was front and center as something to be stopped, Eisen went and thoughtlessly dipped his foot in the pool of institutionally racist thought, once again. The point is, that action is not an obvious act of racism, but it helps maintain a climate that allows them to come up again and again. You have to stop such actions when they’re small and not wait until they are large.

Maybe Rich will get the message.

Stay tuned.

Were Kansas City Chiefs Fans Booing Racial Unity Members Of Ticket Buying Right Wing Protest Effort?

Were Kansas City Chiefs Fans Booing Racial Unity Members Of Ticket Buying Right Wing Protest Effort?

Were Kansas City Chiefs Fans Booing Racial Unity Members Of Ticket Buying Right Wing Protest Effort?
From YouTube Channel: September 11, 2020 at 03:00AM
ONN – Were Kansas City Chiefs Fans Booing Racial Unity Members Of Ticket Buying Right Wing Protest Effort?

After watching NFL players representing both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans lock arms in what should have been a celebratory event, be marred by what many assumed to be Kansas City Chiefs fans booing, I resisted the impulse to make a reaction vlog, and considered the moment. During that period of time (which lasted the length of the game), I wondered if it really was Kansas City Chiefs out there booing the Chiefs and the Texans. Then, I wondered how one could determine if they really were fans?

The reason I thought this was because here we had another moment that, many times this year, had to do with Black Lives Matter, a large crowd or gathering, and television. In each of these cases, something happened that seemed to communicate the idea that America was divided, law enforcement was needed, and Black Lives Matter was an extremist movement, undesirable to Americans.

The linchpin example was the week when President Trump ordered federal troops into cities he said were ran by Democrats, and in his speech in the Rose Garden of The White House on Monday, July 20th, Trump said he was going to send troops to Oakland. In fact, as I pointed out, Trump tossed out Oakland after a delay in his delivery – as if to say “Oh, I forgot to mention Oakland”.

That was the 20th of July. But July 26th, Trump, via his fake federal troop call. (“Fake” in that there was no real trouble with protestors, and I asserted the people who attacked Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s house were, themselves, fake protest actors who’s services were purchased for a public relations stunt – all to give the impression Oakland was, as Trump said, “lawless.” It’s called “astroturfing”: the practice of manufacturing the appearance of grass-roots support.)

As the Google Trends image shows, President Trump has succeeded in de-coupling protest activities from Black Lives Matter. During that week, the “law and order” campaign message emerged as Trump’s counter to Black Lives Matter.

Trump's Federal Troup Fake News Decouples White Protestors From Black Lives Matter
Trump’s Federal Troup Fake News Decouples White Protestors From Black Lives Matter

Now, why did I come to that conclusion? One name: Brad Parscale.

Brad Parscale
Brad Parscale (Photo courtesy Wall Street Journal)

Brad Parscale was the Trump 2020 campaign manager, and one who was hired, according to News One, he…

..began working for the Trump organization seven years ago as a website designer and media strategist. He was hired to head social media for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. That’s when he utilized dark posts on Facebook to diminish Black voter turnout for Hillary Clinton. “He has our family’s complete trust and is the perfect person to be at the helm of the campaign,” Eric Trump, the president’s son, said in a statement, according to CNN. He added that Parscale was “pivotal to our success in 2016.”

Dark posts don’t appear in the sender’s Facebook news feed. Only the targeted Facebook users can see the message. Consequently, the posts can be tailored to specific recipients without getting blasting to everyone. It can easily silo scores of people with one click and without any accountability.

In one message during the 2016 campaign, Parscale disseminated dark posts to certain Black voters to remind them about Clinton’s “super predator” comment in 1996, in which she used the phrase to describe young Black males who were gang banging and selling crack cocaine. Twenty years later, Clinton apologized for the term and her role in ushering in the wave of mass incarceration of Black people in the 1990s.

Back in 2016, it was unclear if dark posts for political messaging would work. However, Parscale was certain that his tactic would “dramatically affect” turnout for Clinton. He’s probably already hard at work devising a scheme to diminish the Black vote in 2020.

Then, in the San Antonio Express-News on July 17th, Gilbert Garcia wrote:

Trump rewarded Parscale by picking him to serve as his 2020 campaign manager.

Over the past four months, however, the Trump-Parscale bond has been battered by Category 5 political headwinds: a COVID-19 pandemic which has taken the lives of 138,000 Americans; a resulting economic shutdown; and nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. (My emphasis.)

Trump has failed to get a handle on any of these crises and now finds himself trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by double digits in almost every major national poll.

So, it was quite apparent that Black Lives Matter was a problem for the Trump campaign. But rather than outright terminate Parscale, Trump demoted him, and hired Matt Oczkowski, an alum from Cambridge Analytica, to direct him.

 

Matt Oczkowski'
Matt Oczkowski’

Given Matt Oczkowski’s noted and documented love for tracking electorate response to just what Trump tweets, once saying this:

We knew going into it that we had to build a really dynamic data program that could keep up with the candidate — because depending on the week, Trump could tweet one thing and it would change the entire view of the electorate on that week.

So our data program had to be very elastic — which means any time a stone was thrown into the water, we had to be able to track the ripples and see [where] different parts of the electorate were actually moving in a particular direction.

I believe the Trump Campaign has advanced their approach and used part of their $1 billion campaign budget to purchase protestors via firms like Crowds On Demand, and as part of an effort that Trump was encouraged to push along from the power of the presidential bully pulpit.

Have doubts?

Consider that, in forming the campaign attack, Brad said “In 2016, we had 700,000 volunteers help us. In 2020, we’re gonna have 1.6 million volunteers. I had 3,000 team leaders across the United States. This time we’ll have 90,000 team leaders.” Now, you can’t do door-to-door political campaigning during The Pandemic, so I believe the Trump campaign shifted its focus to more staged events for television and for social media.

And it’s for all of those reason that I believed something was up for Thursday Night Football.

Kansas City Star Reported That Tickets Were Available For The Texans at Chiefs NFL Kickoff Opener

Then, I decided to check and see if, indeed, tickets were available for the Texans at Chiefs NFL Kickoff Opener. A Google search revealed this article in the Kansas City Star, which had this title: “Want to go to tonight’s Chiefs season opener at Arrowhead? Tickets remain for the game”, and the author Jeff Rosen, wrote:

The Chiefs kick off their season in less than two hours. And if you want to go to the game, even with the limited seating the Chiefs had announced due to the pandemic, you’re in luck.

StubHub shows many tickets available, starting as low as $120 but mostly in the $150 range. Capacity for the game was being capped at about 16,000 inside Arrowhead Stadium, which usually holds about 76,000 for a full house.

So, as far as I was concerned, the stage was set for yet another fake protest on national TV, and one to counter the NFL Player “Black Lives Matter” events planned for NFL Kickoff and for the rest of the year.

From my perspective, the NFL and its players should either not have fans in the stands at all, or buy tickets for their own politically-supportive supporters in cities where fans will be allowed in. As I think about it, stopping fans from seeing the game altogether would give Trump a public relations win; buying fans sympathetic to the NFL Players would be just fighting fire with fire.

Stay tuned.

Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile media video-blogging system network that was launched June 2018. This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.’s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call “The Third Wave of Media”. The uploaded video is from a vlogger with the Zennie62 on YouTube Partner Channel, then uploaded to and formatted automatically at the Oakland News Now site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages. The overall objective is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours. Now, news is reported with a smartphone: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution. We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners.

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Texans at KC Chiefs NFL Kickoff 2020 Weekend Preview

NFL Kickoff 2020

In three hours, the Houston Texans will open the 2020 NFL Season against the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. Here are some of the preview notes, thanks to the National Football League:

SUPER STARTERS: History indicates that the best way for a team to start its drive toward a Super Bowl cham​pionship is to win in Week 1.​

The 54 Super Bowl winners have a 44-9-1 record in the Kickoff Weekend games of their title seasons. The Super Bowl LIV champion KANSAS CITY CHIEFS, who host Houston in the NFL’s annual primetime kickoff game on Thursday (8:20 PM ET, NBC), have won their past five Kickoff Weekend games, the longest active streak in the AFC and tied for the longest active streak in the NFL (Green Bay).

Since 1978 when the NFL went to the 16-game schedule, and excluding the abbreviated season of 1982, teams that are victorious in their season-openers are more than twice as likely to reach the playoffs than losers of an opening game:

Of the 617 teams that won openers…322 went to the playoffs (196 won division titles).
Of the 616 teams that lost openers…148 went to the playoffs (86 won division titles).

​Note: There are a different number of winning and losing teams in season-opening games due to the fact the NFL had 31 teams in each season from 1999-2001, which creates an odd number for the total number of results.

In 2019, the 12 playoff teams compiled an 11-1 record on Kickoff Weekend and all four participants in the conference championships – Green Bay, Kansas City, San Francisco and Tennessee – were victorious in Week 1.

Matchup of expensive quarterbacks: Patrick Mahomes vs Deshaun Watson

Patrick Mahomes has a $450 million contract extension (now $500 million) and Deshaun Watson has a $160 million contract extension. This marks the first time that the two highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL are black. At a time where “Black Lives Matter” is the rightful rallying cry, the NFL’s proving it: with money.

KC Chiefs Allowing 18,000 Fans In The Stadium

The Kansas City Chiefs are allowing 18,000 fans in Arrowhead Stadium. Also, the stadium manager say this:

In addition to staff, all guests are required to wear masks at Arrowhead Stadium at all times including while in your seating section except when actively eating or drinking.
Masks must completely and tightly cover the wearer’s nose and mouth.
Guests failing to adhere to this policy will be subject to disciplinary measures as outlined in the Fan Code of Conduct.

This is going to be fun to watch. Prediction: Kansas City Chiefs 34, Houston Texans 28.

Stay tuned.

2006 NFL Draft Analysis: New York City, Radio City Music Hall

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Bob McNair Houston Texans Owner Interview Explains 2006 NFL Draft Budget Strategy, Makes History

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