The 2016 NBA Preview

Since the final buzzer of perhaps the greatest NBA Finals since Y2K, a lot has changed in my life. I got a new job, leaving the mundane and exhausting world of retail management for the desk job reality of the corporate atmosphere. Instead of cleaning bathrooms when I'm three people short, I now sit in a broken desk chair for eight hours a day. My wife has begun her first year as a second grade teacher in her ongoing experiment of a career I couldn't last five minutes in. We got our first dog together, which has been a roller coaster of a ride which is 35 percent her fault for being a neurotic and nervous pit bull rescue and 65 percent our fault for being over bearing and ridiculous. Ask me six months ago if I'd ever buy a five dollar pumpkin toy at a Shop Rite for a dog and I'd laugh at you. Ask me now and I'd tell you that they were unfortunately sold out, good thing I got an extra one last weekend. I've started a new blog, tried hanging Halloween lights outside our new home, watched McFarland, USA twice, grown a beard, watched the deterioration of the Baltimore Ravens franchise, caulked a living room and was summoned for jury duty in a county I don't reside in anymore. I'm hardly the Patrick that I was in June.

Dr. Glows Week 4 Crystal Ball Picks

Week 4 of the NFL season also happens to be the first slate of October games, which means my second favorite month of the year is upon us (no one messes with Christmas season, folks). October, though, isn't just about Halloween, pumpkin everything pumpkin, backyard fires, 55 degree mornings and nights sandwiching an 80 degree afternoon, horror movies like Hunger Games, and stepping in dog poop covered by crunchy leaves. October is when the NFL season starts to take form. Pretenders are littered throughout September, and contenders in the form of duds start slow as well. October is when the year starts to get a bit clearer. We also get a full slate of grown men wearing pink.

Dr. Glows Week 3 Crystal Ball Picks

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Welcome to the first post of the Dr. Glows Crystal Ball NFL Picks! Yes, I understand that it is Week 3 of the NFL season, probably three weeks short of when the first post of such content should have posted. Look, I get it. But would you rather take gambling advice from someone who is organized, thorough, intelligent, well-researched and timely or someone who is disorganized, busy with other things, mostly just a fan, practicing having a beard, trying to train his new dog how to not be insane and quickly falling behind .500 on his picks against the spread through two weeks? The answer is right in front of you, just trust me to get you there. Trust fall, fellow reader, my words will be there to catch you. 

Week 1 NFL Power Rankings

Man, what a Week 1. Damn. We got to see Del Rio flash his balls in New Orleans, the Jimmy Garrapolo experience, Carson Wentz became the next Donovan McNabb in three minutes in Philadelphia, the Rams looked like shit and the Ravens won BAYBAY! But what we did not see was a clear cut number one team. Perhaps Week 2 will be different, but for now the league is wide open, which is very fun for all of us. Except Jeff Fisher.

Welcome to Conversational BackTalk

Conversational BackTalk, the blog being talked about at every water cooler, lunch table, swing set, bar, dinner party, dog park and senior home around America. So maybe Pat Glowacki is the one making America great again? Decide for yourself, you patriot, you.