The MATTen Curse

If you have any knowledge of video games at all or have heard of the Madden NFL game, you have heard there is something called the "Madden Curse." This is when a cover athlete on the game will get hurt the season they are on the cover of the game.

I have come to realize I have my own version of this curse when it comes to buying cards.

This summer after looking how crazy card values have gone, I told myself, why not grab some cheap parallels of good quarterbacks while they are affordable that way if they go up I can "flip" them by trading them for something of higher value. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Then the season started.

CAM WARD:

I thought to myself, well, here's a guy that is with a quarterback guru in Brian Daboll. He may not be a good head coach, but he can coach a quarterback.

So far the Titans are 0-3, he lost to my Giants yesterday by throwing a terrible interception (I celebrated) and hasn't thrown for more than 200 yards at all this year. Really rough start.

JAYDEN DANIELS:

I thought to myself, Washington has some good weapons around him now for him to throw to. He might get his rookie year self back.

He had an okay start, then he went and disloated his elbow and his out again with that injury.

Oooof.

DRAKE MAYE:

He had a superb sophomore year leading the Patriots to the Super Bowl and was MVP runner up. You then give him a still dominant AJ Brown and it's looking like another great year.

Maye has been nothing but disappointing so far and that AJ Brown connection, well, that hasn't been there since he has been hurt. Maye continues to just turn the ball over and the Patriots right now are far from the team they were last year.

BO NIX:

Bo was looking to play well off from his injury last year that kept him out of the AFC Championship. He still has the brilliant Sean Payton as head coach and an up and coming offensive coordinator in Davis Webb. They also added Jaylen Waddle. Things were looking up.

 

The Broncos did pull out a big win last night and the offense seemed to had come to life in that second half, but, it's been a tough start I think for Nix up to that point. Maybe last night's big win over the Super Bowl favorite Rams will lead to bigger things.

And finally....

JAXSON DART:

This one makes me the most sad. I picked up a ton of his cards for my Giants season, not for any other purpose other than PC, but I was hoping he would be the man especially with a new coaching staff and new weapons.

 

He played amazing in Week 1 protecting himself from concussion, then Week 2 came and he got nailed by the Rams and tore his meniscus for season ending surgery. 

The pain. The heartbreak.

If you don't call this a curse from all of these guys, I don't know what you call it.

I need coffee.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2025 Donruss Football Blaster Box

I mentioned a few posts ago, before the streak of Christmas ones that I hoped you enjoyed, that I got a couple retail surprises for Christmas.

Two of which were Donruss related.

The first one was the Donruss holiday tin that I shared previously, and today is a blaster box that I apparently forgot to save a picture of.

So, picture it. A blaster box......you got that in your mind now.....

Now let's take a sip, so we can rip!

There are 6 packs of 15 cards so you are getting a ton of cards for the price of $27.99. The only problem, about 80 of those are base. There are also no guarantees and since I am never lucky enough to pull a Downtown, I wasn't expecting too much from this break.

Let's see if I was right.

Unlike the tin, I did find some Giants cards for my collection.

It was only two, but that was two more than last time!

I have heard these blasters are tough when it comes to finding the good rookies as they only appear one-per-blaster.

Here was mine. Not too bad. He had a decent season for the team he played on.

Yup, another McCord parallel. If only this was a Giant.

Bo Nix throwback insert.

White Hot Rookies. I need the Dart version of this still to pair with my Red Hot Rookie.

Brett Favre insert.

Rookie Revolution. Shiny...however...looks like literally their product Revolution.

 

Dominators Trevor Lawrence. It's too bad the way their season ended on Sunday. They played so well for a team that was unexpected to win as much as they did.

And that's it. 

It was meh like the last break.

There is one break left to show from my surprise Christmas presents.

Hope you come back and read it.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*