Location Rewrite Issue

[Randy Johnson]

Here is the locations part of my nginx host file:
server {
        root /var/www/html;
        index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        }

        location @extensionless-php {
            rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
        }

I tried adding the following line in there in a couple different places but
all it does is download the php file.

location /blog {
rewrite ^/blog/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ /blog-article.php?slug=$1 break;
}

In addition it does not load the /blog page.  It throws a 404.

I am not quite sure what I need to do to get it working.

Thank You,
Randy
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