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Dallas Cowboys Top the List of NFL’s Best Quarterback Situations
When it comes to the quarterback position in the NFL, what is important to you? Talent? Depth? Potential? Experience?
In my book, they all matter. Using those four criteria, I’ve compiled a list of the ten best quarterback situations in the National Football League. Enjoy!
10. Philadelphia Eagles — Philly has a proven starter in Michael Vick, a guy with regular season playing...
Why Are “Experts” Sleeping On The Atlanta Falcons?
I thought the second guessing was over. After a couple of years where we questioned the mettle of Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons because of a lack of success in the playoffs, they finally won a game in the postseason and came within four points of playing in the Super Bowl last season.
Not only do the Falcons return the core of that team from a year ago, but they also upgraded...
Indianapolis Colts Add Ahmad Bradshaw, Solidify Run Game
The Indianapolis Colts surprised everyone last season with their storybook run to the AFC Playoffs. After finishing with the NFL’s worst record in 2011, the catalyst for their quick turnaround in 2012 was stability at the quarterback position in the form of Andrew Luck. They still lacked one key element — a running game — that prevented them from taking the next step. The Colts...
Ochocinco, Tebow and Pacman: My Take on Crazy Day of Headlines
Well, when it rains it pours. In a down time during the offseason, the football world got slammed with some interesting headlines all in a 24-span. You got Pacman Jones slapping a woman, Chad Johnson slapping his lawyer’s butt and Bill Belichick slapping a no-guarantee contract in front of Tim Tebow.
Here is my quick (and somewhat biased) take on all three issues.
PACMAN JONES...
Tecmo Bowl Franchise Largely Responsible for Bo Jackson’s Football Legacy
We all remember the “Bo Knows” Nike ads and the highlights of Bo Jackson running up the wall in center field to catch a fly ball. We remember him breaking the bat over his knee. We remember the highlight of him running over Brian Bosworth at the goal line.
Take a moment now and try to remember another highlight from Bo Jackson’s career on the football field? To be honest, the...
Kansas City’s Alex Smith Highlights the 2013 Fantasy Football All-Sleeper Team
We’re all suckers for a steal on fantasy draft day. We scroll through pages of stats, looking for that diamond in the rough everyone else is going to miss. Sometimes we get him and he makes all the difference in the world on our fantasy roster. Sometimes we reach and our guy fails, leading to season-long ridicule from league-mates who are all too quick and happy to remind you of...
Chicago’s Firing of Lovie Smith Highlights List of Worst Coaching Changes in Recent Memory
Like many fans, the recent hiring of Eric Mangini as a consultant and the additional duties given to Bill Callahan caught my attention and caused me to scratch my head. These are two guys who are historically average at best. One of them was successful in running both one of the NFL’s most prestigious franchises as well as one of college football’s greatest programs into the...
CBSSports.com’s Jamey Eisenberg Puts the Fantasy in Fantasy Football
With Fantasy Football continuing to climb the ranks of America’s favorite pastimes, there is no shortage of data, predictions, projections and analysis available to help us gobble up as much information as possible in order to help us manage our teams.
Much of this content comes from mainstream media outlets like ESPN, Fox and Yahoo and CBS. The people who produce this content...
Flacco and the Ravens Face Daunting Schedule in Quest to Repeat
I suppose this is the way the NFL wants it in order to have some parity, but wow, this is brutal.
The defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens will face plenty of hurdles via their schedule in their quest to repeat in 2013. Granted, the gauntlet they will be asked to run will make for plenty of entertaining matchups for NFL fans. That said, when you look at it from the perspective...
Fantasy Football 2013: Peyton Manning’s Production Drops During Fantasy Playoffs
Peyton Manning is without question one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. If I need to win one game today and can have any quarterback I want to do it, he’s on my short list of three with Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers.
Having said that, if I’m planning on making the playoffs and winning my fantasy league, I’m not going to count on Peyton Manning to help my cause. Quite...
Must-See NFL Games For Every Week of the 2013 Season
Is it September yet? Like every year, it seems like the NFL season can’t get here fast enough. As I sit around watching NBA players flop left and right after getting bumped into, I only get more anxious for the 2013 NFL Season.
Scanning the NFL Schedule, I’ve spotted one game (sometimes more) from each week that peaks my interest for varying reasons. Some are pretty obvious,...
Congress Wasted Time and Tax Dollars With Letter to Redskins, NFL
Redskin. The word means only one thing to me and millions of other Americans: Football player in Washington D.C.
I don’t buy for one minute that anyone in this country under the age of 60 has ever, with their own ears, heard the word used as a racial slur toward any segment of our population.
Despite this, ten members of your United States Congress took it upon themselves...
Predicting Reggie Bush’s Production for the Detroit Lions in 2013
Detroit Lion fans and Fantasy owners around the world sat up and took notice when Reggie Bush landed with the Detroit Lions this offseason. An already high-powered Detroit offense now has one of the most explosive and dynamic players in the game in its backfield.
Naturally, our initial inclination is to assume Bush will pile up all sorts of yard and fantasy points. After we step...
Matt Forte Could Be Postured for a Career Year in Chicago
It wasn’t too long ago that Matt Forte was considered one of the premier running backs in the NFL. It looks like there is a good chance he could be rejoining the ranks of the elite in 2013.
When the Bears hired noted quarterback guru Marc Trestman this offseason, everyone pointed to Jay Cutler and the effect Trestman would have on him and the Bears’ passing game. Chicago’s...
Why Washington Redskins Linebacker London Fletcher Might be the Most Underrated Player in NFL History
If you actually watch football and have done so for the last 10-15 years, you’ve heard the name London Fletcher. Fletcher has been floating around the league since 1998, beginning his career with the Rams before moving on to Buffalo and then to Washington where he currently plays.
If he walked into a crowded room, most people would not recognize him, let alone know he was a professional...
Fantasy Football: Five Breakout Receivers for 2013
With all the attention paid to running back turnover in the NFL, the receiver position and the changes around the league often go unnoticed. For example, at the end of the 2010 season, the top five receivers in the league in terms of yardage were Brandon Lloyd, Roddy White, Reggie Wayne, Greg Jennings and Mike Wallace. At the end of the 2012 season, the top five were Calvin Johnson...
Is Minnesota’s Christian Ponder the Rodney Dangerfield of NFL Quarterbacks?
Somehow, I know quite a few Minnesota Viking fans. A common trait they all share is their displeasure — bordering on embarassment — in regard to Minnesota’s starting quarterback, Christian Ponder. “We’d be fine if we had a better quarterback” is a phrase I’ve heard more than once from more than one disgruntled fan.
I must be honest and say that I haven’t spent a lot...
Donovan McNabb Deserves to Have His Number Retired by the Philadelphia Eagles
Boy, talk about a story that shouldn’t drum up any controversy but somehow has.
Donovan McNabb is quite simply one of the best quarterbacks to play in the last twenty years. His resume speaks for itself, but somehow, I don’t think many fans realize or take the time to look at where he stands next to some of the all-time greats.
McNabb currently sits at No. 17 all-time in terms...
The Ten Best Players in The National Football League
The NFL Network is currently, with the help of you the fan, piecing together its annual list of the Top 100 Players of 2013. How exhausting. You are gonna have people over-ranked, under-ranked and left out. Fans are gonna argue and scream about how their center is better than your guard. It’s always a mess.
I’ve taken the liberty of narrowing it down to ten.
These are the ten...
Alabama’s McCarron Has a Shot at Becoming College Football’s G.O.A.T.
There are plenty of names in the conversation: Archie Griffin, Tim Tebow, Roger Stabauch, Barry Sanders and Hershel Walker to name a few. Nobody, however, can step forward and definitively name one player as the single greatest player in college football history, which make it a great conversation.
Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron has a serious shot of inserting himself into that...
Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin Should See an Increase in Production in 2013
Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin finished his rookie season in 2012 as the No. 5 rusher in the NFL. He wasted no time in placing his name next to that of Ray Rice, Arian Foster and Adrian Peterson in conversations about the top running backs in the league.
This prompted me to do some research in terms of the historical production of running backs in their second year...
Way Too Early NFL Award Predictions for 2013
These are some trying times for a guy trying to run a football blog. There just isn’t much going on.
I could write some Titus Young nonsense, regurgitate the rookie camp info you read at every other site or starting thinking about how the 2013 season is going to shape up in terms of individual performances.
Let’s go with that last one and focus on the future.
A lot of people...
Fantasy Football 2013: Three Low-Risk, High-Reward Players
We’ve all been there. It’s getting toward the end of your fantasy draft and of course, your team looks stacked. Nonetheless, we’re still scrolling through the names of the guys who are left, looking for that game-changer, that steal, the guy that nobody else thought to pick up who has the potential to blow up and lead your team to the title.
When that time comes, feel free...
Detroit Lions Top List of Super Bowl Sleeper Teams
Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t think it was that crazy when Nick Fairley said the Lions will play in the Super Bowl. Let’s be honest, nobody would have guessed the 49ers would have been knocking on the door two years ago. Who could have predicted the season Seattle had last year?
The truth is, all you have to do is get into the postseason dance known as the NFL Playoffs to...
San Francisco 49ers Stadium Naming Deal with Levi’s Would Be An Example of Doing it Right
We see and hear them all the time, and we always cringe. I’m talking about horrible stadium names.
It used to be that stadiums were named after people, cities or the teams that played in them. Lambeau Field, Notre Dame Stadium, and Yankee Stadium fall into that category and continue to do so. Others are named for our service men and women — those with words like “Memorial...
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