The Indianapolis Colts have committed some serious blunders in their continued pursuit of a good running back. This is a franchise that hasn’t had a 1,000-yard rusher since 2007 and two years ago traded a first-round pick for mega-bust Trent Richardson. Apparently, they haven’t learned that backs a) are worth a dime a dozen, and […]

On Wednesday, nearly seven months before the first week of the 2015 NFL season, Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden basically

At any given time, a significant percentage of the NFL’s 32 teams are looking to upgrade at the quarterback position. Others are hoping for saviors. And others are in search of potential successors for their current starters. Rarely is anyone completely uninterested in potentially good quarterbacks. In order to establish a gauge for which teams […]

You know how it is. The NFL has 32 teams and fewer than 32 franchise-caliber quarterbacks. As a result, each and every offseason, we’re left wondering who those unlucky teams might chase in attempts to find new franchise leaders. This year, you’d have to think that at least six teams — the Bills, Jets, Texans, […]

It’s a legit question. Sports teams don’t repeat titles like they did before. The Green Bay Packers once won five championships in a seven-year span, the Boston Celtics once won eight in a row and the Montreal Canadiens and New York Yankees each won five in a row, but all of those feats came about […]

Before I begin to compare these New England Patriots to great San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers teams of the past, let’s just agree that we’re using a bastardized form of the word “dynasty” when discussing sports teams, particularly in the NFL. A dynasty rules for a long period of […]

We wrap up another year of “This weekend in NFL stupid” with a quick review of Super Bowl week in Arizona: The stupidest claim This goes to commissioner Roger Goodell for claiming during his annual pre-Super Bowl Friday press conference that he’s “available to the media almost every day of my job.” Two days later, Goodell […]

On Thursday, the New England Patriots will participate in their second-to-last full practice in advance of Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix. And while they do that, the murder trial will begin for a man who played a key role in helping them win playoff games only two years ago. But what’s most amazing about the […]

For anyone (and we’re looking at you, Chip Kelly) considering a bold move to climb the draft board April 30 in order to land this year’s near-consensus top quarterback, Marcus Mariota, please consider that the odds of Mariota becoming a franchise quarterback are probably no better than 50/50. I elaborated on this in a recent […]

You hear it time and again. You MUST build through the draft! Free agency is the devil! And actually, that’s usually true. The two teams in this year’s Super Bowl are well aware, because the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are mostly home-grown. Here are 15 specific draft picks that explain why they’re alive […]

I’ve got no issues with players thanking God after great accomplishments, particularly wins. Happens all the time and the beautiful thing about our society is that everyone has the right to believe in what they want as well as the right to share those beliefs publicly. I also have the right to shake my head […]

There were only two games in the NFL this weekend, but they were big ones. And in one, a whole lot of stupid happened. Here’s a fairly full version of “This weekend in NFL stupid,” thanks mainly to Mike McCarthy and the Green Bay Packers. The stupidest fourth-down decision This goes to Mike McCarthy of […]

Oh, I’m ever so sick of the word “dynasty,” but I’ve accepted that it is part of our professional sports vernacular. We all want to know who will become the next great dynasty, especially since we haven’t had one in the NFL since the Patriots won three Super Bowls in a four-year span a decade […]

Last week, the Seattle Seahawks became the first defending Super Bowl champion since 2005 to win a playoff game. Now, with a victory over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, they’ll be one win away from becoming the first team to repeat in exactly a decade. Prior to that, there were four repeats in a […]

The NFL has basically acknowledged that its rules regarding the process of a catch aren’t perfect, but very rarely are better options brought to the table. That’s why we as fans bitch and complain without really offering solutions for how the league can make it so plays like Dez Bryant’s non-catch won’t happen without opening […]