With the Ray Rice case dominating the NFL’s atmosphere, it’s easy to overreact to related situations league-wide that involve alleged domestic violence incidents. And that’s simply not fair. The league’s domestic violence policy has already been hardened by commissioner Roger Goodell, making it so that first-time violators of the policy are suspended six games, with […]

The New England Patriots have won the AFC East 10 of the last 11 years and five years in a row. But New England hasn’t increased its win total from the previous season since 2010. Meanwhile, the Miami Dolphins, who are the only other team to win the division in the last decade, have slowly […]

Week 2 in the NFL is here, and you might be entering the weekend with your own preferences regarding which games to focus on, and which to place on the backburner. Most of you have your favorites and fantasy players to track. But in case you’re completely neutral or need help breaking ties with regard […]

Sunday, in the fifth quarter of a grind-it-out game against the Chicago Bears, the oldest player on the Buffalo Bills’ roster did this… Actually, Fred Jackson is the oldest running back in the NFL, period. Studies have shown that players at that position begin to decline at around 27, and most are out of the […]

The NFL regular season is on, and so too is the MVP race. Too early to start gauging MVP chances, you say? Shut up. Uncool to tell your readers to shut up? Maybe, but we’re in a cheeky mode and this post is inevitably going to be dripping with sarcasm anyway. The MVP race through, […]

The NFL wants nothing to do with Ray Rice. He’s toxic now, and for good reason. And because they’re a good business partner, the CFL won’t take him either. Nobody’s complaining, aside from maybe Rice himself (not publicly, mind you) and the few Rice apologists left on that burning bandwagon. But talented NFL players have […]

A weekly TGS staple is back, ready to mock the NFL each and every Tuesday morning. The premise is pretty self-explanatory, so let’s get right to our first review of the stupidest things to take place throughout the league this past weekend. The stupidest quarterback decision Um, Tony Romo. See that defender who fell in […]

“Upon further review” is a recurring segment in which This Given Sunday analyzes quirks and fascinating tidbits from the NFL’s history books. Tonight, the NFL will open its season in prime time on a Thursday evening for the 13th consecutive year. It seems we’ve stumbled into a nice tradition, with the defending Super Bowl champion […]

The 2014 NFL regular season gets underway Thursday night in Seattle. But before things kick off, here are our official predictions for what is sure to be another unpredictable year. Why bother? Because it’s fun, even when you know you’ll be wrong. Predicting the playoff teams AFC 1. Denver Broncos (13-3) 2. Cincinnati Bengals (12-4) […]

Now that Week 1 is upon us and we have a list of all 32 opening-day starting quarterbacks, we’d like to take a chance to preview the job security each of them has by ranking them in order of how likely they are to lose their jobs for performance reasons before Week 17 arrives. Naturally, […]

Records are meant to be broken, and that’s especially the case in this particular era of NFL history. That’s because offense is through the roof and the accumulation of sheer stats has exploded. Here’s a look at some records that could be in peril entering the 2014 campaign. Career passing touchdowns The record: 508 (Brett […]

We’ve stated time and again that making the extra point only slightly harder isn’t the solution to fixing the game’s most boring play. If anything, dropping the success rate from 99 percent to, say, 90 percent would only make fluky misses more common, which in turn would result in more tough-luck losses. Plus, kicking from […]