Could you imagine the Bengals traveling to play in Seattle last year, and walking into the game as the favorite? Impossible. But this is a new year and a new Bengals team. Cincinnati is 4-2 on the season and they look to be one of the emerging forces in the AFC, while the Seahawks continue […]

Everyone loves power rankings! ESPN does it, SI does it and NFL.com does it. And of course we have our own. But here at This Given Sunday, we like to give the little guys something to root for. Welcome to the Andrew Luck Power Rankings. The Andrew Luck sweepstakes has taken over the nation. While Tebow has […]

There’s a curious game of one-upsmanship going on among the Suck For Luck crowd. Or one-downsmanship, as the case may be. Four teams are vying to drag their respective conferences into the gutter, as though the title of “worst division in the NFL” was something worth fighting for. To recap: the Rams lost 34-7, allowing […]

At home against the Kansas City Chiefs. With a win, the Oakland Raiders would be alone atop the AFC West. Instead the silver and black found themselves sucked into a nightmare of their own creation: the abyss that is the Black Hole. The Black Hole in Oakland, historically reserved for the intimidation of opponents on […]

Tim Tebow 18, Miami 15 – Jesus Take the Wheel by Carrie Underwood http://youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU?wmode=Opaque Okay, well. Carrie Underwood isn’t pure Rock and Roll, but this song was too perfect to pass up when describing this game, and hey Carrie is really hot so why not! Tebow certainly took the wheel and once again proved to his haters that […]

Changing up the format of our reactor articles, here’s a live blog of my channel surfing between the early games in Week 7. Thoughts and observations on a game by game basis, as they happen. TAMPA BAY vs CHICAGO Josh Freeman looks jet-lagged, or something. Most of his throws have way too much air, not […]

Sundays in fall are a constant battle for married men, as falling leaves and long-neglected items on the “honey do” list steal you away from the comfortable sofa and the TV remote. With a little creativity, though, we can do both at the same time — identifying and fixing the biggest problems with the NFL’s […]

The Arizona Cardinals have been nothing short of disastrous this season. After trading for Kevin Kolb in the offseason and hoping that he would bring the consistency back to the offense that has been missing since Kurt Warner retired, the Cards have struggled mightily. Kolb has done little to earn the $64 million contract that he […]

The Texans finally emerged as a complete team this season, displaying three levels of stifling defense and a powerful combination of big-play running and passing offense. They jumped out to a fantastic 3-1 start that could have been 4-0, but for the pyrotechnic 4th quarter brilliance of the New Orleans Saints in a 40-33 loss. […]

It was an unusually active trade deadline, with a number of high profile swaps. And the league’s worst owner might have won the day. Recapping: The Oakland Raiders got Carson Palmer. The Cincinnati Bengals got two high draft picks. The Detroit Lions got an emergency running back in Ronnie Brown… at least until James Harrison […]

If your team is slumming it and it has become more enjoyable to watch paint dry then to watch your team play, you’re probably starting your coaching wish list for 2012. There are several coaches who will not be around this time next year and probably even some that won’t last the season. The obvious few that come to […]

Vontaze Burfict is a scary man. Known for his propensity to get yellow hankies thrown in his direction, the middle linebacker for the Arizona St. Sun Devils is on the fast track to the league. Now a junior, Burfict was regarded as the top linebacker in the class of 2009 coming out of Centennial High […]