The first two weeks of the season could not have gone worse for the Kansas City Chiefs. After winning the AFC West last season, and adding a few key pieces to the puzzle in the offseason, many had the Chiefs pegged to win the division once again. Some even had them making a serious run […]

Bad ideas come in all shapes and sizes, whether it’s someone in Hollywood deciding to give Taylor Lautner his own “action movie,” or you going against your better instincts when it comes to picking football games against the spread. Often, there’s something so seductive about the bad idea that you can convince yourself it’s not […]

Deon Grant and the Giants attracted a lot of flak, and even a warning from the league office, for taking a dive to stop a drive by the Rams’ no-huddle offense. Frankly, the idea is time-worn, but the execution was terrible. It was the worst acting we’ve seen from an NFL player since Brian Bosworth […]

NFL free agency feeds every fan’s hope to see his team improve from pretender to contender. Bring in that one must-have guy your team needs to put them over the top, because you know, every team is only one or two guys short of the Super Bowl. This year, that hope was delayed for months, […]

Every week, schemes and circumstances combine to take a fantasy sure thing and turn him into a wasted roster spot. Sometimes these can be foreseen, but sometimes injuries or unexpected matchups conspire to ruin what felt like a perfectly sound lineup decision. The key is to understand why it happened, and know what to do […]

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Blaine Gabbert: Ready to start? While everybody is fawning over Cam Newton and Andy Dalton, there is a third rookie quarterback set to be handed the starting gig. After cutting starter David Garrard in the preseason, it was clear that Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio was prepping first round pick Blaine Gabbert to become the […]

What is the big difference between Gene Upshaw and DeMaurice Smith? One was a Hall of Fame NFL player. The other is a lawyer. When an angry, distrusting membership sought to defend income gains of the 2006 extension to the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, they picked high profile Washington lawyer Smith over former players Troy […]

Opponents traveling to Arrowhead Stadium will be greeted with a dead, still-smoking crater where once a football team was said to play. Men in red jerseys will be there, though whether colored red by design or by the blood of the fallen we cannot say. There’s an undeniable stench in the air, of a team’s […]

Houston Texans 23 – Miami Dolphins 13 The Houston Texans continued their run to the top of the AFC South. Today they travelled to Miami and thoroughly dominated the Dolphins en route to a 23-13 victory. After a big Week 1 for Chad Henne and the ‘Fins offense against New England, they struggled getting going […]

Buffalo Bills 38 – Oakland Raiders 35 A matchup of two of the league’s potential surprise teams might be the best game of the early shift. To recap: The Raiders outmuscle the Bills to a 21-3 lead. Game appears lost when Buffalo elects to kick on a 4th and 1 from the Oakland 7. Ryan […]