There are 1,696 NFL players on active rosters, a number that expands to 2,016 if we include those on practice squads who won’t be in uniform when Sunday’s games kick off. The overwhelming majority of those players are normal, law-abiding people who also happen to be supremely talented athletes. We watch and idolize them. We […]

Roger Goodell is essentially the CEO of the NFL. And when someone in that position approaches a serious issue like domestic abuse with blatant negligence, the result is confusion at first, and then anger. A whole lot of anger. And at three stadiums today it will be quite visible. Ultraviolet, a women’s advocacy organization, is […]

I know, it always seems foolish to discuss the Hall of Fame credentials of a player who could be around for at least another 10 years, and who’s playing the final season of his rookie contract right now. Since time travel still hasn’t been perfected, we can’t go forward and know what injuries J.J. Watt […]

Trent Richardson is a rumbling bowling ball when he gets into the open field. But along with staying healthy, that last part — getting into the open field, ever — has been a problem throughout his first two NFL seasons. And early signs indicate little will change for Richardson this year. He has more than […]

It’s remarkable that Ray Rice’s disgusting actions have been met by equally disgusting inaction my NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, but here we are. Understandably, the focus all week has been on the second surveillance tape which showed exactly what happened in that Atlantic City elevator between Rice and his then fiance. You’ve seen it repeatedly […]

It was always hard to take the 2013 Kansas City Chiefs seriously. They have a fine head coaching mind at the helm who was in his first season, and one of the best pass rushing tandems between Justin Houston and Tamba Hali. They also employ Jamaal Charles, a running back capable of turning a game […]

The Arizona Cardinals were impressively alright last night in a white-knuckle, 18-17 win over the Chargers considering the amount of losses and departures they had throughout the offseason. Between Daryl Washington (suspended), Karlos Dansby (in Cleveland), and Darnell Dockett (broken), three core defenders from last year’s unit that allowed the sixth fewest yards in the […]

Learning a new offense is not an easy thing to do in football. Let’s just get that out of the way off the top here, and state it as a simple fact. The challenge gets even more difficult when, like Eli Manning, you’re a quarterback who’s been the product of the same system since 2007. […]

Ray Rice is a horrible, filthy human. That cannot be debated. He deserved nothing more than your disgust before today. At least now we won’t have to endure his first regular-season appearance in Baltimore, when he would have heard cheers again, just as he did during the preseason and training camp. The Ravens released Rice […]