KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (4-5)AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (6-3)Monday, 8:20 P.M. ET, ESPN, Sirius (KC 92, NE 93), Westwood One Radio Why Watch When the Kansas City Chiefs grow up, they want to be like the New England Patriots. That’s why former Patriots GM Scott Pioli fills the same role in Kansas City where he hired […]

San Diego Chargers 20, Chicago Bears 31 Are the Raiders going to run away with the AFC West title? Most logically minded people believed that the Chargers would be the team to beat in the division, but they’ve fallen flat on their faces, and it suddenly appears that the Chargers will likely miss the playoffs […]

It’s at this time of the year that we normally begin to watch some of those pleasant surprise teams begin to fade, leaving one or two classic Cinderella stories by season’s end. Most of the time, we see these late season let downs coming from miles off, but there are always a few cases that […]

At 5-5, the New York Jets are still in the playoff race, but they’re struggling to find wins, and their current predicament stems from the offense’s inability to move the ball into that 10 yard stretch of turf that results in 7 points. Instead, the Jets and Mark Sanchez are becoming experts of the good […]

The San Francisco 49ers are by far the most pleasant surprise in NFL in 2011. They’ve won all their games, save for a very winnable game they gave to the Dallas Cowboys all the way back in week 2. Statistically speaking, the 49ers shouldn’t have the 2nd best record in the NFL. They boast the […]

Week 10 of the 2011 NFL season is in the books. Here’s how the playoff race stands right now: As you might have guessed from the title of this article, the AFC North and the NFC North are both looking extremely tough, accounting for half of the teams currently in position to claim a playoff […]

Notes from Shane: Just when the Texans finally begin to look like a team that can and would win their division, they get the awful news that Matt Schaub is likely to miss the rest of the season. I took that into account when ranking them. Still, they should continue to play good football despite […]

The Indianapolis Colts are heading into their bye week, and there’s been a lot of discussion about the possibility of this Colts team being the worst team in NFL history. Let’s just simmer down for a few minutes and take a look at the cold hard statistics. First off, I have to tell you that […]

In his Monday presser, Texans head coach Gary Kubiak dropped a bombshell that gave any Texans fan that familiar sinking feeling in the pit of their stomachs. Starting quarterback, Matt Schaub, will miss “some time” with what Kubiak calls a “significant foot injury.” Now, before you start scrambling to find out who the next man […]

There are multiple teams in the NFL that are suffering from mid-season slumps. The Bills, Chargers, Ravens, and Lions are the most prominent cases. In the cases of the Chargers and Ravens, it would appear that the talent is there, but the execution isn’t. The Bills seem to have been overachieving until this point of […]

Pittsburgh Steelers 24, Cincinnati Bengals 17 The Steelers were left reeling after their heart-breaking loss last weekend to the Baltimore Ravens, but they were able to rebound quickly against the division leading Bengals. This was the first game between the two teams, and this game ups the stakes of their second match-up. The Bengals, who […]