Give Mike Shanahan credit for one thing. His timing for benching quarterbacks has improved. Shanahan pulled Rex Grossman in the fourth quarter of the Washington Redskins-Philadelphia Eagles game after Grossman threw his fourth interception. Last season, Shanahan benched Donovan McNabb for Grossman with about two minutes to go with Washington trailing the nascent Detroit Lions. […]

The NFL is as competitive now as it ever was, and there’s nothing that illustrates this better than the AFC South. After 6 weeks of play, jut 3 wins separate the division leading Titans (3-2) from the winless Colts (0-6). There are many factors that you can point to that can explain such a tight […]

For those of you that watched the Bears take on the Vikings on Sunday Night Football, you can attest to the fact that this game was never much of a contest. In terms of dominating a game from start to finish, it doesn’t get much better than the way the Bears manhandled the Vikings. The […]

New England vs. Dallas This was supposed to be an old fashioned, All-American shootout. Tom Brady and Tony Romo. The porous Patriots defense against a frustrating, yet talented Cowboys attack. Brady was going to set up and dissect Dallas. But none of that ended up happening. It took a miraculous comeback in the final minutes […]

Carolina Panthers 17, Atlanta Falcons 31 Neither one of these teams have booked trips to the Super Bowl, but it was a make or break game for the Falcons, and they delivered with a win. Still, it’s a long, hard road for the Falcons to get back to the top of the extremely competitive NFC […]

The long week is finally over, and we can turn our attention to this weekend’s games. A lot of teams are going into what could be make or break games on Sunday and Monday. Many of those teams aren’t used to being put in their current positions. Which teams will rise to the top? Which […]

The Colts were 0-4 going into last Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Everyone knows that the Colts aren’t a playoff team without Peyton Manning. No one has been arguing that they are, but the way they lost their game Sunday has many people, myself included, more disturbed than I thought I could ever […]

The past 2 seasons have been kind to the New York Jets. In both of those campaigns, the Jets were able to run through the playoffs until the AFC championship game. That’s been their stumbling block, and they’ve failed to get to the Super Bowl. This season, they may not have to worry about any […]

Here’s This Given Sunday’s week 6 power rankings. Comments in the middle column are from Shane. Will’s comments are at the bottom. Enjoy. Biggest Fallers: The Texans (-5). Losses to injury (Mario Williams, Andre Johnson) are becoming more damaging than losses on the football field to this Houston squad. I’m not writing them off yet, […]

Donavan McNabb – Minnesota Vikings Things have gotten much better for McNabb since Week 1. Well things could not have really gotten much worse after his 39 yard performance against the Chargers. He has been consistent in the past four weeks, but the Vikings continued to struggle. McNabb hovers around 200 yards a game, and […]

The Packers’ trip to Atlanta was a lot like going over to your neighbors’ house, but you barely know them. When you get there, your neighbors say something like, “Come on in; make yourself right at home. Now, you normally walk in and take a seat on either a chair or the sofa. After some […]