0 comments by Sean Tomlinson on 9/4/2014
It’s here. In a matter of hours, real, meaingful football will be on your living room picture boxes, and you’ll be able to scream and spill things like it never left. Not to be the wet blanket on that joy, but soon your team will lose a game (or several) and you’ll be angry. Every […]
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The 2014 NFL regular season gets underway Thursday night in Seattle. But before things kick off, here are our official predictions for what is sure to be another unpredictable year. Why bother? Because it’s fun, even when you know you’ll be wrong. Predicting the playoff teams AFC 1. Denver Broncos (13-3) 2. Cincinnati Bengals (12-4) […]
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Every NFL team goes into a season hoping they’ll never have to use their backup, unless it’s in garbage time or in a meaningless game after a playoff berth has been clinched. The reality is that poor play by the starter, or injury, thrusts a backup quarterback into action more than most fans would hope. […]
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Now that Week 1 is upon us and we have a list of all 32 opening-day starting quarterbacks, we’d like to take a chance to preview the job security each of them has by ranking them in order of how likely they are to lose their jobs for performance reasons before Week 17 arrives. Naturally, […]
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson on 9/3/2014
When healthy Wes Welker may be slowing with age a bit, and he may not quite be the same threat he was a few years ago in his prime. He has a long cliff to fall from, though, as over the past seven seasons he’s
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Sometimes the Internet does amazing, and completely ridiculous things prompted by nothing at all. This is one of those times. Over at Mandatory, they plucked a handful of quarterbacks and asked the question we all have on our minds: what would bald Quarterback X look like? The highlight is a very aged Johnny Manziel, who […]
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson on 9/2/2014
Jim Irsay did a stupid thing this past March. He drove while under the influence of drugs, and we’re not talking about your standard street organics here. Irsay had hydrocodone and oxycodone in his system. In English, painkillers, and pretty strong ones. Pumping those down is reckless, but it’s the product of a larger drug […]
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There are many ways to find professional motivation. One is to think of a previous job you held as a student that was awful (we’ve all had a few of those), and to say to yourself “I’m never, ever doing anything like that again, because it was the worst.” Ethan Westbrooks took that several bounding […]
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The term “franchise quarterback” is tossed around often, even more often than the word “elite” to describe those quarterbacks. By definition, the franchise quarterback is a cornerstone, one that provides a sense of security. Once this elusive gem is found, a general manager is much more at ease. His life mission is complete, because he […]
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We’ve all been there, Tom. Sometimes a guy just needs to feel loved, even if that guy is a three-time Super Bowl champ with a supermodel wife. To get the attention of said wife (Gisele Bundchen), Tom Brady often brings out his inner five-year old. That’s what he told Man of the World magazine (via […]
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Most Skittles workouts are done while sitting, slouching, or being otherwise stationary and consuming large quantities of the delicious candy. Marshawn Lynch has other ideas. Thanks, Fox Sports
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It seems Madden 15 is the gift of comedy that just keeps on giving. First there was Everson Griffen turning into a UFO, and now we have this inspirational tiny Titans linebacker. That’s Christian Kirksey, a rookie from Iowa who’s actually a normal-sized football human at 6’2″, but Madden has him listed at a feisty […]
0 comments by Andrew Juge on 8/30/2014
Pierre Thomas expressed the following about Madden 15’s inclusion of him on the back cover: Maaaan
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson on 8/29/2014
The San Francisco 49ers knew they would be playing without Aldon Smith for a chunk of this season. They were surely being optimistic, and hoping for a four-game suspension after his repeated violations of the rules that govern basic human decency and common sense (technically, for violating both the personal conduct and substance abuse policies, […]
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson
For football fans, every day is a good day for an overreaction. The NFL is structured in such a way that it encourages screams of either joy or agony over a small sample size. A game is played, and then there’s a full week for analysis and scrutiny. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s […]
