Many have been critical of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season, and who can blame us? So far this season, the Bucs have pushed their record to an abysmal mark of 0-5, and the team ran their starting quarterback, Josh Freeman, out of town. Although the team’s quarterback situation has garnered most of our attention, […]

While checking the schedule for this weekend’s games I noticed an interesting scheduling fluke. The Minnesota Vikings, who made it into the playoffs just a season ago, will be visiting the New York Giants, who missed the playoffs last year, but only just. The fluke? ESPN will be televising a game between teams combining for […]

On paper, the Arizona Cardinals are a good football team. They have receivers that can make plays, a defense that can win games without much offensive production, but one thing continues to hold the team back in the post-Kurt Warner era. Quarterback play. When the Cardinals brought in Carson Palmer, it looked like a good […]

Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens visit the Pittsburgh Steelers in a game that means more than the usual clash between the teams. In addition to bragging rights, the winner of the game will keep themselves in the divisional race, and by extension, the playoff race. Now to be clear, the Ravens will maintain touch with the […]

The NFL is, and has always been, a battle of the haves vs. the have nots. While that’s certainly the case in the NFC, the AFC exemplifies that statement to a more extreme point. At the top of the AFC, teams such as the Broncos, Chiefs and Patriots dominate with iron fists. Few teams are […]

Week 7 in the NFL is here, and you might be entering the weekend with your own preferences regarding which games to focus on, and which to place on the backburner. Most of you have your favorites and fantasy players to track. But in case you're completely neutral or need help breaking ties with regard […]

Very rarely do you see professional sports teams fall as dramatically and suddenly as the Houston Texans have. I mean, it happens pretty quickly sometimes, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a team go from good to terrible this quickly without a major departure or injury playing a role. This Texans team has pretty […]

Colts owner Jim Irsay’s statements about the Colts of the past and the new model the team has pursued have drawn the ire of many, including Peyton Manning’s current head coach John Fox and former Colts general manager Bill Polian. The media hype surrounding some relatively mundane quotes has spoiled an otherwise exciting homecoming that […]

Only two unbeaten teams are still standing in the NFL, and both are in the AFC West. That means that even if the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs continue to tear the opposition apart, something will eventually have to give. "Eventually" is actually capped at Week 11, because that's when the Broncos and Chiefs […]

Few quarterbacks get the second chance that Vikings quarterback Josh Freeman is getting in Minnesota. After being cut by the Tamp Bay Buccaneers, Freeman quickly signed with the quarterback needy Minnesota Vikings, and this weekend, he’ll be the team’s starting quarterback. The decision by head coach Leslie Frazier to start Freeman ends a tumultuous few […]

Jerod Mayo is done playing football this season, at least that’s the word from Yahoo! Sports. Mayo may be done, but make no mistake about it, the Patriots will keep kicking so long as Tom Brady is their quarterback. True, the New England Patriots have suffered more than their fair share of injuries, and that’s […]

It was clearly light-hearted, but that didn't make it any less weird to see two embattled young New York Giants take shots at each other on Twitter Tuesday night. After all, the Giants are 0-6 and David Wilson and Rueben Randle — picked first and second in last year's draft — have both made a […]

It's never too early to start thinking about NFL playoff positioning. Or is it? Actually, yeah, it probably is a little early. But to gain a better feel for how things are lining up with the 2013 regular season about 35 percent complete, here's a look at the current playoff picture: AFC 1. Kansas City […]