0 comments by Anthony Brown on 7/15/2012
Robert Griffin III is the best-known, most important Redskins player, but he is not on the team…yet. Griffin’s people are negotiating his contract with the team, but he expects the deal to be done before training camp. As usual, everyone is waiting to see No. 1, Andrew Luck’s deal, before signing their own deal. The […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 7/14/2012
Michael Vick is a fashionista. He introduced his new V7 clothing line at a northeast Philadelphia Modell’s Sporting goods store. “I am very thankful I have the fan appreciation and support that I have,” Vick said in a Philadelphia Inquirer story. Both Vick and his fashion line were well received, in contrast to his arrival […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown
Brandon Jacobs says his departure from the Giants was a matter of chump change. “It was just money, that’s all it was, a couple hundred thousand [dollars],” Jacobs told Jim Rome in a radio interview this week. Asked if it was “just a couple hundred thousand bucks” then why didn’t they want him back, Jacobs […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown
When Jerry Jones says the window is closing for core team members Tony Romo, DeMarcus Ware and Jason Witten to win a Super Bowl, he is speaking only to Romo, says Michael Lombardi in an NFL.com opinion piece. “Windows never close for NFL teams with great quarterbacks,” writes Lombardi who considers Romo a great quarterback. […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 7/13/2012
It should not have taken this long for New Orleans to re-sign Drew Brees, archangel of all the Saints, to a new contract. Both sides played hardball, but Brees played from higher ground as the face of a troubled franchise in a post-Katrina, Bountygate world. The Saints wanted Brees on the cheap, relative to super […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SBT6MygnKKw For a few years, the best three receivers in the NFL were also associated with locker room problems, and receivers in general were looked at as selfish players. Today, Randy Moss is amidst his going away tour with the San Francisco 49ers, Chad Ochocinco has moved on to Miami, and the king of locker […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons on 7/12/2012
The Josh Gordon sweepstakes are over for the 2012 supplemental draft, and the Cleveland Browns are the winner, offering up their 2nd round pick of 2013 to snag the former Baylor wideout. Gordon will complete a trio of young rookies expected to bring the Browns boring offense back to the highlight reel. He joins rookie […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons
Peyton Manning and his family have found a new home in Colorado, and it didn’t come cheap. According to the Denver Post, Peyton Manning purchased the home pictured above for $4.575 million. While that may be a truckload of money for you and me, it’s actually a bargain considering the original asking price was $5.25 […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 7/11/2012
Sixty percent of NFL TV viewers and 70-odd percent of the readers of football blogs are guys. Football is when we cut loose for our teams, against enemy teams and where we vicariously live the lives of our favorite players. And NFL owners. I guarantee you most male NFL fans see nothing wrong with the […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons
Yesterday a Fox 59 report broke the news that the Colts would still blackout games if general bowl seating was not sold out. The NFL recently announced that it was relaxing its blackout policy to the point that teams could still televise home games in their primary market with as little as 85% of the […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons
The NFL is worried about declining stadium attendance. Facing such declines, they have proposed many tech, non-tech things to improve the in-stadium experience. While many teams have no trouble avoiding the dreaded blackout, not all teams are as fortunate. For example the Houston Texans and have had consistent sell-outs since coming into the league. Even despite […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons
Former Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon ran a 4.52 40-yard dash in front of representatives from 21 teams at his pro day Tuesday, according to the Houston Chronicle. Gordon held the workout in advance of Thursday’s supplemental draft. He spent last season out of football after Baylor dismissed him from the team in August 2011. […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons on 7/10/2012
One of the reasons I follow the NFL so much more closely than college football is the simple truth that money talks, and in the NFL, no one is hiding from that simple truth. Apparently, however, money talks at a different volume for different people. According to Chris Mortensen, Titans owner Bud Adams was willing […]
0 comments by Shane Clemons
Yesterday we took a look at teams that need to win the Super Bowl in the very near future, or it won’t happen at all. As those teams’ Super Bowl window closes, a handful of other teams are just coming into their own, and those are the teams I’d like to focus on today. Cincinnati […]
0 comments by Lawrence Dushenski
This is about concussions. Again with the endless talk about concussions, but this will not go away. Players are suffering massive brain trauma as a result of repeated blows to the head. Remember Priest Holmes? There was a stretch of just under two years when he was the best back in the league. The Chiefs were […]
