Remember those crushing, retirement-making playoff hits by Saints defenders on Kurt Warner and Brett Favre? It turns out there were dollar signs attached. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, an NFL investigation revealed that the New Orleans Saints maintained a “bounty” program, openly paying their defensive players for injuring and/or knocking key players on opposing offenses […]

The Philadelphia Eagles placed the franchise tag on disgruntled wide receiver DeSean Jackson today according to an announcement on the team’s web site.  The Eagles are the first team to apply the franchise tag in 2012. Jackson is a dangerous receiver and special team threat who stressed over an extension to his rookie contract for […]

The Minnesota Vikings surprised most people by taking Christian Ponder with the twelfth pick in the 2011 NFL draft. Ponder wasn’t supposed to be the quarterback of the present, with Donovan McNabb in the fold. McNabb proved ineffective, though, and Ponder ended up starting ten games as a rookie. The results from that playing time […]

Tarvaris Jackson knows nothing about job security. But he played well enough in 2011, leading the team to all seven of their wins, to put his team in a very dicey position when it comes to finding his replacement. With USC’s Matt Barkley and Oklahoma’s Landry Jones dropping out of this year’s draft class, Seattle […]

The Saint Louis Rams and New Orleans Saints went in two different directions last season – one to the gutter, the other a few seconds (and a Vernon Davis catch) away from the NFC Championship game. In response, the Rams poached Gregg Williams from the Saints to improve their defense … to which the Saints […]

One never expects a parent to call their baby ugly. So it come as no surprise that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones thinks the quarterback he has is better than the quarterbacks he has no shot at getting. Some Dallas area reporter asked Jones the silly question if he would trade quarterback Tony Romo for Andrew […]

In many ways, 2011 was by far the best season in the ten-year history of the Houston Texans. They won the AFC South and made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, then beat the Bengals at home in the playoffs before falling to the Ravens on the road. Despite such success, Texans […]

Mike Shanahan isn’t going anywhere… most likely. There’s a notion that this is a do or die year for the Washington Redskins’ head coach — “Shanahan must finish the 2012 season with a winning record or Dan Snyder will fire him,” the running theme goes. With the exception of Joe Gibbs, Snyder has never tolerated […]

The Oakland Raiders have been known as the model of dysfunction throughout the league for the better part of the last decade. Al Davis, despite the great work he did in the league, descended into a late-life spiral that saw him evaluating players solely on their foot speed. A revolving door of coaches made their […]