The age curve for NFL running backs is a brutal thing, and at the age of 30, is it finally catching up with Michael Turner? Matt Ryan is carrying more and more of the offensive load, partly by design and partly by necessity as Turner rapidly disappears from the game plan. In Ryan’s rookie year, […]

April 26th 1983 was the last time the Miami Dolphins drafted a QB in the first round. That quarterback happened to be Dan Marino, and it turned out to be a historic day in Dolphins history. In 1999 Marino retired and the search for someone to fill his shoes started. February 2012, 13 years later, […]

It’s safe to assume that the Indianapolis Colts will be drafting Andrew Luck with the first overall pick of the 2012 draft. That much is almost a certainty. Yes, there are a few people that seriously believe Robert Griffin III is the better pick, but those people do not seem to reside in Indianapolis. The […]

Today is the first day that NFL teams have the ability to apply the franchise tag to players. Each team is only allowed one franchise tag, which locks up a select player in a one year contract. One of the big name free agents-to-be is Ravens running back Ray Rice. Rice, coming off of his […]

Despite what Rex Ryan thinks, the New York Jets are not the kings of the Big Apple. That role is currently taken by the New York Football Giants. The Jets have a lot to do this off season before they can be considered true contenders in the AFC again. The number one talked about name […]

Successful head coach in the Big East goes to take over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. High-profile offensive assistant for the NFL’s Patriots moves into Happy Valley to coach Penn State University. Shouldn’t this be the other way around?  More importantly, does either move for Greg Schiano and Bill O’Brien have a shot at success? College […]

Who are the Kansas City Chiefs? Are they the team that won their division last year? Or are they the team that struggled mightily with injuries and consistency this year? Most importantly, how far away are they from contention for the AFC West division? That is what Brian Daboll plans on finding out.  “Who” you […]

Lost in all the bedlam surrounding QB Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys is a dirty little secret: their defense isn’t very good, and hasn’t been for years, particularly in the fourth quarter, after Romo and the offense have built leads, only to see them evaporate. Yes, Virginia, the best defense in Texas is in […]

LaDanian Tomlinson. Darren Sproles. Drew Brees. Michael Turner.  AJ Smith has let each one of them leave the San Diego Chargers with little more than a compensatory draft pick in return. Smith is frugal, and he believes that every player can be replaced. While San Diego have had a decent amount of success in recent […]

In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, Arizona Cardinals president Michael Bidwill stood at a microphone and talked about what it would take to get his team back into the big game. He had a simple suggestion: “Improved quarterback play.”  Suffice to say, Kevin Kolb, you have been put on notice.  Kolb wobbled […]

There’s no doubt that the Browns have reached a fork in the road following a disappointing campaign in 2011. Their star running back ran for only 587 yards in his 10 games of action, and it’s still unclear if they have their starting quarterback in Colt McCoy. The decisions made in the next few months […]

With Raheem Morris gone, this isn’t a youngry team any more … just a young team that suddenly isn’t very good. Morris’ defense completely fell apart, but a more troubling sign in 2011 was the regression of Josh Freeman. The big quarterback was supposed to take a big step forward from his promising 2010, when […]

The news that I’ve been waiting for a couple of years now has finally been passed down. Ron Jaworski will no longer be calling Monday Night Football games for ESPN. ESPN says that Jaworski has signed a five year contract extension that will place him on other programming, and luckily, off of calling games live […]