Luke Kuechly may not make the headlines that Vontaze Burfict does at Arizona State, but there are few that question his raw ability on the field. After taking the place of Mark Herzlich at Boston College as a true freshman, he stepped in and was one of the best linebackers in the nation from the […]

The Green Bay Packers host the New York Giants in the biggest game at Lambeau Field since the infamous NFC Championship in 2007, when a young Eli Manning outplayed Brett Favre in Favre’s final game as a Packer and launched the Giants into the Super Bowl. After playing four playoff games on the road and […]

No one does parity like the NFL does, the sport that inspired the phrase “Any Given Sunday” to describe the possibility of the lowliest team rising up and beating one of the league’s juggernauts. Maybe it’s our fault for starting the This Given Sunday blog, but there were a LOT of those Sundays this season. […]

The St. Louis Rams have agreed to terms with Jeff Fisher to be their next head coach, according to Michael Lombardi of NFL Network and others. Fisher had been the most prominent candidate connected to any of the current head-coaching vacancies, interviewing with both the St. Louis Rams and Miami Dolphins. Most recently, NFL Network had […]

The playoff debut of the Houston Texans – the first playoff game in football-starved Houston in more than a decade – was a runaway success. And as per the norm, it was a total team effort, with playmakers on offense and defense combining to swamp the Cincinnati Bengals in the game’s second half. Now, though, […]

Joe Flacco’s week to week performance is like something out of a nursery rhyme. When he’s good, as in his 389-yard, 3-touchdown demolition of the Rams, he’s very very good. But when he’s bad, like his 137-yard stinker in a 12-7 loss to the Jaguars… he’s horrid. And the difference between the two Flaccos could […]

We continue our playoff coverage this week with the New England Patriots, the AFC’s top seeded team. Led by Tom Brady, the Patriots compiled an impressive, but ever so familiar, 13-3 record as they made their way to home field advantage yet again. On Saturday night, the Patriots will face off against the Denver Broncos […]

You could tell, right from the first week of the preseason, that this would be a different kind of year for the Detroit Lions. While most NFL teams were sleepwalking, trying to get a handle on their new players and new wrinkles to their schemes, Matthew Stafford and Calvin Johnson were operating at full speed. […]

The New Orleans Saints managed to outscore the potent offense of the Detroit Lions; for their next test, can they out-defend the freakishly stingy San Francisco 49ers? Drew Brees and company get ready to leave the comfortable confines of the dome, and take the NFL’s most dangerous offense on the road as they continue their playoff […]

With the speculation all but gone that with the first pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, the Indianapolis Colts will select Andrew Luck, quarterback, out of Stanford University. The 2012 NFL Draft looks to have as much drama, or maybe less, surrounding the number one overall pick than in 2002 when the Houston Texans announced […]

New York welcomes in the fist pump. No were not talking about the guys from the Jersey shore but the Jets have selected former Miami Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano to be their offensive coordinator. Reports came out Tuesday night that Jets OC Brian Schottenheimer had resigned, and within an hour Chris Mortenson reported that […]