I understand that the St. Louis Rams want to go all-in on a quarterback they believe could finally get their franchise back on track. They traded former top pick Sam Bradford in order to land Nick Foles this offseason and they know that it would probably give a strong impression if they were to award […]

Michael Sam’s NFL career was already on hiatus, but now that he has left the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes, it’s fair to wonder if the 25-year-old’s professional football career could be on the verge of ending before it ever really started. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he returns. I’m surprised he left. I was very surprised. […]

Adrian Peterson has never lacked for confidence. The 217-pound Minnesota Vikings running back whose physique makes him closely resemble Mount Kilimanjaro has little reason to doubt himself. That’s especially true now after he spent nearly an entire season away from football, and therefore he’s not a real 30-year-old running back. His football body is actually […]

In case you haven’t noticed, the San Francisco 49ers are a mess. The team was already sliding after a shockingly poor 2014 campaign, but then defensive stalwart Patrick Willis retired, as did rising star Chris Borland. Top free agent Mike Iupati skipped town, as did head coach Jim Harbaugh. Frank Gore is gone and there […]

2015 is going to be an interesting year for quarterbacks because we’ve seen a decline from the previous “big 3” in Peyton Manning, Tom Brady (who admittedly bounced back in 2014) and Drew Brees. With the exception of Rodgers we’ve yet to see the younger quarterbacks step up and really insert themselves into the discussion […]

If you’ve read Brad Gagnon’s post on three teams he thinks will get back to the playoffs in 2015, you know those teams can’t get into the postseason unless they knock out teams that were previously in it. So who will fall off this season? Carolina Panthers: They benefited from one of the worst divisions […]

Quarterback is one of the most important positions in sports and by far the top position in football. You can’t win without a good one, which is why good quarterback insurance is a great thing to have. Few backup pivots can lead teams to Super Bowls, but some of them are strong enough to keep […]

Every year, at least three teams that didn’t make the playoffs the previous season re-join the postseason picture. And you can pretty much guarantee that’ll be the case again in 2015. Miami Dolphins: We get the feeling someone other than the New England Patriots will rise up in the AFC East, and although the Buffalo […]

For obvious reasons, the NFL values the integrity of the game in a special way. That partially explains why the New England Patriots were hit so hard for Spygate and Deflategate, and it fully explains why the league won’t touch anything related to Las Vegas, casinos and gambling with 10-foot poles. Last year, the league […]

Flipping through Pro Football Talk, CBS and Bleacher Report this morning, it occurred to me that a ridiculous ratio of NFL news this time of year pertains directly to the league’s quarterbacks and their contracts. But when you think about it, that’s utterly silly. Eli Manning is entering “the final year of his contract” but […]

There’s been a lot of talk regarding the quarterbacks of the NFC South lately. Jameis Winston was the top pick in the 2015 NFL draft, Cam Newton just signed an extremely lucrative new contract, there was that report that the Saints are worried about a potential Drew Brees decline, and Matt Ryan’s always in the […]

I’ve argued time and again in the past that even professional athletes deserve to have personal lives. They deserve to have hobbies, they have the right to spend weekends in Las Vegas and we shouldn’t hold it against them so long as they’re putting time into working on their game and they’re staying out of […]