NFL Week 16 winners and losers: congrats to the Colts
The best story in the league this season had a pretty amazing conclusion this weekend. The Indianapolis Colts won to put themselves into the playoffs only one season removed from a 2-14 campaign which was followed by a massive dumping of veteran payroll and the trade of the QB that had been the face of [...]
Week 13 NFL winners and losers
As I watch the game of football I sometimes find that the developments of a season will change my long held opinions about a subject. This weekend was really a watershed moment for me in terms of how I view rookie QBs. There was a time when I was among those that thought rookies were [...]
Week 10 NFL picks and Fantasy Corner
After a 7-7 effort in week eight I was looking for big improvement in week nine and found it. Yours truly went 8-5-1 last week in what is my best week of the season so far, and even in the games I missed my logic was pretty good but I caught a couple of tough breaks. Now [...]
Week nine NFL winners and losers–the Chuck and (Andrew) Luck edition
The hottest topic in this year’s pre-draft run up was who was the better QB in the draft–Andrew Luck or RGIII? This weekend’s games may have gone a long way towards answering that question. Facing a very good Dolphins’ defense and another rookie QB that has put himself in that best rookie QB conversation, Luck [...]
Week eight NFL winners and losers and the state of the NFC East
The NFC East may be the premiere conference in football in terms of competition and notoriety. All four teams are in major media markets and have a national following, and three of the four have distinguished Superbowl histories. Unfortunately there seems to be something amiss in the NFC East this year with all of its teams [...]
Week seven NFL preview and fantasy corner
Another week and I take another beating at 5-9. In looking around the league you can see that the league’s new shortened practice schedule is taking its toll on the ability of teams to perform week to week consistently, so we are seeing wild swings in the way teams play from week to week and [...]
2012 AFC South preview
2012 AFC South Preview In part four of eight preseason preview series we turn our attention to the AFC South. The AFC South is a conference in transition. This conference was dominated for years by the Colts and Peyton Manning’s high powered offense. With Peyton’s injury and subsequent departure to Denver this division has really been [...]