Week 17 winners and losers; Black Monday Edition
For twenty NFL teams the offseason officially began on Monday; most teams wasted no time in taking action as 11 of those 20 teams made either coaching or front office changes on “Black Monday.” Ken Whisenhunt, Chan Gailey, Lovie Smith, Pat Shurmur, Andy Reid, Romeo Crennel, and Norv Turner are all currently unemployed. Of those [...]
Week 11 NFL winners and losers
Coaching hot seats are heating up this week across the NFL. At this point we can likely declare the tenure of Andy Reid over in Philadelphia. His team picked up its seventh loss in an embarrassing one-sided beating at the hands of the Redskins that gave Phily its seventh loss of the year, thrust them to the [...]
Week 10 NFL winners and losers and the plight of the walrus
As we look around the league at winners and losers this week, we should probably start with this week’s biggest loser in the coaching hot seat sweepstakes–Philadelphia head coach Andy Reid. Reid is the NFL’s longest tenured head coach and he is also the man that stole golfer Craig Stadler’s claim as the sports figure [...]
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 six NFL winners and losers
This year’s NFL has proven two things to us. First, the NFL’s new lighter practice schedule makes it more difficult for coaches to sustain consistency week to week with their teams, and as a result parity is more prevalent than ever. The second thing we are quickly learning is the importance of NFL head coaches in [...]