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 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 eight NFL picks and fantasy corner
So last week was a little more interesting as the new implementation of the over/under selections in this column kept me right at .500 last week. I finished 5-6-1 in the games that I picked with the late Eli Manning TD causing the push on the over. I would have had a winning record had [...]
Week seven NFL recap: Is the Madden Curse to blame in Detroit?
Since this is a Tuesday column, the Monday night game always provides plenty of fodder for my rants. This week is no exception as we look into the underachieving Detroit Lions. The Lions’ offense, which was record-setting last year and enabled Matthew Stafford to become a member of the 5000-yard club, has become totally anemic this year [...]
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 [...]
Who is to blame in Dallas and week four NFL winners and losers
I want to start this week’s column with a little bit of a Dallas Cowboys rant because after the Monday night massacre at the hand of the Bears we are going to hear a lot over the next two weeks about what is wrong with this team and where the blame should fall. As I [...]
Week three in review, and a rant
I have to break with my usual format for this column and start off with a rant about the scab officials. I was frustrated enough with this idiocy after Sunday but after the Monday Night debacle that I am calling the Seattle Screwjob this conversation just cannot be avoided. At this point if you took [...]