Embed from Getty Images No one could have predicted what the 2015 NFL season had in store for us. Apparently you can win a Super Bowl without a great quarterback – just ask the Denver Broncos, whose historic defense was enough to overcome Peyton Manning’s late-career struggles, to put ‘struggles’ mildly. Cam Newton took that next step and became Supercam, even though he lost Kelvin Benjamin to a preseason…
Embed from Getty Images The start of the official NFL regular season is just one week away, and already, major injuries are set to play a significant role on the 2016 campaign. The losses of Tony Romo and Teddy Bridgewater make the NFC more wide open. Meanwhile, in the AFC, the New England Patriots are without Tom Brady for four games, the Pittsburgh Steelers are without Le’Veon Bell for…
Embed from Getty Images It’s just over a week until the official start of the 2016 NFL season. I’ll be publishing a series of NFL articles. This one will focus on a brief preview of each team, ranked in order of how I think they will finish in the division. An asterisk means a wild-card berth. My playoff predictions are below. Stay tuned for a 50 bold predictions article…
Embed from Getty Images You’ve likely seen the NFL Network top 100 list, a ranking accumulated by fellow players around the National Football League. It’s a passing league dominated by quarterbacks and skill position players, and the rankings reflected that. Forty nine of the 100 players were skill position players, and nearly half the league’s quarterbacks made the cut. In making my list, I tried to put as much…
Embed from Getty Images Who doesn’t love a good quarterback legacy debate? Following a 2015 season that saw passing numbers rise to an all-time high – and a year capped by Peyton Manning winning his second Super Bowl title and then metaphorically sailing off into the sunset, it seems like a good time to rank my top 100 quarterbacks to ever play the game. What I Looked At to…
Embed from Getty Images You’re a new NFL general manager. You’re starting a team from scratch and can pick one quarterback to build your franchise around. Ignoring existing contracts, who do you want? Do you want a 26-year-old Cam Newton, a 26-year-old Andrew Luck, or a 27-year-old Russell Wilson? Do you want to bet on at least six or seven more years from a 32-year-old Aaron Rodgers? Or do…
It’s the day before the Super Bowl, which means that tonight is the unveiling of the complete list of awards from the 2015 NFL season. The Associated Press, which is widely recognized as the official award, will announce winners in seven major categories. Below are my predictions for who I think will win these awards. Most Valuable Player: Sometimes the NFL MVP award has a lot of drama on…
It’s hard to believe that there are just three games remaining in the NFL season, probably the most intense I have ever witnessed in my life. This weekend’s games feature arguably the four best teams in the game. The Denver Broncos came away with home-field advantage late in the season, and after a quarterback change back to Peyton Manning, will host Tom Brady and the New England Patriots for the right…
The divisional round of the NFL playoffs is easily the most entertaining round of the postseason. The eight teams remaining are all legit Super Bowl contenders, and non-deserving playoff teams like the Houston Texans and Washington Redskins have already been bounced from the postseason. This weekend’s games all feature a matchup where one quarterback was selected number one overall in the draft and the other won a Super Bowl. They’ve…
It’s been a wild, crazy NFL season so far. Just look at the standings if you need proof. Through the first 10 weeks of the season, only 11 teams have a winning record. That’s the fewest in a season since 1990. We’ve had some wild moments involving quarterbacks, everything from Tom Brady turning in a possible repeat of his 2007 season to Peyton Manning getting benched after arguably the…