Buffalo at Houston Why Buffalo Should Win This isn’t the same old Bills team. The last time we saw Buffalo in the playoffs was a 2017 team that snuck into January despite a -57 point differential and a horrendous run defense. This 2019 team? This is a club predicated on a stout running attack and standout defense, one that features stars at every position on that side of the…
Embed from Getty Images Sometimes the MVP race is a one-man race, and it’s all over but the actual voting. When Tom Brady threw 50 touchdowns in 2007, no one was taking it from him. When LaDainian Tomlinson scored 23 touchdowns in eight games in 2006 (and a record 31 for the season), it was game over. But this year? Not so much. There are a handful of candidates in…
Embed from Getty Images Earlier this week, the NFL released its final 10 players on its #NFLTop100 list. This is a list that examines the league’s 100 best players heading into the season – as voted on by the other players. You know a list like that is going to be quarterback-heavy and saturated with skill position players. I tried to be well-rounded in my list, although I did include…
Embed from Getty Images As a football junkie, I read dozens of articles per week on anything from fantasy football projections to Sunday recaps to power rankings of the best head coaches in the game. Peter King’s MMQB column has long been one of my absolute favorites, even if I don’t always agree with what he writes. His recent article on Why Sam Bradford is MVP intrigued yet baffled me….
I’m pretty sure this was the longest offseason in the history of the National Football League. The calendar says it lasted about seven months, but it felt like seven years. And now it’s here. Finally. The 2016 NFL season is starting tomorrow. Actually, it started on Thursday, but the main event is tomorrow. Below I will highlight 50 bold predictions for the 2016 season, in no particular order, and I…
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 It’s always difficult to speculate Hall of Fame chances for a professional athlete, especially one in the National Football League. A player can be on track for Canton, Ohio one day and rehabbing a potentially career-ending injury the next. That’s what makes it fun to guess which players will keep up their dominance. I evaluated active players based on the usual criteria – individual positional…