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 We’re at the point where we’re all just sitting back and waiting for the NFL regular season to start. The preseason is (thankfully) almost finished and for the most part, every major position battle has been decided. Like usual, there has been a significant amount of injuries this preseason. The big ones, of course, are Tony Romo breaking a bone in his back, which…
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…
Ask ten different football fans who is the best player in the game and you may truly get ten different answers. That’s not to say there’s not enough elite talent in the National Football League because there certainly is. But it’s worth noting that there’s in fact so much elite talent that a handful of players can stake their claim as the game’s best player. Similar to the yearly NFL…
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…
Embed from Getty Images Running back is a unique position. It’s constantly devalued in today’s NFL as the modern game is centered primarily on pass-happy offenses and high-volume numbers. But when you have a special player like Adrian Peterson – a ball-carrier who can run with the football, catch passes, and block – he’s a franchise player worth keeping around. The greatest of all-time were those who could do…
Embed from Getty Images Running back is a unique position. It’s constantly devalued in today’s NFL as the modern game is centered primarily on pass-happy offenses and high-volume numbers. But when you have a special player like Adrian Peterson – a ball-carrier who can run with the football, catch passes, and block – he’s a franchise player worth keeping around. The greatest of all-time were those who could do…