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 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 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…
It’s been a relatively quiet training camp for the Philadelphia Eagles through the first two weeks. And that’s perfectly fine. This is a team that frequently dominates the headlines during the offseason, lately for moves that haven’t worked out the way they should. A few months ago, the Eagles stole headlines when they engineered a massive trade to move up to the number two overall pick, where they selected North…
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…
The National Football League lost one of its all-time greats on Tuesday morning as former head coach and defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan died at the age of 85. Ryan entered the NFL as a defensive line coach with the Buffalo Bills in 1961 and exited the league 34 years later as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. In between, he left behind an unparalled legacy as perhaps the greatest…
Flash back to just one year ago. The Eagles were absolutely loaded at the running back position after signing reigning rushing champion DeMarco Murray and adding former first-rounder Ryan Mathews. The running game, easily the staple of Chip Kelly’s offense in the 2013 and 2014 season, was expected to be even more dynamic for a team that was considered a sleeper Super Bowl contender. Then everything went wrong for Kelly’s 2015…
It’s been an unusual first quarter of the season in baseball. We’ve had the Cubs jump out to arguably the hottest start by any team in baseball history. We’ve had the continued Mike Trout vs. Bryce Harper debate, as well as legitimate consideration that either Clayton Kershaw or Jake Arrieta is, right now, the most dominant pitcher in major league history. Below I will take a look at the individual…
When history looks back on the 2016 Eagles’ draft class, they’re not going to care about seven of their eight picks. They’re really not. It’s all going to come back to whether North Dakota State quarterback Carson Wentz was able to develop into a franchise player at the most important position in sports. The pressure on Wentz is even more extreme than your typical number two overall selection because the…
There was virtually no drama for the Eagles in the first round of the 2016 NFL draft. And yet, there was a ton of excitement. The entire world knew the Rams would pick California quarterback Jared Goff with the number one overall selection, leaving the Eagles with their preferred choice of North Dakota State prospect Carson Wentz with the second overall pick. Wentz, even if he isn’t the starter in…