This is the ninth year I’ve done my bold NFL predictions, but I decided to mix it up a little. Rather than doing 50 bold predictions in all, I’ve done three for each team. You’ll find my complete list of NFL award winners and playoff predictions at the end. AFC EAST New England Patriots Tom Brady will make his NFL-record setting 15th Pro Bowl this year, throwing for 4,286…
Projecting One Hall of Famer From Each NFL Team
Not every team has one player with even the slimmest of Hall of Fame chances (see: Miami), while others have multiple players with over a 50% chance. It’s an inexact science to project future Hall of Famers, especially for players that are still on their rookie contract. But that’s what makes it fun. Buffalo Bills: RB Frank Gore If one 30-plus year-old running back isn’t enough, the Buffalo Bills…
10 Free Agents the Philadelphia Phillies Should Pursue This Offseason
If last offseason proved anything, it’s that money isn’t an issue for Philadelphia Phillies owner John Middleton. Last offseason, the team paid $330 million for Bryce Harper and spent nearly half a billion dollars in all on Harper, Jean Segura, Andrew McCutchen, and David Robertson. Despite the hefty spending, the Phillies find themselves in third place in the NL East, one game behind the Washington Nationals and a full 5.5…
An 18-Game NFL Season: Breaking Down the Potential What-ifs
The National Football League has had a 16-game schedule since 1978, but reportedly, the team owners are pushing for an 18-game schedule as part of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that will start in 2021. Most remarkably, players would only be able to suit up for 16 of their team’s 18 games. If this isn’t the worst idea I’ve ever heard, it’s right up there. The potential issues arising…
100 Greatest Players in Philadelphia Eagles History
It’s the 100-year anniversary of the National Football League this coming September, and what better way to celebrate that than to rank the 100 greatest players in the history of the Philadelphia Eagles? It’s not necessarily a list of the most popular players in Eagles history. Having a great nickname helps. And scoring a touchdown in a memorable game helps. But I also weighed heavily the time the player spent…
A Realistic Contract Projection for Carson Wentz
It’s no secret the Philadelphia Eagles want to extend Carson Wentz this offseason. Howie Roseman made almost no effort to retain Nick Foles, despite the quarterback having won playoff games in consecutive years and the franchise’s only Lombardi trophy to date. Last year’s third-stringer Nate Sudfeld was brought back at a second-round tender, one that will pay him a shade over $3 million in 2019. And career journeyman Cody…
Ranking Each League’s 5 Most Likely MVP Candidates
Embed from Getty Images As we grow close to one-third of the way through the 2019 MLB season, we can know some things for certain. Cody Bellinger won’t possibly end the year over a .400 batting average. Mitch Garver won’t finish with a Ruthian-like slugging percentage. And Joey Gallo can’t conceivably keep up this strikeout pace… can he? But we can say with fairly high certainty which two players will…
Grading the First Month of Bryce Harper’s 13-Year Contract
Grading the first month of a 13-year mega-contract is essentially akin to evaluating a football team on their performance on the first three plays of the game. It’s such a small sample size of production, but it still counts, and who isn’t interested in breaking down the performance of the face of the sport after one month? A quick look at Bryce Harper’s year-to-date stats per Baseball Reference: Harper’s six…
Reactions to the 2019 Philadelphia Eagles’ Schedule Release
Only in the National Football League does the release of a team’s schedule send waves across the nation. The Philadelphia Eagles are now a full offseason removed from spending the summer as Super Bowl champions, but a quick look at the 16 games for 2019 shows you that the NFL expects the Eagles to remain amongst the top teams in the league. (Schedule below courtesy of Philadelphia Eagles’ website). There…
Power Ranking all of Baseball’s $100 Million Contracts
Twenty years ago, Kevin Brown made baseball history when he signed the sport’s first $100 million contract; technically, a seven-year, $105 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now? There have been 85 such deals, the most recent being Ronald Acuna’s eight-year, $100 million extension. For a long time, Alex Rodriguez held the honor of baseball’s loftiest contract at $252 million, and then he one-upped himself with a $275 million…