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…
Philadelphia Eagles Add High-Upside Wide Receiver Dorial Green-Beckham
Embed from Getty Images The Philadelphia Eagles made an interesting move on Tuesday when they acquired second-year wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham from the Tennessee Titans in exchange for backup guard/tackle Dennis Kelly. DGB, the 40th overall pick in the 2015 NFL draft, had already fallen out of favor with the Titans’ current coaching staff, but will get the opportunity to compete for a starting role in Philly. If you…
One Question for Each Philadelphia Eagles’ Positional Unit Heading Into 2016 Season
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…
Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Best Players Heading Into 2016 Season
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…
Ranking the 50 Best Players in the NFL Heading Into the 2016 Season
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…
Power Ranking 50 Active NFL Players With Best Chance at Pro Football Hall of Fame
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…
Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Greatest Running Backs of All-Time (Part III: #20-1)
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…
Why Buddy Ryan Deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
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…
Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Greatest Running Backs of All-Time (Part II: #50-21)
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…
What to Expect for the 2016 Philadelphia Eagles at Running Back
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…