Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Best Players Heading Into 2016 Season

August 6, 2016

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…

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Power Ranking 50 Active NFL Players With Best Chance at Pro Football Hall of Fame

July 9, 2016

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…

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Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Greatest Wide Receivers of All-Time (Part II: #50-21)

April 17, 2016

Embed from Getty Images   A good quarterback can make or break an NFL team, but in many instances, a good wide receiver can make or break a quarterback. The prototypical wide receiver is tall enough that a 5’10” or 5’11” cornerback can’t cover him, he’s fast enough to get open, even in double coverage, and he needs sure hands to be able to secure a catch in traffic. The…

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SwartzSports Super Bowl 50 Discussion – QB Legacies, Matchups, Predictions

February 1, 2016

Embed from Getty Images   Cody and Bryn Swartz preview the upcoming Super Bowl 50 matchup between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos, and give their take on Cam, Peyton, the defenses, and what will likely happen.   Whose legacy will be affected more by this game, Cam Newton’s or Peyton Manning’s? Cody: Quarterbacks are judged by their rings, so this is probably a bigger legacy game for Peyton Manning…

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Power Ranking All 32 NFL Wide Receiver Corps

December 4, 2015

  View image | gettyimages.com It’s a passing league, and big, strong, athletic wide receivers are worth their weight in gold. The Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos were smart to lock up Dez Bryant and Demaryius Thomas to long-term deals this past offseason, and an influx of star pass-catchers from the 2014 draft class only enhances the belief that premier wide receivers are the most exciting players in football.  …

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5 Predictions for Eagles-Jets Week 3 Matchup

September 26, 2015

  View image | gettyimages.com   Remind me to never again believe anything that happens in the preseason.  The talk of the preseason after averaging more than 33 points per game in their four contests, the Eagles were widely regarded as one of the NFL’s top teams heading into the 2015 season. In fact, experts such as Adam Schefter and Joe Banner picked them to win the Super Bowl.  Safe…

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