Apologies for the delay in posting this weekly column and Week 4’s column which is coming shortly. I was in Europe on vacation for 10 days with a bad internet connection and no real ability to research and post articles.…
Tom Brady, QB (Patriots) NE 26 at NO 20 Incredibly, Brady took home his 28th career AFC Offensive Player of the Week award following his first-rate performance during Week 2 after he threw for 447 yards and had 3 TDs,…
Welcome to the 2nd annual series I call “NFL Stats That Stick Out”. During each week of the season, I will take note of those players who performed at the top level. I will also include at least one dubious…
MY PICKS – AFC: AFC EAST WINNER – Patriots AFC NORTH WINNER – Steelers AFC SOUTH WINNER – Titans AFC WEST WINNER – Chiefs AFC WILD CARD 1 – Broncos AFC WILD CARD 2 – Raiders AFC CHAMPION – STEELERS…
This week at the league spring meetings, NFL owners are expected to approve the reduction of overtime play in preseason and regular season games from its current 15 minutes to 10 minutes. The former NFL senior V.P. of Officiating, Dean…
Those of us who are fans of former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch are anxious to find out if the 30-year old will come out of retirement, for real this time. About a year ago and after 9 seasons in…
Since 1980, it has been customary for the President of the United States to honor Super Bowl winning teams. (Source: ESPN, Thomas Neurmann, Mar 1, 2016) It is also not uncommon for athletes to decline invitations to these ceremonies for…
I’m going to do two things with this column and keep both short and sweet. The first is I’m going to RANT about how irritating all the extensive hype is surrounding the Super Bowl. Here it goes: It vexes me that people who…
Packers at Falcons (Sun, Jan 22 – 3:05pm ET) I’m 6-2 in playoff picks heading into Conference Championship Weekend. Ironically, my 2 losses came at the hands of Atlanta (I picked the Seahawks to beat them) and Green Bay (I…
I’m 5-1 in playoff picks heading into the 2nd round of the Divisional Playoff Games. I had a snafu yesterday after picking Seattle to win, but how was I to know they would implode and make the mistakes they usually…
There are 8 teams left in the post season to fight it out for Conference Championships next week: AFC NFC Texans (4) at Patriots (1) Packers (4) at Cowboys (1) Steelers (3) at Chiefs (2) Seahawks (3) at Falcons (2)…
The 2016-17 NFL regular season finished last week and the following teams made it to the post season in each conference: AFC NFC 1 – Patriots – AFC EAST WINNER (14-2) 1 – Cowboys – NFC EAST WINNER (13-3) 2…
