0 comments by Mike Batista on 3/11/2016
Hope springs eternal for NFL teams who have landed big-ticket free agents this week. Some teams have improved their rosters and have a lot to look forward to in 2016. Some teams, however, made moves that they’ll regret. They either overpaid for players, botched negotiations with their own players or just put too much emphasis […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 3/8/2016
The 2016 NFL draft begins April 28 in Chicago. While NFL teams hit the free agent market this week, the draft is where teams really can build long-term success. With a little less than two months to go before Roger Goodell takes the podium in the Windy City, here’s a look at how the draft […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 3/3/2016
Perhaps Vontaze Burfict is turning over a new leaf. The Bengals linebacker, whose tackle injured Le’Veon Bell’s knee and ended his season in Week 8, tweeted supporting words to the Steelers’ star running back as he continues his rehab. Bell responded and it seems there’s no hard feelings on his end. 💯 pic.twitter.com/ixfNs3kVL1 — Le’Veon […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/23/2016
Former Bills, Panthers and Colts general manager Bill Polian says that player safety trumps the clarification of what a catch is in the NFL. Polian, part of a six-person panel that was put together to help simplify the definition of a catch, told The Washington Post that players would lose some of their protection as […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/22/2016
Watching the stocks of 2016 NFL draft prospects rise and fall this week will be like watching a ticker on Wall Street. The NFL Scouting Combine begins Tuesday at Indianapolis, and it’s a safe bet that a player or two will climb up draft boards because of his 40-yard dash time, number of bench-press reps or vertical […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/17/2016
That yawner of a Super Bowl is fading into the past and destined to get lost in the shuffle of Super Bowl memories. Now we can look at some games during the 2015 NFL season that were actually exciting. Each of the season’s 10 most memorable games were decided in the last two minutes or […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/12/2016
Matt Forte announced on Instagram Friday that he’s been told the Bears won’t re-sign him. The 30-year-old running back will be a hot item in the free agent market. He set a record for receptions by a running back with 102 in 2014. His 1,846 all-purpose yards were sixth in the league. Forte missed three games with a […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/8/2016
Super Bowl 50 won’t go down as one of the best ever. At times, it was harder to watch than Puppymonkeybaby. Some of the best all-time Super Bowls have come in the last decade or so. There also have been some snoozers, however, and some Super Bowls that just weren’t great aesthetically. If you’re going […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/4/2016
Believe it or not, there will be players suiting up for Super Bowl 50 not named Cam Newton or Peyton Manning. The history of the Super Bowl is dotted with players like Jack Squirek, Larry Brown and Malcolm Butler, relative unknowns who became household names in the Super Bowl. The Panthers and Broncos reached the […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 2/1/2016
The NFL is either trying to tell us that Super Bowl victories increase birth rates, or that Libras and Scorpios are really good singers. In a new NFL commercial featuring Seal, set to the music of “Kiss from a Rose,” a choir of “Super Bowl babies” sing about how their parents’ favorite teams won the Super Bowl and […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 1/28/2016
Most quarterbacks probably wouldn’t mind being on a list of the worst Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks because it would mean they own a Super Bowl ring. It’s kind of like being the ugliest Miss America or the flabbiest Mr. Universe. Only 31 quarterbacks have won Super Bowls. Ten of them are in the Hall of Fame and […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 1/22/2016
More than any other round of the NFL playoffs, the conference championship has contributed the most named games to the league’s history. Several of these “The (insert noun here)” games make the list of the greatest conference championship games in NFL history. So here’s “The List.” No. 10: Patriots 23, Ravens 20 (2011) This game gets […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 1/21/2016
Jon Gruden is only 52. He’s a little young to be a fist-shaking, get-off-my-lawn curmudgeon. But the Super Bowl-winning coach and “Monday Night Football” analyst sounded awfully old-school when he told “Men’s Fitness” magazine that he thinks the NFL should get rid of instant replay. Gruden has a point when he says all these replays have […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 1/20/2016
The NFL has a lot of problems that need fixing, but that doesn’t stop the league from also trying to fix what isn’t broken. According to the BBC, the NFL is “on track” to have a full-time franchise in London within six years. NFL spokesman Mark Waller said that when the league started playing annual […]
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Whenever Dean Blandino’s name comes up, it sounds like someone is being called into the principal’s office. But according to NFL.com the league’s vice president of officiating applauded the way Clete Blakeman handled the overtime coin toss in Saturday’s NFC divisional playoff game between the Packers and Cardinals. Blakeman had to think quick when Aaron Rodgers demanded that […]
