0 comments by Mike Batista on 6/17/2016
Rex Ryan can claim that the Bills are the NFL’s 2016 offseason champions, but since pads aren’t worn during the offseason, that hollow title is up for debate. Offseason activities across the league ended Thursday with 25 teams wrapping up their mandatory minicamps. The other seven teams finished last week. So now we can look back at free […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 5/12/2016
Willie Gault is 55, and he’s still fast. The former Bears wide receiver set world records for men 55 and over in the 100-meter dash (11.3 seconds) and 200-meter dash (23.24) at the Oxy Invite in Los Angeles last weekend. Gault now has a USA Track & Field Athlete of the Week honor to go […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 5/6/2016
Amobi Okoye is ready to attempt a comeback after his NFL career was derailed by a rare, life-threatening disease three years ago. Okoye, the 10th overall pick by the Texans in the 2007 draft, played four years in Houston and two years for the Bears. He missed the 2013 season after suffering from an autoimmune […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 5/2/2016
The 2016 NFL draft is in the books. All those mock drafts are a thing of the past. The names of the 253 players drafted are set in stone. Now all that’s left is years and years of Monday morning quarterbacking, starting with this breakdown of the best and worst developments of the draft. Best Robert […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 4/28/2016
Joey Harrington, who the Lions chose with the No. 3 pick in the 2002 NFL draft, has had to bear the “bust” label pretty much since early in his career. But Harrington is more than just a name on the many lists of all-time draft busts that surface at this time of year, and he has […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 4/25/2016
By now, you probably have a pretty good idea who you want your team to take Thursday night during the first round of the 2016 NFL draft. Don’t forget, though, that there are two more days and six more rounds of the draft. Chances are your team will draft someone on Friday or Saturday who you haven’t […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 4/11/2016
The names of every player who could possibly be taken in the 2016 NFL draft are on the walls at 32 team headquarters around the league. The order of those names is different depending on each team’s assessment of the player. Some of those names might even have stars next to them. The fact of […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 4/6/2016
Would Roger Goodell just listen to himself? The NFL commissioner talked about how well the league’s current 12-team playoff format works, then said that it probably will change. “(It) likely will happen at some point,” Goodell told a group of Jaguars season ticket holders via NFL.com. “But we want to be really cautious because we […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 3/25/2016
There will be a lot of interesting divisional games in the 2016 NFL season. A lot of players have changed teams this offseason, and many of them are playing for former division rivals. Some of these players have been released and were picked up by another team in their division. Some of them were signed […]
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 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
Matt Forte says that his days with the Bears are over, announcing on Instagram that the team told him he won’t be re-signed. Despite my wishes, my days as a member of the Chicago Bears have sadly come to an end. I was informed earlier this week from the GM that they will not be […]
