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Burning question: Is it time for the Falcons to replace Michael Turner?

The age curve for NFL running backs is a brutal thing, and at the age of 30, is it finally catching up with Michael Turner? Matt Ryan is carrying more and more of the offensive load, partly by design and partly by necessity as Turner rapidly disappears from the game plan. In Ryan’s rookie year, […]

Burning question: Does the Dolphins’ 13-year QB search finally end?

April 26th 1983 was the last time the Miami Dolphins drafted a QB in the first round. That quarterback happened to be Dan Marino, and it turned out to be a historic day in Dolphins history. In 1999 Marino retired and the search for someone to fill his shoes started. February 2012, 13 years later, […]

Burning question: should the New York Jets draft a quarterback?

Despite what Rex Ryan thinks, the New York Jets are not the kings of the Big Apple. That role is currently taken by the New York Football Giants. The Jets have a lot to do this off season before they can be considered true contenders in the AFC again. The number one talked about name […]

Burning question: is Kevin Kolb the Cardinals’ future at quarterback?

In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, Arizona Cardinals president Michael Bidwill stood at a microphone and talked about what it would take to get his team back into the big game. He had a simple suggestion: “Improved quarterback play.”  Suffice to say, Kevin Kolb, you have been put on notice.  Kolb wobbled […]

Chasing Robert Griffin III: what would Miami offer for the #2 pick?

Using “Being John Malkovich” technology, ThisGivenSunday leads you inside the mind of Miami Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland, as he considers making a transformative trade offer to the St Louis Rams, and drafting Robert Griffin III.This is the first of a three-part series. Welp, we just finished 6-10, another beyond-mediocre year under my watch. If my […]

The day after: Super Bowl reads from every angle

On one hand Eli Manning earned his place among not just the present day’s NFL elite but among the great NFL quarterbacks of all time. While Tom Coughlin rose to the ranks of all-time great NFL coaches. On the other hand, Touchdown Tom Brady and The Hoodie literally and figuratively let another Super Bowl ring […]

NFL free agent winners and losers from the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is over, and after a sleepless night for winners and losers both, the cold business of football returns. Some of these players made buckets of money for themselves playing on the game’s biggest stage, while others might have cost themselves dearly in their next negotiations. Thanks to Bryan McIntyre of Mac’s Football […]

It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it: Super Bowl Edition

http://youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY?wmode=Opaque New York Giants 21, New England Patriots 17 – We Are The Champions by Queen This year we went through all major wins and all brutal losses matching them with great songs from the history of Rock and Roll. After another classic Super Bowl in Indy, there is only one song that is fitting. […]

Ultimate guide to Super Bowl prop bets

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and that means it’s time to open your mouths and stuff your stomachs with the year’s finest choices of junk food.  It also means it’s time to open up your pocketbook and put your money where your mouth is and make some bold and sometimes entertaining bets. Super Bowl is obviously […]

Top Ten Surprise Heroes Of The Super Bowl

The history of the Super Bowl is filled with football legends who shone brightly in the NFL’s ultimate game. Think of Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw, who each won four Super Bowl rings or Mean Joe Green and Jack Lambert who led Pittsburgh’s “Steel Curtain” defense. Who can forget “America’s Team,” the Dallas Cowboys, led […]

The Three Unsuperest Super Bowls Of All Time

Two teams bludgeon their way through a mud- and blood-spattered season to face each other on the biggest stage in the world for one game, winner-take-all. The Super Bowl is, hands-down, the greatest single event in sports.  Except when it sucks. We’ve been blessed in the last decade of parity with fantastic games, whether it […]

Super Bowl History, By The Numbers

Since the Super Bowl is identified by large Roman Numerals, clearly there is an emphasis on not just the game but the number or numbers surrounding it. Here’s a few that stand out from the rest and a few others that merit mentioning. Go on…get your numbers on. 0: Number of punt return touchdowns in […]

Peyton Manning Retirement Talk Dominating Super Bowl Media Week

We have reached the point in the pre-Super Bowl wind cycle where everyone arrives in the host city and begins to take stock of it. In Indianapolis, that means cringing at a giant set of Roman numerals in Monument Circle and a fresh round of “oh my goshes” about the Peyton Manning standoff. Welcome to […]

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