1) Arian Foster Arian Foster was an undrafted rookie who, two years ago, might have had to think about employment not involving football. Then the Houston Texans took a chance on him and now in his 3rd year, Foster has become the best back in the NFL. Foster has been the best fantasy football commodity […]

Some of the best players in the NFL will be free agents next season, and there will be a slew of teams trying to persuade them to join up. While running backs like Ray Rice and Matt Forte are probably looking at a big payday and a long list of suitors should their current teams […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=goiWcak1FXg?wmode=Opaque New York Giants 37, Green Bay 20 – Betterman by Pearl Jam It feels a little like 2007. It was always known around the league that if there was one team that matched up well against the Packers it was the Giants. The G-Men have the pass rush it takes to slow down the […]

Momentum is a mighty hammer in the playoffs. Once it swings down on you, it is awfully hard to recover. Momentum swung early for the Texans with a 60-yard return of the game-opening kickoff and a quick 3-0 lead. After that, though, it crashed down on the visiting team repeatedly, as Baltimore scored the game’s […]

The New York Giants (9-7) will face the Green Bay Packers (15-1) at Lambeau Field on Sunday and the Giants have a much better shot at winning than most people think.  In fact, they could get to the NFC Championship game pretty easily if they simply exploit the Packers’ multiple weaknesses on defense.  Does that […]

Recap at 6:45 pm, central time The San Francisco 49ers gave it their best shot in this matchup, but ultimately the high-powered New Orleans Saints were too much for the hard-hitting but offensively challenged Niners. The Saints gifted their opponents with the first 17 points of the game, scored on a total of five first […]

The score is 17-0 early in the second quarter of the game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New Orleans Saints, which in and of itself is not shocking. What is shocking is that the Niners are the team on top. Quite simply, the play of the 49ers defense is better than the offensive […]

The Green Bay Packers host the New York Giants in the biggest game at Lambeau Field since the infamous NFC Championship in 2007, when a young Eli Manning outplayed Brett Favre in Favre’s final game as a Packer and launched the Giants into the Super Bowl. After playing four playoff games on the road and […]

No one does parity like the NFL does, the sport that inspired the phrase “Any Given Sunday” to describe the possibility of the lowliest team rising up and beating one of the league’s juggernauts. Maybe it’s our fault for starting the This Given Sunday blog, but there were a LOT of those Sundays this season. […]

The playoff debut of the Houston Texans – the first playoff game in football-starved Houston in more than a decade – was a runaway success. And as per the norm, it was a total team effort, with playmakers on offense and defense combining to swamp the Cincinnati Bengals in the game’s second half. Now, though, […]

Joe Flacco’s week to week performance is like something out of a nursery rhyme. When he’s good, as in his 389-yard, 3-touchdown demolition of the Rams, he’s very very good. But when he’s bad, like his 137-yard stinker in a 12-7 loss to the Jaguars… he’s horrid. And the difference between the two Flaccos could […]

You could tell, right from the first week of the preseason, that this would be a different kind of year for the Detroit Lions. While most NFL teams were sleepwalking, trying to get a handle on their new players and new wrinkles to their schemes, Matthew Stafford and Calvin Johnson were operating at full speed. […]

The New Orleans Saints managed to outscore the potent offense of the Detroit Lions; for their next test, can they out-defend the freakishly stingy San Francisco 49ers? Drew Brees and company get ready to leave the comfortable confines of the dome, and take the NFL’s most dangerous offense on the road as they continue their playoff […]