If this wasn’t the best Championship Sunday in recent memory, point another one out. The Ravens and Patriots jumpstarted the day with a thriller that came down to the last kick, which ultimately stopped the Ravens short of the Super Bowl for what felt like the 100th time. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s what we know following the divisional round in the playoffs: a new Super Bowl champion will be crowned. Before shifting our attention to the AFC and NFC title games, let’s look back at 10 things we took away from the weekend, shall we? Read the rest of this entry »

Rex Ryan’s brash talking and bold Super Bowl predictions finally came to a fitting end Sunday at the hands of division rival Miami as the Jets folded 19-17 to the Dolphins. The epic collapse began with three key interceptions courtesy of the increasingly inept Mark Sanchez and ultimately ended in a late game Santonio Holmes benching after an in-huddle altercation. Read the rest of this entry »

We usually focus our NFL recaps around the weekly games that occur on Sunday. With the holiday schedule, only one game went down yesterday, featuring a Midwest rivalry game between the Packers and Bears. No surprises here as Aaron Rodgers is still Aaron Rodgers. Read the rest of this entry »

Every now and then, the NFL has a Sunday so weird, so pressure packed and so controversial that the results of it could potentially have long term effects on everything from draft seedings to playoff positions. December 18 was one of those Sundays. Read the rest of this entry »

At the glitzy age of ten years and fourteen weeks, the Houston Texans finally clinched their inaugural AFC South division title and accompanying playoff berth. And they couldn’t have done it more dramatic fashion. Without their best quarterback and wide receiver, the team once again rallied around third-string passer T.J. Yates Read the rest of this entry »

While Tim Tebow has supplied sports media with plenty of late-game heroics to gush over, the fact of the matter remains that Denver’s defense has peaked at the perfect time for a playoff run, making big plays and holding opponents to low totals for the majority of the games that Tebow has started. Sunday’s game against Minnesota is the perfect example: a timely interception by Andre Goodman put the ball deep in Vikings territory. Read the rest of this entry »

In one violent motion, Jeremy Mincey drove Matt Leinart into the ground. Leinart would walk off the field unassisted, but news that broke later in the day confirmed what Houston Texans fans feared most: Leinart would be out for the season. Now down to third-string caliber signal-callers, a dark cloud looms over Houston. Read the rest of this entry »

Here we are on the eve of Thanksgiving and the push for playoff positioning is full steam ahead. And you know what? The Cincinnati Bengals continue to assume the identity of a polished football team. Read the rest of this entry »

Mental toughness was the order of the day in Week 10. In a losing effort, Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton was the thorn in Pittsburgh’s side for most of the day before finally catching a late fourth-quarter interception bug. Matthew Stafford and Ryan Fitzpatrick both fell into early ruts and never recovered, blowing huge games for their respective teams. The early-season surprise stories are finally getting put back into place of expected mediocrity. Read the rest of this entry »

Before we begin, let’s praise and honor sweet baby Jesus for not letting the lockout leak into the actual season. As soon as news broke that a season was about to start, we came together as a crew and started making predictions. At the beginning of the season, we came up with 10 predictions that we felt were either surefire or risky. As football seasons often do, this year has thrown a few curveballs. Read the rest of this entry »

Two weekends ago, San Fransisco 49ers rookie head coach Jim Harbaugh got into a heated back-and-forth exchange with Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz. The altercation was broken down and analyzed to the degree of an on-field play. Whether or not he was trolling Schwartz, Harbough’s youthful exuberance distracted many from the fact that his team had just knocked off a previously undefeated Detroit squad. Read the rest of this entry »

The word “scrutiny” takes on a new level of intensity when the topic of discussion is Tim Tebow. Win, lose, or sit on the bench and watch from afar, the former Gator can’t take a piss without getting critiqued by ESPN. And, through the first three quarters of Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins, he seemed more than willing to provide the fodder for a healthy dose of criticism. Read the rest of this entry »

Unless the 49ers, within a week, forget how to play football, lose every game the rest of the season and finagle a deal with the Dolphins, Chiefs or Colts, that whole “Andrew Luck to the Niners” prediction is out of the window. Read the rest of this entry »

And we all thought 2011 was the year of Philly didn’t we? One week in October has killed both the Phillies and the Eagles’ seasons. The you-shall-not-call-them-the Dream Team moved to 1-4 on the season following a defeat to the AFC East’s rising dynasty, the Buffalo Bills. Mental mistakes on offense killed the Eagles as Michael Vick gave up four picks to the ball-hawking Bills defense. While the Eagles’ high-priced secondary shutdown Buffalo’s passing game, the D had no answer for Fred Jackson who put up 200 yards of offense himself. Read the rest of this entry »