I can't leave any suspense about the pick, since I already placed my low stakes wager on the Giants (money line and +3) the Monday after the championship games before the sharps bet the Giants payouts down more. The line seems like an obvious botch...
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Ah, the Patriots: So close to the Super Bowl, yet so far. Wide receiver Tiquan Underwood has been cut by the Patriots less than 24 hours before the big game.
On Pats/Ravens, I wouldn't make too much of how dominant the Patriots looked in the last round; without first round Broncos MVP Dick LeBeau involved, Tebow turning into a pumpkin.
Apparently Aaron Rodgers's head is somewhere in the middle of his back. This game is, though, an object lesson about why officiating never really "costs" any team a game; the Packers have benefited not only from a farcical roughing-the-passer call to negate a 3rd down...
Saturday's game is a good lesson in making predictions based on intuition. The numbers suggest that Alex Smith has become a very serviceable QB, and despite my skepticism played very.
Since I was on the road, I missed the first game (I'm, ah, sure I would have picked the Texans behind the immortal T.J. Yates.) But still time for the.
Tim Tebow is so great that he can get a team coached by Norv Turner to knock someone out of the playoffs! He Just. Wins. Football Games. To focus against his 20.6 QB rating is to miss the intangible qualities that make him a very,...
What happens when a QB playing like Colt McCoy and Josh Freeman and Dan Orlovsky (well, not quite as well as the immortal Orlovsky) despite an unrealistically low turnover rate.
Dave Zirin's piece on Tebow's disastrous performance and his aggressive evangelicalism links to this very disturbing 2008 news story of Tim Tebow going to the Philippines to circumcise young boys.
Michael Tomasky's excellent piece on the Washington Redskins, a team whose owner, George Marshall, made the team identity his own virulent racism, is well worth a read. The Redskins were the last team in the NFL to integrate, in 1962 when Marshall was also openly...
This story certainly sounds familiar: At this point, the Denver Broncos' attitude toward Tebow seems to be that you can hide making a mistake if you insist on making it.
I'm not saying that the good start of the Bengals isn't at least mildly surprising, but I think a lot of writers were missing the fact that Carson Palmer hasn't.