By MIKE HERNDON The answer is: What Le’Veon Bell thinks he’s worth as an “elite offensive weapon,” who Nike chooses as a spokeman, and why Terrell Owens skipped his own Hall of Fame induction. What are: Things I Couldn’t… Read More ›
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2018 NFL draft: The 5 biggest head-scratchers
By MIKE HERNDON Now is the time of the great second-guessing. With the 2018 NFL draft in the books, we’ll spend the next four months wondering whether our favorite teams made the right choices – particularly fans of the Browns,… Read More ›
It’s NFL draft week: What’s one more mock?
NFL draft week is here, which means we’ll finally get an answer to that age-old question: How will the Cleveland Browns screw it up this year? That could be a trick question in 2018, as the Browns have their choice… Read More ›
NFL cleans up one mess only to create another
(“Oh sure, NOW you fix the catch rule.” — Dez Bryant, probably. Photo by Keith Allison/Wikimedia Commons) By MIKE HERNDON Let’s say you have a recalcitrant child who won’t clean her room. This may not take much of an imagination… Read More ›
Business decisions force players and fans to move on
NFL team owners, general managers, coaches, and players remind everyone that the NFL is a business. How dare the business concepts of financial responsibility pervade sports? Saddled with an unforgiving salary cap, NFL team owners and general managers must make… Read More ›
Four reasons why the Philadelphia Eagles took flight and beat the New England Patriots
Everyone, from the most accomplished former athlete to the average fan, whose only athletic move is the ole 12 ounce curl, agreed that for the Philadelphia Eagles to vanquish the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII, they would need… Read More ›
12 steps for Pats-haters coping with New England’s success
As the New England Patriots get ready to claim yet another Super Bowl trophy, what better way to help all of the Pats-haters out there than to present the following 12 steps as a guide for learning to live with… Read More ›
Super Bowl LII: 5 reasons the Eagles could win, and 1 reason they won’t
By MIKE HERNDON We want to believe it. Those of us who live outside the Northeast, and therefore have no attachment to the New England Patriots aside from being sick of the sight of them, so desperately want to believe… Read More ›
The Jags win and Blake Bortles becomes a hero
Conventional wisdom says that the Jacksonville Jaguars shouldn’t bother playing this weekend against the mighty New England Patriots. After all, the Patriots employ the best head coach, maybe even the best of all time, along with possibly the greatest quarterback… Read More ›
Why draft grades are a waste of time
By MIKE HERNDON When the NFL draft ended a couple weeks ago, most of us went through a similar routine. We reveled in the picks we liked. We debated those we didn’t. We looked up profiles on our favorite team’s… Read More ›
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