What do Andre Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, Wes Welker, Reggie Wayne and Vincent Jackson have in common? A couple things actually. They’re all Pro Bowl wide receivers, and they ALL have fewer receiving touchdowns this season than Texans superstar J.J. Watt… AND...
Okay, no point beating around the bush here. The NFC East is an embarrassment. All four teams lost on Sunday, but that’s only the rancid icing on a steaming dog turd of a cake. Let’s begin in Big D–as in...
My wife tells me that, in some of my recent weekly updates, I’ve gotten so bogged down with various football facts and figures that my writing talent is lost amidst all the flotsam and jetsam. That’s a nice way of saying...
So here’s Week 8 in a nutshell. With his two pick-sixes, New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith scored more points for the Bengals than for his own team. With the world’s ugliest two-game win streak, the now 2 – 6...
With the exception of last week’s post about an unwise wager, and one unfortunate incident involving Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, a disgruntled San Francisco Giants fan and a banana, I haven’t blogged much about baseball. That’s because I have a...
Before turning our attention to Week 4, I’d like to put a final coat of polish on something that happened in Week 3. The Broncos, in case you haven’t been paying attention, are good. They ripped the Ravens and Giants in...
There’s never a bad time for a reference to a classic Christmas movie. As Bill Murray said in Scrooged, “What the hell is going on here?” We’re now three weeks into the 2013 NFL season. By all accounts, the NFC was...
Were we seeing this much sloppy play at this time last year? I’m sure we were. We just didn’t notice because we were all so focused on the overwhelming incompetence of the infamous replacement officials. Under the current collective bargaining agreement,...
I hope you’ve been enjoying these blog posts. I’ve done some different things and covered a lot of territory. That’s about to change. For the next four months or so, I doubt I’ll cover much more than a hundred yards. That’s...