Defense Carries Patriots to Sweet Victory

Leave it to Bill Belichick to close out the NFL’s Year of the Offense with a low scoring defensive battle … More

Two Kinds of Greatness

My readers may have noticed over the years that even though the NFL is a juggernaut of a league, and … More

The Denver Broncos are not going back to the playoffs this January after they kicked off 2016 by winning Super … More

In a year when sports fans said goodbye to Peyton Manning and Kobe Bryant, and much more quietly to Tim … More

I haven’t written a blog post that was just about the NFL since the Patriots traded offensive guard Logan Mankins … More

There is a great scene in the first season of The Wire where D’Angelo Barksdale explains the game of chess … More

Pete Carroll: Super Bowl champion. This are words I never thought would go together, but they do. When he coached … More

What if? What if Wes Welker and the New England Patriots had reached an agreement last February? Danny Woodhead? What … More

The Detroit Lions have hired Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator and former Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Caldwell to replace Jim … More

Andrew Luck has a great career ahead of him. He and Cam Newton became two of my favorite young players … More