The Red Zone Report

Sound the bugle Detroit! The devil reincarnate Lions’ GM Matt Millen has been fired! Go ahead and pinch yourself because this is NOT a dream. It took the Lions long enough to figure out that the Millen experiment at GM was just not working out. After seven seasons of heartbreak and anguish for Lions’ fans, the [...]

What’s that I smell coming from St. Louis? It’s the stench of desperation, mixed with the burning flesh of Scott Linehan’s ass after the Rams’ latest blowout loss. As a consequence of the Rams’ continued offensive ineptness, Linehan is replacing Marc Bulger as the starting QB with backup Trent Green. In case you [...]

A proper title for week 3 is “Rise and Fall.” Besides the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL’s unbeaten teams are a list of unusual suspects. The Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans, New York Giants, and Denver Broncos stand at 3-0, and the Baltimore Ravens stay unbeaten as well at 2-0. Some of the other teams on the [...]

This week’s NFL Minute is a little delayed, since a few things had, but here’s a quick rundown of all of the action from Week 3 of the NFL season. Miami 38, New England 13: After getting your butts handed to you one week, you either rise to the occasion or you fold. [...]

No Monday night magic for Brett Favre this time, eh? Favre had plenty of magical Monday night moments in his 16 seasons with Green Bay, but his first Monday night experience with the New York Jets wasn’t too magical, as Philip Rivers and San Diego pulled away in the second quarter and rolled to a [...]

Since Tom Brady went down injured (and before, for that matter), I can imagine there’s a countless number of people who have been waiting to see the New England Patriots come crashing down to earth. And yesterday, those people got their wish, as the Miami Dolphins, a team with one win in their last [...]

I’m waiting until after at least next week to start any sort of NFL power rankings, simply because I wanted to see how everyone did in the first month or so of the season before really making any judgments one way or another as to who the best of the best is. I considered [...]

Week 3 of the NFL season offers up a lot of potentially entertaining matchups, from Green Bay and Dallas meeting in a matchup of two of the NFL’s best, to Brett Favre making his first Monday night appearance as a Jet in San Diego, and many, many more. Here’s my take on who I [...]

It doesn’t take long as a football fan to know that you should only take so much stock in preseason predictions, because once the teams hit the field, you can put those predictions through the shredder. Through the first couple of weeks of the NFL season, a number of contenders have gotten off to [...]

In a move that likely doesn’t surprise anyone, including Tarvaris Jackson, Minnesota’s Brad Childress has decided to bench his third-year QB in favor of veteran Gus Frerotte after the Vikings’ 0-2 start. After having Adrian Peterson have a sensational rookie season and making big moves in the off-season, the Vikings were expected to be [...]