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Winners and Losers: Matt Gentile’s Week Eight NFL Awards

What’s that noise coming from behind Peyton Manning? It’s the sound of the Houston Texans creeping up on his Indianapolis Colts in the AFC South. Houston started off the season cold but are now 5-3 heading into 7-0 Indianapolis Sunday. Unlike past games against their division rival, Houston has a chance to prove they are [...]

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Five Things To Watch For: Houston Texans

The Houston Texans have yet to post a winning record in their short NFL existence, but after back to back .500 seasons, 2009 holds a lot of promise and potential for Gary Kubiak and the Texans They do have the misfortune of being in one of the toughest divisions in the NFL, but can they [...]

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Ranking the NFL’s Head Coaches: The Bottom 16

Every year experts discuss their reasoning for their Super Bowl favorite, or they are forced into providing an excuse for a certain team not making the playoffs. Far too often are quarterbacks placed under the microscope, injury-riddled offensive lines torn apart, or prima donna wide receivers bashed in online blogs. When do the coaches go [...]

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Another feather in Goodell’s “rookie salary” cap

Last summer, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he was open to having a rookie salary cap put in place so the NFL Draft doesn’t churn out record-setting contracts every year. The day before last weekend’s draft, he reaffirmed his stance on implementing a cap. “(The money) needs to go to the players who play well [...]

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2009 NFL Mock Draft (Updated: Feb. 20)

The combine gets underway in earnest this weekend, with drills upon drills upon drills taking place from Saturday to Tuesday, starting with the offensive linemen tomorrow and ending with the defensive backs on Tuesday. I thought I’d squeeze in an update ahead of the important stuff, but it goes without saying that what happens over [...]

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Texans’ Okoye could be this season’s rising star

Mario Williams, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2006 draft, proved to be arguably the NFL’s biggest breakout defensive player last year (OK, maybe San Diego’s Antonio Cromartie has an argument), and one of Williams’ Houston Texans teammates might be the rising defensive star of 2008. Amobi Okoye, who only turned 21 a few [...]

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Can Reggie Bush be great in ’08?

Big things have been expected of Reggie Bush since he was taken #2 overall in the 2006 NFL Draft, but he’s had trouble living up to those expectations thus far. Shotgun Spratling gives his take on what it will take for Bush to have a real breakout season in 2008.

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