The Red Zone Report

Guess who’s back? The last few week-plus has been extremely busy for me, as I had some other commitments to attend to, both personal and work-related, but I’m back now, just in time to make my ATS picks for Week 6 of the NFL season. I didn’t make any picks last week, but I had a decent [...]

As was the case with my college football picks last weekend, it was a mixed bag with the first edition of my NFL against-the-spread picks, as I went 7-9 in Week 3. Obviously the big letdown was New England, who got throttled at home by Miami, but I made a few bold picks and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Opening week has come to a close, and it surely rocked the entire foundation of the league in many ways. Reigning MVP Tom Brady suffered a season-ending knee injury, Brett Favre got a “W” for the Jets and NOT the Packers, the Bears upset the Colts on Sunday Night Football, giving them their first opening [...]

Well, it looks like Lovie Smith and Jerry Angelo were using the old smoke screen last June when they told reporters the Bears were okay with what they had at running back. Rotoworld.com and other media outlets report that free-agent running back Kevin Jones has signed a one-year deal with the Chicago Bears. ESPN [...]

Cedric Benson wasn't a star by any means, but his release by the Chicago Bears did leave a hole in the depth chart. However, that doesn't mean the Bears are in panic mode, according to Matt Severance.

After all of the drama that surrounded Tank Johnson and his off-field issues, Cedric Benson had to know that the Bears wouldn’t tolerate him getting into too many scrapes with law enforcement.

Perhaps the most exciting position to draft in the NFL is the all important position of running back. While some fans and media members clamor for high profile quarterback picks, it is consistently the running back position that is able to make an immediate and direct impact on an organization.