Tag Archives: NFC
Cardinals & Steelers will triumph in conference title showdowns
I don’t have a wealth of time to post an in-depth preview of today’s conference championship games, but I will give a short prediction about both. I haven’t exactly had a ton of success with my picks so far, but I’m feeling pretty good about today. True enough, two #6 seeds are taking part in [...]
Mistakes doom upset victims Tennessee and Carolina
On the gridiron this time of year, you can ill-afford to make mistakes. One fumble, one interception, one ill-timed penalty or missed assignment can send you home and haunt your dreams for the next several months. As a result of mistake after mistake, the AFC’s top seed and the NFC’s #2 seed are set for [...]
Potential upsets loom in NFL’s divisional round
The divisional round of the NFL playoffs gets underway tomorrow, with AFC top seed Tennessee facing off against wild-card winner Baltimore in the Music City, and NFC #2 Carolina hosting Arizona. On Sunday, the reigning Super Bowl champion and NFC #1 New York Giants host Philadelphia, and AFC #2 hosts streaking San Diego. All of [...]
NFL Best and Worst Rankings: Week 17
If you’re into NFL football betting, you’re looking like the wisest of wise men if you put a wager on the Miami Dolphins to win the AFC East before the season started. But, if you’re one of the many people who put money on the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, or New York Jets, you [...]
Looking at the AFC Playoff Picture – Who’ll Get In?
After 16 exciting, tumultuous weeks, we’re finally at the end of the NFL regular season. Tomorrow, several playoff hopefuls will take the field, knowing that they could be doing so for the last time in the 2008 season if they can’t close the deal. Now, there are a million and one different scenarios that can [...]
Monday NFL Minute: Titans win (again), Lions lose (again), and plenty more
There’s still one more game to be played in Week 11 of the NFL season, but Week 11’s first 15 games have yielded plenty of observations, a few surprises, and a few things staying according to form. The Titans keep winning, the Lions keep losing, and there was neither in Cincinnati yesterday. Cleveland and Buffalo [...]
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.
Terry Glenn says he wants out of Dallas, then changes tune
The Dallas Cowboys didn’t address their lack of receiver depth in the offseason, which looked damaging when No. 2 wideout (well, maybe 2A) Terry Glenn said Tuesday that he wanted the team to release him if it continued to insist that he sign an injury waiver before playing. “I’m not signing any waiver,” he said [...]
Top 10 Moments of the 2007 NFL Season: 1-5.
We revealed moments 6-10 of our Top 10 yesterday, and because we don’t want to make you wait too long, here’s moments 5-1.
No Freakin’ Clue: NFC had a different meaning in 2007
At the start of the 2007 NFL season, it was clear that the NFC was the weaker of the 2 divisions. Well, it seemed clear then. The New England Patriots had justed added a slew of free agents to their already talent-laden line-up, the Indianapolis Colts had just come off QB Peyton Manning’s first [...]
