Week 1 Preview and Picks
September 11, 2010 by ericschmidt
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Finally. We head into the NFL regular season week 1. Football fans have been waiting for this day since February 8th. What great matchups with the reloaded Cincinnati Bengals against the New England Patriots. The Indianapolis Colts squaring off with the Houston Texans. The Kevin Kolb led Philadelphia Eagles welcoming the Green Bay Packers. Dallas [...]
New England Patriots will not make the playoffs in 2010
September 11, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, AFC North, AFC South, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Latest News, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, NFC, New England Patriots, New York Jets, North, Pittsburgh Steelers
The New England Patriots will not make the playoffs in 2010. Someone had to say it. The aura surrounding Foxboro is fading. Yes Tom Brady just signed his new deal, making him the highest paid quarterback-for now. But plain and simple, the New England Patriots are simply an average team with an extraordinary quarterback. Too [...]
New York Jets follow Ryans lead
September 8, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, New York Jets
The New York Jets players are following the lead of their head coach, Rex Ryan. According to the Jets players, the rest of the league might as well simply forfeit their season and let the New York Jets go right to the Super Bowl. Not so fast there guys. Remember this is a team which [...]
Patriots Randy Moss feels unwanted
September 7, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, AFC South, AFC West, Latest News, New York Jets, San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Titans
New England Patriots WR Randy Moss tells CBS Sports that he feels unwanted. Randy Moss told the network that he is frustrated because the franchise has not offered him a new contract. Moss is playing for the New England Patriots this season in the last year of his three year contract, earning a paltry 6.4 [...]
Preseason wraps up, what did NFL fans learn?
September 5, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, AFC South, Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panters, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Detroit Tigers, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Latest News, Minnesota Vikings, NFC, NFC South, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Bucs, Tennessee Titans, Washington Redskins, West
The 5 weeks for preseason are over with, the wrangling for fantasy football sleepers are over, and now we are 4 days from putting toe to leather to kick off the NFL season, what did fans actually learn this preseason? Oh, there was a lot to be learned this preseason. 1.-Overpaid players which produce little [...]
Obvious there IS a double standard for Vikings Favre?
September 2, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, Latest News, Minnesota Vikings, NFC, New England Patriots, New York Jets, North
Back in August, I wrote in this column, my opinions on how the media has a way of treating Brett Favre different from every other player. First, there were allegations of Favre sending pictures of Favre Jr. to a female who worked for the Jets when he played for the New York Jets in 2008. [...]
Company develops Rex Ryan F-bomb protector
September 2, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, New York Jets
NFL teams are very protective of their play calling. I suppose after the New England Patriots were caught in the Spy Gate scandal taping opponents defensive signals, teams have every right to be. When coaches are sending the plays in to their players, they hold up the laminated cards with the designed plays for that [...]
Jets release WR Coles, next stop? Raiders? Vikings?
August 29, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, AFC West, Latest News, Minnesota Vikings, NFC, New York Jets, North, Oakland Raiders, San Diego Chargers, Seattle Seahawks, West
It is being reported that the New York Jets have released WR Laveranues Coles, so where is his next stop? Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers, or maybe a darkhorse team? The Oakland Raiders could use Laveranues Coles with Chaz Schilens ailing, however Louis Murphy had a big game Saturday night. The Minnesota Vikings [...]
Jets Sanchez has mancrush on Patriots Brady
August 25, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, Latest News, New England Patriots, New York Jets
This past week, New England Patriots QB Tom Brady made news by stating he hates the New York Jets and has no intention of watching the HBO series Hard Knocks. Jets head coach Rex Ryan returned the favor by stating he hates the New England Patriots. Did you expect any difference. Enter Mark Sanchez. The [...]
Columnist stands by story-Jets Revis will sign this week
August 23, 2010 by ericschmidt
Filed under AFC, AFC East, New York Jets
The thing about social media networking these days is, there is no regular news cycle. Someone makes a Facebook entry or Tweets something and minutes later, the internet is buzzing. Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw found that out yesterday. Cowlishaw tweeted yesterday that he had a source which told him that New York Jets [...]