Filed under: American Football | Tags: NFL, NFL Playoffs, Playoff Predictions
Here are my NFL Play-off predictions. In light of how bad my predictions were for the season, maybe these will redeem myself.
Wild-Card Weekend:
NFC:
Dallas Cowboys over Philadelphia Eagles
Green Bay Packers over Arizona Cardinals
AFC:
NY Jets over Cincinnati Bengals
New England Patriots over Baltimore Ravens
Divisional Round
NFC:
Dallas Cowboys over Minnesota Vikings
New Orleans Saints over Green Bay Packers
AFC:
San Diego Chargers over New England Patriots
Indianapolis Colts over NY Jets
Conference Championship
NFC:
New Orleans Saints over Dallas Cowboys
AFC:
San Diego Chargers over Indianapolis Colts
Super Bowl
San Diego Chargers over New Orleans Saints
Filed under: American Football | Tags: American Football, NFL, NFL Season Preview, Pittsburgh Steelers
To my avid readers, I apologize for not posting at all lately. My three week hiatus is now over and at least a weekly article will be posted from here on out.
Here are my NFL predictions:
*Denotes Wild-Card team
NFC
NFC East
1. New York Giants
*2. Philadelphia Eagles
3. Dallas Cowboys
4. Washington Deadskins
NFC North
1. Chicago Bears
*2. Minnesota Vikings
3. Green Bay Packers
4. Detroit Lions
NFC South
1. Atlanta Falcons
2. Carolina Panthers
3. New Orleans Saints
4. Tampa Bay Bucs
Filed under: American Football | Tags: American Football, Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, NFL, Sage Rosenfels, Tarvaris Jackson
Brett Favre has had a hall of fame career. He has a Super Bowl Ring (1996-7), three MVP trophies (1995-7), the most career passing yards, touchdown passes, pass completions, consecutive starts among quarterbacks and career victories as a starting quarterback. What more could this man want? Many football players suffer from all types of different body pains and it only gets worse after the NFL training room’s never ending supply of morphine and other pain killers gets cut off with retirement. The longer he delays that retirement, the worse it will be. Favre has been sacked 469 times in 273 career regular season games, he turns forty in October, and after his breakdown at the end of last year, there is no way he is worth a contract between $10 and $12 million. What are the Minnesota Vikings thinking? It is one thing to have the skill and desire to keep on playing, but no one with a straight face can tell me that only winning once in the last five games of a season when facing only one opponent that finished with a winning record shows that Favre still has what it takes to bring the Vikings to the play-offs, let alone the Super Bowl.
I have nothing against Favre; he just needs to learn when to hang up his cleats. (more…)
Filed under: American Football | Tags: American Football, Andy Reid, Michael Vick, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles
The tough city of Philadelphia may just have gotten what could be seen as the winning lottery ticket to the Powerball mega millions jackpot or they could have invested it all with Bernie Madoff. While the pre-season games have just gotten underway for the National Football League and the pressure and expectations of the season have not quite set in, Andy Reid has done what many thought no organization would dare do; sign Michael Vick. Now, with the partial re-instatement by Commissioner Roger Goodell, Tony Dungy as an advisor, and an apologetic and reflective 60-minutes interview set for Sunday, the stage has been set for Vick to be either a huge hit or a public relations nightmare for both the Philadelphia Eagles as well as continuing to be for the NFL.
Worth the risk?
The upside is clear; Vick has only recently turned 29. The former number one draft pick out of Virginia Tech is a mobile Quarterback who plays very similarly to Eagles starting Quarterback Donovan McNabb but faster, younger and with a less strong arm. (more…)
Filed under: American Football | Tags: American Football, Donte Stallworth, Football, Marshawn Lynch, Michael Vick, NFL, Plaxico Burress, Steve McNair
Burress: not helping the image of the NFL
Yesterday’s news that former New York Giants’ Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress has been indicted on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment was another reminder of a summer to forget for the National Football league. While the case was originally rumored to be heard in September, the new indictments have brought on new rumors that the case will be pushed back possibly until March. The longer the case drags on, the worse for all involved. Although this is not a case where Burress will be made an example of necessarily (a la Michael Vick), the impending jail sentence and delaying of that jail sentence continues to provide bad publicity for the NFL.
In continuing with the theme of court cases that keep on giving (albeit negatively for public relations), former Atlanta Falcons’ Quarterback Michael Vick was released from prison this off-season after twenty three months in jail (dodging three more years due to good behavior). His conditional reinstatement and bankruptcy filings have reopened some PR wounds for the NFL and continue to keep them open. If anyone signs him, which I hope SOMEONE does, (after all the man has just turned 29 and has been keeping sharp in prison yard football games being the Quarterback for both teams), then maybe, just maybe, his performance on the field will help to ease his dog fighting out of the headlines. Until then, the Vick cases, will continue to cast a shadow over the Not Friendly (to animals) League and provide shows like Family Guy material like this. (more…)
