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Sports Central September 6, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Count On It Peyton Manning will not play at a Pro Bowl level ... and will make the Pro Bowl anyway. |
Sports Central January 27, 2014 Brad Oremland |
Fixing the Pro Bowl Even though the Pro Bowl might not be broken, and might even be trending in the right direction, it can still be dramatically improved. |
Sports Central February 11, 2014 Brad Oremland |
The Best QB to Lose Two Super Bowls Peyton Manning is one of only eight quarterbacks to start for two Super Bowl losers. It's an elite eight with Hall of Fame talent. How do these multiple Super Bowl-losing QBs stack up with one another? |
Sports Central May 28, 2013 Brad Oremland |
Best Teams Not to Win the Super Bowl: AFC This is the first article in a two-part series, looking at every current NFL franchise and picking out its best team of the Super Bowl era that did not win a championship. This week, we'll start with the AFC. |
Sports Central April 24, 2012 Brad Oremland |
The Best Coaches In NFL History With the 2012 NFL Draft less than a week away, many fans and analysts are trying to predict the future. Let's save the forecasts for after players get matched up with teams, and instead take a spin into the past, ranking the greatest head coaches in NFL history. |
Sports Central February 17, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Manning's Legacy Tarnished? Please The most oft-discussed storylines from Super Bowl XLIV were that of the joy of the city of New Orleans winning its first pro sports championship and partying the night away, and that of Peyton Manning's legacy being tarnished. One of those cannot be questioned, the other raises eyebrows. |
Sports Central March 16, 2006 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Best Triplets An assemblage of the NFL's 20 best trios ever -- quarterback, running back, wide receiver. |
Sports Central February 20, 2006 Jeff Moore |
Playing the R-Card It seems this season more than any other teams weren't playing for dollars or division titles. They weren't even playing for the Super Bowl. They were playing for "respect." |
Sports Central February 8, 2008 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Greatest Dynasties Here's a look at 15 NFL teams that can be considered a dynasty. |
Sports Central February 15, 2005 Brad Oremland |
Top 20 Super Bowl QB Matchups Where does the Brady/McNabb matchup rank in the Super Bowl annals? |
Sports Central April 1, 2010 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Best Defenses Ever To narrow my search for the finest defenses in pro football history, I researched almost 100 great single-season defenses, then devised a formula to help me sort out the best of the bunch. |
Sports Illustrated February 13, 2001 Josh Elliott |
Scorecard Why the NFL's best coordinators can't get head coaching jobs... |
Sports Central January 19, 2007 Ryan Day |
The 2026-2027 NFL Season in Review A look at the NFL 20 years from now proves that the more things change the more they stay the same. |
Sports Central July 25, 2013 Kevin Beane |
NFL Culture By Team (Part 2) Let's look at the outstanding characteristics of the teams in the NFC and see how they are perceived by the world at large and by me. |
Sports Illustrated November 6, 2001 |
Equal Time Parity gives every NFL team a shot, which makes each week a thrill. Others think that when no club stands above the rest, the whole league looks lousy... |
Sports Central February 25, 2014 Brad Oremland |
Best QBs Not to Win a Championship We often judge QBs by whether or not their team won championships, but everyone recognizes that sometimes great players don't reach the highest level of team success. So, who's at the top of the list? |
Sports Central July 26, 2012 |
Super Bowl Futures The NFL odds have been released. The schedules are out. Training camps are set to begin. When it comes down to it, which teams will be competing for the Super Bowl this coming season? |
Sports Central July 7, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Best QBs in History: 1-5 This week, we conclude with the top five, the best quarterbacks of all time. |
Sports Central June 23, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Best QBs in History: 11-20 This week, I'm profiling the players who rank 11-20 on my list, counting down toward number one. Please note: at this point, we're talking about the best of the best QBs. |
Sports Central February 11, 2008 Adam Russell |
The Patriots and a Lesson in NFL History Even if the Pats had beaten the Giants, would we all be convinced they were better than Miami or Cleveland? |
Sports Central February 5, 2006 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Greatest Losers The 10 greatest teams not to win a Super Bowl. |
Sports Central January 27, 2004 Brad Oremland |
Keeping Busy in the Week Off Some NFL thoughts to ponder in the week before the Super Bowl. |
Sports Central December 13, 2003 Jeff Moore |
Winners and Losers, NFL-Style As the 2003 NFL season draws to a close, a number of teams are still left competing for division titles and wildcard playoff births. In the end, only one team will be able to proclaim themselves the ultimate winner after the Super Bowl in Houston. |
Sports Central January 28, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Cowhering in Fear Face it: until he wins the Super Bowl, the only reason Bill Cowher should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame is so we can find out what the official sculptor does with that chin. |
Sports Central July 31, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Pro Football Hall of Fame Biggest Snubs This is an updated version of a piece I wrote in 2007. Many of the players I wrote about then have been elected to Canton, some new players have become eligible, and some things I've changed my mind about. |
Sports Central February 28, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Best Wide Receivers Not in the HOF: 1970s Who is the best wide receiver eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but not yet enshrined? When football fans cry "snub," there's a good chance they're talking about a wide receiver. |
Sports Central December 16, 2007 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Best Offense Ever With apologies to the 1941 Bears and the San Diego Chargers in general, here are the 10 best offenses in league history. |
Sports Central August 2, 2005 Jeff Moore |
Membership Has its Privileges There are a a number of factors that show the NFL is a club that "likes its own" and resists outsiders -- from colleges, to coaches to commentators. |
Sports Central February 12, 2013 Brad Oremland |
Most Accomplished Postseason QBs Evaluating NFL players exclusively by statistics is silly. It can be fun and interesting, but it's silly. Evaluating players exclusively by team success is even sillier. And yet, that's what I'm doing here. |
Sports Central December 23, 2008 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 16 Power Rankings The Tennessee Titans jump into first place in this week's rating of NFL teams. |
Sports Central January 9, 2007 Brad Oremland |
NFL Wildcard Roundup The obvious choice is Baltimore over indianapolis, but... Too much going against the Eagles... Seattle's just not that good... A runaway for the Chargers -- on paper... |
Sports Central June 30, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Best QBs in History: 6-10 This week, we begin the top 10 list of best quarterbacks. |
Sports Central August 16, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
The Future is Now For Michael Vick Quite simply, Vick must focus on football, football, and more football. |
AskMen.com Paul Bessire |
Top 10: Super Bowl Champions WhatIfSports.com used its free NFL SimMatchup technology to simulate the 42 Super Bowl champions against one another -- 100 times each. |
Sports Central March 19, 2013 Brad Oremland |
Why the 2013 Ravens Will Miss the Playoffs Since realignment, four out of 10 Super Bowl winners have missed the playoffs the following season. The 2012 champion Ravens appear to be headed down the same path. |
Sports Central October 23, 2011 David Exum |
Ken Stabler Belongs in Hall of Fame One of the main reasons I truly believe that Stabler belongs in the Hall of Fame is because he guided his team to a Super Bowl victory. |
Sports Central June 16, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Best QBs in History: 21-30 The players are ranked in order, but please don't read too much into that: I consider this a group of quarterbacks, all roughly the same level. |
AskMen.com Phil Helm |
Top 10: 2007 Super Bowl Story Lines Top 10 Super Bowl story lines that appeared in the two weeks between the AFC and NFC Championship Games and the Super Bowl. |
Sports Central February 6, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Domes and Homefield Advantage Four of the past six teams to reach the Super Bowl have been dome teams. |
Sports Central June 3, 2014 Brad Oremland |
Say No to the NFL's 18-Game Schedule National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell recently reiterated his intention to institute an 18-game regular season. It's a bad idea. |
Sports Central February 22, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Best Wide Receivers Not in the HOF: 1980s Who is the best wide receiver eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but not yet enshrined? When football fans cry "snub," there's a good chance they're talking about a wide receiver. |
Sports Central April 12, 2011 Brad Oremland |
The Greatest Postseason Quarterbacks Here's a list of the eight finest playoff and Super Bowl QBs in NFL history. |
AskMen.com February 21, 2001 Mark Simmons |
African American Coaches In The NFL Marvin Lewis was passed up because the Caucasian coaches have had a head start and have leveraged this edge. But, with time, the landscape will change, and the same way now that the best athlete runs the offense, one day, the best coach will run the team... |
Sports Central July 25, 2004 Damian Greene |
New England Patriots: Dynasty or Die-Nasty? The rosters in the National Football League are on such an even playing field, that it's hard to predict who will win any game, much less a Super Bowl. |
Sports Central April 22, 2014 Brad Oremland |
Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, and Big Ben It's been 10 years since the 2004 NFL Draft produced Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, and Ben Roethlisberger, all within the first 11 picks. All have become productive players, but how do they rate relative to one another? |
Sports Central January 3, 2011 Paul Foeller |
Masterpiece in K.C. A culture of winning has developed in Kansas City. These Chiefs are for real, and they aren't going away any time soon. |
Sports Central July 2, 2013 Brad Oremland |
Best Teams Not to Win the Super Bowl: NFC I'm interested in losers. Our sports culture focuses on winners, to the point that we forget about those who fell short. |
Sports Central April 12, 2006 Ryan Hojnacki |
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You In this era of 'parity' in the National Football League, a couple of "surprise" teams emerge every season to snatch playoff berths from proverbial favorites. Here's an early shot at predicting which teams will, and won't, improve. |
Sports Central June 1, 2004 Kenneth Asuquo |
Overrated? You Better Believe it Critics and the most diehard of Dolphin fans alike are starting to buy into the fact that the Dolphins are not meant to win the Super Bowl with their current team. |
Sports Central February 10, 2004 Kevin Holtsberry |
Five Things We Didn't See Coming Let's take one more wistful look back on the 2003-2004 NFL season. |