Tag: NFL
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NFL Draft Round 1 Recap:
It was an eventful night in Detroit Michigan. The “fans, ” or industry plants, were supporting their respective teams in full force on one of the most important evenings in the NFL offseason. It was a night of celebration for many teams and a night of misery, distraught, and anger for others. The spectacle that… Read more
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NFL Scouting Combine Winners, Studs, and Flat Out Animals
The NFL Scouting Combine has been one of my favorite offseason spectacles ever since I can remember. Specifically, the 2011 NFL Combine featuring Cam Newton, Julio Jones, Patrick Peterson, and Von Miller was the first one where I was mesmerized by the scouting process each team goes through to evaluate the talent that might fit… Read more
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The All-Star Game has been dead for years – it’s time to lay it to rest for good
If you ask any baseball fan to name the play that defined the 2011 MLB season, you will get one of two answers: David Freese’s Game 6 walk off home run to send Busch Stadium into a frenzy and force a World Series Game 7, or his two-strike, two-out double in the bottom of the… Read more
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Super Bowl 58 Recap
The Kansas City Chiefs might never lose again. The NFL’s new evil empire is officially here and dynasty talks are underway as Patrick Mahomes led his Chiefs to the first back-to-back Super Bowl victory since the New England Patriots beat the ‘Cardiac Cats’ Carolina Panthers in 2004 (as Reese was crying in his crib) before… Read more
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NFL Coaching Cycle Complete: What Does Each Team Need to Do for a Successful 2024 Season?
Who would have thought that at the end of the 2024 NFL coaching cycle, Lions Offensive Coordinator Ben Johnson, would remain the team’s O.C.? He opted to stay another year for a shot at a Super Bowl, instead of attempting to revitalize one of the teams with a head coaching vacancy. Consequently, the Panthers, Seahawks,… Read more
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Live by Dan Campbell, die by Dan Campbell: Coach’s gambles cost Lions a chance at first ever Super Bowl Appearance
With about six minutes remaining in the first half of Sunday’s NFC Championship game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers, Lions Safety CJ Gardner-Johnson waved goodbye to 49ers fans from the sideline as Detroit held a commanding 21-7 lead over the NFC’s top team. What happened in the ensuing 36 minutes left… Read more
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Panthers Hire Bucs’ OC Dave Canales
On September 7th, 2003, my dad brought me to my first ever Carolina Panthers game in, “Ericsson Stadium”. I was a wide-eyed and wonderstruck 2-year-old who had never experienced such a stimulating spectacle. On that day, after a lackluster and boring first half, head coach John Fox turned to Quarterback Jake Delhomme. Delhomme entered the… Read more