Minnesota Vikings: Draft Day needs: Defensive Tackle and Guard. Picks in rounds 1, 2, 3, 5, (three in 6) and 7 When you look pretty dominant all season long and then get embarrassed in the NFC Championship game, the disappointment will be pretty tough to brush off your shoulders for the coming months. The Vikings […]
March Madness is usually all about College Basketball. The Bracket Challenge. The hype, the dramatics, etc. . . March is also the time when NFL fan bases get over-hyped or overly depressed because NFL free agency has begun. It’s usually fan bases of bad teams that freak out. If you’re a fan of the Jets, […]
New England Patriots -6.5 versus Oakland Raiders (Game to be played at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico) After the Patriots manhandled the Broncos on Sunday Night Football, they decided to stay in Denver before flying back home. Why? Because coach Bill Belichick decided to keep his team practicing in a high-altitude-enviornment like the one […]
Green Bay Packers +5.5 at Chicago Bears As a die-hard Chicago Bears fan, I entered this season with very minimal hopes and realistic expectations. At the mid-point of this season, all isn’t awful for the Bears, but they sure do have a lot more work to do. Currently, the Bears offense is – predictable, to […]
The “Monsters of the Midway” entered the 2017 season knowing it is in the middle of a rebuild. This isn’t a team that was looking to “tank” though. The Bears’ rebuild consists of trying to be competitive throughout the season. It’s a way of “filtering out the excess fat” from their roster. Quarterback: Entering the […]
It’s that time of year for Bears fans. You know, the premature-Doomsday talk for the Bears’ upcoming season. The annual and agonizing punchlines about the Bears weak front office, past draft mishaps and the whole “Jay Cutler” era. And in 2017, lets not fail to mention the touch of awful comedy bestowed upon the Bears: […]
Last week we discussed who should get paid, where they should land and who should be ignored. We nailed Alshon Jeffrey landing with the Eagles, but what we didn’t see coming was his one-year price tag. For a young guy, only his fifth-season – signing a one-year deal worth $14 million seems to just short […]
There have been very few players as polarizing as Jay Cutler in recent professional sports. I wrote an article almost exactly two years ago “The Perception of Jay Cutler,” in which a defense of his character was made. And quite well, may I add. Jay Cutler’s run with the Chicago Bears looks like it may […]