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After four weeks of the 2024 NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys have an even 2-2 record after road wins over the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants sandwiched around embarrassing home losses to the New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Ravens. A record right at .500 plus the two terrible losses doesn’t have Cowboys Nation feeling … Read more
Prior to the start of this season, if you had the Washington Commanders in sole possession of first place in the NFC East after four weeks, there would have been one universal reaction. You’re out of your mind. Yet here we are after four weeks of NFL football and look who stands alone atop of … Read more
As former NFL Super Bowl winning scout, Bryan Broaddus says, the NFL is a strange lady. What he means by this is that most times the season doesn’t go the way everyone expects it to. If it was that easy, the majority Super Bowl pick would win the championship every season, and we can all … Read more
The Dallas Cowboys need to poach players from practice squads around the league. As fans know, this is the only way Jerry Jones will sign players if they are cheap, unproven, unknown, or old. So, the best bet for an infusion of potential talent would be looking around the league at practice squads. Several teams … Read more
Irritating. This is one of the many words that can describe this year’s Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys versus the New York Giants was a game of attrition. Each team struggled to get any offense going, and the defenses on both sides were below average. There’s hope in the form of key players like Brandon … Read more
Somewhere in the general area of Washington D.C., Dan Quinn is probably still smiling. Somehow, with a rebuilt offense and defense, a new coaching staff, and a rookie starting quarterback Quinn has the Washington Commanders at 2-1. They are also tied for first place in the NFC East. The cherry on top of the parfait … Read more
Week 2 of the 2024 NFL season has now come and gone after QB Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons spoiled the Philadelphia Eagles homecoming with an improbable touchdown drive with less than two minutes left in regulation. It was just one example of several surprising outcomes in week 2, and it is also another … Read more
The Denver Broncos have seen several high-paid players join its ranks, but none has been offered as valuable an extension contract as defensive back Patrick Surtain II, who just signed a four-year extension with a guarantee of $77.5 million. The Broncos struck gold when Surtain (No. 9) joined the team in 2021. And now, with … Read more
The NFC East’s season kicks off tonight when the Eagles host the Packers at 7:15 p.m. Fortunately for me, since I don’t have a Peacock subscription, I don’t have to watch it. But it does mean it’s time for my final prediction post for the upcoming NFC East season. The Cowboys (at Cleveland), the Giants … Read more
It’s 2022 which means that there are literally hundreds of places to learn the history of the newly-renamed Washington Commanders, and yet team exec’s got it wrong and won’t fix it. Well, the usual nomenclature for the Super Bowl championships is, ‘the 1983 Super Bowl champions were the Washington Redskins Team President Jason Wright No, … Read more
The Packers remain kings as we reach the final week of the regular season. Green Bay locked up the No. 1 seed in the NFC after routing Minnesota on Sunday night. The Pack’s true reward? Sitting atop the NFL Power Rankings for the sixth consecutive week. Right behind are the Rams, who cracked the top … Read more
After 22 consecutive seasons in the NFL, earning 6 Super Bowl rings with the New England Patriots and another one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tom Brady, one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game, is retiring. The decision comes just one week after the Bucs lost to the Los Angeles Rams in … Read more
There will be a lot of movement this NFL offseason, but typically it won’t have a huge impact on the fantasy football realm because star players don’t change teams very often. As we’ve seen with Davante Adams, who signed a contract extension with the Green Bay Packers, teams like to retain their top players. A … Read more
Reporters at all levels have been in an uproar this week since Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott returned to The Star and immediately shut down all talk of his now-served 6-game suspension. Elliott made a statement early on, he thanked the team, his teammates, his family and friends, and the fans for supporting him through “this … Read more
It’s not often that a player is both arguably the third best left tackle in the league and also left off a Top 100 Players ranking. But that is exactly what Green Bay Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari is. The Pro Bowl tackle is entering his fifth year in 2017 after signing a contract extension … Read more
After missing the entirety of the 2016 season due to a brutal knee injury, Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater’s status for the 2017-2018 season is now in doubt as well. According to Jason Cole of Bleacher Report, Bridgewater is likely to miss next season due to his prolonged recovery from knee surgery. Bridgewater was injured during … Read more
Not all news is good surrounding the Philadelphia Eagles right now, who just ended the Minnesota Vikings’ undefeated season at home with a 21-10 win against Sam Bradford’s new squad. The bad news is that starting slot corner Ron Brooks has been ruled out for the season with a torn quad tendon suffered in this … Read more
The Chicago Bears have had a rough start to the 2016 season. Through six games they only have one notch in the win column, and they’ve been without quarterback Jay Cutler for most of this ride… although Brian Hoyer has played decently in his absence. Today, ahead of their Thursday Night Football game against the Packers, reinforcements … Read more
It’s been a rough week for the Green Bay Packers. On Sunday they suffered a humiliating loss at the iconic Lambeau Field – while Brett Favre was enshrined in their Ring of Honor at halftime – to the Dallas Cowboys. On Wednesday they announced that running back Eddie Lacy was out for their Thursday Night Football game against … Read more
When we last saw Eddie Lacy he was hurdling over multiple Dallas Cowboys as the Packers fell to 3-2 on the season in a pathetic 30-16 loss at Lambeau Field. That will be our lasting image of him for at least one more week. It seems like Eddie Lacy’s ankle injury was not as benign … Read more