Championship Round: With Apologies to the Patriots
The headline says it all. I broke my number one rule. I touched the hot stove even though it had burned me before. So I’ll say it now: I’m sorry, Patriots. I’m sorry that in…
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Championship Game Picks: Same Old, Same Old?
I’m not sure what you can really say. The Patriots are in the AFC Championship Game for the seventh straight year and 12th time in the Brady/Belichick era. Who are the Blake Bortles-led Jaguars to…
Wild Card Roundup: The Fun is Over and the (Bad) Boys are Back in Town
Think of NFL wild card weekend like your favorite holiday — you are high off your you-know-what on good food, wine, family you never get to see, and of course, football. After the holidays, it’s…
Final 4: NFL Gets Wish With AFC Matchup
You got your wish, Roger Goodell & Co. 12 years later, finally, FINALLY, you got your Tom Brady-Ben Roethlisberger, Patriots-Steelers AFC Championship Game that had narrowly eluded you on five previous occasions since 2004. But…
Revealing the Magician’s Secrets – How I’m Acing the NFL Landscape in 2016
I’m not a bookie, and I don’t play one on TV. I’m not perfect, and I don’t pretend to be perfect in real life. But when it comes to picking NFL games for the 2016…
Closing the Season in Style: Week 17 Picks
Talk about staying hot. Since adapting the new strategy of only picking games I feel confident about, my record has soared. After a rough Week 12 in which I went 4-7, I have rebounded in grand…
1 More Time: Top Seeds Again Reign Supreme on Championship Sunday
Between 1994-2008, it never happened. Now, it’s happened three years in a row. That would be both No. 1 seeds meeting in the Super Bowl, as both home teams and top seeds in each conference…
Karma a Factor in Unnecessarily Dramatic, Predictable Wild Card Weekend
For the first time ever, all four road teams won in one playoff weekend. Shocking, isn’t it? Actually, not really, when you consider three of the road teams were favored, a fourth was a slight…
Stunning similarities between 2007, 2011 Giants
If it feels like you are watching NFL reruns this January, you are not alone. The Patriots and Giants are meeting in the Super Bowl (stop me if you’ve…
Championship Game picks; A Harbaugh Bowl looming?
We’ve reached the Final Four and perhaps more refreshingly, two of the league’s three offensive sideshows have been put to rest. The Saints and Packers and their circus-like attack will be home watching three teams…