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…
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3 Teams Coming off Byes, Pats Get Another
Chris Berman used to call this “the best weekend in all of sports.” The NFL’s divisional round of the playoffs features the top two teams in each conference, well rested off a bye week. But…
Are the Patriots Unstoppable? Will it Matter?
The New England Patriots are the clear-cut favorites in the AFC, but are they unstoppable? A bigger question is, does it matter if they are? The latter isn’t a hard “no,” but it’s not far…
Seahawks flip the script on the Patriots
I don’t use the term “script” loosely, either. This is the NFL after all, a league with plummeting ratings that needs to squeeze every ounce of drama out of every oversaturated primetime game that it…
2016 Warriors are more like the 2014 Seahawks than the 2007 Patriots
The comparisons were inevitable – the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors are basketball’s version of the 2007 New England Patriots and, thus, LeBron James is the Eli Manning of the NBA. Or something like that. But…
In a rare twist, the New England Patriots don’t get the big breaks in a big playoff moment
Remember Marlon McCree? Probably not, but Troy Brown certainly does. How about Billy Cundiff? Patriots fans do, even if Ravens fans would rather forget. And Andy Reid reminded us last week that his poor clock…
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…
Some Final Thoughts on Championship Sunday
This almost seems too apropos. Tom Brady, a sixth-round draft pick with an eternal chip on his shoulder, the outlier in a four-man field of former No. 1 overall picks. In many ways, this weekend is…
The 2008 Patriots Will Forever be Bill Belichick’s True Masterpiece
It doesn’t matter how many Super Bowls Bill Belichick leads the New England Patriots to — the 2008 non-playoff team will forever be his biggest masterpiece. You can argue all you want and bring up…
A Dozen Reasons to Expect a Panthers-Patriots Super Bowl Rematch
It’s late January, a time officially reserved for one of three quarterbacks. Since three is a crowd, Ben Roethlisberger will watch from his couch as Tom Brady (10th appearance) and Peyton Manning (fifth appearance) square…