Too many teams. Too little time. Let’s do this. 1. Indianapolis Colts – Another Peyton Manning clinic. Can you imagine if their running game progressed from “functional” to “effective?” That’d be scary. 2. New Orleans Saints – One shanked kick […]
An incident after the Packers-Bears Monday Night Football game prompted an apology from Green Bay Packers safety Nick Collins. Today, he apologized the fans. The questionable action: He threw his mouthpiece into the stands. “This is a situation that I […]
With just a week remaining before the start of training camp, new President of Basketball Operations for the Philadelphia 76ers Rod Thorn has made his first move at the helm by trading G Willie Green and F Jason Smith to […]
Before we move onto week three’s Popularity Contest, we’ll commence/resolve “QBs Who Can’t Score!” If you recall, this is a competition to see which starting quarterback can go the longest without throwing a touchdown pass. Last week the competition was […]
Matthew Harris and I joked on The NickelBlock this week about the lack of a running game in Washington – even though the ‘Skins entered training camp in the summer with solid running backs like Clinton Portis, Larry Johnson and Willie […]
2010 NFL Popularity Contest: Week 2 Big moves this week: The Pete Carrols (whom I threw under the bus last week) came back to spit in my face. Thanks for that. The Texans improved to 2-15 against the Colts. The […]
The FIBA World Championships came down to a matchup between Turkey and USA with an automatic bid to the 2012 Olympics at stake. Turkey, led by Hedo Turkoglu, was coming off their thrilling win in the semifinals against Serbia, 83-82. […]
Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints came marching in, though, not quite as dramatically as anticipated. They beat the Minnesota Vikings 14-9 Thursday night. The Saints are 4-1 in season openers under head coach Sean Payton. It’s now been […]
Each week we breakdown the NFL’s most popular teams using advanced saber-metrics and cold hard facts. We also take into account important elements like: Is your team cool? Would I want to party with your team? If I partied with […]
The 2010 NFL season is set to get underway on Thursday night as the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints get set to begin their title defense against Brett Farve, Adrian Peterson, and the rest of the Minnesota Vikings. As […]