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What a mess. I’m ditching my day job for the week, and I thought I’d settle in Sunday with beer and burgers to watch the Ravens compete with and possibly beat the Bills.  Four days later, it seems no amount of alcohol or sustenance can erase the scenes of fourth-quarter defensive ineptitude most of the…

Safe to say the shine is off the AFC North, at least for the moment. Our beloved division and teams fell on their collective keys last Sunday, as all four teams lost, with three of those in particularly humiliating fashion.  The cliché says one game does not a season make, so rushing to final judgements…

So the NFL’s 2022 participants have been decided after each team has completed their annual post-camp bloodletting.  As usual, some tenured veterans and familiar names were released Tuesday along with the expected slew of rookies, drafted or otherwise, with several from columns A and B landing on various practice squads.  While there’s still plenty of…

For all the grousing NFL fans generally do in the offseason, the lethargy is real.  It’s that sense of emptiness that only the optics of organized, expensive violence can remedy. So when the preseason commences and those plucky rookies and special teamers report, it (briefly) provides an end to the offseason doldrums, in essence reminding…

As the NFL nears the opening of its annual training camps, roster assessment becomes paramount to a team’s success.  Like the rest of the NFL, the AFC North harbors its share of personnel questions and impending decisions.  Here’s a rundown of the biggest issue each AFC North team hopes to resolve before the commencement of…