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It’s Thanksgiving Week! Eat, drink, etc.  Hopefully you’ll have some time to gather in front of the television to perform the annual ritual of sleeping off a food hangover while “watching” NFL football.  This year’s games aren’t particularly exciting, unless you happen to be a fan of those (unfortunate) squads doomed to play. Try to…

Gimmicks don’t always draw crowds, even in the NFL. The Week 14 Monday night NFL game will remain Bengals / Cowboys, courtesy of the Simpsons. The NFL has informed us that due to the extensive production of their alternate Simpsons broadcast and work performed already, the game is excluded from being (mercifully) flexed to a…

There are constants in the NFL universe. The Ravens and Steelers are preparing to face each other this week in Pittsburgh in perhaps their most meaningful game in a decade.  The Steelers, at 7-2, lead the division despite a notable QB change and some injury issues; a testament to the job thus far by head…

Given the events of the last 24 hours (years!), it’s a little tough to crank out a pithy preamble today.  Or an article at all.  I’ll give it a try, because you all deserve that much.   Football was played last week.  Some teams won.  Others lost. Here’s what happened.   Broncos 10, Ravens 41…

It’s the last runup to Election Day, and right now, the AFC North is every bit as jumbled as the current race for POTUS. The top of the standings show Pittsburgh with a one-game lead, yet most pundits are predicting the Ravens, despite their obvious defensive problems, will ultimately prevail in the division race.  The…

The midpoint of the NFL season is just a couple of weeks away.  What have we learned thus far? the Steelers will go as far as their defense – not their QB – takes them the Bengals need depth, especially on defense the Ravens need their defense to improve or their dreams of a title…

As I’m typing this, I’m listening to clips of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones lambasting local media for daring to ask him about myriad faulty decisions he’s made regarding his team’s direction and personnel.  It’s more than a little pathetic and needy, and it shows a marked unwillingness to be held accountable for the Dallas disaster…

Unlike last season, the AFC North doesn’t appear to be the best division in the NFL. No sir.  No way, etc. The Ravens have edged their way back to a winning record, while the Steelers have provided little to retain their divisional lead since a 3-0 start.  The Bengals appear to have real flaws on…

While the nation splits time between the Vice Presidential Debate and the MLB playoffs tonight, it will have largely forgotten the hijinks and drama that was the NFL last weekend.  Week 4 may be the most confusing time to properly judge NFL teams, because team records may or may not reflect the general makeup or…

Week 3 was…interesting in the AFC North. Two teams tried to redeem themselves, but only one succeeded.  One team stuck to their now-formulaic game plan and won.  And two teams lost in embarrassing fashion to some of the worst rosters in the NFL. I believe the youngsters refer to this as “drama”.  And so it…