Hey all. Vacations are a valuable thing.  I chose to take advantage of some much-needed time away from work, and I’m not abandoning that effort to submit to my curious desire to write about football and football-related topics. Much.   Ravens 10, Steelers 17 The Ravens doomed themselves with poor offensive execution and untimely defensive…

It wasn’t a banner week overall in the AFC North. Despite a “rivalry” game, none of the AFC North contests were exactly competitive, and certainly not close.  For all of the discussion of personnel manipulation, rumors regarding league parity and the balancing of rosters over time, days like Sunday seem improbable when they occur. I…

It was a bipolar week in the AFC North. The division  went 3-1 overall.  If not for Baltimore’s injury-decimated roster (again) and lack of discipline, it could have easily been 4-0.  Kudos to the winning teams; as some sports folks have observed, these early games seem irrelevant until you’re pondering having to win an away…

Seems much too early in the season for divisional matchups, but who am I to question the NFL’s vaunted schedulers? We had two such matchups in the AFC North last Sunday, and a couple of things still hold true: These teams generally do not like each other Ugly football is almost to be expected As…