Quarterbacks, quarterbacks, quarterbacks! Welcome to the 2024 NFL Draft. The NFL is a quarterback league, and America is a quarterback nation. Teams can’t help themselves. The scouts obsess over the quarterbacks, overrate the quarterbacks, underrate quarterbacks,...
People, it’s time for Bernie Bits! READING TIME 10 MINUTES TORRY HOLT: In his fifth time as a finalist, the great St. Louis Rams wide receiver Torry Holt came up short in voting support for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It’s nothing personal....
Before we get to my betting choice for Super Bowl 58, I want to give you some information on trends that are relevant in the Chiefs vs. 49ers showdown. Perhaps some of the specifics will help you make up your mind. 1. Schedule Factor: the Super Bowl contestant that...
I’m confused by the non stop bloviating over 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. Even by the insane standards of the hot-take media industrial complex, the loudest voices raise the volume on these made-up Purdy debates. This is a Quarterback Nation. The outsized importance...
Sunday should be a fun day for NFL fans who will gather to watch two conference championship games, order up a pile of chicken wings and mounds of smoked brisket and pulled pork, and sip on their preferred beverages. Kansas City Chiefs on the road with a shot to take...
The divisional playoff round is my favorite weekend of each NFL season. The postseason tournament is down to eight teams, the pressure is cranked up, and anything can happen. Can anyone stop No. 1 seeds Baltimore and San Francisco? Can the Detroit Lions win a second...
The first thing about the NFL divisional-round playoffs that jumps out at me are the quality of quarterbacks in each conference. AFC: Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson, Buffalo’s Josh Allen and Houston’s C.J. Stroud. Mahomes, 28, already has won...
How About Them Cowboys? Right on time, the overhyped Dallas Cowboys came through again embarrassing themselves by face-planting in another postseason game. The season was ruined. Another tombstone was ordered. This annual catastrophe never lets us down. The visiting...
With the cold weather blasting through this weekend, it’s a perfect time to light a fire, put on a sumptuous pot of vegetable beef soup, sip on a fine adult beverage of your choice, and watch the NFL wild-card games. That’s the game plan in our home. I’m making picks...
