Posts Tagged ‘June’

AROUND THE NFL The DB finds it hard to believe that NFL fans really will not want more football when it is passed and presented to them.  But Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com has a poll that says so.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:   With the NFL determined to expand the regular season to 17 games…

AROUND THE NFL Sheil Kapadia of The Athletic has 20 bold predictions for 2020 out, and he will spot them in below where appropriate and interesting.  You can read them all here.   NFC NORTH   CHICAGO A bold prediction from Sheil Kapadia:   10. The Bears trade for Nick Foles Publicly, they’ve said they’re…

AROUND THE NFL ESPN.com has its 32 correspondents make predictions for their team’s offseason moves.  Some are sprinkled in below, the whole thing is here.   BRADY RUMOR The Chargers, Las Vegas, Tennessee, Indianapolis and Tampa Bay are teams the DB has heard mentioned for QB TOM BRADY in 2020.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com hears…

AROUND THE NFL These Chiefs are party animals.  Mollie Walker of the New York Post:   Chiefs coach Andy Reid won the Kansas City Chiefs their first Lombardi Trophy in 50 years on Sunday, winning Super Bowl 2020 over the 49ers, but it apparently wasn’t the best “trophy” of his night.   “I didn’t really…

AROUND THE NFL It was a very good, almost great, Super Bowl with the Chiefs rallying late for the win.   The Chiefs became the 22nd team to win the Super Bowl with nothing but victories by 10+ points.  But, the key difference, they are the only team to do so while trailing by 10+…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA The question was which Kubiak would be the OC of the Vikings in 2020 – and the answer is Gary, not Klint.  Ian Rapoport of NFL.com with the Tweet.   @RapSheet The #Vikings are turning to a familiar face for their new OC: Gary Kubiak, who has been…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY The Packers looked long and hard at DC Mike Pettine after a lackluster defensive effort against the 49ers, but apparently he has survived.  Sean Wagner-McGough of CBSSports.com:   In the aftermath of an embarrassing loss to the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game that saw them allow…

AROUND THE NFL They shuffled around a bit in college in terms of their NFL “Class” but the high school class of 2015 was stacked with QBs.  Ben Baby of ESPN.com reminds us in this tweet:   @Ben_Baby The QBs in the 2015 recruiting class were absolutely insane: Lamar Jackson, Sam Darnold, Kyler Murray, Joe…

AROUND THE NFL This had to be carefully crafted by NFL Stats & Research, but we still find this an acceptable way to tout the winning history (albeit brief) of the two SB QBs:   @NFLResearch Highest Combined Career Win % By Opposing Super Bowl QBs (Min. 25 Starts, Incl. Playoffs)   SB LIV     SF…

AROUND THE NFL Our playoff picks are 4-4 so far, 2-2 each week.    For the championship games, we are going with the home teams San Francisco and Kansas City, the latter despite a lot of indicators in favor of the Titans including the regular season win. – – – Dan Graziano of ESPN.com gets…