Posts Tagged ‘June’

AROUND THE NFL If The Season Ended Today in the AFC – The Steelers have jumped into the final Wild Card spot, but four teams are within a game.  Losses by Kansas City and Buffalo tightened things up in both the NFC West and Wild Card.                                                           Overall             Div Rk       Conf Rec 1          New…

AROUND THE NFL NFC EAST   WASHINGTON The Redskins are shutting down T TRENT WILLIAMS amidst continued hostilities.   The Washington Redskins have placed Trent Williams on the reserve/non-football injury list, ending his season.   The team announced the move Thursday, ending a monthslong saga involving the star offensive tackle and the team. Sources said…

AROUND THE NFL Mike Florio crunches the pass interference review numbers:   The one year (and perhaps only one year) pass interference replay-review experiment has resulted in limited reversals of calls and non-calls made on the field.   According to the league, 63 total replay reviews of pass interference calls and non-calls have occurred through…

AROUND THE NFL Some trends –   True home teams were 11-0 on Sunday.  Not counting the “road” Texans winning in London and the road teams, SF and DAL, did win on Thursday and Monday.  Still Home has battled back to take a 68-66-1 mark on the year.   Even though the AFC went 4-1…

AROUND THE NFL If the Season Ended Today in the NFC – we have nine teams vying for six spots.  It was a good week for the Panthers as the Vikings and Packers (this week’s foe of Carolina) lost:                                                   Overall        Div           Conf   1          San Francisco   West     8-0               1          5-0 2          New Orleans    …

AROUND THE NFL One week ago, the Patriots commanded the AFC as overwhelming favorites to again represent the conference in the Super Bowl and probable choices to again hoist Lombardi.   This morning, they are haunted and hunted by an emerging Ravens team that will have a tiebreaker advantage to kick them out of Foxborough…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY WR DAVANTE ADAMS is almost back.   Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams, outfitted with a vintage pair of shoes that he says he thinks will accommodate his turf toe injury, practiced Wednesday for the first time since spraining the ligaments in his right big toe on…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   CHICAGO Kevin Kaduk of YahooSports.com says the bloom is off the rose for Coach Matt Nagy:   Just what is Matt Nagy really made of?   Had you asked this query last Halloween, the answer would have been much different. With the Bears an unexpected 4-3 last Oct. 31,…

AROUND THE NFL Well, it looks like only one trade went down on Deadline Day – the Rams paid a 5th round pick to the Dolphins to get rid of CB AQIB TALIB.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com:   The Dolphins are buyers at the trade deadline. Sort of.   The Rams sent Aqib Talib…

AROUND THE NFL If your default in your weekly picking contest is to pick the home team, you’re probably having a bad year (at least the DB is).  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com:   Something strange is going on in the NFL this season: There’s a road-field advantage.   Through Sunday’s games, road teams are…