The QB Crossroads
Some QBs will get paid…
…and some teams will have to pass the buck
This is a very important season coming up for a few NFL quarterbacks. Which means it could all go to hell in a hand basket.
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NFL Fans, We Need To Talk About Failure
NFL Fans, We Need To Talk About Failure
When your team loses a heartbreaker, blame has to go somewhere. Sometimes the blame goes the correct way but for the wrong reasons.
Read MoreI'm On Team Roquan - Not Team 'Team'
I'm On Team Roquan
Not Team 'Team'
If it takes someone like Roquan Smith every once and a while to reveal to fans (those who want to pay attention) that their NFL team’m ownership groups can’t change and that’s why we are losers, so be it. I'd rather cheer for a person fighting for themselves than a family screwing over an entire city.
Read MoreThe Case of Cameron Meredith: how the free agent story of a receiver with only 1,008 receiving yards can teach you a lot about NFL roster building
We used to think it was all about the talent. Now, we think it’s all about the Benjamin’s. We’re still behind. Because in the NFL, it’s about the talent, the Benamin’s, and a a lot of context.
Read MoreThe Cleveland Browns can make every trade, sign every free agent, and draft all the best players. They still suck.
One weekend makes no difference when you have been as terrible as the Browns. They’ve been so bad for so long that they've bridged generations. You could have been born before the new millennium and understand the Browns suck. One big weekend won't make any difference.
Read MoreHow NFL Teams Get In Line For The Future
In the NFL, it’s very, very hard to win. Winning a game, winning two games in a row, winning consistently over the course of a season, winning over the course of multiple seasons – it’s hard. The margins are slim. And too many NFL teams don't look ahead, thinning the margins further.
Read MoreIt's Windy At The Bottom: The Bears, Mitch Trubisky, and The Public Fervor To Criticize
One week ago I was a Trubisky skeptic and a Chicago Bears fan. Today, I am still a Mitch Trubisky skeptic and a Chicago Bears fan.
Read MoreDak's The Way The Cookie Crumbles
Talking heads still seem to think the NFL Draft can be gamed. That a smart General Manager can find inefficiencies a la Moneyball. Yet Dak Prescott went in the fourth round because 32 teams -yes, the Cowboys included - felt he was not a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd round player.
Read MoreSoccer Is Winning Hearts & Minds Of Young Fans: What Sport Falls First?
It was a stark image for fans of the CFL. Fewer than 12,500 filled the stands at newly renovated BMO Field in Toronto for a match between the Argos and their Ontario rivals, the Grey Cup champion Ottawa Redblacks. For years the contention had been that all the raggamuffin Argos needed was their own smaller space away from the cavernous Rogers Centre. A venue that seats under 30,000, a stadium that can create scarcity for tickets— always a desirable promotional gambit.
Read MoreIdentity Politics Could Mean Sayonara For NHL Coaches In Canada
Last week we documented the Fukushima zone known as the NHL’s Loonie League— the seven Canadian clubs wallowing at the bottom of the league’s table. You’d have to think that there’s going to be some firing going on in the coaching ranks as a result.
Read MoreThe Bitter Highs and Sweet Lows: Lions Versus Bears, Part II
In week six, the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears faced off in a titanic (as in the sunken vessel) battle that ended in a 37-34 overtime Lions victory. There were controversial touchdown calls and bonehead plays. Also, bonding between a father and son.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — December 28, 2016
Dowbboy looks into his crystal ball and sees the future.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 26, 2015
Since re-loading at the midseason trade deadline, the Blue Jays became a massive roller brush, going over top of the opposition with their crushing offence, painting everyone blue. It got them to the playoffs for the first time since Joe Buck’s act on FOX seemed fresh.
Read MoreThe Bitter Highs and Sweet Lows: Bears vs Lions With The Dowbboy
When I proposed to Bruce that I chronicle the Lions and Bears game as we watched it together, there was only enthusiasm. ‘Sure, great idea.’ That was Wednesday. By Friday, he has scheduled a round of golf first thing Sunday morning.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — September 28, 2015
If you wouldn’t mind the NHL delaying a couple of week, you’re probably a Josh Donaldson fan. If you want the puck brigade to start yesterday, you probably believe baseball is for losers.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — September 21, 2015
Sports leagues live by their stars. As the MOP debate shows, the CFL is star challenged at the moment. Getting Toronto right after all these years might come with a high cost.
Read MoreThe NFL Has You
You can see it if you squint a bit. It’s actually impossible not to, really. If you’ve watched even five minutes of the NFL Draft you can imagine Roger Goodell. Imagine him in a black suit, black tie, black shades. There it is. A striking resemblance, isn’t it? Roger Goodell could be Agent Smith.
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