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NFL: Tougher Schedules Could Spell Doom for These Seven Teams
Published: June 14, 2009
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Playing in the NFL is difficult enough, but when you pile on tough schedules, you either have a recipe for disaster or your team will come out the strongest. But for these teams, it’s looking more like a disaster.
1. Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins face a murderous schedule, and it will be the first real test to see how far they have come from 2007. They play the Steelers, Chargers, Falcons, Panthers, Saints, Colts, Titans, and the Patriots (twice). The most likely upset team is the Texans, who are coming into the season with the best Texans squad ever, and a hot offense.
Not easy by any means. Chad Pennington’s reward for Comeback Player of the Year? The NFL’s toughest schedule.
Hardly seems fair.
2. San Diego Chargers
It was hard placing the Chargers here considering they get to beat up on two rebuilding teams twice a year.
But outside the AFC Worst, they are going to have to fight it out.
They play the Ravens, Steelers, Titans, Giants, Redskins, Eagles, and Cowboys.
The upset factor here are the Bengals, provided Chad Ochocinco can stay mature and Carson Palmer stays healthy.
3. New England Patriots
Tom Brady’s return isn’t going to be easy at all. They play the Titans, Colts, Ravens, Falcons, Saints, and the Panthers.
The Houston Texans are again the upset factor, with their red-hot offense.
The Patriots have the firepower to take all these teams, but the teams do, too.
If the Brady-Moss-Welker connection can play like they did in 2007, then they are the most likely to succeed out of the seven teams listed here.
4. Baltimore Ravens
Joe Cool isn’t getting any slack this year, because there is no rest for the weary. Having coming off a successful season with the third toughest schedule, the Ravens don’t get a break.
They play the Steelers (twice), Colts, Chargers, Patriots, and Vikings. T
he Packers are the possible upset, playing at Lambaeu Field with a strong passing threat.
The Ravens success depends on their stalwart defense and strong running game. But things look optimistic, as they have improved over the offseason, despite high=profile losses.
4. Minnesota Vikings
The Purple People Eaters return might have to be delayed another year—the Vikings schedule isn’t exactly a cakewalk.
They play the Steelers, Ravens, Cardinals, Giants, and Panthers. The upset factor is Green Bay again. The Vikings, however, have Jared Allen and Adrian Peterson, so anything can happen.
5. Arizona Cardinals
The miracle in the desert may just dry up this year. The Cardinals are facing an excruciating schedule this year.
They play the Giants, Colts, Titans, Panthers, and Vikings.
San Fransisco is the upset factor here—not terribly hard, but you have to take into account the regular-season performance of the Cardinals, not just the postseason.
6. Tennessee Titans
It was tough to put the Titans behind the Cardinals, but the Titans face easier teams than the Cards.
They play the Patriots, Colts (twice), Chargers, Steelers, and Cardinals. The Texans are yet again the upset factor.
Again, tough, but not viciously hard.
The Titans, have a lot of returning talent in the backfield, and have good DBs to protect against the pass-happy offenses they will face.
7. Dallas Cowboys
Not so easy-going for the ‘Boys.
They face a tough schedule, but also have a lot of talent.
They play the Chargers, Falcons, Giants (twice), Eagles (twice), Saints, and Panthers.
The Redskins take the upset factor. Looks pretty hard, right?
Well, the Cowboys have a lot of talent coming back. Romo can throw to Williams, Crayton, and Whitten without getting crap for it.
The Cowboys are only this low because they have a very good team that may surprise a lot of people if they can stay together.
10 2009 NFL Rivalries to Look Out for
Published: June 11, 2009
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*Note: This is 2009 specific, not historical rivalries*
There is nothing greater in the NFL than a rivalry game. NOTHING! Face it. I’m sorry but anyone in Baltimore and Pittsburgh would rather see a “12-round slugfest” between the Ravens and Steelers than the Superbowl. Likewise, anyone in Philly and Dallas would rather see an Eagles and Cowboys game rather than the Superbowl.
Ok, maybe not EVERYONE, but you get the picture. These are the games where everyone makes the T-shirts, the funny photoshops. These are the games that everyone scrambles to buy tickets only to find out they’ve been sold out for 6 months.
I’m counting down those games and rivalries, and the trash talking that proceeds them and bragging that follows them. They will be ranked by
1. Egos
2. Hate Factor
3. Rematches
4. Player relations(conflicts, trash talking etc etc)
5. Previous record of the team A vs team B.
6. Last game score
7. Questionable calls/non-calls/injuries(Controversy)
8. Stadium hostility
9. Background (divisional/non divisional)
10. History
Jerry Jones Makes Money, at the NFL’s Expense!
Published: May 12, 2009
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I was always under the assumption that the National Football League was a sport. Not just any sport, a professional sport. Now, the word professional means an expert, someone who has experience in their trade, someone who has dedicated their life to their trade.
Now look at a reality show, let’s take “The Real World,” possibly the most stereotypical and worst reality show ever. Ever, ever, ever…….ever, nowhere near professional, in anything other than polluting our brains with a horrible TV series.
All that aside, lets take the new show “4th and Long,” hosted by none other than Michael Irvin. This production is produced by the one and only Jerry Jones. The winner gets a spot on the…guess what?! The Dallas Cowboys.
The point is, a reality show is not a scouting combine. And when you put a bunch of schmoes against an experienced college WR from UNC, you’re basically drafting him.
This is not an attempt to see if they can find a good player, it’s a way to kill two birds with one stone: making money while producing a decent player.
It seems like a win-win situation, but it really isn’t. It is an insult to everything the NFL stands for. A professional sport. You cannot give a spot on a professional team to the winner of a half-assed reality show. It is a sport, you EARN the right to play, not WIN it.
Jones has simply found another way to exploit the Cowboys and the NFL for his own personal gain.
Anquan Boldin: To Trade or Not To Trade?
Published: April 23, 2009
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Disgruntled WR Anquan Boldin wants a trade, and the Ravens are willing to oblige. Why draft an angry wideout over a fresh new head like Darrius Heyward-Bey. The answer is experience.
I’m not trying to take anything away from DHB, he’s a great fit for Flacco, but Boldin is better fit. Boldin has the experience Bey doesn’t have. He also has toughness. Remember when he got his face turned inside out against the Jets? He came back three weeks later, after a horrible jaw injury.
Who would the Ravens trade? The first choice that comes to mind is the first round draft pick, but I don’t think that is the best option.
As hard as it is to say, we should trade Willis McGahee. I love the guy to death, and he is a great person, but it is time to let him go. McClain and Rice are the backs for the team, and the Cardinals will be more than willing to get a good running back to help their ailing running game.
