There were 19 accepted penalties, for 147 yards, in the Arizona Cardinals’ 28-3 victory against the New York Jets Monday night. The flag fest made for ...
You set lofty standards as a player, or a team, and expectations are going to follow suit. That, Brett Favre believes, is the No. 1 issue regarding the criti...
The wild sideline scene with Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman screaming at teammates and teammates screaming back at him was nothing more than a w...
Is San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers a future Hall-of-Famer? James Lofton, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, doesn’t think so. Not ye...
The Oakland Raiders have the last-ranked defense in the NFL. They are last against the pass and 27th against the rush, hardly what anyone would expect from a...
There wasn’t a whole lot of deep thought or discussion before the Arizona Cardinals moved Tyrann Mathieu from safety to nickel cornerback. As coach Bru...
When Boomer Esiason watches Sam Bradford play quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, he can’t help but be reminded of another player at the position fo...
James Lofton understands why San Francisco 49ers coach Chip Kelly decided to leave Blaine Gabbert in the game as his team was on the way to a 33-21 loss agai...
Dean Blandino gets it. The NFL’s senior vice president of officiating recognizes that media and fans believe league game officials are targeting New Yo...
When Shannon Sharpe watches Odell Beckham Jr.’s antics on the field, he does not see a player who is pouring out his heart and soul for the sake of his...
Quarterback to quarterback, Brett Favre understands Eli Manning’s dilemma. Manning feels the responsibility to remind Odell Beckham Jr., that he needs ...
With one game left in Tom Brady’s suspension for the Deflategate scandal, NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith is reflecting on t...
The Houston Texans might no longer have the services of one of the NFL’s all-time great pass rushers, J.J. Watt, for the rest of the season, but that d...
Brett Favre saw plenty of good in Matt Ryan’s performance against the New Orleans Saints Monday night. Favre was impressed with the way the Atlanta Fal...
The Arizona Cardinals are 1-2. That’s a far cry from where the many prognosticators who had them in the Super Bowl were expecting them to be three week...
Trevor Siemian passed another test. Sluggish third quarter. Offense on the field too long. Something needed to be done to get the Denver Broncos going at Cin...
The conditions couldn’t be any better for success. You have a quarterback with the proper attitude, to go along with solid skills and the right sort of...
There are victories and there are defining wins. The Tennessee Titans had what coach Mike Mularkey saw as a defining win in beating the Detroit Lions, 16-15,...
Maurice Jones-Drew has had some experience with a torn meniscus, the same injury Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson suffered last Sunday. He know...
Naturally, the questions are raised. After two poor showings on defense, are the Oakland Raiders ready for a signal-calling change on that side of the ball? ...
Stick to what you know. That was the advice Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians gave to himself after his team’s season-opening loss against the New E...
Carson Wentz has had two NFL starts and two victories. And by the looks of his performances against the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears, there seems to be...
The Broncos defense remains dominant, the Vikings look like they are for real with Sam Bradford at quarterback, and Patriots lose Jimmy Garoppolo to a should...
Two games and the arrow is pointing up for Trevor Siemian. He’s showing progress through his first two starts for the Denver Broncos, helping them to v...
Never mind that the Los Angeles Rams looked horrible in their 28-0 season-opening loss against the San Francisco 49ers. When it comes to games between the Ra...
Brett Favre saw what the Pittsburgh Steelers did at Washington Monday night. He saw Ben Roethlisberger’s game of pitch and catch with Antonio Brown lig...
The conversation, itself, wasn’t unusual. Before any two-minute or crucial game-management situation, Oakland Raiders coach Jack Del Rio walks up to qu...
Sean Smith lived the cornerback nightmare in the Oakland Raiders’ 35-34 victory against the New Orleans Saints. In his Raider debut, he gave up three r...
Bruce Arians is sticking with Kameron Canaday as his long-snapper, even though his low delivery of the ball helped lead to a missed field-goal attempt that c...
Last year, it was all about competing. This year, it’s all about finishing. Jack Del Rio preached that message to his Oakland Raiders players throughou...
If the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense intends to be aggressive in applying pressure to Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins Monday night, Joe The...
The NFL’s opening night game was an absolute doozy. A mile up in the thin air of Denver, the Super Bowl champs, sans the retired Peyton Manning, took d...
