2010 NFL Season
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Super Bowl Saints Still Underdogs
Mark Kriegel, Fox Sports
Week 1 Primer
Vinnie Iyer, Sporting News
For Super Bowl XLV, 45 NFL Predictions
Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN
2010 NFL Broadcasting Guide
Richard Deitsch, Sports Illustrated
On the eve of another High Holy Day – no, not Rosh Hashanah, stupid, the beginning of the NFL season – fans of all denominations, from casual to degenerate, are well ad...(full article)
In a passing league, it's not enough to have a passable quarterback. As Drew Brees and Peyton Manning proved for their teams last season, it's a big bonus to have an elite talent...(full article)
2. NFL MVP finalists Chris Johnson, Tennessee Titans -- Do you realize the best running back in the game didn't get an MVP vote last season? Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts -- Y...(full article)
There is no programming more valuable in television than the National Football League. Last season an average of 16.6 million people watched regular season NFL games, which was 1...(full article)
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Revis' Contract Is Bridge to Future - Andrew Brandt, National Football Post
evis resolution happened a week before my predicted date of September 14. I thought Revis would try to force the issue for one game, banking that the Ravens' performance against th...
Fans Guide to NFL Labor Battle - Michael Silver, Yahoo! Sports
Roger Goodell was in the midst of a leisurely training camp tour last month when the NFL commissioner began experiencing severe labor pains. Goodell, as part of his weeklong bus tr...
Cowboys Have Pieces for Super Bowl - Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News
Only the Pittsburgh Steelers have produced more Super Bowl champions than Dallas, and the Cowboys top the list in Super Bowl appearances. No team owns more postseason victories or...
Cowboys' Season About Defense - Jean-Jacques Taylor, Dallas Morning News
epeat after me: This season is all about the defense.Have you looked at the schedule? Have you seen the quarterbacks the Cowboys will face? Drew Brees. Brett Favre. Peyton Manning...
Predictions Including Award Winners - Clark Judge, CBS Sports
MVP: Aaron Rodgers,, Packers. He hasn't won a playoff game, yet people already tout him as one of the game's elite quarterbacks. Slow down. You must win something of consequence b...
NFL: Flames for the Week - Brad Evans, Yahoo! Sports
Montario Hardesty’s(notes) displaced knee tendon paves the way for last year’s fantasy playoff hero to become an entrenched RB2. Professing to fellow Clevelanders earli...
NFL: Week 1 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em - David Sabino, Sports Illustrated
Jonathan Stewart, RB, Panthers: The Panthers failed to reach the end zone during the preseason, and the Giants have some questions in the front seven with Jonathan Goff manning th...
NFL Season By the Numbers - Mike Tanier, Fifth Down
Touchdowns: 1,240. When we think of touchdowns, we think of Peyton Manning or Adrian Peterson, but dozens of anonymous players score touchdowns in a typical season. The most unlike...
Predictions Including Award Winners for 2010 - Pete Prisco, CBS Sports
MVP: Peyton Manning, Colts. He won it last season, and this Colts team is even better. What's to think Manning is going to regress? It's his award to lose. Coach of the Year: Mike...
10 Predictions for 2010 NFL Season - Jeff Neuman, RealClearSports
The NFL schedule begins tonight in New Orleans, with the Super Bowl champion Saints hosting the Minnesota Vikings in a rematch of January’s exciting overtime NFC Championship...
Measure Parcells by Dolphins' 2010 Season - Greg Stoda, Palm Beach Post
Let's stop tossing bouquets at the feet of Bill Parcells. Oh, sure, Parcells did more good work than bad in almost three years as the Dolphins' executive vice president of football...
NFL: RB's Top Starts, Sleepers and Flops - Mike Harmon, Fox Sports
Foster has become the “IT” player of the fantasy draft season. He assumes the lead role in Gary Kubiak’s offense following Ben Tate’s season-ending injury a...
Judgment Time for Bengals' Palmer - Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati Enquirer
Palmer, usually the most vanilla of sports guys, unwittingly has spawned an industry of local sports debate. He is the Howard Cosell of Cincinnati sports, and there never has been ...
Seahawks' Future in Positive Carroll's Hands - Danny O'Neil, Seattle Times
"I live my life thinking something good is just about to happen to me," Pete Carroll said. "I don't think things are going to go bad. My focus goes to how things could look and tur...
Unflappable Stafford Ready to Lead Lions - Bob Wojnowski, Detroit News
If the losing ain't gonna happen anymore, Stafford is the one that'll make it happen, or not happen. The season isn't pinned all on him, but the future is. And the Lions are tryi...
NFL: Pickups of the Week - Shawn Larabee, Fantasy Football Toolbox
Henne was solid, but unspectacular as a starter last year. The tendency is to think of him as a caretaker QB on a team full of running backs. But let's break this down a little: he...
Rockier Road for Vikings This Year - Judd Zulgad, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Vikings' path to the NFC Championship Game last season began with what those in the restaurant business might call a soft opening. Victories at Cleveland and Detroit -- teams t...
Pay Homage to Gamblor - Week 1 NFL Picks - RCS Sidelines
I'm back for another season of most-likely wildly off-base inaccurate predictions. Last season I finished with a 118-132-4 record, making it two straight seasons under .500. I'm e...
No End to NFL's Blackout Policy - RCS Sidelines
For many Americans, today marks the beginning of the best five months in sports. The NFL season opens tonight with the sport as popular as ever. But popularity in this economy does...
Saints Used to Being Hunted - John DeShazier, New Orleans Times Picayune
It's not that the New Orleans Saints have no idea what it's like to be the hunted. They sprinted to a 13-0 start last season, then entered the playoffs as the No. 1 seed ...
'Hard Knocks' Ends, Jets Makeover Continues - Richard Sandomir, NYT
The Jets’ long search for an extreme makeover has accelerated with their starring role in the HBO series “Hard Knocks,” which ended Wednesday night...
Vikes Still Feel Sting of NFC Title Game - Chip Scoggins, Minn. Star Tribune
Ben Leber figures it took him a month, maybe a little longer, to get over the frustration and disappointment of losing in the NFC Championship Game last January. Every time Percy ...
Brady OK After Crash, Joins Practice - Crimaldi & Rapoport, Boston Herald
New England Patriots [team stats] quarterback Tom Brady [stats] practiced today after a harrowing morning in which he was involved in a Back Bay car ...
NFL: Sit Studs in Week 1? - Dave Richard, CBS Sports
Rice faces the Jets in New York in the same game where Greene does battle with the Ravens. Turner returns to action in the running back-unfriendly confines of Pittsburgh. McCoy and...
NFL Previews From 'The Onion' - The Onion
Pittsburgh Steelers Strength: Coach Mike Tomlin's inability to figure out if the Steelers are a running team or a passing team keeps opposing defenses on their toes Weakness: Roet...
Redskins' Haynesworth Drama Must End - Jason Reid, Washington Post
Redskins coaches would prefer that Albert Haynesworth be as receptive to new ideas as Lorenzo Alexander is, or perpetually optimistic like Andre Carter. And Haynesworth could hav...
Parcells Steps Aside at Wrong Time for Dolphins - Greg Cote, Miami Herald
The Dolphins look a little disheveled right now, surrounded by questions and absent a sense of bounce or momentum as the NFL regular season arrives. It was true as Tuesday daw...
10 Things I Think Will Happen This Year - Peter King, Sports Illustrated
I think the Steelers are going to win the Super Bowl, and I expect Dennis Dixon to hand Ben Roethlisberger, at worst, a 2-2 team when he returns from suspension. The locker room l...
Predicting the 2010 Season - Don Banks, Sports Illustrated
Sure, the Saints look pretty tough to beat from the vantage point of early September, but you can say the same thing about the defending champion almost every year. Then stuff ha...
Delhomme Lucks Into Perfect Situation With Browns - Clark Judge, CBS Sports
Not only do the Browns operate in one of the league's toughest divisions; they don't have an abundance of talent, and they rely on a quarterback who committed so many mistakes last...
Houshmandzadeh Is Perfect Fit in Baltimore - Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun
It was on but quickly turned off. New Ravens receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh defused any potential clashes of egos with fellow receivers Anquan Boldin and Derrick Mason as fast as ...
Raiders Have Pieces to Win, But Can They? - Monte Poole, Oakland Tribune
A glance at the schedule shows a football bakery, with enough Sunday cupcakes for the Raiders to get fat and happy. A look at Jason Campbell reveals the Oakland offense has a legi...
NFL: Bold Predictions - Mitch Getz, Sports Illustrated
When filling out your fantasy football roster, a healthy mix of rookies and veterans is a good idea. Leaning heavily to one side of the age spectrum can be detrimental to succ...
Things Keep Getting Worse for Roethlisberger - RCS Sidelines
Ben Roethlisberger has had a rough off-season. From legal troubles to what is now a four-game suspension to start the season, things just haven't been going his way. And things a...
Why Super Bowl Will Be Baltimore-Green Bay - The Pro Football Notebook
The season kicks off tomorrow night when Minnesota goes to New Orleans, so it's time for the Notebook to bring all of the division previews together into one. I believe the Super...
NFL Rules Sports Landscape - Michael Wilbon, Washington Post
The kids - meaning anybody under 40 - laugh when you tell them baseball used to be America's sporting passion. They stare at you in disbelief when you try to explain that the heav...
Steelers Using Dixon Like a Spare Tire - Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Officially, the National Football League season does not begin until Thursday night in New Orleans with the first kickoff of a long Kickoff Weekend, but, for me, it always starts ...
Pats Will Finally Get Taste of Bad Randy - Mike Freeman, CBS Sports
The last time I wrote about Randy Moss, I called him lazy. It happened here. Afterwards, it seemed the entire New England area wanted to Thelma-and-Louise me off a cliff....
Minorities Not Finding O-Coordinator Jobs - Thomas George, FanHouse
The NFL's 91st season debuts on Thursday night, but only the last half of the league's history provides a distinguishable diversity march. Since minority players were included in 1...
Jets' Holmes a Bundle of Contradictions - Kevin Armstrong, NY Daily News
To catch a cottontail was best. Of all the rabbits Jets receiver Santonio Holmes would chase after in the dark, rich soil beyond Lake Okeechobee's southern bank as a youth, the f...
Ravens Signing Houshmandzadeh Great Move - M. Preston, Baltimore Sun
The Ravens signing wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh Monday was a great move. If the Cincinnati Bengals have all the firepower in the AFC North, then what about the Ravens? Offens...
Holding Out Won't Hurt Revis - Jerome Bettis, Sports Illustrated
Holding out through August isn't going to be a huge deal for Darrelle Revis. Whenever you miss time in training camp, it's naturally going to hurt from a conditioning standpoint, ...
NFL: Don't Forget About the Other Manning - Dave Richard, CBS Sports
There's a consensus among Fantasy owners regarding the quarterbacks routinely going atop drafts. No one's calling Drew Brees or Matt Schaub a bust. There's even a...
Latest Edition of Skins-Cowboys Has Many Unknowns - Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News
The Redskins and Cowboys have met 100 times the last 50 years. Lack of familiarity is not exactly at the heart of the contempt that these teams' fans feel for each other. And yet ...
Best Breakouts, Rookies and Redeemers - Clark Judge, CBS Sports
With Vincent Jackson on the shelf, the Bolts look to Door No. 2 for their next best receiver, and you're looking at him. Floyd is big (he's 6-5), with soft hands and a knack for th...
Steelers Need Big Season From Mendenhall - Ron Cook, Pitt. Post-Gazette
So Dennis Dixon will get the start at quarterback Sunday afternoon against the Atlanta Falcons. It's not the right call by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, not the right call at all. C...
Cowboys Look Super in NFC - Jennifer Floyd Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
NFL football begins Thursday, thankfully so. Nothing is more played out than over-analysis of training camp scrimmages and preseason play. Let's have a real game, say Sunday in a...
Increase in NFL TV Blackouts Likely - Sean Leahy, USA Today
The blackout blues will be back this season for some NFL fans. At least 11 NFL teams could be facing TV blackouts in their home markets as the NFL fights through a downward trend i...
NFL: Labor Day Fallout - Michael Fabiano, NFL.com
The Jets sign Darrelle Revis to a new deal. Did you draft Anquan Boldin? Well, right now you're more than likely cursing the fact that he seems destined to be stranded on Revis Isl...
1 Big Concern for All 32 Teams - Sporting News
The team accomplished its offseason goal of surrounding QB Carson Palmer with more talent at the skill positions. Now, the pressure is on Palmer to deliver a Pro Bowl-worthy season...
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