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Most people know Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, entering his third year with the club as coach and executive vice president, as the former USC head coach who has put up a 15-19 record in Seattle, including playoffs. Of course, that is the “what have you done for me [...]

This off-season was going to be an interesting one for the quarterback market.  There were going to be two immediate starters in rookies Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, at least another first round pick in Ryan Tannehill, and some veterans that would be moving on for one reason or [...]

2012 NFL Draft, Round One.  The Seattle Seahawks, freshly removed from two 7-9 seasons, traded back with the Philadelphia Eagles from #12 to #15 to await their chance at improving their roster. They had already had a busy off-season.  They signed free agent Green Bay Packers QB Matt Flynn and [...]

We are in the dog days of the NFL offseason, Organized Team Activities (OTAs), and there are only three kinds of personnel news at this time of the year: glowing scouting reports from coaches wearing rose-colored glasses (i.e., everything you’ve heard so far about San Francisco 49ers WR Randy Moss), [...]

These are the dog days of the NFL offseason. Rookies and fringe players are trying to impress enough in minicamps to get a look going into training camp.  Those same players are trying to not lose their roster spots, as a release in May is never a good sign for a [...]

Moving on from the Cardinals and Rams in the NFC West, I’ll be getting on to the San Francisco 49ers, arguably the most surprising team (positive version) of the 2011 NFL season.  After the Niners spent the previous eight years underachieving or just straight embarrassing themselves in a watered down [...]

The Saint Louis Rams came into the 2012 NFL Draft having already made one big trade.  New head coach Jeff Fisher’s relationship with Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan resulted in a swap of first round picks this year in exchange for the Redskins’ 2012 second-round pick, 2013 first-round pick, [...]

The NFL Draft is always an exciting time for a franchise.  Woeful teams are in position to get better immediately, while squads with better luck are in position to get even stronger on the field.  The only thing better than being 0-0 is being 0-0 with exciting prospects. But a [...]

The scene: Sunday, January 30, 2000; Super Bowl XXXIV at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Jeff Fisher, then the Tennessee Titans head coach, watched his team fight back from a 16-0 deficit only for the St. Louis Rams to go back up 23-16 following a deep 73-yard TD catch by [...]

With the 2012 NFL Draft some four weeks away, I want to take the opportunity to look over the standing of the Arizona Cardinals. As noted in a previous article, the Cardinals intend to make their most impactful moves in the draft this offseason.  They haven’t done much in free [...]