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With the conclusion of Super Bowl XLVII, it’s time to preview the 2013 NFL fantasy football quarterback landscape. 1. Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay Packers): In his fifth season as the starter, the former first-round pick (24th overall in 2005) continued to pile up the numbers, throwing for 4,295 yards and 39 touchdowns to [...]

Ranking the top quarterbacks in the NFL is never an easy thing to do, but everybody has their own personal opinions when ranking the best of the best. Grading the best quarterbacks should never be just about what they have accomplished in the distant past, but more about what they [...]

What does the NFL deliver week in and week out? Nail biters, head scratchers and fantastic finishes. And here’s the evidence: through Week 7, there have been 57 games decided by seven or fewer points, the most at this point of a season in NFL history. Also of note through [...]

  Drew Brees is climbing up the record books these days as he is a TD away against the Chargers from breaking Johnny Unitas’ record for consecutive games with at least one TD pass (48 would be record). Brees has spun it 191 times this season while completing 110 of [...]

Yes, the officials absolutely screwed the pooch when he Packers fell on the road on a time expiring touchdown pass from Russell Wilson to J.D. Williams. Oops, I meant Golden Tate albeit it truly is what it is at this point in time. The replacement officials have been dropped like [...]

Nearly the entire country would have said that the loser of this game heading into the season would not be 0-3, but barring a tie we will see a winless team come out of the Superdome. Kansas City was projected to contend in the AFC West, but their swiss cheese [...]

Most people would have bet the house that DeAngelo Williams and Cam Newton would have combined for more than three yards! However, Newton and Williams only ran it 11 times for three yards and it was painful to watch as the Tampa Bay Bucs absolutely dominated them up front. The [...]

Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints agreed to a five-year, $100 million contract on Friday, per ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. Brees becomes the NFL’s highest-paid player, surpassing Peyton Manning in Denver and Calvin Johnson in Detroit. The 6-0, 209-pound star signal-caller will receive $40 million in the 2012 season and [...]

With all of the turmoil surrounding the New Orleans Saints, you would have thought the Drew Brees contact situation would be dealt with swiftly. Unfortunately for Saints fans and keeper league owners of Brees, that hasn’t been the case. Brees is now missing mandatory minicamp. While it isn’t a big [...]

During the summer of 1997 in Baltimore, MD, a short, life-changing conversation with the late-great Junior Seau, unknowingly, made a major portion of my professional career much easier. I worked in the deli (Plaza Deli) of the Tremont Plaza Hotel in downtown Baltimore on St. Paul Place.  The Tremont Plaza is a [...]