Jeff Risdon - Football Analysis

The NFL Network's Green Bay @ Dallas game highlights a great week of matchups with playoff implications. Read more »

Glenn Dorsey, Jake Long and Darren McFadden go first, second and third in Jeff Risdon's latest Mock Draft. Read more »

Ever since Barry Sanders retired, the Lions have not fared real well on Thanksgiving, but with Calvin Johnson on board, can their fortunes change versus Green Bay? Read more »

Between Ohio State/Michigan on Saturday and Redskins/Cowboys on Sunday, there are plenty of old rivalry games on the docket this weekend. As always, Jeff Risdon gives you the rundown of what to expect. Read more »

Last week?s forecast was a dreary 6-8, my worst mark in the last two seasons. It was truly one of the more freakish weeks in a long time. Five different teams scored special teams touchdowns, and all 5 lost. Read more »

Adrian Peterson has a rare blend of instant acceleration, long-range speed, shoulder-lowering power, and shifty feet that harken back to the consensus best rookie RB, Eric Dickerson. Read more »

The halfway point of the season is finally here. Before we get to this week?s forecast, it?s time for a quick rundown of midseason awards and the forecast for the RCA Dome showdown and all those 'other' games. Read more »

This draft is significantly thinner than the last two years, particularly for premium offensive skill position players. But names like Matt Ryan, Jake Long, Chris Long and Glenn Dorsey, amongst many others, will make successful NFL players. Read more »

The Redskins are constructed in a manner that could give the perfect Patriots some problems, while Panthers' QB Vinny Testaverde has never lost a game he?s played against a Tony Dungy-coached team. Will this be the week they get their first loss? Read more »

Something that caught my eye is the fact that all the games on the slate are intra-conference, which means long-term playoff implications in several contests. Read more »

With so many upsets this season, some people are calling for a playoff as passionately as ever, but Jeff Risdon believes the current system works as well as ever. Read more »

In honor of the recent shocking realization that the greatest rock album of my lifetime, Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses, was released 20 years ago and also a battle of unbeatens in Dallas, here is a special edition of the meteorology. Read more »

The NFL season is through with the first quarter, and we have seen some major surprises thus far. We?re down to four unbeatens and three winless teams, and history tells us those numbers will be no greater than one each over the next two weeks. Read more »

After 4 weeks, we find 3 NFL teams (San Diego, Chicago and Philadelphia) that were thought to be legit Super Bowl contenders struggling with 1-3 records. Can they recover? Read more »

Week 4 features lots of intra-divisional contests, which should provide a much more accurate glimpse into the states of reality for several teams. This is the last week where any preseason bias gets eliminated--the teams are what they are, not what they might have been anymore. Read more »

This week marks the beginning of the power poll rankings. I steadfastly refuse to rank the teams until I?ve seen real games to base upon. Also included are game-by-game predictions, including Sunday night's NFC battle. Read more »

Two weeks are in the books, which means we now have a solid baseline of data and observation on which to build better forecasts. Sunny skies in Dallas, Pittsburgh and Detroit, with clouds in New Orleans and St. Louis. Read more »

What we see over the next few weeks from several teams will be vastly different than how they weathered opening weekend. In the meantime, Jeff Risdon predicts all 16 games, including a potential AFC Championship preview. Read more »

The first week is always the toughest to forecast because there is no track record and no real sense of the prevailing winds. But there are potential Super Bowl previews in Indianapolis and San Diego. Read more »

I am a believer in young Head Coach Lane Kiffin, and I have too much respect for the Raiders defense to call for another 2-14 season. But it?s not going to be easy to surpass that win total despite a schedule with a lot of down opponents. Still, it?s real hard to be that bad two years in a row. 4 wins and 12 losses. Read more »