Jeff Risdon - Football Analysis

Jeff Risdon vowed to become more positive in 2007, but after the first few days of the NFL free agent period, he couldn't help but slide back into his old ways. Read more »

Jeff Risdon spent Thursday thru Sunday morning at the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis, his second year at the meat market. Read more »

Everyone loves to hand out predictions, but then they try to bury them when things go bad. Here at RealGM, we interrogate our own predictions. In the first of a two-part series, we review the AFC. Read more »

With JaMarcus Russell climbing to the top slot, we have Brady Quinn falling to the Texans with the 8th pick. Here are the predicted slots for the first three rounds. Read more »

The Colts are 6-7 point favorites and we usually put a lot of faith in the bookmakers, but our hunch is that they are wrong on this one. Bears 31-20. Read more »

One road team has won on conference title weekend every year since 1996, and that trend will continue in Chicago. Jeff also weighs in on Michael Vick and the real reason why Nick Saban left Miami. Read more »

San Diego has the best offensive player of the Super Bowl era in Ladanian Tomlinson, but will it be enough to get past the Patriots? Read more »

This week features 4 NFL games, plus two Bowl games involving teams dear to my heart. Read more »

This is the last week of the regular season, but also when the college bowl season kicks into full blossom. The picks will only feature NFL games with playoff implications, plus some of the more intriguing bowl matchups through New Years Day. Read more »

Seasoned meteorologists will often cite December and January as the easiest months to accurately predict the weather. Picking football games, on the other hand, is often much more of a challenge. Read more »

Last week saw a return to forecast accuracy, with an 11-5 mark and three games where I was within a FG of the final score. Read more »

Dallas relies heavily on generating a pass rush to help their woefully inept safeties in pass coverage, but they sacked Drew Brees just once and recorded pressures on just 3 of his 38 attempts. Read more »

The playoff picture remains awfully cloudy in terms of the wild cards. Right now in the AFC I like the Bengals and Jets, while the NFC looks like Atlanta and the winner of this week?s Carolina-NY Giants matchup. Read more »

This is RealGM's final mock before the end of both the college and NFL seasons and while Brady Quinn will probably lose out on the Heisman, he has an excellent chance of being the first selection. Read more »

Even though he may have predicted the Giants degeneration into finger-pointing, Jeff Risdon was on the wrong side of the Tony Romo/Drew Bledsoe debate. See who he predicts to win this week's NFC East matchup and the other big games of the week. Read more »

Another decent week in the forecast center with an 11-6 mark, and we?re headed into the crunch time of the season. Read more »

Lobbying for someone to lose their job is never fun, but the Lions GM has to pay for his terrible job performance. Whether or not we should see Ohio State vs. Michigan, Part II and more. Read more »

It?s this point of the season where water is finding its level. That means underachieving squads start to look better, and the overachievers being to fall. Read more »

Week 10 brings a merciful end to the byes, which also means all teams are apples to apples by having all played 8 games. Read more »

We're back with our second look at the 32 college players that will be called in the first round next April in New York City. Joe Thomas, a tackle from Wisconsin is looking like the the number one pick nowadays, followed by Calvin Johnson, Brady Quinn and Brian Brohm. Read more »