Football Analysis

A team looking for a fresh start under first year Head Coach Mike Smith scored on there first three offensive possessions and racked up 216 yards of total offense in the opening period. Read more »

Using our Trench Counter, we rank the top teams after the first week of NFL action and find the Eagles and Cowboys at the top of the heap. Read more »

In our first NCAA football rankings of 2008, we introduce a new statistic called the 'Trench Counter.' Read more »

Using our Criticals Counter, we examine the AP top-15 of college football, as well as why Alabama and Texas Tech were very ordinary on Saturday and why East Carolina might be the best story through the first two weeks of 2008. Read more »

Chase Clement of Rice, Shun White of Navy and Dante Love of Ball State are the FIC leaders, but Juice Williams, Jahvid Best and Michael Crabtree are quickly gaining. Read more »

Who looks good and who will need a lot of help heading into the 2008 NFL season? Read more »

Look at why 2007 was so disappointing for the Eagles: McNabb?s recovery, Coach Reid?s personal issues off the field, injuries to Dawkins and Smith, a tough schedule, Akers? slump, and an inability to create turnovers. This team is poised for a big 2008. Read more »

With the worst collection of wide receivers in the NFL, the Titans defense will have a hard time leading the club to overachieve again while their schedule does them no favors either. Read more »

Baltimore wants Flacco to be their QB of the future. Except the Ravens feel they have no choice but to start him now because Boller and Smith are unavailable. Wrong! Read more »

It's been seven long months, but football is finally back in our lives full-time. The 'KQ' has returned to help guide you through Week One of the 2008 NFL Season. Read more »

The crispness is back in the air, and that can only mean one thing: It?s football season! Risdon offers his picks for Week 1 and which teams will make the playoffs. Read more »

Even with Brett Favre this team would have a real hard time coming close to the 13 wins of 2007. The QB situation is just one of the questions that faces this team as they look to repeat in the NFC North. I have a hunch that enough of those questions (the aging CBs, the gaping hole at DT, the running game) will not get answered positive that the Packers are going to slide out of the playoffs. Read more »

This team wasn?t as awful as the 1-15 record they posted in 2007, but it wasn?t a fluke either. The rebuild has begun, and the overall talent level of the team is headed in the right direction. But it?s still got a long way to go before this team gets back to .500. Read more »

Baltimore wants Flacco to be their QB of the future. But the Ravens feel they have no choice but to start him now because Boller and Smith are unavailable. Wrong! Read more »

The starters are good enough to carry the Steelers to the playoffs. But between the lousy pass protection and the paper-thin defense chock full of older players, that is asking a lot. A look at the schedule breeds pessimism, as Pittsburgh plays all of their non-divisional games against teams that finished with winning records in 2007. Read more »

With injuries and age a factor, the jury is out on whether or not the Colts can get back to the Super Bowl. But there are a few reasons why this season's edition could be even better than 2006 when they won it all. Read more »

With all the returning injured players and solid line play on both sides of the ball, the Bills are good enough to hang in the playoff race. But with the gray area surrounding Jason Peters and Trent Edwards, they probably don?t have enough difference-makers in the right spots to make those playoff seeds germinate this year. Read more »

The Rams have too many holes in the pass defense and questions with the right side of the OL to be a promising playoff team--but in their weak division it?s certainly not impossible. Read more »

Shun White of Navy, Kellen Lewis of Indiana and Mark Dell of Michigan State are the current FIC leaders in college football after the first week of games. Read more »

If Matt Hasselbeck can overcome more typically erratic WR play and the run defense holds up, Seattle should earn a playoff bye and home field advantage, which in their case is an extreme advantage and is why they are the best bet to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. Read more »