Football Analysis

The 2007 college football season has been riddled with upsets, surprises, twists and turns and it will be no different with the Heisman Trophy race. Surprising names like Michael Crabtree, Matt Grothe and Dennis Dixon are receiving consideration, but it should still comedown to the big names like Michigan's Michael Hart, Florida's Tim Tebow and Boston College's Matt Ryan. 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 »

With Terrell Owens? opening salvo, this game has become T.O. vs. Randy Moss. It will be a game of who finishes with better numbers. The game is in Dallas, where country music is king. But the only way there will be dueling banjos will be if they?re swung like clubs. Read more »

On Sunday, Seattle fullback Mack Strong played against the Pittsburgh Steelers. By Tuesday, he announced his retirement after suffering a herniated disk that was pinching his spinal cord. Strong shouldn?t be the only player immediately calling it quits. Read more »

The 2007 NFL season, writes Abu Mara, has been filed with some intrigue, but remained quite predictable. The New England Patriots and Indianapolis are both 5-0 as expected. But, the flummoxing situation in the wide-open NFC has teams in Dallas, Seattle and Green Bay trying to find some way to gearing up for a championship runs. Without any further ado, here are some of the surprises and disappointments of the NFL season through five weeks of the season. 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 »

Injuries decimated The Drew Crew in Week Five, but they were victorious nonetheless. Find out how Andrew pulled it off, and what he found most entertaining about last weekend's NFL action. Read more »

The Cowboys escaped Buffalo with their lives on Monday night and preserve the battle of unbeaten teams this Sunday when they host the Patriots. Read more »

Bill, you?ve become the last thing you ever wanted: you?re sexy. The topic of you evokes opinions from everyone this season. You?re a walking bowl of oatmeal Bill, yet somehow you?ve been the most talked about fellow around the league this side of Michael Vick. That?s a pretty epic feat for a guy who cuts the sleeves off of his sweatshirts and talks like a high school chemistry teacher. You?ve somehow had one hell of NFL season, and it?s only week five. Read more »

If everybody?s favorite player is the back-up quarterback, what do they think of the third stringer? By the end of week five, 10 back up QBs will have started a game and one will regularly see action. At this rate, fans will run out of favorite players to root for. Read more »

Despite the success of Doug Williams and Warren Moon, the NFL was slow to warm up to drafting blacks to lead offenses. After Williams in 1978, it took 12 years until another black man was selected in the first round. 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 »

The Miami Dolphins? perennial underachieving running back Ronnie Brown is coming off two of the best games of his career. A three touchdown outing against the Lions and a one TD, 200+ yard outing against the Raiders have made Brown the top back in the league thus far. My contention is, this was only made possible because of me. Read more »

With four weeks on the books, trends are becoming more clear and the Packers don't look like one that will fade. Of course we knew the Patriots and Colts would be around, but how low can the Chargers go before they find their stride? Read more »

The Drew Crew is back on track, but Andrew's Eagles are not. Check out the Week Four edition of the Keyboard Quarterback as he muses on all that is football. 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 »

To put an end to whatever speculation that might still be out there, here's a review of cheating claims made by other teams that proved to be baseless against the Patriots. Read more »

Andrew's happy because his Eagles got their first win in grand fashion, but he didn't enjoy the rest of Week Three in the NFL. Weak fantasy owners beware! Read more »

There are now just five undefeated teams in the NFL, the Patriots, Steelers, Cowboys, Colts and Packers. Heading into Week 4, it feels like there is a huge drop-off between the first four teams and the remainder of the NFL. Read more »