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Jim McGrew recaps a busy 24 hours in the football world: Mike McQueary provided some disturbing but important (and damning) testimony about Jerry Sandusky; the Sam Hurd drug saga continued to unfold; and Adrian Peterson explained one of his motivations for returning to the field.
Tonight’s game features a matchup of two teams, the Saints and Lions, vying for playoff spots in the NFC – but it was originally scheduled to feature the Patriots and the lowly Colts. That would have been ugly, as the last time the Colts were on Sunday Night Football the Saints beat them 62-7.
Since their bye week in week 7, the Giants have lost two of the four games and need to win this one to keep the pressure on the Cowboys. With the Saints coming off a bye week and playing at home, they are going to be tough to beat.
As always, we begin this Start em, Sit em advice post for Week 10 with a quick recap of last week’s picks, then a full rundown of our start/sit picks at QB, RB, WR, TE, and Defense. (And also, don’t forget: the Raiders and Chargers play this Thursday Night, so make sure you ask about and set your rosters now!)
With the NFL season at its midway point, and the Detroit Lions clearly one of the biggest stories of the first half of the season, here are our Midseason NFL Power Rankings: Motown Edition, with each team presented alongside a Motown classic that sums up the first half of its season.
This game was described as a rematch of Super Bowl 44 on a commericial, which would have been a great advertisement at the beginning of the year. Now that Peyton Manning is out, it should not even be considered close to a Super Bowl rematch.
In this week’s NFL Power Rankings, Drew Lange ranks every team from 1-32, explains his reasoning for not liking teams adding pink to their uniforms during October, and provides useful advice about drunk girls alone at bars.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Darren McFadden, Ray Lewis, and others are the players responsible for newspaper headlines and SportsCenter highlights, but there were plenty of other players whose heroic performances helped their teams to victory on Sunday, many of whom you probably didn’t notice.
You would think that when the Chicago Bears lost to the New Orleans Saints 30-13 that ultra-famous and ultra-sexy Bears QB Jay Cutler wouldn’t be able to dominate. But you couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, I saw nothing but pure domination last Sunday.
NFL football has returned, and do you what that means Chicago Bears fans? Watching yet another year of Jay Cutler dominating every single team, every single game, for 16 games…just like he did in Week 1 against Atlanta.
NFL football is finally back, and there aren’t many matchups better than Thursday’s season opening game between Green Bay and New Orleans. In this post, Chris Callaway provides his analysis for Thursday’s game.
