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Sports Central July 31, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Pro Football Hall of Fame Biggest Snubs This is an updated version of a piece I wrote in 2007. Many of the players I wrote about then have been elected to Canton, some new players have become eligible, and some things I've changed my mind about. |
Salon.com January 3, 2003 Allen Barra |
Hot Tuna Control freak Bill Parcells will burn out in his third year at Dallas. Plus: Pennington's the MVP, not Gannon. |
Sports Illustrated September 21, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Seven teams under the microscope By my count, I've seen 25 teams so far. In some cases, the impressions are muddy. In others, a picture is starting to form. I've got a lot of notes, many impressions, and I'll share them with you, highlighting a few of the more interesting teams. |
Sports Illustrated September 5, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Dr. Z's Forecast Ever since 1978, when new rules put wings on the ball and made passing easier, poor old reactionaries such as me have been wringing our hands and longing for the return of old-fashioned values. Running the ball. Taking the game to the big guys. This may actually happen this year... |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Heisman Trophy Disappointments The Heisman Trophy is awarded to the most outstanding college football player each season. But while the annual winners are showered with acclaim, not all go on to NFL fame. |
Sports Illustrated March 20, 2002 Paul Zimmerman |
Meet market Breakfast with champions, and 5-11 head coaches: some notes from the NFL meetings in Orlando... |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2001 |
Dawn of the deadline Why you should wear a mouthpiece... Evaluating Redskins tackles... Roger Craig in the Hall of Fame?... Bucs' offense is predictable... etc. |
Sports Illustrated October 16, 2000 Peter King |
Jason Sehorn can't buy a break A funny thing happened on the way to Sehorn retaking his place among the game's elite... |
Sports Central September 17, 2013 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 2 Report The author offers his predictions for the upset of the week involving the Rams over the Cowboys. He thinks St. Louis has a good, underrated defense, and you never know when the Cowboys will just implode and blow a game they could have won. |
Sports Illustrated October 24, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Wowed by the Jets It was a flat, lethargic game. One team was playing, the other one was going through the motions. For three quarters. Then all hell broke loose... |
Sports Illustrated September 8, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Don't get no respect at all Defending my picks on what I thought was a successful Sunday... |
Salon.com September 8, 2000 Allen Barra |
Passing fancy The Bill Walsh-inspired offensive revolution has had an unexpected drawback: Every NFL team looks the same now. |
Sports Central August 8, 2007 Brad Oremland |
The Pro Football Hall of Fame's Biggest Snubs The Pro Football Hall of Fame is closer to giving defensive backs the credit they deserve. But there are still gaping holes in the Hall's membership. |
Sports Illustrated December 8, 2000 |
Chalk one up for the rippers There's only one thing worse than a vicious ripper: a vicious ripper who happens to be right. In my capsule on the Eagles as one of the contending teams, I said that no offensive player except Donovan McNabb will come within sniffing distance of the Pro Bowl... |
Sports Illustrated November 9, 2001 Paul Zimmerman |
Saints and sinners Fairness has never been a part of the NFL's officiating credo, just as it has little to do with our legal system in general. The league is into cosmetic surgery. The worse that things look, the heavier the penalty, or penalties... |
Sports Illustrated November 20, 2001 Peter King |
Fast and Furious With a dazzling display of speed and power, the Jets have shot to the top of the AFC East... |
Sports Illustrated July 31, 2002 Paul Zimmerman |
Forsaking Hall others An inside look at who's in, who's up, who's out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame -- and why |
Sports Illustrated July 29, 2002 Peter King |
Traveling man Bonus snippets from the NFL training camp trail after Week 1 of the tour. |
Sports Central December 16, 2007 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Best Offense Ever With apologies to the 1941 Bears and the San Diego Chargers in general, here are the 10 best offenses in league history. |
Sports Illustrated October 13, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Don't wind me up A pair of letters that have accused me of being delinquent in the upstairs dept. because I asked the simple question: Why do some teams kick off into the wind? |
Sports Illustrated October 31, 2001 Paul Zimmerman |
Taking on the oxymorons The 'legal foul' in the NFL has been out of hand for 20 years... |
Sports Central July 24, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Five Hall of Fame Candidates There are a lot of great players missing from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Some of them will be inducted in the next few years, a few will have longer waits, and many will never be enshrined. |
Sports Illustrated August 20, 2001 Peter King |
Favorite Martin A postcard from New York Jets training camp... |
Sports Illustrated October 13, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
From superb to mediocre The phenomenon of an All-Pro or near-All-Pro losing his identity on a new team always has interested me. What is it that turns him into, well, just another guy? Why are many former stars looking so average? |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2000 Peter King |
Only the good die young I was tempted to write this Monday morning about the Bucs rising slowly in the NFC Central, or about the sudden crises facing the formerly unbeatable Rams. But the top of this football column is not a football column. I ask you to read it anyway... |
Sports Illustrated December 31, 2001 Peter King |
From Tampa to Asbury Park, quite a year As the most non-suspenseful end-of-the-season I remember winds down, allow me to give you a condensed year in the life of a football writer, culled from selected Monday Morning Quarterbacks of weeks past... |
Sports Illustrated November 4, 2002 Peter King |
Something about Brett Favre's healthy -- and the league's halfpoint MVP. |
Sports Illustrated October 27, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Mailbag Saints and mailbag sinners I'll take the heat for everything that appears under my byline, but there's one thing that bugs me -- getting ripped for something I didn't write... |
Sports Illustrated October 24, 2001 Paul Zimmerman |
Marching madness I can't stand the West Coast offense. I don't like the name, since it's wrong, but I've harangued enough about that one. What I really don't like is what it's done to football... |
Sports Illustrated October 12, 2000 Peter King |
Campaign 2000 mirrors NFL 2000 Wow. A guy steps out into the world of coffee and politics and gets blistered for it. I guess you all didn't much care for my characterization of the Republican presidential candidate in my Monday Morning Quarterback column this week... |
Sports Illustrated November 6, 2000 Peter King |
Landscape never changes in Cincy For the season, the Bengals have sold out one game -- the opener with Cleveland -- and the prevailing attitude in town is: Just because you built it, we won't necessarily come... |
Sports Illustrated January 19, 2001 Paul Zimmerman |
Gut Check With points at a premium, the Ravens will find a way to squeeze by the Giants... |
Sports Illustrated June 29, 2001 Paul Zimmerman |
Coaching's wary tales I don't see how they do it. I don't see how anyone can coach an NFL club these days... |
Sports Central August 2, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
NFL Preseason Counts More Than You Think As we head to the first set of NFL preseason games, beginning with the Hall of Fame game between Arizona and New Orleans on Sunday, the age-old debate about the value of preseason will once again annoy me. |
Sports Central January 12, 2015 Brad Oremland |
NFL 2014-15 Divisional Weekend NFL teams with coaching vacancies have been patient this year. Rex Ryan will apparently be the next head coach of the Buffalo Bills, and that's the first opening filled, with five remaining. |
Sports Central October 28, 2008 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 8 Power Rankings The Tennessee Titans rank number one in this weeks top-rated NFL teams. All 32 teams are ranked. |
Sports Illustrated August 17, 2000 Dr. Z |
Hold everything, the rippers are back Defending my All-90s team |
Sports Illustrated September 14, 2000 Paul Zimmerman |
Checkmate How the Jets solved New England's opening gambit... |
Sports Central October 21, 2008 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 7 Power Rankings Could Tennessee send two running backs to the Pro Bowl?... Tampa Bay's [5] backfield injuries starting to mount... Next week's New York Giants at Pittsburgh game will be decided by the defensive coordinators... etc. |
Sports Central September 25, 2012 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 3 Power Rankings Last week, the NFL lost one of the greatest people ever associated with the sport. I wrote last week about Steve Sabol, and it was wonderful to see people around the league honor him in Week 3. |
Sports Illustrated September 18, 2000 Peter King |
Detroit needs some saving Detroit's teams aren't abandoning their city...Week 3 Awards... Factoid ... 10 Things I Think I Think... |
Sports Central October 13, 2005 Jeffrey Boswell |
NFL Weekly Predictions: Week 6 Palmer gets the best of McNair... Ravens spoil Dilfer's homecoming... Tampa defense confuses Miami... Chicago wins a close one... Cowboys produce another stellar defensive effort... Raiders' Moss makes a difference... etc. |
Sports Central September 10, 2008 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 1 Power Rankings NFL teams are ranked on their strength after the first week of the regular season. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2001 Peter King |
Chat Reel Returning RBs, interesting teams and a Super pick... |
Sports Illustrated August 29, 2000 |
Dr. Z's Forecast I don't think I've ever seen as much head-scratching at the quarterback position going into the opening week. The exhibition season is supposed to sort all that out, right? But look what we have... |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2001 Peter King |
Most NFL teams have a Super chance The NFL is changing, in a big way. The Ravens and Giants are poster children for the new-look league, just like the Rams and Titans were in Super Bowl XXXIV... |
Sports Illustrated January 18, 2001 Paul Zimmerman |
Super Bowl positional breakdown Following are the player vs. player matchups for Super Bowl XXXV... |
Sports Central October 12, 2004 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 5 Power Rankings Check out the power rankings for week five in the NFL. |
Sports Central September 28, 2006 Jeffrey Boswell |
NFL Weekly Predictions: Week 4 The Falcons get their running game back in order... Titans fans are disappointed... Jets live by the turnover; but the Colts don't... etc. |
Sports Central October 6, 2005 Jeffrey Boswell |
NFL Weekly Predictions: Week 5 Baltimore @ Detroit... Chicago @ Cleveland... Miami @ Buffalo... etc. |