January 2010

Kurt Warner and Rey Maualuga, Two Sides to the Coin

January 30, 2010

Two of the big NFL news stories on Friday were about Kurt Warner‘s retirement, and Rey Maualuga‘s arrest. One of the reasons Warner will be sorely missed is intensified by the incident with Maualuga. It’s the difference between earned and entitlement. Warner’s rise to Super Bowl MVP is well documented. At the University of Northern [...]

NFL Conf. Championships: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

January 27, 2010

And then there were two. Being one of them was the prize this week. The early game saw two teams play pretty well, with the game taking two distinct characters. The first 28 or so minutes was played much to the Jets’ liking, and the scoreboard bore that out. The final 32 minutes were played [...]

NFL Divisional Round: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

January 19, 2010

It was the NFL’s version of the Elite Eight. In reality, four of the teams did not look very elite. Once again, the first three games of the weekend were varying degrees of non-competitive. The favored home teams pretty much had their way in those games. Heading into the home stretch, the Saints, Colts and [...]

NFL Wild Card Round: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

January 13, 2010

The Wild Card week is now in the books, and it was a mixed bag. Two teams hit the Good while their oppoenent mailed in an Ugly. The results were predictable based on those grades. A third play pretty well while its opponent was Bad and on the verge of Ugly. The result there was [...]

Week 17: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

January 10, 2010

Somewhere, probably in Texas, Don Meredith is singing “turn out the lights, the party’s over” to 20 NFL teams. On the stage, Bob Seger is singing “The Famous Final Scene.” The lights have been turned up, the bouncer has made his presence known, the bartender is wiping the season away and the plebes are sweeping [...]

Week 16: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

January 10, 2010

As we close the books on 2009 and forge ahead to 2010, the playoff picture is become more clear. The NFC is set, although where five of the six teams are seeded is still up in the air. The AFC wild card situation is still a bit messy. This week’s GBU is largely, but not [...]