Does the NFL really need To change the rules of overtime?

Am I the only person in America that likes the current overtime format in the NFL? There has been a lot of talk around the league for years now about changing the current overtime system, especially after the way the Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game. After forcing overtime, the Saints won the coin toss and kicked [read more...]

NFL Competition Committee to take a look at current overtime format

As a football fan you either love or hate the current overtime format. There’s really not much of a way around it, as if your team loses a lot of times you hear about how OT is unfair, and then again if your team wins it’s fine as is. Finally the NFL has decided enough is enough, and [read more...]

From Chicago, to New Orleans, to the Super Bowl

Gab reader Michael Masson sent in this interesting piece leading up to Super Sunday: Saturday. I pack my #57 Rickey Jackson jersey with pride and care, and walk to my car on a cold Chicago morning. When I pull up to my brother’s house a few blocks away, we exchange cautiously optimistic looks. We’ve been in this position before. We all have, [read more...]

Why the Saints Will Come Away a Winner in Super Bowl XLIV

As the dust settles after Kurt Warner’s retirement, the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl media day the actual Super Bowl game is starting to come into focus.  In the last week and a half, Warner, Brett Favre, Tim Tebow and the commissioner’s declaration that the uncapped year is a “virtual certainty”, have dominated the headlines.  We’re now four days away [read more...]

Vikings CB Cedric Griffin In Question for 2010

Cedric Griffin is coming off of easily Paymah his best season of his career. Over the last year and a half, Griffin has improved to the point where he is getting a name for himself as a great tackling corner, and had a career high four interceptions in 2009. There will be a set back, however, as Griffin tore his ACL covering a [read more...]

On Human Fallibility

NFLGridironGab.com reader Ron Lispman sent me the following, which I felt was a good enough piece to share with our fans – enjoy! This past Sunday’s NFC championship game contained a poignant lesson for more than just football fans. The game featured the New Orleans Saints versus the Minnesota Vikings. With my pathetic Redskins having left the ranks of the contenders [read more...]

Arizona Cardinals 2009 Season in Review

The 2009 Arizona Cardinals were a difficult team to gauge at times. Their season consisted of a list of “did” and “did not” moments. For instance, they didn’t reach the Super Bowl for a second straight year, but they did win their second straight NFC West division title. They didn’t come close to playing championship defense during the postseason, [read more...]

Colts Open in Vegas as a 4-Point Favorite

The early line is in, and if all goes as they say, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts will have another Super Bowl trophy under their belts. The Vegas line for Super Bowl XLIV opened with Indy as as a four-point favorite to beat New Orleans. Oddsmaker Sean Van Patten of Las Vegas Sports Consultants said the firm gave that [read more...]

Where’s the competition?

I have been a football fan for many years, but I don’t remember ever seeing this many uncompetitive playoff games in one year.So far only two games have been decided by one score, Arizona’s shoot-out, overtime, 6 point victory over Green Bay, and the Jets 3 point win over the Chargers. Excluding those two games ALL of the rest of [read more...]

Is Gary Brackett Really the Leader of the Colts Defense?

It’s either Dwight Freeney or Bob Sanders that would lead this category: The heart and soul of the Indianapolis Colts’ defense. Well, if you really think so, I would have to strongly disagree. I can tell you who it is, and this man makes a big difference to the team. This guy is the real reason of why the Colts’ defense [read more...]

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