The Black Quarterback: Running from the Devil - part 3

This is 2007. This season we have witnessed the fall of the classic, from the pocket black quarterback, Leftwich, in favor of his "more mobile" backup, David Garrard. Leftwich was said by his head coach Jack Del Rio, to have "regressed" as a quarterback. It is interesting - and no accident - that Leftwich, viewed as heroic throughout his college [read more...]

Somewhere, Bill Belichick is licking his fingers

Somewhere in a bunker-like war room in New England, Bill Belichick is licking his fingers. And it's not because he ate a great bowl of clam chowder.In what is regularly billed as the best weekend of NFL football every year, there certainly was little disappointment. Little disappointment, that is, if you're from Massachusetts or anywhere north. With Dallas and Indy [read more...]

Blips, Blurbs & Blasts

Linebacker extraordinaire Tedy Bruschi has decided to sit out the 2005 NFL season after suffering a freak stroke this past February, shortly after helping his team win Super Bowl XXXIX. I know the Patriots have had the Midas touch the last few years when it comes to filling the holes on their roster, but finding someone to take Bruschi's place [read more...]