I’m all over the map heading into this Super Bowl matchup between the Saints and Colts. I find that my loyalties and my predictions on how the game is going to go down change hour by hour. Here’s just a few thoughts that have been swirling around in my head, on the ’09 Saints versus […]

This is the time of year to be frothing over draft picks, collegiate breakthroughs, obsessing over the history of first round busts. In other words, a time of year only for the rabid fan, which makes up a small percentage of the people who go to games, watch on TV, buy posters for their kids […]

The Conference Championships are always a bittersweet moment. It’s the last real Sunday of football, in the sense that the six-plus hours of on-field action are at least a match for the hours of televised pre-game hype. The teams in this final four are playing for huge stakes, the last “win or go home” games […]

News is out, in the pages of the Post Dispatch, that Chip and Lucia Rosenbloom are considering three serious offers — including Dave Checketts’ — to sell the Rams. And they’ll make their decision before the draft. For all you fans of the Saint Louis Rams, here is the kernel of the story: The three […]

The running theme so far this weekend has been the value of rest — a poke in the eye to all of us who ridiculed the Colts and Saints for laying down in the last weeks of the season. Neither team showed much rust, with the Saints looking every bit the Greatest Show II team […]

The first weekend of football dropped a couple of pretenders, including the Eagles and Bengals, saw the downfall of the mighty Patriots, introduced an ideal smashmouth dark horse candidate in the Jets, and gave us perhaps the game of the season between the Packers and Cardinals — as well as a fresh bit of overtime […]

Last week’s post and poll about concussions, dogfighting, and the possibility of Michael Vick as the next Rams quarterback yielded some surprising results: Rams fans appear to be very supportive of Vick. By more than a 2:1 margin. A much larger sample voted in Bernie Miklasz’s Five Minutes blog, with much the same results. Naturally, […]

Editor’s note: This started as a comment of mine over at Turf Show Times, but I feel it’s a topic worthy of a full post. In the third round of the 2009 draft, Billy Devaney and the Rams reached for a physical cornerback from the University of Iowa named Bradley Fletcher. Devaney and Spagnuolo touted […]

We continue our look around FanBall for takes on Sunday’s game, while pondering what in the hell happened to the Eagles, and whether we should be excited now that Michael Vick is one step closer to being a free agent. The day’s first matchup is the odd game out, in a weekend of instant rematches, […]

This weekend promises some of the best and most intriguing football of the season, thanks to a series of rematch battles. Week 17’s complicated array of motivated and unmotivated teams created three matchups where the coaches knew beforehand that there was either a strong possibility or certainty of a rematch, and the result was three […]

Ted Carlson at the Five Tool Blog, an excellent fantasy resource on the FanBall network, has a nice take on the Rams and how to go about fixing them in five easy steps. Among other things, he addresses the #1 pick (Suh or not?), Michael Vick, and RamsHerd’s dark horse pick for 2010 starting weakside […]

Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point” is one of the most thought-provoking business writers working today. He loves exploring data and finding connections between seemingly unrelated ideas to produce revelatory content. His starting point in this October 2009 article for the New Yorker, though, is not a startling one: “Playing football causes […]

If you haven’t already bookmarked Cameron Hollway’s “On the Rams” column at the St Louis Beacon, I suggest you do it. His latest column, written before kickoff but just as relevant now, explores the reasons for Rams hope in 2010. I am not suggesting that the Rams tanked the season. They won’t say so, but […]