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 […]