Today, the matriarch of the NFL and the Chicago Bears, Virginia McCaskey passed away at the age of 102. While not involved in the day to day operation of the team, she was the the largest shareholder of the team. Unlike every other ownership group in the league (except the Steelers’ Rooney Family), the McCaskey’s […]

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I admit to being shocked. First by the stunning beatdown that the Washington Commanders gave to the top NFC seed Detroit Lions Saturday, which feed up the top head coaching candidate, Offensive Coordinator Ben Johnson. As the top candidate now that Mike Vrabel wert back “home” to coach New England, where he played and won […]

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This has been a marvelous year in the NFL., and with more time on my hands, I have watched a great deal of it. Even games between two bad teams are usually close with an exciting ending. There are four trends that I have noticed this season that I would like to comment on: two […]

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As a life long fan of the NFL, there was a very sad trend in the league for the past several years – the almost complete devaluation of the running back. Running backs were the so-stars on teams behind the quarterbacks. The Hall of Fame running back list is long and prestigious: Jim Brown, Walter […]

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While the running back position has become important again, the kicking game is very strange. Today’s kickers are attempting and making 50+-yard field goals at a 70% rate. Field goals over 50 yards were rare. The NFL record for longest field goal by Tom Dempsey of the Eagles was 53yards for decades. Today, kickers are […]

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Like the rest of the sports world, I was very surprised when it was first announced that Bill Belichick was interviewing for the head coaching job at the University of North Carolina. Most people believed that he would hold out for an NFL job, but at the same time, I didn’t think any team would […]

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The Thanksgiving weekend has been an eventful one. For the first time in Chicago Bear history, management fired the head coach, Matt Eberflus right after the disastrous loss to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day. The errors are numerous and have been covered in the local and national media and on social media, so I will […]

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