Dirty Birds at the Bye

What are the first thoughts that come to your head when you hear about a team that started 5-0 then went 1-3 in the month leading up to their bye week? Maybe that they had significant injuries occur, perhaps at the quarterback position, that have paralyzed the team's offense. Maybe that

The Price of the Cost

Veteran Linebacker Brian Cushing is escorted into the office of his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. With his coach, Bill O'Brien, the agent delivers an insightful plea to his client. Two of the men most invested in Cushing will beg for the star to allow his individual performance to taper off. Unfortunately for them, negotiations

Your Fired!

It's no secret that this NFL season has been generally unappealing. Through seven weeks, twelve teams have winning records (and five of those teams are undefeated) and a majority of the division races are pretty much over. Sunday and Monday Night Football programming has actually provided a pretty decent product -- including the Seahawks

Crisis Averted

Via his Twitter account on Tuesday, Steelers DE Cam Heyward announced an agreement with the NFL regarding two weeks of fines he has received from the NFL for his Ironhead eye black message, which he wore as an honor to his father who passed away from brain cancer.  Being that October

NFL Speakeasy Stories: True Inspiration

A Nondescript Contemporary Hotel Bar, 3rd Level. 2:47 am, October 19, 2015. A ginger-haired Princeton man sits at the bar on the corner stool nursing a Perrier and cucumber. He takes a sip and is jerked up straight, sucking on his tongue and drawing back his lips with a grimace. He does not typically bastardize the taste of his

Tom Brady’s PED Scandal Begins

In you case you missed it -- and you probably did because the story was published on a Friday before a government holiday three-day weekend and, in the four hours of NFL exposure I had this weekend, it wasn't even alluded to once -- Boston Magazine (which bills themselves as