What teams are really that good? What teams are really that bad? How important is home field advantage? Is the bye-week a bigger negative than a positive? Everything you though about the NFL playoffs went to the birds this past weekend (meaning the Ravens, Cardinals and Eagles)!
The Good:
Baltimore Ravens: Live by big plays, die [...]

Round 1 of the NFL playoffs is complete. Some games were close, some were… well, not so close, and perhaps even those were closer in final score than they really were on the field. So, what did you learn? Here are my musings (some serious, some slightly less so) based upon the just completed Wild [...]

Parity, thy name is the NFL.  To be sure, at 10-1 each the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants are running away with the AFC and NFC, respectively, but after those two teams…  The next 17 teams all have records of either 8-3 (4), 7-4 (7) or 6-5 (6).  How close together are the majority [...]

The Steelers victory over the Chargers was the first ever 11-10 final score in the history of the NFL, after 12,837 games.
And you thought the Eagles-Bengals tie was odd enough.

Perhaps I’m old fashioned, but I like seeing a player finish his career on the roster of the team with which he played the majority of his years.  From a fan’s perspective, a special kind of identity builds between a player and a team when the one has been associated with the latter over a [...]