Moss’ big play saves the day for the Patriots

Patriots WR Randy Moss showed that he has plenty of fight left in him as his stiff-arm touchdown against the Dolphins was a huge play
Think back to Week 5 of the 2009 NFL Season.  The New England Patriots appeared to be on the ropes with murmuring of their dynasty possibly ending after a tough 20-17 [...]

2009 NFL Season – Week 5 Preview

In one of Week 5’s best games, it will be “The Hoody” vs. “Hoody Jr” as Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels leads his young team against his old boss Bill Belichick and the Patriots
 Week 5 of the 2009 NFL Season is upon us and around the league many trends are starting to form.  The most [...]

The NFL should stop trying to protect Patriots QB Tom Brady

Ravens defenders including Big DT Haloti Ngata were rightfully perturbed over some “iffy” roughing the passer calls that benefited Pats’ QB Tom Brady
Let’s think way back to Week 1 of the 2008 NFL Season.  Kansas City Chiefs safety Benard Pollard lunged at “Captain America” Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and knocked the NFL’s biggest prize out [...]

2009 NFL Training Camp Questions – AFC East

Buffalo Bills
How will RB Marshawn Lynch’s legal problems and suspension (3 games) affect the team?
Can the small-market Bills continue to compete with the larger market teams given their stadium and economic issues plus are they a candidate for re-location (L.A or Toronto permantly)?
After a 5-1 start then limping home in 2008 and finishing 7-9 for [...]

The Patriots survive blitzes, former teammate Branch, and injuries for a close victory over the Seahawks

The Seahawks game plan for attacking the former bullies of the NFL, the New England Patriots, was simple get an early lead and harass inexperienced quarterback Matt Cassel into making mistakes.  However to the dismay of the Seahawks, Cassel was not the same passer who looked so bad in a week 13 loss to the [...]

Jets beat Patriots in an Overtime Instant Classic

The AFC East just got a little wackier after the Jets (7-3) surprised the Patriots (6-4) with a 34-31 overtime victory — Jets had previously lost 11 of 12 to the Patriots.  I am not sure if everyone got to see this one fully (Thanks NFL Network and Big Cable), but hopefully the majority of [...]

Dolphins Breakout Wildcat Offense in Their First Win

I have been saying for years that some form of an “option” style offensive attack could work in the NFL in certain packages/situations.  With a plethora of college and high school quarterbacks running Urban Meyer’s spread-option offense, there maybe a need in the future for the NFL to work towards some running quarterbacks strengths by running [...]

Patriots Send Simms and Rattay Packing

From the strange world of “Belichick Only Knows”.  The Patriots brought in quarterbacks Chris Simms and Tim Rattay on Monday, only to tell them once they arrived to “Go Home”.  Apparently Belichick and the Patriots front-office decided to give new starter Matt Cassel a chance before exploring other possibilities.  Cassel and 3rd round draft pick [...]

Patriots Must Go On Without Brady

Tom Brady’s season-ending knee injury throws a real monkey-wrench into the ‘08 NFL Season
(Philadelphia, Pa) — The NFL’s worst fear (season-ending injury to a marquee player) reared its ugly head as the New England Patriots learned that their superstar quarterback Tom Brady will be lost for 2008 after suffering a knee against the Chiefs in week [...]

Put Spygate to Rest

US Senator from Pennsylvania Arlen Specter just can’t stay out of the NFL’s business as he met with Spygate’s supposed key figure Matt Walsh on May 13th

 
(Philadelphia, Pa)-With Patriots’ cameraman turned singing canary Matt Walsh’s meetings with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Senior U.S Senator/disruptor Arlen Specter on Tuesday May 13th, for the second time [...]

2008 NFL Draft Review

(Photo by David Kindervater)
By Lloyd Vance, BIGPLAY Football “Draft Guru” / Sr. NFL Writer
(Philadelphia, Pa) — Now that the biggest “non on the field” NFL event is done for this year and 252 players know their destinations, it is time for myself and other talent evaluators to recap the action and then take a well [...]

2008 NFL Annual Meeting is Over and This is What We Learned

(Philadelphia, Pa) – As myself and countless other members of the NFL’s traveling show return home from the 2008 NFL Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.  I wanted to give a recap of what happened, what changes are coming, what was tabled, and other tidbits from the event.  Much like the NFL combine, I cannot [...]