The difference between the powerhouse National Football Conference East and the weaker divisions in the N.F.L. can be summed up with one word: pressure. Two of the top pass rushes in the league will be on display when the Giants face the Cowboys on ...
Last week, the Fox analyst Terry Bradshaw asserted that if Green Bay had held on to Brett Favre instead of trading him, the Packers, not the Jets, would be 7-3. Analysis and discussion of the N.F.L. on the New York Times pro football blog. Bradshaw is ...
As we enter the 2008 NFL regular season, one question is on everyone's minds: Does the NFL regular season even mean anything anymore? Brett Favre #4 of the New York Jets warms up before a preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln ...
Just one month ago, the Giants stood between the New England Patriots and history. The Giants played their best game of the season, but the Patriots came back from a 10-point deficit, won the game 38–35, and became the first team in NFL history to ...
That's a great point about Mathis and about cornerbacks moving around in general. There are certain teams, like the Raiders, that seem to have their No. 1 corner follow the opponent's No. 1 receiver, but you're right that for the most part defensive ...
What about the San Diego defense? It's true that they've built their recent success against some atrocious offenses. (JaMarcus Russell's uniform actually said "TRAINEE" on the back.) Still, that's what a strong defense is supposed to do: shut down bad ...
Four teams dominated the NFL over the first half of the season. Each of those teams declined somewhat in the second half, but each one won enough games to get the first weekend of the postseason off. Now each must defeat a challenger that has come on ...
Sure, there was a time that Steve Smith was useful. It was right up until Jake Delhomme went down with the injury. Oh, wait, that's the wrong Steve Smith! But seriously ... I agree with you about small sample sizes, but it was Week 15 before the Giants ...
As we've talked about before, the football analytical world had a ways to go to catch up to the analytical baseball world a few years ago. Between the stuff we've done and the work of many others like Albert Breer and Michael David Smith, we're closing ...
Not a single team in the AFC South or NFC East finished the 2007 regular season with a losing record, and those divisions provided all four of this year's wild card playoff teams. Jacksonville is the hot wild card team nobody wants to play, while ...
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