Junior Seau Honored at Lott Trophy Lunch In Full House of NFL Dignitaries Each May, over the last nine years, the Lott IMPACT Trophy watch list has been released and 42 defensive players in college football are earmarked to be watched for the only national collegiate football award that weighs character as highly as on-field [...]
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Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio Wants Colt’s Jim Irsay Off Twitter Twitter has certainly changed the way people converse, creating access to previously distant celebrities and notaries. And more importantly, the media has had to adjust accordingly, deciding how the social medium is navigated. Some see Twitter as a threat, others as a tool. For [...]
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After drafting wide receiver A.J. Jenkins in the first round, the San Francisco 49ers added more speed with University of Oregon running back LaMichael James in the second round. With a stellar career at Oregon, that included a loss in the national title game to Auburn in 2011, James left as a junior with an [...]
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This year will mark the 77th annual NFL draft, each event of which is very exciting. Understandably, fans want to have access to as much coverage from these few days as possible, with commentary and opinion offered by those in the know. Thankfully, the NFL Network and NFL..com are going to provide such coverage for [...]
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We all know Peyton Manning is one of the greatest quarterback to ever play the game, but in many ways, his influence on the NFL reverberates far beyond stats. Consider this: Since the Colts took Manning #1 overall in the 1998 draft, 10 of the 13 #1 picks since have been quarterbacks. What makes that [...]
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When drafted, many NFL scouts and analysts thought Tim Tebow would need 3-5 years with an NFL team to develop into a starter. However, they surmised, in today’s NFL that’s impossible, there’s too much pressure on a player of Tebow’s caliber to sit the bench for that long. Enter the incredible circumstances the Broncos franchise [...]
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The term “sack” was coined by Deacon Jones who enjoyed throwing another man around and thought the devastation leveled was akin to “sacking” a city, aka pillaging and thievery. Jones was proud of inflicting pain on quarterbacks, and more proud of adding new words to the football lexicon. He’s not shy about his visceral distain for the [...]
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With a record audience watching, NFL history was forever changed. And while that may be the case with each Super Bowl, this last one proved to not only establish new etchings on the Lombardi Trophy, but it erased one of the NFL’s most enduring, compelling and historic eras ever. Less than 4 minutes remained in [...]
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The New Orleans Saints are a marvel to behold. The number of records Drew Brees set this year might be a record in-and-of-itself, but for the Detroit Lions to pull of a bigger upset than what the Seahawks did last year they’ll need to contain the one guy that most people don’t even notice. Darren [...]
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Sports are the greatest microchasm of our society and while what we see in sports doesn’t always translate to everyday life, the excitement of a comeback happens weekly in the NFL, not so much in the office building, what we see in society certainly finds it’s way into sports. Its been well documented that a [...]
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