The NFL Scouting Combine starts Wednesday where teams get a closer look at players entering the 2012 NFL draft. In case anyone is interested, below you will find the schedule of activities for all position groups over the next week. NFL Network will be live from the Scouting Combine on Saturday, February 25 if your [...]
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Monday Thoughts and Musings–Super Bowl XLVI Edition
Well, what do you know, we wake up and the Giants are still Super Bowl Champs. Unbelievable. What a feeling. I still contend there are few things better than your team winning the Super Bowl. And now, our team won. Enjoy it, folks. Buy all the gear you can. Savor it. Keep that feeling in [...]
Cowboys Hall of Fame RB Tony Dorsett Suing the NFL
February 3rd, 2012 
Matt Loede 
Posted in National Football League Players Association, Off The Field News The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career. “It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen,” Dorsett says now. “Did they know it was a concussion?” he asks rhetorically during an interview [...]
Goodell Gives His State of the NFL Speech – Expansion, Safety and London on the Table
As per usual the Friday before the Super Bowl, Commissioner Roger Goodell gave his annual State of the NFL address, hitting on a number of topics that will point the way to the future for the league. Below are some of the highlights of the news conference: Player safety: “We are focused now on how [...]
Former Dolphins LB Crowder Slams Miami GM Jeff Ireland
Channing Crowder is ready to return to football after a one-season sabbatical, but he made it clear to me Wednesday he’s not interested in a reunion with his former team. The 28-year-old retired in August, 10 days after being cut by the Dolphins. He said then it was because his heart wasn’t in the game [...]
NFL, Networks Near New Deals
The National Football League and television networks CBS, NBC and FOX are close to renewing broadcasting rights deals, Daniel Kaplan and John Ourand of the SportsBusiness Journal report. The current deals expire after the 2013 season and the extensions would be for another season eight years, expiring after the 2021 season. The league’s current collective bargaining agreement expires [...]
AFC Editor Matt Loede’s NFL Picks For Week Nine
Last Week: 8-5 Season: 75-41 Seattle at Dallas – Last week Tony Romo and the Cowboys were awful vs the Eagles, but this week against the inept Seahawks they should rebound nicely. Romo and the Cowboys should be able to throw on the banged up Seahawks secondary, and DeMarco Murry should have a decent day [...]
AFC Editor Matt Loede’s NFL Picks For Week Eight
Last Week: 8-5 Season: 67-36 Arizona at Baltimore – I still have no idea what that was on Monday night as the Ravens were simply awful in their 12-7 loss to the Jaguars. They couldn’t run, and their pass game seems to be going backwards in 2011. Joe Flacco and the team need to get [...]
