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While the Cardinals pieced together a calculated patchwork of backups and starters on pitch counts, the Packers played three quarters of the game as if the outcome mattered. Only time till tell which strategy was the right one, but there were clearly two entirely different approaches to yesterday's game between Green Bay and Arizona. Green Bay chose their poison: momentum, flow, sync, and confidence, wanting ...

The most difficult task in the NFL is the replacement of a successful, long established and much loved quarterback. ItÆs not an easy thing to prepare for: the last thing an aging star wants to see is a young college player looking over his shoulder as he tries to eke out what remains of his career, often with new personnel around him and declining physical prowess. For evidence of the problem, look ...

What can I say? áThe picture of Marvin Lewis just about says it all. The Cincinnati Bengals were screwed, booed, tattooed, and barbecued by the New York Jets last night in the regular season finale. It was a complete destruction as the Jets dominated in every facet of the game and rolled to a 37-0 victory. With the victory, the Jets earned a spot in the playoffs and a rematch with ...

The Bengals finally made it official. áWith a 17-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, Marvin Lewis and his team are AFC North champions. áIt wasn't pretty, as the Cincinnati offense was plagued by penalties once again. áThe defense took a major hit today as well when Rey Maualuga left the game with a broken ankle. The Bengals really did not play well. áHowever, they came through when it counted as ...

Head coach Eric Mangini made the best case he possibly could to keep his job with the teamÆs fourth straight win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, 23-17. á Mike Holmgren, the Browns new VP of Football Operations, starts his job today and will begin a top-to-bottom makeover of the franchise. á Holmgren will have a lot to think about as Mangini didnÆt make any decision about his future any easier with the teamÆs latest win. ...

The 2009 season has come and gone for the Seattle Seahawks. Like any good fan, I was watching and cheering for my team right up until the very end. On Sunday, finally, it came to an end. Many questions linger now. What comes next? Who stays? Who will be gone when we take the field in 2010? First, I want to say I don't believe you can blame this season on ...

Ah, the Super Bowl. A joyous festival of athletic competition in which two teams square off and in the most American of fashions, one team wins and the other loses. The winning team receives parades, champagne, rings, happiness, wealth, love, puppies, and immortality. And alas, the loser is doomed to a life of mediocrity and frustration. You see, I believe in several sports curses. These curses include, but are not limited ...

The Cardinals history is the longest in pro football history, and an intriguing one that has seen the team change their name eight times either by moving to another city or merging with another team. They started out as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898, then became the Racine Normals the next two seasons. They then changed their name to the Cardinals in 1901. After going out of business after the 1906 ...

As a boy growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s in Florida, there was only one thing in life you could count upon. Fall Sundays meant the Dolphins were going to be on TV beating the daylights out of somebody. Back then, that's all there was. You went to school Monday through Friday. You suffered with another mediocre Gator's team on Saturday. But Sunday, that was when ...