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No, I am not picking on just the Cincinnati Bengals! This just happens to be the first part of a series that I am going to be doing for all 32 of the NFL teams, yes, including my Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cincinnati Bengals shocked the world in 2009, not only winning and sweeping the AFC North, but making a playoff push that many believed could take them to the Super Bowl. The Cincinnati ...

The Cleveland Browns have the most talent that they’ve had since their re-entry into the NFL in 1999. Do they have enough talent to win their division? Can they challenge for a wild card spot with the talent they have? Most if not all experts would say no. A lot of luck comes into play in any successful NFL season along with a few  emerging stars. Every ...

Each year, especially towards the end of the season, various players put up big numbers and these players become the talk of blogs and fan-based sites. Running backs who play a soft schedule to finish the season and end up with a high yards per carry average tend to dominate the talk, as well as QB's who are expected to make a team a playoff team, etc. Recently, I came ...

With the six game suspension (will be four) to Ben Roethlisberger, many people in Steelers Nation are debating who will replace Roethlisberger for the beginning of the season. The real question in my mind has nothing to do with who is under center, and a LOT more to do with who is playing next to him. For years, we have heard that the reason Ben Roethlisberger takes so many sacks is because ...

Everyone has been waiting to hear what Ben Roethlisberger was going to say when he finally talked to the press. And the wait is over. In an interview with KDKA-TV, in Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger spoke openly about his behavior, and what he needs to do to change many peoples opinions of him. Roethlisberger admitted that his Big Ben persona had grown larger than it should have, and that his behavior off the field, ...

It may surprise you to learn that the Oakland Raiders may need a lesson in football physics. There are examples of lessons that may enhance the players understanding of the object that spins, rotates, and glides through a substance called air. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a football, you are thinking. Looking high and low for solutions to improve the performance of the Oakland Raiders is a serious matter for some ...

When you think of the “big play” wide-outs for Philly you instantly think Mike Quick. He (along with Ron “Jaws” Jaworski) holds the longest pass play in Philadelphia Eagles History. It was a 99-yard touchdown pass On Nov. 10, 1985; it’s an amazing NFL Record that cannot be broken. This 99-yard touchdown pass was the 6th occurrence out of the 11 times it has occurred in the NFL. But it’s been a ...

For a second straight season, the Carolina Panthers will be without rising star linebacker Thomas Davis with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. The injury is the second one in the past seven months for Davis. The severity of the injury was revealed Wednesday, after he tweaked the same knee he injured in '09 in practice Tuesday.  He was injured during week seven against New Orleans in 2009 with ...

All right....who was the whiner? A short time ago the league elected to kill two OTA practices, after it was deemed that they were "too rough". Aw, I forgot....this isn't football anymore....this is patty-cake and we're supposed to be a kinder, softer team. Yeah, and I'm a Bronco fan with an thing for Denver. This is the same deal the Raiders got slapped with back in 2007, when an entire week was crashed, again ...

No doubt you have seen what we call the “classic” strength of schedule, which is based on a team’s schedule and the records of their opponents in 2009, published in various places. This analysis has been done this way for many years now. Two years ago, PossessionPoints.com looked at Strength of Schedule (SOS) based on our Relative Performance Rankings (RPM). We have explained this in detail in other articles . But to put ...