Is the honeymoon over between Chip Kelly and Philadelphia Eagles? We've tried to block out the noise coming from the college game and the ever-growing list of coaching jobs available when it comes to Chip Kelly. We even took a long, hard pause before speculating too much about the pending opening for the NFL team that currently employs Kelly's college quarterback and apple of his eye, Marcus … [Read more...]

Ray Lewis, ESPN analyst, gave Bills pep talk before they played Patriots Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan brought in one of his former players, a legend of the game, to give a pep talk to his team before it played the New England Patriots on Monday night. That's not uncommon. But then the Bills inspirational speaker, Ray Lewis, was on the ESPN set the next night talking about the game. That's a … [Read more...]

NFL Network invites fans to #AskJerryJones, and it goes just the way you'd think Whenever folks on Twitter are invited to ask questions to a controversial individual, the results are always - how can we put this? - colorful. On Wednesday morning, NFL Network's "NFL HQ" morning show invited viewers to tweet questions for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, using the hashtag #AskJerryJones. … [Read more...]

Teammates, players around NFL react to shocking Stedman Bailey shooting Teammates and players around the NFL are reacting with shock and prayer to the news early Wednesday morning that St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey was shot while riding in a car with his family. The former third-round pick is in stable condition after being struck twice in the head during an apparent drive-by … [Read more...]

Football Daily Dose: Dose: Lynch Out Indefinitely Marshawn Lynch will reportedly undergo sports-hernia surgery on Wednesday and is expected to miss the next 4-5 weeks at minimum. It’s the same procedure Arian Foster underwent over the summer that forced him to miss eight weeks. Lynch and Foster are both older running backs that likely require more time to recover than their younger teammates. In a … [Read more...]

Matchups: Silva's Thanksgiving Matchups Thanksgiving Football12:30PM ET GamePhiladelphia @ DetroitThis year's Thanksgiving opener has a 45.5-point Vegas total with a Pick 'Em line. Host Detroit's team total is just below 23 points. ... The Eagles played underrated pass defense in the first half of the season. Over its last three games, however, DC Billy Davis' unit has been carved up for … [Read more...]

The Worksheet: The Worksheet: Week 12 Happy Thanksgiving! We’ve made it through all of the bye weeks and have our first of six full slate weekends to close the season. Here's the disclaimer that I encourage that you use the game by game tables and data points in conjunction with your own information and thought process rather than searching out your own players in the individual player diagnosis … [Read more...]

Referee Gene Steratore's answer for final play in Bills-Patriots is guff Monday night's game between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots was a poorly officiated mess. If we can call out coaches, players and even TV analysts, then why should referees be above reproach? They shouldn't. And when they offer less-than-satisfactory and, lo, incorrect reasoning for their mistakes then it's … [Read more...]

Ray Lewis would take Rex Ryan over Bill Belichick as coach 'all day' As we all know, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick can be as prickly as a cactus - and as huggable as one as well. But if you can set aside your feelings for Belichick the person, there's no denying that Belichick the coach is one of the best to ever pace an NFL sideline. As head coach of the Patriots, he's won four … [Read more...]

Officiating mistakes hurt Patriots early, Bills at the end What would a Monday night NFL game, or a New England Patriots game for that matter, be without a little officiating controversy? There were plenty of head-scratching moments on Monday night from the officials, which seems to be the norm this season. The Patriots got a potential touchdown taken away in the third quarter on a weird … [Read more...]