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Old School Meets New School
Has a defending Super Bowl champion ever been so overlooked in their own division than the Denver Broncos? They saw future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning ride off into the sunset after leading them to a win last February....
The Jaguars have been a laughingstock for most of this decade – five straight years with at least 11 losses. But maybe a turnaround is imminent. The Jaguars could have as many as six new starters on defense and have several foundational players on offense....
If at first you don’t succeed, Roger Goodell will try, try again. And once again, the NFL Commish got what he wanted. Thanks to a recent court ruling, the Patriots face the real prospect of playing their first quarter of 2016 without starting quarterback Tom Brady as the Deflategate soap opera just won’t go away....
Philadelphia fell to 7-9 last year, missed the playoffs for the fourth time in the last five seasons and switched head coaches, canning Chip Kelly and replacing him with former Eagles quarterback Doug Pederson. It was a sorry end to the Kelly era, a time filled with more drama off the field than wins on it....
After years of languishing as a cellar dweller, the Oakland Raiders appear poised to make a comeback. Led by the Silver and Black triplets of Derek Carr, Latavius Murray, and Amari Cooper, there’s a lot to get excited about in Oakland....
The Vikings apparently have the right head coach in Mike Zimmer to lead them to the next level. Zimmer won seven games in his first year at the helm in 2014 and followed that up with an 11-5 campaign and NFC North title in 2015....
Indy suffered through a lost season last year, as quarterback Andrew Luck missed nine games to injury. The Colts managed to go 8-8 and, somewhat remarkably, 6-3 without their franchise signal-caller. Despite the perfectly average record, finishing .500 had to be considered a remarkable feat given the team’s statistical crappiness on both sides of the ball....
Just how much does a healthy Tony Romo mean to the Dallas Cowboys? Well, for a team that won just four games in 2015 playing much of the year without their star quarterback, they are pegged as a nine-win team by oddsmakers in 2016....
Rex Ryan will get another shot at breaking the Bills postseason drought. He came in last season with guns blazing and guaranteed a postseason berth only to guide an average club to an average record....
No one really knew what to expect out of Chip Kelly when he first came into the NFL to coach the Eagles. As we came to find out, he completely tore down a team which wasn't far from contending and turned it into a unit which was a complete disaster in a hurry....
The Cleveland Browns roster looks like an expansion team. It’s not that much different than the roster in 1999, when the Browns actually were an expansion team. The quarterback spots are filled by a veteran desperate for a second chance to start, an older veteran backup and a developmental rookie. The best skill-position player is a tight end, who had a breakout nobody saw coming at age 30....
The Texans were a quarterback away from being a really good football team in 2015. As it was, they overcame a 2-5 start to finish the year at 9-7, winning the AFC South. But that wasn’t enough for Houston in Bill O’Brien’s second season....
The Dolphins crashed and burned last season costing two coaches their job. Entering 2015 with high hopes, Miami stumbled to three losses after an opening day win. It’s not that the Fins lost, rather who they lost to that upset many. Losing at Jacksonville and an embarrassing home opening defeat to Buffalo set the stage for Joe Philbin’s exit after the team lost to the Jets the following week....
The wait continues for Jets fans, who saw their team miss the playoffs last season by losing the regular season finale in Buffalo. It was a torturous loss for the Jets, falling to their former coach, Rex Ryan. And in some ways, it spoiled many of the good feelings that had built up throughout a 10-6 season in 2015....
Injuries are part of life in the NFL and the Ravens clearly hope the bug bites elsewhere in 2016, particularly when it comes to their quarterback Joe Flacco who missed the final six games of 2015 with a knee injury. Baltimore got the worst of it last season with the most players of any team on injured reserve....
The final story on the Seattle Seahawks in 2015 says that they reached the divisional round of the playoffs and lost to the eventual conference champs by just a touchdown. More realistically, they were never anywhere near the best team in their division, should've been beaten in the first round of the playoffs by Minnesota and were absolutely destroyed by Carolina. Are the Seahawks on the rebound in 2016, or are they destined to stay behind Arizona and be nothing more than a Wild Card contender?...
Jay Gruden deserves all the credit in the world for turning the Washington Redskins into contenders last season. This franchise has been marred with troubles for years and years, posting just one winning season from 2009 through 2014, but the '15 season was a banner year for sure with the NFC East title. That said, this club still hasn't won a playoff game since 2005 and hasn't been the NFC Championship Game since 1991. There's still plenty of work to do to get over the hump from here....
Last year when the San Diego Chargers were beaten by the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in a tightly-contested game from start to finish, Jim Nantz appropriated referred to them as the best 2-4 team in football. They finished as the best 4-12 team in football. The Chargers badly need a renaissance, and they're good candidates to do it as well in the wide open AFC West. They've got a real uphill climb and have Father Time working against them as well though, and that's why the oddsmakers don'...
A strong start in 2015 made the second half of the season that much more painful to watch for Atlanta Falcons fans. After winning the first five games, the Falcons lost eight of the last 11, including a six-game losing streak....
The Bengals have assembled a talented roster and will once again compete for supremacy in the AFC North. Cincinnati won the division for the second time in the last three seasons last year, matching the franchise record with 12 regular season wins and reached double-digits for the fourth straight time....
Every team is optimistic about their chances during the offseason. But for team that is now more than five years removed from its Super Bowl XLV title and is looking to bounce back from watching its last two seasons end in gut-wrenching style, the optimism is real in Green Bay....
After 20 seasons mired in the Midwest, the Rams are back in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they drag a decade-long playoff drought along with them. Coach Jeff Fisher made the move as well with a team seemingly on the cusp of being good. However, the Rams haven’t had a .500 or better season with him at the helm....
New York struggled through a forgettable 2015 campaign, missing the playoffs for the fourth straight season and then parting ways with two-time Super Bowl champion head coach Tom Coughlin. So the Giants now move forward with a new head coach, Ben McAdoo, a 35-year-old Eli Manning and last year's 32nd-ranked defense....
The Saints trotted out the NFL’s worst defense last year and the offense just couldn’t keep up. The flop cost coordinator Rob Ryan his job. And no team allowed more points than the Saints, though it made for some exciting games. Perhaps that's why they used three of their first four picks in the draft on that side of the ball....
The Tennessee Titans are clearly starting to turn the corner. They've got their franchise quarterback in Marcus Mariota, and they're starting to put some pieces around him which make some sense. Will it all translate into victories in 2016? The oddsmakers aren't giving them a ton of credit quite yet....
