NFL Is So Good!

    A little over two weeks ago, I said I was very excited for preseason! I was excited that I will finally get to see some football on TV. I was excited to see several players play some exhibition football, especially the young players trying to lock up a roster spot. Then injuries started to take place. Several players have suffered significant injuries. New England Patriots, the team that I root for, lost their first-round pick, Isaiah Wynn for the year. The Washington Redskins lost their second-round pick, Derrius Guice for all of 2018. Guice was expected to be the lead back for the Redskins' offense this year. The Redskins haven't had a good solid running game since the 2012 and 2013 seasons, when Robert Griffen III was the starting quarterback and Alfred Morris was the featured back. They were ready to turn the tables around with Derrius Guice, who won't be with them for this upcoming season.   If you are wondering why can't the NFL survive with only two tea...

 Once again, after a so-so offseason for the New England Patriots, many analysts are expecting a down year for the Patriots. Colin Cowherd of FS1 believes that the Patriots with Brady and Belichick will barely win ten games this year. What evidence does he have to say that? Patriots haven't won less than twelve games in a season since 2010. Since 2013, people have been predicting a fall for the Patriots' dominance. Again and again, Tom Brady and the Patriots get to embarrass them by finishing the season with twelve wins or more, and at least as the second best seed in the conference. Yet, they will never learn. Yes, Brady is getting old by the day, but did you see him play last season? Did you watch him play in the postseason? Yes, he didn't win the big one, but he did throw for 500 plus yards in the game. So is he falling off the cliff this year? Are the Patriots only going to win ten games or less? Do they have any good players on their roster? How about we evaluate s...

    People find pre-season not so fun. When I first watched a full pre-season game, I thought to myself, 'how can a football game be so boring?' Wins and losses don't matter in preseason, so what's they point of watching it? Then one day, I was watching First Take on ESPN, and I heard Skip Bayless's view for preseason games. Skip Bayless, who is now a member of Fox Sports said, that he doesn't look for overall stats or wins and losses record in preseason games. He looks for the players who spark on his tv. He looks for young players who play with a lot of energy and make play after play throughout the season. Since then, I have been watching preseason games as Skip does! Believe it or not, I now enjoy watching it. I now look forward to watching preseason games. Last year, I wanted to see how Jimmy Garaopplo and Jacoby Brissett of the Patriots were going to perform in the preseason. This year, there are five players that I want to see play in the preseason. L...

  I'm always excited for the Fantasy Football Draft. The position that I'm most excited about this year, is the running back position. This year for the draft, no one should have a problem drafting at least one good running back for their team. There are going to be so many great running backs for fantasy owners to pick from the draft. Le'Veon Bell, David Johnson, Alvin Kamara, Kareem Hunt, Saquan Barkley, Leonard Fournette, Sony Michel, Ezekiel Elliot, Todd Gurley, and a lot of other running backs will be available for us to draft for the 2018 fantasy football season. It's good to have two solid running backs for your fantasy team, but everyone knows that two running backs are not enough to win your fantasy league. In order to win the whole tournament, we need to have a great overall team. Yes, luck does come into play when it comes to winning few key games during the fantasy season, but if you don't get to have a decent draft for your fantasy team, there is no...

  Since 2015, most of the NFL World has been debating whether Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, or Odell Beckham Jr. is the best receiver in the game. Mind you, 2015 was the last season that Calvin Johnson played. According to me, Calvin Johnson was the best receiver until his last season! That guy was big and fast. Calvin Johnson at 6'5, 237 pounds, was able to do everything one could ask a receiver to do. I started watching football in 2010. Calvin was the receiver who caught my eye. Time after time, I saw him double covered and then him beating the coverage to catch the ball for a big gain. There were times when he was triple-covered and he still made a play. I doubt there was a corner, who wasn't scared of him. How do you stop someone so big, strong, and fast? You can't! You just can't stop this beast! However, Calvin chose to retire at the age of 30, after playing nine seasons. He retired after six straight seasons with over 1000 receiving yards. It didn't seem l...

    A good running game is significant to every offense in the NFL. A good running game is considered to be a quarterback's best friend. However, if you don't have a superstar running back today, it doesn't mean you can't go to the Super Bowl and win it. New England Patriots won Super Bowl 49 and 51 with an average running game. Their featured running backs in those Super Bowls were Shane Vereen and James White. Those two have never been considered as one of the top twenty running backs in the league. A good running game is still important. It certainly helps young quarterbacks when they enter the league and have to deal with the tough pro-style defenses. Without a good running game, those young quarterbacks would force a lot of passes, make mistakes, and then lose confidence. Dak Prescott and Jared Goff might not have been as good of quarterbacks as they are if they didn't have star running backs in their offenses.   Gregg Rosenthal, who writes and reports fo...

    We expect trades from few teams by mid-season every year. Last year, it was the Philadephia Eagles who by mid-season made the trade for Miami Dolphins' running back, Jay Ajayi. That trade turned out to be really good for the Eagles, as Ajayi is one of the most established running backs in the league, and he along with LeGarrette Blount, created a nice 1-2 punch for the running combo. Another reason why Ajayi trade was so good for the Eagles was because the Eagles didn't have to give much to get him. In my opinion, they just stole him from the Dolphins for a fourth-round pick. Without Ajayi, it would have been really difficult for the Eagles to make a deep run in the playoffs and then win the Super Bowl. So, are we going to see a trade like Ajayi to Eagles this year by a contender? As every contender has one or two holes to fill, we are more than likely going to see a game-changing trade from one or two contenders. Let's go over some possible trades for the 2018 cont...