Questions surrounded the Green Bay Packers quarterback as his team struggled mid-season. But there are few players better when things around them collapseNot long ago the football world appeared to have given up on Aaron Rodgers. Now with the Green Bay Packers winning the NFC North he’s a popular pick for league MVP. This is how the NFL works. Seasons are rarely coronations; they are more tests or perseverance. People get hurt. Knees and ankles and shoulders fail. Bodies ache. Plans dissolve into mayhem. Teams rise and fall. Winning is survival. And with a week between each game, few things on this planet are as susceptible to overreaction and hyperbole as America’s most popular professional sport. Related: Kobe returns and...
Detroit have been impressive at home this season but Aaron Rodgers is a man who does not know when he is beatenThe final weekend of the NFL’s regular season is upon us. And so too, therefore, is the final week of our Pick Six contest. We’ll be following up with Pick The Playoffs, of course, from next week, but this is your final chance to call a full slate of six games correctly - just like aalipour, carloscontrole, denothemeno, Fraser Hartley, Gruagain, Robert Rudolph, Switchskier, TheBandit79 and xartec did last time out. Do join me in giving them each a virtual pat on the back. I’ll have the overall standings up in the comments section shortly, but can confirm that...
The Lions looked to have wrapped up the NFC North but suddenly Green Bay have found a running back in the most unlikely of placesYou can almost feel the dread coming from Detroit this morning. This is a familiar sensation for Lions fans, after all. Their team has never been to a Super Bowl, has won just one playoff game in 59 years and last celebrated a division title in 1993. People want to talk about the suffering in Cleveland, but you can’t talk about misery without understanding the darkness that has been the NFL in Detroit.On Sunday the Lions practically held the NFC North title in their hands. All that had to happen was they beat the New York...
The Indianapolis Colts QB has had an up and down year but against the Green Bay Packers he showed why he is still a prized assetTake two quarterbacks. QB1 throws for 281 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. QB2 throws for 297 yards, three scores and one pick. You can figure out what happens by the setup: the second QB trailed by as many as 18 points, and never got a chance to drive for the winning score in a 31-26 loss.Andrew Luck was that first quarterback. Aaron Rodgers was the second. Both teams continued to struggle in their Week 9 game, but the Colts held on to beat the Packers after building a big lead. Related: Pittsburgh Steelers kicker...
Jimmy Garopollo’s injury may end up being merely a temporary setback for the New England Patriots, but they are far from perfectFor most of the first half, it looked like the New England Patriots had discovered their Next Tom Brady. OK, that may be a stretch, but it at least looked like they had found a player they could sell as a potential Next Tom Brady to one of the many quarterback-starved teams once the Actual Tom Brady returned from his four week league-mandated vacation. In his second game as a starter, Jimmy Garoppolo went 18-for-27, passing for 234 yards as the Patriots built up a 21-0 lead over the Miami Dolphins. Garoppolo, coming off New England’s huge Week 1...