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In this, the first in a series on the state of running backs, we discuss how a dramatic evolution has negatively impacted a once proud position. The series will look back at RBs selected in the 2024 draft, ahead to a 2025 class that seems loaded with runners and ...

July 11, 2024, is already etched in history as the day former President Donald Trump will be sentenced for 34 felony convictions. Regardless of the outcome, I am reminded of July 29, 1986, when he actually won his battle in a New York court and lost the war. Trump ...

Arguably the most dominant offensive lineman in football history, Larry Allen died Sunday while on vacation with his family in Mexico. He was 52.   His life story redefined perseverance. It could have been the original plot line for Straight Outta Compton, but ...

Kansas City Chiefs’ placekicker Harrison Butker made an impression in 2023 by making 33 of 35 field goals. Last week, he made quite an impression at Benedictine College, where Butker, shall we say, pushed his commencement speech wide right.   Controversy and ...

The original Mr. Raider has passed. Jim Otto, the first Raider to touch a football, died Sunday at his Auburn (CA) home, with his family at his side. He spent most of his 86 years sneering at the inevitable, enduring last rites three previous times. Otto is survived ...

As we look forward to watching the 257 draftees selected last week in the 2024 NFL Draft, we also gaze in the rear-view mirror at those relatives who preceded them and established the family name long ago. Fathers, uncles, and brothers with names everyone ...

 2024 DRAFT: 32 TEAMS AND 257 PLAYERS GRADED Exhale. The 2024 NFL Draft did indeed conclude when Mr. Irrelevant, Jaylen Key (DB, Alabama) was drafted by the New York Jets with the No. 257 selection. We can break out the calculators and over analyze the selection ...

Pay attention. If history taught us anything, there is still a lot of talent left in the draft.   Let’s think back...oh, yea, all the way to the 2022 draft, when the San Francisco 49ers took quarterback Brock Purdy No. 262, and he took them to an NFC Championship ...

Can't stop mocking around at the NFL Draft!    Bring on the day two selections! Yesterday saw the top 14 teams selecting in the first-round turn into snowflakes when they got offended by the the saying, "defense wins chmapionship".  This resulted in a NFL draft ...

As we count down the last hours and minutes to the 2024 NFL Draft, it is now or never to go on the record about a few things. We've mentioned them here and there, but before Roger Goodell says "With the first pick..." I want to be very Frank.   Why does almost ...