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With so much turnover on the Patriots roster over the past few years, it's put up or shut up time for several players. I've listed ten players that I believe to be breakout candidates for 2010. This doesn't mean I think they will all break out; if they did, I'd expect the Patriots to be one of the best teams in the league. With that, here's a list of 10 players ...

During the offseason, NFL writers have the thankless task of digging for relevant material to talk about. Whether it be recent player transactions, position battles, contract negotiations, or anything in between, writers are simply trying their hardest not to slip from the memory of their readers over the long six-month stretch of the NFL offseason. You can imagine, then, why Tom Brady and Peyton Manning's contract negotiations have captured egregious attention over ...

The New England Patriots have set themselves up with quite a bit of young depth at inside linebacker over the past few years. Former 10th overall pick Jerod Mayo has been a big-time contributor on defense since he arrived in the league two years ago and won the 2008 Defensive Rookie of the Year award. He is locked in at the No. 1 starting spot. Behind him, though, is a list of ...

It's been called the most important position on the team. Few other positions in pro sports are compared to it. And it's very name is synonymous with all that is fame and glory in the world of pro sports. This position is none other than the position of a NFL quarterback. With so much riding on the QB, teams are eager to feature their star passers. Some players, however, are under pressure whether their GMs ...

We're now half-way through the long, grueling NFL offseason. There have been an unusual amount of blockbuster trades across the board, and the NFC East was home to one of those trades, as Philadelphia shipped off their franchise quarterback Donovan McNabb to their division rival Washington Redskins. Plenty of shake-ups have occurred in addition to the intra-division trade, so the outlook for this highly-competitive division is different than last year's ...

To me, Oakland had the most intriguing story on draft day. Not for what they were doing, but for what they weren't doing. After years of reaching on players who were nothing more than track stars, the Raiders surprisingly didn't. That doesn't mean, though, that they didn't take those players if they fell. Here's my breakdown of the Oakland Raiders' astounding draft day performance. Begin Slideshow

Tony Scheffler was the kind of tight end most teams would love to have on their rosters. His quickness allowed him to split the seam against slower linebackers, but he still had the strength to hold his own in blocking situations. He was also involved in a rift with Josh McDaniels and was unceremoniously shown the door in a three-way trade in which the Broncos received just a fifth-round pick for the ...

With so many teams running the base 3-4 defense, there's been a higher demand for pass-rushing outside linebackers than ever before. Since most colleges use a 4-3 package, though, teams end up evaluating the defensive ends who have played outside linebacker a little in college, and who could translate well as outside linebackers at the professional level. There are a lot of 4-3 defensive ends that don't translate well as outside ...

No player is bigger than the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Rooneys have no problem proving it, time and time again. Jason La Canfora reported on NFL.com Thursday that the Rooneys are "livid" with Roethlisberger, and have internally discussed the idea of trading their franchise quarterback . This isn't like it was with Holmes, though, where the Steelers couldn't wait to give away their most talented wide receiver to the first team that ...

Most people call alcohol "liquid courage" because it gives them the unusual ability to approach attractive people of the opposite sex without a second thought. Others, and now Jerry Jones, know alcohol for its more general ability to allow what we wouldn’t ordinarily say to seep through the mental filters. What might have been, for you and I, just an incidental slip of a silent distaste became a mind-numbing PR nightmare for ...