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Why The New York Jets Will Be Defeated By Cincinnati

Posted: 9th January 2010 by John Szurlej in NFL
The New York Jets ride in the cinderella's coach will abruptly end and send them home with an ended season, but a great learning experience. Despite the impressive standings in the NFL, namely the defensive rankings, the Jets are a team that compiled those same stats against a schedule full of teams that were a combined 109-99, only 10 games over .500. Considering that the teams that pushed that stat over ...

Dallas Cowboys Look To Go Deep into 2010 NFL Playoffs

Posted: 9th January 2010 by John Szurlej in NFL
There was a time in the 2009 season where it looked as if the Dallas Cowboys were a team with a lot of questions. During the first five weeks of the season, Dallas was a flip flopping team following a win-loss-win-loss-win format. Victories against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, and Kansas City Chiefs were expectant of them, and losses against the New York Giants, and Denver Broncos (both whom were ...

Why the New Orleans Saints Won’t Make the Superbowl

Posted: 7th January 2010 by John Szurlej in NFL
First, my congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for a well played season; and I'm sure there fans are excited, however, the hype and excitement that was the Saints' season is about to close in January. Although they have an explosive passing attack and the cannon-armed quarterback in Drew Brees, the Saints are a team that are dangerously close to falling short and here's why. Looking back at the Saints ...

Vikings-Giants: Five Keys to a Minnesota Vikings Victory

Posted: 3rd January 2010 by John Szurlej in NFL
So here we are: the last game, home field, and the playoffs looming. Questions have been aplenty the past four weeks, with nervous fans scratching heads over a team that seems lost. Fortunately for the Vikings, they are already guaranteed a playoff spot, and the pressure isn't about winning, but winning in convincing fashion.á The Vikings have a golden opportunity to capitalize on a broken team in the former Super Bowl ...

Don’t Go Past That Line: Why The Trapezoid Must Go!

Posted: 3rd January 2010 by John Szurlej in NHL
Imagine you have a job you do extremely well, so well that it seems that, at times, it's a bit unfair to the rest of your co-workers. There's no one to blame, it's just what you do, yet the fact is people cry enough andá your supervisor makes some changes to "level the playing field". Enter the Trapezoid era in the NHL. If anything, this new-age neutral zone has become a topic ...

The Bastardization of The Winter Olympics

Posted: 2nd January 2010 by John Szurlej in NHL
The spirit of the Olympics once painted a picture of athletes marching in proud formation, waving flags high, and eyes open wide with the awe of the moment they were a part of. They were athletes that marched together, perhaps meeting each other for the first time, yet nonetheless held a shared feeling of accomplishment and fraternity, as if they had crossed paths many times before. The moment, fresh and vivid, ...

Minnesota Vikings, Brett Favre Watch as Time Keeps Ticking

Posted: 30th December 2009 by John Szurlej in NFL
Let's just say that this author is a very big Favre fan.á Let's say that I have watched him since he entered the league, terrorizing secondaries and keeping Prilosec a necessity in every coach's office for what seems a football eternity. Let's say that I've yelled at the top of my lungs during the good times, and cried like a baby when they were bad.á Regardless of what anyone says, ...

Oilers and Blue Jackets are In Desperate Need Of Help!

Posted: 29th December 2009 by John Szurlej in NHL
Take a look around the NHL and you can see the teams that are contenders, pretenders, and then teams that are stuck in no-man's land.á Those teams in the latter are teams that could genuinely make a run at a playoff spot if they get smart at the trade deadline and the key to that starts in the crease. Teams like Columbus and Edmonton are the starting point. With Columbus' dismal tandem ...