Once the five modern-era finalists had been selected, selectors voted yes or no on each of those candidates and on Stanfel, Stabler and DeBartolo. Each needed 80 percent yes votes to earn enshrinement. The class of 2016 hits the max number of eight that can be inducted in any given year. (more…)
Road teams ruled the wild card round, but home teams have come back with a vengeance. In the six games since they are undefeated.
That means it’s number one versus number one in the Super Bowl – as it probably should be for the league’s 50th big game.
Tony nailed the conference championship winners. He’s tied with John Vomhof for the entirety of the postseason. The rest of us split the championship games. Here are the standings heading into the Super Bowl.
Conf Champ
Postseason
Tony
2-0
8-2
John Vomhof Jr
1-1
8-2
Anthony Maggio
1-1
7-3
Andy
1-1
6-4
And after 21 weeks of football, it all comes down to this. Two suffocating defenses and two great QB storylines – the young, brash rising star and the old, breaking down, hall-of-famer to be – squaring off for the Lombardi Trophy. Here’s how we see it: (more…)
So what I’ve been doing wrong all season is betting on point spreads and money lines and not spending enough time betting over/unders.
Well, it’s obviously not that simple, but I largely got it right in the conference championship games – though I would have gotten the spread wrong on Carolina/Arizona. I really thought the Cardinals were at least going to put up a better fight.
Nonetheless, two big bets ran my season total back into the black, albeit only slightly. Here are the standings:
Calvin Johnson reportedly has informed friends and coaches that he will retire after nine seasons in the NFL rather
Photo by Kevin810, via Wikipedia
than rejoin Detroit for the 2016 season.
While his quiet, low-key approach to announcing the end of his career would be fitting for the way he acted when he played, I hope this is not the case. Johnson has spent the last decade being one of the very few reasons to tune in to watch the Lions.
If he is, however, serious about stepping away, he would first become eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2021. I think it’s just short of inarguable that he gets in eventually.
I don’t think he should have to wait.
You can certainly qualify Megatron’s impact by saying it’s a passing era, no question. He’s played in the most pass-heavy era of NFL football on mostly bad teams that had to throw the ball. Did that inflate his numbers? Perhaps. But I would argue that Johnson was also part of the reason Detroit should have been throwing the ball all along. (more…)
We here at Zoneblitz are a small crew. And we’ve taken a couple days off this week. But the Pro Bowl is this weekend and we wanted to make sure we gave it the ink it deserves.
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Well, now that we’ve gotten that taken care of, we’ll be back soon with some thoughts on the Super Bowl. Have a good weekend.
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