Dave’s Football Blog

There you have it. The Wild Card spots are in play. Pittsburgh likely needs to win to get into the playoffs. I think it is likely, but stranger things have happened… Meanwhile, I’m at a wedding reception/New Year’s Eve party. There’s a jazz band here, and I’ve got nobody to dance with me tonight. And [...]

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So I’m supposed to be getting ready for a wedding right now, but I just wanted to let you know that Drew Brees was injured in that Chargers-Broncos game, and Philip Rivers came in with his team trailing 14-0. Mark my words — if Rivers leads San Diego to a win today, you will not [...]

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Just thought I’d give you a few updates while I’m bored out of my brains in southern Indiana… Jeremy Shockey will not play tonight against the Raiders because of an ankle injury. I think the Giants could put Strahan at tight end and beat the Raiders. Meanwhile, Carson Palmer, whom the Bengals have now signed [...]

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Does anyone else find it a little odd that I’m stressing Sunday’s Panthers-Falcons game more than the Panthers are? I mean, the playoffs pretty much start now for Carolina, and they have to go into the Georgia Dome, where they’re 1-9 lifetime, and beat a Falcons team who has no shot at the playoffs but [...]

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There was a lot more I wanted to get to today — especially some good stuff on that ever-lovin’, ammonia-sniffin’, cell phone-abusin’, zebra-bashin’ Jim Mora Jr. — but I had to prepare for an early flight out of town tomorrow. An old college pal of mine is getting married in Indiana, and he had to [...]

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After two weeks of bafflingly excellent post-psychologist play, Kyle Boller is finally starting to look like the big time quarterback that Brian Billick thought he would be. This may be why the Baltimore Ravens have decided to bring Billick back for another year. Said owner Steve Bisciotti: We have an ongoing and extensive process to [...]

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