Empire Football Podcast Season 2, Episode 1
For those of you who like rusty, frequently coherent, often interrupted, but actually thought out football discussion, the Empire Football Podcast returns. This week, we talk Derek Anderson...
View ArticleThe Hangover 9-22-2010
- The Bucs could give a damn about a five year plan. This team is just talented enough to threaten anybody they play, just unknown enough to be difficult to game plan for, and just young enough to not...
View ArticleEmpire Football Podcast Season 2, Episode 2
Back with almost no popular demand, it's the second episode of season 2 of the Empire Football Podcast. This week, we defend indefensible claims (GAMES!), talk about the Jets (PREMATURE JOY!), and once...
View ArticleThe Ones That Matter - 9-26-2010
All the games that really matter; three sentences worth of description.49ers @ Chiefs (1:00 PM, Sunday)Mike Singletary is exactly the kind of coach the 49ers need to turn talented underachievers into a...
View ArticleThe Hangover 9-29-2010
Sorry for the delay, but this one is a doozy...- I’m not sure what can be said about the 49ers at this point. Certainly, a lot of blame has been rightly put on Jimmy Raye, an offensive coordinator who...
View ArticleEmpire Football Podcast Season 2, Episode 3
This week on the podcast, we talk about whether or not the Bears are real, we lament the demise of the 49ers (or, as Mac would put it, we launch the fireworks for the Chiefs), play "Diagnosis Football"...
View ArticleThe Hangover 10-6-2010
- 3-0 in the division, with the one loss coming from a bizarre meltdown of coaching by Schotty. Oh,and next week, we’re all getting introduced to Santonio Holmes. You can keep talking like this is some...
View ArticleReturn to the Wilderness
Since 2007, Bill Belichick has represented something of a devil for me as a football fan. Everything about his team seemed to radiate from him as a coach; the Pats were entitled, utterly unaware of...
View ArticleEmpire Football Podcast Season 2, Episode 5
It's a long one this week, but that's because it's so GOOD (that, and our editing software was a victim of the computer crisis that shot all of the posts for this week). This week, we bury Carson...
View ArticleThe Hangover 2010 - Week 6
- Look, nobody was happy with that Jets win, but of the myriad ways to define a team as “great”, isn’t one time tested route to see what happens when they have a bad day? Well, on Mark Sanchez’s worst...
View ArticleEmpire Football Podcast Season 2, Episode 6
It's a very special episode this week, as we debate who is winning the divisions (which is in no way ridiculously premature), go through the rundown, and get real about helmet-to-helmet hits (WE ARE...
View ArticleBristles
I’m not down on coaches, honestly. For all of my railing against rigid system-think and bully coaches who get off on yelling at twentysomethings, I think a good coach means more in the NFL than in any...
View ArticleA Sharp Intake of Air
I guess we could minimize this by talking about Randy Moss: Underachiever (who doesn’t exist), or Randy Moss: Team Destroyer (who only existed questionably 5-6 years ago), but why do that when we’re...
View ArticleShooting Stars With No Sun and Other Scattered Thoughts
- As I’ve been telling everybody since that debacle in Detroit went down, I will take an ugly, frustrating win over a well executed loss any day. That said: That might have been one of the ugliest wins...
View ArticleInversions of Measurables
Few things this season have made me as happy as watching Peyton Hillis become a star. This is made all the more remarkable by the nature of the Browns, a team devoted to defeating opponents as a team...
View ArticleUndone Origami
Here’s the thing: We all knew exactly what Michael Vick was capable of doing. The man didn’t get three Pro Bowls and playoff wins because he sells jerseys. To say that we are only just now seeing what...
View ArticleThe Ones That Matter - Week 11
From here on out, we're picking the games that you should be watching every week, and we're telling you why.Raiders at Steelers (1:00 PM, Sunday)If you didn’t see this coming, then you’re probably not...
View ArticleDon't Just Get By
I feel the same way about Vince Young walking out on Jeff Fisher’s post game conference as I did about Michael Vick shooting the double bird salute to a booing Atlanta crowd after a close loss at home:...
View ArticleThe Grind Cuts Both Ways
As unlikable as the whole lot of them can be (Rivers is a douchebag, Vincent Jackson has the most juxtaposed off-field demons on any WR in the league, and GM A.J. Smith is becoming the posterboy for...
View ArticleLiving Long Enough Isn't a Goal
Been sick as a dog this week, so let’s cobble two lines of thought into one post...- I've been saying this all week, but it's worth remembering: A 20-17 near miss would have counted for just as many...
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