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Five NFL Teams That Improved and Five That Got Worse
NFL By RALPH VACCHIANO No one has ever won an NFL championship in the spring and summer, and no one has ever lost one either. That’s not for lack of trying, of course. Just ask the “Dream...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Arian Foster, Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys, Darius Heyward-Bey, Darren McFadden, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Jason Campbell, Jay Cutler, Kevin Boss, Mario Williams, Matt Schaub, Matthew Stafford, Maurice Jones-Drew, Mike Vick, New York Giants, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, RALPH VACCHIANO, Seattle Seahawks, Sidney Rice, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tarvarus Jackson, Tony Romo

Worst Sports Owners Tournament: Quarterfinals
NFL By Scott Henry (@4QuartersRadio) We're down to the quarterfinals of the WSOT, where eight crazy owners duel to see who's the worst in each individual sport. In case you need to look back at whe...
1 year ago by Scott Henry Tags: NFL, NBA, MLB, Overtime, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, Worst Sports Owners

Fantasy Football: Team-By-Team Breakdown
NFL Fantasy football season is here. In order to help you better prepare for your drafts, Athlon Sports breaks down all 32 NFL teams. What you will find on each team page: NFL insiders answer key...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy

Are The Eagles The Best Team in the NFL?
NFL By RALPH VACCHIANO The Philadelphia Eagles made a big free-agency splash over the last two weeks. All that was missing from the first few days of the NFL’s wildest free-agent frenzy was Andy...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Andy Reid, Michael Vick, Nnamdi Asomugha, Philadelphia Eagles, RALPH VACCHIANO, Ronnie Brown

Oakland Raiders 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The Raiders snapped their string of seven straight seasons with 11 or more losses last year and finished 8–8, sweeping the AFC West and avoiding a losing record for the first time since reaching ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Al Davis, Darren McFadden, Oakland Raiders, Rolando McClain, Sebastian Janikowski

San Diego Chargers 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Chargers fans, so accustomed to hearing and reading about how their team has one of the most talented rosters in the NFL, have to be thinking that 2011 can’t be any worse than 2010. The Chargers ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Bob Sanders, Marcus McNeill, Philip Rivers, Ryan Mathews, San Diego Chargers

Seattle Seahawks 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Pete Carroll did the Seahawks shuffle when he took over as coach, engineering 284 roster moves in his first 12 months. During this dizzying transformation, he lost his players in a big way at midse...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Lofa Totupu, Marshawn Lynch, NFC West, Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks, Sidney Rice, Tarvaris Jackson

Arizona Cardinals 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL It seems patently unfair to say this is a critical season for Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt. After all, Whisenhunt led the moribund Arizona franchise to the Super Bowl just three seasons ago. ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Arizona Cardinals, Beanie Wells, Ken Whisenhunt, Kevin Kolb, Larry Fitzgerald, NFC West, Ryan Williams

San Francisco 49ers 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The year was 1979 when Eddie DeBartolo Jr., after two disastrous years as owner of the San Francisco 49ers, hired an innovative offensive coach from just down the road at Stanford in hopes of reviv...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Alex Smith, Ed Debartolo Jr, Frank Gore, Jim Harbaugh, Michael Crabtree, Mike Singletary, NFC West, Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49ers

Kansas City Chiefs 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Somehow, the Chiefs did it. After three miserable seasons, it all came together in 2010 for a remarkable season in which the team went 10–6 and won the AFC West. Quarterback Matt Cassel was s...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Derrick Johnson, Dwayne Bowe, Jamaal Charles, Kansas City Chiefs, Matt Cassel

Denver Broncos 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL If the Broncos aren’t rebuilding, someone forgot to tell the man in charge. That would be John Elway, still the face of the franchise after all these years. Elway, now the Broncos’ executive vi...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Champ Bailey, Denver Broncos, Elvis Dumervil, Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow

St. Louis Rams 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The Rams haven’t had a winning season since 2003, and haven’t made the playoffs since 2004, when they squeaked in as an 8–8 wild card. Is this the year the team finally gets over the hump? In...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Donnie Avery, Josh McDaniels, Sam Bradford, St. Louis Rams, Steve Spagnuolo, Steven Jackson

Indianapolis Colts 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The sun rises and sets in Indianapolis on the shoulders of four-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning, so this season’s Colts outlook includes an obvious proviso: If Manning recovers from a second neck sur...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Dallas Clark, Dwight Freeney, Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne

Tennessee Titans 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The Music City melodrama between Jeff Fisher and Vince Young is finally over. The either-or ultimatum resulted in both high-profile personalities leaving town with varying degrees of regret, disapp...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Chris Johnson, Jake Locker, Kenny Britt, Matt Hasselbeck, Michael Griffin, Tennessee Titans

Jacksonville Jaguars 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Last season was termed as a make-or-break year for both Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio and quarterback David Garrard. It wasn’t. The Jaguars were in contention for the AFC South title all the way int...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Blaine Gabbert, David Garrard, Jacksonville Jaguars, Maurice Jones-Drew, Rashean Mathis