What if Josh Gordon had caught a few hundred less yards in 2013? Perhaps we wouldn't view him as some form of superhero who's trouble has inconvenienced our fantasy prospects. Perhaps the Browns would have released him years ago instead of offering him bone after bone until Saturday night's final straw. Not only was Gordon enabled but the Browns' blind...
Let us begin not with the process of a catch (that somehow wasn't an issue today) but instead the process of choosing how to top this column. It's fairly simple. Watch all the games. Find a storyline that sings. Write. Typically the process is not too treacherous. Maybe two or three topics will stand out. But this week it was one after another. Retu...
The preseason’s penultimate week has come and gone and there are plenty of takeaways and lingering questions which I'll get to shortly. But first, this may be the day after the weekend when the starters (sans Bears and Rams) showed us their most robust body of work to date, yet this preseason’s clear winner remains a reality TV show… Like John ...
Last year’s Jameis Winston Redemption Tour guised under the Hard Knocks brand was a rare failure for a unique franchise that valiantly marks the beginning of the football season for so many. This year’s rendition with the Cleveland Browns promised to be better. Heck, Derek Anderson reading the phone book for five weeks would have been an...
About 10 minutes into the premiere of Very Cavallari, a new reality show about Kristin Cavallari’s dramatic travails as she expands her clothing line, my husband turned to me and asked, “Can we just skip to parts with Jay in them please?” Jay refers to Jay Cutler, Kristin’s mopey, unambitious husband who was most recently a mopey, un...
In my of The Football Girl Podcast, long-time scout turned analyst for the Dallas Cowboys, Bryan Broaddus, waxed poetic on how the draft has evolved. The notion of the draft, an event where no actual sport is played, being held in a stadium full of 100,000 rabid fans is surreal. But what unfolded during Thursday’s first round more than warranted the...
If you’ve followed any of for The Football Girl, you’ve probably noticed a tinge of SEC bias. As an SEC product, I am especially focused on the top SEC players in this upcoming draft. Even though the SEC has produced the most players drafted of any conference for eleven years running, the hype rarely matches the clear volume. One reason is that ...
SANTA CLARA -- Richard Sherman, the new 49er, entered the press conference room at Levi’s Stadium dripping with his usual swagger, complete with a telling smile and a very bright red suit. The mischievous twinkle in Sherman’s eye further illustrated his self-awareness of this bizarro, yet compelling reality. Richard Sherman is a 49er. Th...
The fateful moment is finally here. March 14th. 4PM ET. A new league year and the start of free agency. Finally, Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport can get to work. Finally, the dry news cycle will be over and roster dominoes will commence. As if that’s how this thing works! From Richard Sherman signing with the enemy to Kirk Cousins’s lik...
The 90th Academy Awards came and went Sunday night without much drama or surprise. Favorites won in all the major categories, women were empowered in the aftermath of #MeToo, and host Jimmy Kimmel continued the new tradition of taking a bevy of stars to surprise “regular people” Despite "I, Tonya's" acting win, sports films don’t oft...