In an NFL media culture that so often simplifies quarterback play to simple wins and losses, the underrating of Russell Wilson has been a mystery. The Seattle Seahawks’ fourth-year quarterback can win Super Bowls and engineer comebacks, but his own role is perpetually dismissed as being either the product of the Legion of Boom defense […]
The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are without question the two best teams in the NFL. This isn’t a case of teams who just got hot at the right time in January. These are teams that earned #1 seeds in their respective conferences and then validated that standing in the playoffs to get to the Super Bowl. But it’s a common weakness of both that’s weighing on me as we get closer to kickoff on Sunday night in Phoenix.
The BCS games start today in the late afternoon and it kicks off with Wisconsin-Oregon in the Rose Bowl (5 PM ET, ABC) as Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit will be on hand to get us started on college football’s showcase games. Let’s look back on the path each team took to get here, and […]