Category: Sports

Thursday November 18, 2010 8:20 PM ET CHI @ MIA: two pathetic teams nobody cares about playing tired, sloppy football on a night where everyone has better things to do on a channel nobody gets. Way to sell Thursday night football, NFL. Sunday November 21, 2010 1:00 PM ET BUF @ CIN: now that Buffalo…

There have been plenty of questions about whom the Green Bay Packers will have at their disposal on the defensive side of the ball Sunday night against the Minnesota Vikings. Here’s another question, prompted by Thursday’s radio spot with ESPNMilwaukee.com’s Jason Wilde: No matter who plays, how will they be deployed? Last year, as you…

Every March, NFL owners approve a handful of new rules at their annual meeting. One or two of them might generate public interest, and this year it was the much-discussed changes to overtime. The rest typically seem irrelevant and hardly worth a sentence of explanation — until they impact the outcome of a game. Such…

Apparently there is a big game Sunday night at Lambeau Field. I yakked about it Thursday morning on ESPNMilwaukee.com’s “The D-List” with pal Jason Wilde and then jumped on ESPN 1500 in the Twin Cities for my weekly visit with “The Reusse & Mackey” show. In both cases, you can find out the end of…

Screen passes seem to be an obsession among NFL fans. Over the years, I’ve heard more from you about them than any other aspect of the game. Teams either throw too many or not enough. They use them at the wrong time or have the wrong personnel. So I found it particularly interesting this year…

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Seven players and one coach remained on the Minnesota Vikings’ practice field Wednesday after their morning walk-through. Defensive backs coach Joe Woods and six cornerbacks stood in a semi-circle around quarterback Brett Favre, who was conducting a demonstration of receiver alignments, quarterback drops and other motions. National headlines will continue to…

I just jumped on conference calls with Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy and quarterback Aaron Rodgers and have a few posts coming. But as always, you come first. Many of you have been asking about the status of linebacker Clay Matthews (hamstring), as well as the three players activated off the physically unable to…

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers took questions on a number of topics during a Wednesday conference call, including whether he would like to one day rekindle his iced-over relationship with predecessor Brett Favre. (Rodgers’ response: “I enjoyed the three years that we spent together, and now, he’s out there and I’m out here.”) We…