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2013 NFL Draft Round 15 – New Orleans Saints

April 25, 2013

With the 15th selection of the 2013 NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints ...

Securities Broker Banned For Life After Defrauding Over 30 NFL Players Out Of $40 Million

March 11, 2013

Statistics show that after just two years of retirement 78% of NFL pla...

The Dynasty Doctor

February 24, 2013

Editor’s Note: We’ve received messages for years asking for cover...

is Joe Flacco elite? No!

February 9, 2013

The biggest buzz word in football the last couple years is “elite.�...

Who Deserves to Win the Major NFL Awards<

February 2, 2013

by John Huffstetler With the NFL Honors Awards tonight, much debate su...

2013 NFL Draft Round 15 – New Orleans Saints

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Faraone13 in Draft, Featured, New Orleans, New Orleans Saints, NFL, Sports, Texas | No comments

With the 15th selection of the 2013 NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints select Kenny Vaccaro, Safety out of Texas. This is a player that can have an immediate impact for the Saints. His freshman year he appeared in all 13 games, both as a safety and on special teams. He made 19 tackles, blocked 1 punt and also forced a fumble in a game vs. Texas A&M. In his sophomore year, he saw more playing time in all 12 games with 6 starts: two games started as a safety and the other 4 as anickelback. His best game of his career was against Oklahoma State where he caught his first college career interception. He had 9 tackles (8 solo), 1 tackle for loss and 2 pass breakups before the game was over. When the season was over, Vaccaro had amassed 54 total tackles (42 solo), one interception, 4 tackles for loss, one forced fumbles and 8 passes broken up. Vaccaro started...

Statistics show that after just two years of retirement 78% of NFL players are “financially stressed”…in other words broke. This is a fact that is sadly disturbing, and often occurs due to poor spending habits and lack of long-term planning, but another major component to this financial instability is getting and making poor investment choices. Last week, Florida financial advisor Jeffrey Rubin was banned from the securities industry for life after putting a group of current and former NFL players in an extremely risky investment that ultimately resulted in over $40million in losses. The group of players cheated out of millions included: Santana Moss, Plaxico Burress, Samari Rolle, Greg Olsen, Devin Thomas, Terrell Owens, Santonio Holmes, Fred Taylor, Jevon Kearse, Kyle Orton, and Clinton Portis many of whom by coincidence or not were represented by NFL Agent Drew Rosenhaus. Rubin, who operated Pro Sports Financial a “concierge service” that offered everything from investment advice to bill payment services, steered the players...

Editor’s Note: We’ve received messages for years asking for coverage of medical issues facing the NFL and fantasy football owners. We’re excited to unveil this article today and also to introduce a new mailbag of sorts. ”The Dynasty Doctor” will be a series we run on an as needed basis. If you have any questions in regards to concussions, ACL procedures, recovery times from specific injuries or anything else related to medical science, submit your question here and it may be featured in an upcoming article with our own resident M.D., Dr. Scott Peak. He’s a board certified neurologist, neuro-oncologist and is the Director of Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neuroscience/Neurosurgery for a large health care system. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has received a lot of attention recently, both in the NFL and in fantasy football. Years ago, a torn ACL was a career-killer for an NFL athlete. More recently, we have seen several athletes return from an ACL...

is Joe Flacco elite? No!

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Miles Miller in Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Featured, Green Bay Packers, Making Sense of Sports, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports | 6 comments

The biggest buzz word in football the last couple years is “elite.” Michael Kay asked Eli Manning if he thought he was elite and Eli said “yeah, I do.” Then he went on to win the Super Bowl MVP for the second time. Right after that radio interview, Joe Flacco said that he was elite, too. Two years later he won his first Super Bowl and now many people want to say that Joe is now elite because of that ring and he expects to be paid like an elite. So what exactly is “elite”? One dictionary describes it (and I like it) as “the most powerful, rich, gifted or educated members of a group.” So an elite quarterback is one of the most powerful, skilled, and successful quarterbacks in the NFL. The obvious key words are “one of the most.” I believe that the criteria for determining greatness in a quarterback is the following: 1) Team success. A top quarterback...

by John Huffstetler With the NFL Honors Awards tonight, much debate surrounds the top awards to be presented. With that in mind, here's who deserves to win (not who will win) the major awards that will be given out tonight from New Orleans. NFL MVP Tom Brady- Choosing between Brady and Peyton Manning this season is almost impossible. They have incredibly similar statistics in yards (4,827 to 4,659 Brady), TD's (37 to 34 Manning), and INT's (8 to 11 Brady), but I will give the slight edge to Brady because the Patriots played a more difficult schedule than the Broncos this year. Manning's Broncos had the 2nd worst strength of victory (.385) among all playoff teams this season. In fact, only 6 teams in the entire league had a worse SOV, meaning Manning was beating up on mainly inept bottom-feeding teams. So what about Adrian Peterson? No chance. As I wrote in a previous article, a running...

In case you weren't aware, the Pro Bowl was played on Sunday. The NFC won that game scoring a lot of points to the AFCs a lot, but not nearly enough points. In the week leading up to the Pro Bowl, the internet was abuzz with people telling us why they wouldn't watch, why the Pro Bowl was a joke, and why the NFL, if it had any self-respect would cancel it. And then, on Sunday, those same people helped earn the Pro Bowl a TV rating equivalent to an NBA finals game. Clearly, the Pro Bowl is a polarizing topic, so let's talk about it, shall we? My first thought is: who cares? The Pro Bowl is no different from the NBA, NHL, and MLB All-Star games. They aren't, in my mind, meant to be serious replicas of an NFL game. They are, for the most part, held for money and for fans....

TERRY TATE - OFFICE LINEBACKER It's SB time and half the world will be watching for the new commercials which can make or break a company. Companies will spend millions for 30 or 60 seconds of air time. I was reminded of this commercial and have to laugh every time I hear the phrase TPS Reports. Love it. Enjoy! ...

It's East Coast versus West Coast. It's SF Bay versus Chesapeake Bay. It's brother coach versus brother coach. It's Ray Rice versus Rice-A-Roni. It's Flacco versus "Fabulous". It's the retiring future Hall of Fame (and shame) LB versus the upstart 2nd year QB with some serious jailhouse tattoos who has never been. It's the legend of Joe Montana versus the legend of the 'Old' Cleveland Browns. Count how many times you see "The Catch" in the next two weeks. Break 20 and you will get a cookie. It could be a good SB and it may not be. The fans in the two cities and elsewhere are jacked up but what abut the rest of us whose teams did not make it? Will it be a good game? Maybe, both teams can score. Nothing worse than a 9-6 sleeper. Will the commercials be better than the game? Maybe but I bet we spend more time watching them than we do watching game play. Even during...

Last weekend treated us to a nearly full slate of action-packed NFL playoff excitement. From the opening game at Denver Saturday morning, to the Colin Kaepernick highlight reel that night, through the Seahawk heartbreak Sunday afternoon, the National Football League never let us down. Sure, New England ended it on a sour note due to their domination of the Texans in Foxboro, but for the most part it was a home run for the league, and for the viewers another in the long line of memorable Divisional Weekends. There were long runs and longer passes, fantastic plays and finer finishes, and those who made a difference and those who wish they’d hadn’t. But like most NFL games, there were also injuries on the field, but it’s the ones you don’t see that have me thinking now, and how they’re dealt with that has me thinking about later. Half-way through my first cup of coffee Sunday morning, I dazedly...

After 17 weeks and 256 games the regular season is over. Here is Miller's Power Report. Super Bowl Contenders 1. Patriots. Of their four losses, three were by a combined four points and in the other game against the 49ers they roared back from 28 points down and finished an onside kick away. Everyone knows they have the best offense in the league, and the Dolphins and Texans will tell you the defense can be surprisingly great at times, too. Rob Gronkowski is back for the playoffs. Patriots finished the season 11-1 against the AFC, and had the largest point differential and turnover differential in the league. 2. Seahawks. They finished the season on fire and look like they could be the best team in the league. The ‘Hawks scored 150 points in three games late in the season and also finished as the stingiest defense (just 15 points/game). So how did this team that beat the Patriots, Packers and 49ers lose...

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