It is clear that the NFL is taking a hard stance on protecting QB’s, I ask the question, at what price to the NFL game.
Atlanta Falcons’ Mularkey Interviews with Browns
January 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
Top executives from the Browns organization flew to Atlanta to interview Mike Mularkey.
Ranking The Fake Nike NFL Uniforms
November 20, 2010 By 23 Comments
Many of you who have subscribed to helmetandpadsrequired.com or are avid readers of Yardbarker.com most likely came across my article yesterday that broke the news that the pictures of the Nike NFL uniform sketches were fakes. Per Gregg Rosenthal of Pro Football Talk, Darren Rovell of CNBC, the NFL and Nike, the pictures are fakes. [...]
The Madden Curse continues. Drew Brees the latest victim
October 24, 2010 By 4 Comments
Well after watching Drew throw four interceptions where two were returned for touchdowns in the Saints 30-17 loss to the Cleveland Browns. It’s safe to say that Drew has been bitten by the Madden curse.
Braylon Edwards: Pro Bowl Talent, Tin Man Heart (Updated)
September 24, 2010 By 3 Comments
As an avid Ohio State and Cleveland Browns fan, I have had a front row seat to the first 5 years of Braylon Edwards‘NFL career and his college career at The University of Michigan. There is no doubt, Braylon is a physical specimen. He’s 6’3″ and around 220 lbs., he can stretch the field with [...]
2011 NFL Season Preview. Part 9 of 9: NFL Power Rankings & Super Bowl Prediction
September 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Welcome to my new blog site www.helmetandpadsrequired.com. After months of using the generic version of WordPress to do my blogging, I decided to go out and get my own domain name and web hosting site. It’s still under construction and I wasn’t going to debut it until October 1st once the iPhone app version of [...]
The Ultimate 2011 NFL fantasy football blog part 3: Defense
August 16, 2010 By 2 Comments
Here is what some of you guys have been waiting for, the next installment of my 2011 NFL fantasy football blog series. Today I am ranking all 32 defenses in order of how I would draft come fantasy football draft time. I will admit that I may post another version of this blog in a [...]
Madden 11: Maybe the most realistic Madden to date
July 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A lot of people seem to be blogging or talking about number 81 today and rightfully so. It’s good to see a black man in this country no longer be unemployed. lol However, Terrell Owens getting signed by the Cincinnati Bengals wasn’t the only big news yesterday, the Madden 11 demo was released for download [...]
2011 NFL Season Preview. Part 3 of 9, AFC North: Is the AFC representative for Super Bowl XLV coming from this division?
June 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to the third installment of my NFL blog series. If you haven’t read parts one and two, feel free to check them out. I know that I am supposed to have some sort of professional journalistic type of intro to my blog so that you guys can get all excited and lathered up about [...]
ESPN’s Colin Cowherd Puts Out a Bounty on Browns Fan
ESPN’s Colin Cowherd is so ticked about the incident that happened to a father and son after the Jets/Browns game this past Sunday that he has put a bounty out on the main culprit involved in the incident.