With no OTA’s and mini camps to implement new systems, and shortened training camps putting rookies at a distinct disadvantage, football will look sloppy for the first half of the season.
Top 5 Possible Teams to Net Jeff Fisher in 2012
January 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
With the Titans jettisoning Jeff Fisher, where might the former Super Bowl loser end up?
Texans’ Arian Foster May Need O-Linemen to Foot the Bill
January 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Considering that each of the Texans’ starting offensive linemen makes much much more than what Foster makes. It would be ludicrous for Foster to do what other rushing title winners of the past.
Gary Kubiak: We Believed You
December 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
January 26, 2006 was supposed to usher in a new era for the new franchise. Unfortunately it hasn’t turned out the way Houstonians had expected
Ranking The Fake Nike NFL Uniforms
November 20, 2010 By 24 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 Best NFL Head Coaching Job that Could Become Available
November 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
There is a possibility that the head coaching job in Houston could become available at the end of the year if the Texans don’t make the playoffs and continue to be an up and down team.
Unchartered Territory: Colts face must win game on MNF
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
At the end of the season in the NFL, you can always look back on a team’s schedule and find at least one in game that was the turning point or of their year. For the Indianapolis Colts that game is this week.
NFL: Beast or Bust
October 10, 2010 By 4 Comments
Every year during the first few weeks of the NFL season we get several surprise teams. Teams that come out of nowhere and get off to a great and unexpected start (09 Broncos, ’10 Chiefs) and teams that are popular Super Bowl or division champion picks (’10 49ers, ’10 Cowboys, ’10 Vikings). So with only [...]
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 Top 10 Most Compelling Things To Watch In The 2010-2011 NFL Season
September 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
Throughout the coarse of an NFL season you will have your major stories that everyone knows about and pays attention to. However, there are many subplots and/or situations that are typically ten time more compelling than the major storylines that the media hype up every week. These subplots and/or situations are things that affect the [...]
NFL Week 3: Texas Showdown Preview and Prediction
Hate and Passion Unless you are from the state of Texas or have lived in Texas for any length of time, then you really don’t understand the magnitude of a Cowboys/Texans game or when the Oilers were still in Houston, a Cowboys/Oilers game. You see the hatred between the cities of Dallas and Houston is [...]