Informative and opinionated sports blogging on NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA Football, Boxing and MMA. Facts, not hype.
Last night’s match-up against the Pittsburgh Steelers pushed the Carolina Panthers one game closer to receiving the not so coveted first overall pick of the 2011 draft. The Panthers have struggled mightily this season at quarterback, trying Matt Moore and rookie Jimmy Clausen who have both been unable to secure the starting job. Although the [...]
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. [...]
JaMarcus Russell has dodged a bullet as an Alabama grand jury declined to indict the former Oakland Raiders quarterback on felony drug possession charges
Word on the street is that a former Cincinnati Bengals player is being investigated by the NFL for allegedly attempting to jack three NFL rookies “white collar style” for more than $350,000.
I am sure by now you have heard either me, or any of the many NFL analysts on ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC Sports or the NFL Network routinely state that the NFL is a passing league now. You can have the most dominant running game on the planet, however if you don’t have a quarterback [...]
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 [...]
Here is the second to last blog in my nine part NFL season preview blog series. Part nine will be my power rankings, and Super Bowl picks. AFC West (Note: If you click on the red colored team name, a link will take you to a web page that will show you strength of schedule [...]
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 [...]
