The Rams Have No Idea Where To Go

The Rams have Sam Bradford in the palm of their hands, but no plan for releasing him from his cage. When is he coming out to play, and how long can the fans in St. Louis stand the indecision?

NFL Coaches and QBs Need To Stop Being Delusional

There are tons of delusional athletes, but NFL coaches and quarterbacks are taking the cake this year. Who’s gone off their rocker?

Stop Telling Me What You “Could Have” Done

Stop complaining already! Brandon Phillips sucks. Colt McCoy shouldn’t have gotten hurt. Artest shouldn’t have hit that shot. Your bitching and moaning is giving me a headache!

Kickers Get NFL Teams Into Trouble: The Cardinals To Be Exact

Kickers always get NFL teams into trouble. They think they can find someone who can make that one extra field goal and then they get burned. Neil Rackers coming out for Jay Feely in Arizona is but one of many cautionary tales.

A Tale Of Two Delusional Football Teams

The Washington Redskins and Arizona Cardinals are in a state of delusion.  Each team thinks they are making the right moves without spending loads of cash.  Each one is wrong. The situations in Washington and Arizona are far more complicated than the proclamation, “We aren’t spending a lot of money”.  They have Quarterback issues—big ones. [...]

The NFL Quarterback Market Won’t Work Out

The Quarterback market in the NFL this season is starting to look untenable.  There are too many guys who need homes and not enough spots to go around.  I suppose I should rephrase that: There are not enough starting spots to fulfill huge egos. The market is going to get saturated after the Draft because [...]

NFL: The Big 3-Pacman, Turrull, and OT

Don’t you just hate it when the NFL announces it’s going to start tinkering with playoff overtime rules and they call it “OT”?  Then you’re trying to figure you out what rules there are for offensive tackles? They’re big dudes who take up space: What possible trouble could they get into, right? Anyways, we’ve got [...]

The General’s Top 5 Mock Draft

The NFL Draft is a couple months away, but after the Super Bowl everyone gets into “Draft Mode”.  This “Draft Mode” leads teams to cut players, open up cap space, and start making their “needs” known. I could sit here and do a complete “Mock Draft”, but some teams require little discussion, and others “just [...]

A Shocking Super Bowl Reality: The General’s Pick

The Super Bowl is this Sunday. The two best teams in the league are facing off. The two best offenses in the league are squaring up. The most maligned defenses in the league have something to prove, and I have a pick to make. I love listening to sports radio during major events like the [...]

The General’s Preseason National League Predictions

Spring Training is almost upon us, and I think it’s time to predict who will rise and who will fall in the National League.  2010 promises to be a loaded season with teams reloading, wallowing, and retooling. Major League Baseball’s season is VERY long and VERY complicated.  Plus, it offers us a glimpse into the [...]

February “Almost Madness”: Contenders and Pretenders

College Basketball is heating up with what I like to call “February (Almost) Madness”.  I think John Calipari alone is “mad” enough for all of us.  If he doesn’t win a title with recruits everything thinks he stole…he’ll never win one. By the time March rolls around we’ll have conference tournaments galore and the inevitable [...]

Were the Saints Competing at the End of the Regular Season?

I had the “worst of the worst” weekends making  NFL picks, and the most disappointing of those failed picks was the Cardinals’ painful death at the hands of the New Orleans Saints.  I was hoping for a good performance from the Cardinals, but when I began to live blog the game on Twitter… …and Tim [...]

NFL Divisional Playoffs: The General Picks Them All

8 teams are playing for 4 spots in the AFC and NFC Championship Games on January 24th.  Don’t you want to know who’s going to win?  I promise to tell if you can stick with me through my unorthodox reasoning! My colleague Tony also has his picks coming for this weekend and in briefly discussing [...]

How Does Garrett Gilbert Effect The NFL Playoffs?

Well, well, I had a wonderful time live-blogging the BCS National Championship Game on Twitter (yes, I have a Twitter account : genxxlgeneral) and I just had some major revelations during the game that not only have implications in college football but I think these revelations have MAJOR implications for the NFL Wildcard round this [...]

What Do Players Mean When They Say They Need To “Play Within Themselves”? (Plus, the final week of regular seaosn picks)

In throwing this idea out to one of my superiors here at genxxl.com I said “And I’ve got this great idea for a column on players playing within themselves” and his response was simply “LMAO”.  Honestly, I didn’t really that sounded as bad as it did when it wasn’t being said by a professional athlete [...]

Let’s Review the Week That Was in the NFL

Because I don’t normally go this route I think it good to make a slight change and review the NFL weekend because we had tons of things happen this weekend that simply did not meet with my expectations (not because I expect everything to go MY way, but I honestly think it I’m right most [...]

What Was Up With The NFL Last Weekend?

Well, the NFL flew in and out like a lark and we’re left with a ton of clinched playoff spots, some confusion, and this weird feeling about the 14-0 Colts. Let’s start with the obvious… The Colts are now 14-0 after outlasting the Jags on Thursday night. Unfortunately, most of the country didn’t see this [...]

The Home-Stretch is Here!

Alright, we’re in the homestretch…3 weeks to go and TONS of teams need miracles, solid wins, losses from other teams, miracles, (to keep losing), to rest players, an easier schedule, to not be pushed so hard, to find their offense, to find their defense, to find both, to stop vicious cycles, to show us what [...]

Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove

The Hot Stove FINALLY got hot today with all the movement in Baseball that actually involved many of the game’s best players.  We’ve got American League teams trying to reload and a certain National League getting better than 2 straight World Series appearances.  Now that’s pretty good! The Phillies made a pretty shrewd deal in [...]

The General’s Smorgasbord Part 2

With the College Football season on “Pause” until January what are we going to do?  I mean, there’s plenty of stuff to talk about in College Football and now they’re going to make us wait until January to get another fix?  What’s up with that?!  Well, I’m going to talk about it anyways…so HA! We’re [...]