Jacksonville: How To Alienate Your Quarterback In 3 Days

Why does the city of Jacksonville have to be so mean? They’ve succeeded in making David Garrard the most hated man in the city–and for no reason. In the meantime they’ve thrown in the towel on this team and doomed them to certain death this upcoming season. How do you alienate a quarterback in three days?

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.

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 Saints Are Not “Worst To First”–The Super Bowl Part 1

Yes, I said it, the Saints are NOT “Worst to First”.  The Saints were a good team before this season and will be after this season.  We need to stop fawning over the Saints like they just rebuilt New Orleans all by themselves. The New Orleans Saints have been playing good football for a couple [...]

AFC/NFC Title Games: The General Makes Tough Choices

The AFC and NFC championship games have become nearly as big as the Super Bowl.  I’ll bet that’s why I am SO torn over who to pick in these games. My boss told me to “Go with the stronger team”, and threw a little emoticon on the end of that one because everyone knows this [...]

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 [...]

3 Reasons For Tim Tebow To Be Happy in 2010

The Allstate Sugar Bowl transpired on New Year’s Day without anything surprising happening, but I think in the blowout of Cincinnati the Gators hid a little treasure for all of us to enjoy and speculate on for months to come (until April to be precise.)  Urban Meyer was coaching his last game before a leave [...]

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 [...]

Joy (and Why The Colts Will Go 16-0) + Urban Meyer Resigns at Florida

I have only one theory as to why I think the Colts will go 16-0 (and subsequently 19-0) and complete a season that the New England Patriots could not complete the 19-0 season in 2007. Joy! The Patriots don’t seem to take any joy in anything.  I mean, I’ve watched ALOT of ESPNEWS and seen [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The General’s Smorgasbord Part 1

Reflecting on the weekend that was in sports I’d have to say that I learned a few lessons about sports and I’m going to share them with you today…not because I think you don’t know them, but just in case you don’t know them (or at the very least so you can laugh at me [...]

Who Would Win In A Fight Between…?

Who WOULD win in a fight between the Saints and Colts? I don’t mean to discount other teams that are playing very well (namely the Bengals and the Vikings) but all indications would point to a New Orleans/Indy Super Bowl that will be played outside in sunny South Florida (on my birthday no less.) Just [...]

The Good, Bad and Pathetic

EliticismAs the NFL continues its search for qualified NFL Hall of Fame Semi-Finalists….there are quite a few NFL head coaches who are on the final stretch in their NFL coaching positions. Eric Mangini of the Cleveland Browns, Raheem Morris of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Wade Phillips of the Dallas Cowboys are all in severe [...]

Someone made a savvy decision (and ALL the picks…)

Today, Georgia fired it’s Defensive Coordinator (Willie Martinez) and 2 other defensive assistants and I have to say I’m surprised. I just went off on Monday about how UGA wasn’t going to win anything coming out of their defeat of Georgia Tech because they would bide their time with the Assistants they had instead of [...]

I can’t believe they actually fired him! (a.k.a. – what I learned this weekend)

Well, I run off to work today and in the quagmire that is my day job I didn’t hear about Charlie Weis getting fired immediately.  However, I did get in the car and hear about it within 5 seconds of having the radio on sports talk (I listen to 790 down here…mainly because they aren’t [...]