SEC takes another covid hit; Saban out … For those that hadn’t heard, Alabama head coach Nick Saban, one of the most successful coaches in college football history, will miss Saturday’s big SEC clash between his 2nd ranked Tide and 3rd ranked Georgia after testing positive for covid-19. Fortunately, Saban reports he is asymptomatic so far, but he… Read More »
Titans trade disgruntled LB Correa to Jags … Tennessee has traded unhappy OLB Kamalei Correa to Jacksonville in a deal that involves a couple of 2021 draft picks. The Titans gets a 6th round pick next year, while the Jaguars get a 7th to complete the trade.
Injured SU S Cisco to enter draft … Syracuse safety Andre Cisco, one of the top prospects at the position for the 2021 draft, has indicated that he will be entering the upcoming draft despite suffering a torn ACL earlier this month. We also didn’t note it earlier, but when the Mid-American Conference made it’s decision to go… Read More »
Giants Report: Anatomy of a wasted off-season … The fact that the Giants are 0-5 and sitting on the #1 pick overall in the proverbial first-round selection order for the upcoming draft were it to be held this week, is distressing enough. What makes it harder to take is that the Giants looked to be in great shape… Read More »
As a general rule, we don’t like to spend a lot of time rehashing, past decisions especially ad nauseum. Fact is, very few decision in the NFL, whether it’s who to draft, make a trade, or sign a free agent come with a probability of success over 50%. Indeed, those are probably the ‘safe’ choices. That said, it’s… Read More »
SEC cancels second game this week … The SEC has formally postponed Saturday’s game between #10 Florida and defending national champion LSU after the Gators had 19 players test positive for COVID-19. The game has been tentatively rescheduled for December 12th, the league’s built-in bye week before its title game. It’s the second the SEC game has bumped… Read More »
Bolts move up to 4th pick after OT loss … The LA Chargers were close again this week, but once again came up on the short end of the score losing in overtime to New Orleans. As a result, the Chargers dropped to 1-4 and moved up to the #4 pick in the proverbial if the draft were… Read More »
Post-game first impressions … Don’t want to sound like a broken record, but for the third time in four weeks, a Giants had a chance to win in a game at the end, but for the third time in four weeks came up short, this time losing 37-34 in Dallas when the Cowboys kicked the game winning FG… Read More »
Star SU S Cisco, SMU WR Roberson both done for year … A couple of top prospects for the 2021 draft have been ruled out for the rest of the year with knee injuries suffered earlier this month. Syracuse, for example, that SS Andre Cisco, one of the top 2-3 safety prospects this year, will miss the rest… Read More »
Top three picks unchanged; #2 Falcs clean house … The three teams that came into the week sitting on the top 3 picks at the 2021 draft were it held this week all lost earlier today meaning there won’t be any change at the top of this year’s selection order, at least for this week. For the third… Read More »
Pats-Broncos postponed again … The pandemic continues to mess with the NFL schedule with tomorrow evening’s rescheduled game between Denver and New England having been postponed once again in the wake of another Patriots positive COVID-19 test. So far, there has been no announcement of when that game will be rescheduled, but there are reports that it could… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemete has posted the latest edition of his weekly college football prospects review report featuring games from October 3rd. Here is the full report.
Giants report: Thoughts on the Barkley pick … Over the past few weeks we’ve received a bunch of emails from Giants fans asking if we think the season-ending knee injury suffered by Saquon Barkley is the final proof that taking him with the 2nd pick overall in 2018 was a big mistake. To paraphrase the apparent thinking ‘sure… Read More »
Over the past few weeks we’ve received a bunch of emails from Giants fans asking if we think the season-ending knee injury suffered by Saquon Barkley is the final proof that taking him with the 2nd pick overall in 2018 was a big mistake. To paraphrase the apparent thinking ‘sure Saquon was the best player available, but taking… Read More »
Over the past few weeks we’ve received a bunch of emails from Giants fans asking if we think the season-ending knee injury suffered by Saquon Barkley is the final proof that taking him with the 2nd pick overall in 2018 was a big mistake. To paraphrase the apparent thinking ‘sure Saquon was the best player available, but taking… Read More »
Covid continues to mess with football … It looks like the Covid pandemic is going to mess up more schedules than that for the presidential debates. In college football, Baylor has announced that is has suspended all football-related activities to allow for further evaluation of recent positive tests and the completion of close contact tracing. The program did… Read More »
Note to Giants fans from a seventies survivor!!! … With the Giants stumbling out of the gate once again this fall – they’d have the #1 pick overall were the 2021 draft held this week – we’ve had a lot of emails from the team’s faithful asking if we would think about reinstating the old Giants Report to… Read More »
Hello. My name is Grumpy. I am a Giants’ fan and I survived the seventies! With the Giants struggling out of the gate once again, I have received a ton of emails from fans literally pleading with me to tell them this ain’t the 1970s all over again. Sorry, but it is what it is! The NFL is… Read More »
USC OL back in … Southern California OG Alijah Vera-Tucker is the latest PAC-12 player to opt back into the 2020 season after previously announcing they would not play this year and would focus on preparing for the 2021 draft. The PAC-12 will play a 7-game conference schedule beginning the first weekend in November.
QB Lance opts out; WR Ross cleared to lift and other college draft notes … After playing in his team’s only game this fall, rising North Dakota State QB Trey Lance has confirmed that he has opted out of the rest of any 2020 season that the Bison plays this year and instead will be entering the upcoming… Read More »
We’re #1 … Its still a little early to be posting the updated, weekly selection order for the 2021, but if the draft were held this week, the NY Giants would have the first pick overall. The Giants are one of four still winless teams, but have the weakest strength of schedule of the four, dropping below that… Read More »
Chiefs-Pats rescheduled for tomorrow night … The NFL has announced that the Kansas City-New England game which was originally scheduled for this afternoon, but was cancelled following several positive tests for COVID-19, has been shifted to tomorrow evening with KO set for 7 PM ET on CBS. In addition, kick-off for the regular Monday night game between Atlanta… Read More »
Texans-Vikes highlights Sunday draft sched … Prior to the season both Minnesota and Houston figured to be at least contenders for a playoff berth this fall. Instead both have stumbled to almost shocking 0-3 starts. However, at least one will get off the schneid, barring a tie of course, as the Vikings will be in Houston to face… Read More »
NDSU QB Lance ‘not sharp’ in lone fall appearance … By his own admission, star North Dakota State redshirt sophomore QB Trey Lance was ‘not sharp’ in what will be his only game this fall. Lance, who more than one team grades right up there with the likes of Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields of Ohio State… Read More »
Another game delayed; update … No word yet on when the Kansas City-New England has been been rescheduled to, but to fill the void in the TV schedule, tomorrow’s game between Indianapolis and Chicago has been pushed back to 4:25 PM ET. As reported earlier, tomorrow’s game between the Chiefs and Patriots, at least for now, been pushed… Read More »
