Category Archives: Pigskin Paul

College football training camps will start opening in less than a month so here is an alphabetical shout-out to guys we could be talking a lot as next April/May approach. ROBERTO AGUAYO/K/FLORIDA STATE DOMINIQUE ALEXANDER/LB/OKLAHOMA VIDAL ALEXANDER/OT/LSU BRANDON ALLEN/QB/ARKANSAS JACK ALLEN/OC/MICHIGAN STATE NATE ANDREWS/S/FLORIDA STATE T.T. BARBER/LB/MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE DANTE BARNETT/S/KANSAS STATE KENDELL BECKWITH/LB/LSU VONN BELL/S/OHIO STATE ANDREW… Read More »

Let’s call the rest of this division the Wanna Be’s and decide who, if anyone, is close to overtaking the PACKERS before AARON RODGERS retires, which isn’t likely to be any time soon from the looks of things. The VIKINGS look to me like the most serious competition for the PACKERS, and a team with a legit chance… Read More »

GREEN BAY PACKERS PREVIEW Clearly, the PACKERS have been the class of the NFC North for the past decade with a couple of brief exceptions. But when analyzing their roster heading into the 2015 NFL season I have to view their off-season a bit differently than most teams around the League. Under the guidance of VP/GM TED THOMPSON… Read More »

So if the COLTS are serious Super Bowl contenders does that pretty much relegate the rest of the teams in their division to also ran status? In a word YES! The other three teams are all trying to establish/identify their Franchise QB to lead them out of perennial double digit Loss status. The best anyone in this threesome… Read More »

Because of the mediocre to poor teams in their division (JAGS, TEXANS, TITANS) it occurs to me that a good number of NFL fans don’t realize that ANDREW LUCK, in only his 4th season as a pro, has already turned the COLTS back into a double-digit win team, and serious annual Super Bowl contender that they were for… Read More »

So if the COWBOYS have stayed about the same on a roster talent level from last season when you balance gains with losses has anyone in the NFC East made enough gains to challenge them for the division title. I think the answer lies in the city of Philadelphia if you think CHIP KELLY is the mad genius… Read More »

The COWBOYS made the leap in 2014 from being a perennial .500 team to NFC East Champs. In fact they were one questionable “catch call” away from heading to the NFC Championship game. It almost seemed prophetic when HC JASON GARRETT pronounced early in the season that the organization knew they had the right people on the bus… Read More »

So if the BRONCOS have lost some ground in roster strength has anyone in the AFC West gained ground with roster changes. The answer is, ‘yes indeed’ indeed in all cases, and IMO here they are in order of Play-Off potential. CHARGERS The guys in San Diego didn’t proceed with much fanfare, nor did they break the bank… Read More »

We are still almost 2 months away from the opening of NFL Training Camps, but now that VFA and the Draft Process are pretty much concluded it is certainly not too early to talk about the pros and cons of roster shuffling that has taken place around the League. So let me start with the AFC West and… Read More »

I truly intended for my next article to be some new analysis of the 2015 Draft and team roster improvements around the NFL. That is still on my agenda, but while doing some early 2016 prospect research I came up with some College Football observations that I just had to put on paper. I couldn’t help but chuckle… Read More »

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the present becomes the past in today’s high speed tech world. The Draft is still less than a month ago and yet to many folks it is a distant memory. Now that I have caught my breath I want to revisit how that event has affected rosters around the League.… Read More »

Clearly, yours truly has not gotten the PACKERS out of his system, despite now living in Florida. I have been printing Rookie lists and checking on NFC North rosters in recent days to put together a post-Draft gain/loss article and found myself getting caught up in September roster projections for Green Bay. So despite all common logic I… Read More »