by Brent Schwartz
With the final games of the year (not season) 2020 behind us, a new year will dawn with the end of an odd, pandemic-altering season. I decided to empty my brain's notebook of takes this week prior to Week 17 and the playoffs by taking a deep dive into the NFL MVP race, giving perhaps … Continue reading NFL Tuesday Morning Madness Week 16: A shakeup in the MVP race, and other musings
Three plays into the most hyped-up Monday Night Football matchup in years, Lamar Jackson was doing Jackson things — taking off and scampering down the sideline for a 30-yard run. Five plays later, the Ravens had a red zone first down, and were ready to begin what should have been a demon-exercising night with an emphatic … Continue reading NFL Tuesday Morning Madness Week 3: Ravens’ big-game issues conjured up by Chiefs
For the third straight year, I bring you, my Top 100 players list. Well, I made a Top 50 in 2019, but since increased my strenuous research project by double, as I watch film, sort players and give my takes on a piece that I begin around March or April every year, finishing up in … Continue reading Brent Schwartz’s Top 100 NFL Players of 2020
The NFL's 100th season has come and gone, with the Kansas City Chiefs honoring the league and the great Lamar Hunt by winning the AFC -- in turn, winning the Lamar Hunt Trophy -- en route to a Super Bowl 54 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. In a new type of column I hope … Continue reading Brent’s Extra Points: Will Mahomes become NFL’s LeBron?
After a fun-filled season, two teams worthy of the biggest game of the NFL's historic 100th season remain. Super Bowl 54. The Kansas City Chiefs versus the San Francisco 49ers. Storylines aside, this is the most interesting Super Bowl matchup since Super Bowl 49 -- Patriots over Seahawks -- in terms of X's and O's, … Continue reading Super Bowl LIV Preview: Loss of Kobe rightly overshadows buildup of speedy Chiefs-49ers tilt
Many have said the NFL's Divisional Playoff round is the best weekend in sports. I'm sure those people are not disappointed after this past weekend's slate of games.
When I went to journalism school in Northwestern in 2017, our class with media veteran J.A. Adande consisted of writing about topics of our own choice. My most passionate paper that year was when I lobbied that Deshaun Watson should be the first quarterback taken in the 2017 NFL Draft. I later doubled down on Watson … Continue reading NFL Monday Morning Madness: Watson outduels Mahomes + What football means to the Schwartz family
With each passing week of football, Patrick Mahomes continues to prove he's the NFL's best player.
Although a young star-in-the-making, Lamar Jackson is not in Mahomes' class. Nobody is, outside of six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. And even the GOAT can admire what he's seen from Mahomes.
The Patriots celebrated their sixth Super Bowl win in front of the the only other franchise with as many. Then, they dismantled them on a national stage. New England pummeled Pittsburgh, 33-3, by dominating in most facets of the game. Another banner drops, another in sight. But the biggest story surrounding the most talked about … Continue reading NFL Monday Morning Madness: Patriots drop sixth banner, pound Steelers, as Antonio Brown awaits
As the seasons change or as life moves on, the NFL's best players come and go. In Kansas City, the Chiefs found a 23-year-old phenom gunslinger in Patrick Mahomes. And on Saturday, February 2nd in Atlanta, Mahomes will (and should) be awarded this season's NFL MVP award. No, I don't have one of the 50 … Continue reading NFL Monday Morning Madness: Mahomes locks up MVP + season awards
No Guts No Glory 