by Brent Schwartz
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.
Rams lead the way in NFC; Patriots eying another 19-0 run?
This week marks the beginning of yet another season for Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the once-again defending Super Bowl champions. Few could have predicted their still-dominant place in the league at this time just five years ago, after the team was steamrolled on a Monday night in Kansas City. Yet, the Patriots remain at the top of the league, with more success since that Fall night in 2014 than perhaps any five-year stretch of their greatest-of-all-time dynasty.
Greg Zuerlein's 57-yard, walk-off boot sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl, but the path to franchise's first league championship bout since 2001 started roughly 10 months ago. Last March, the team most noted for its offensive transcendence and aggressiveness on the field in 2017, geared up for their 2018 campaign by vigorously … Continue reading No matter what happens next, Rams’ aggressive offseason paid off
Fighting through yet another ugly contest in Jacksonville, Ben Roethlisberger's plunge to the end zone with 4 seconds remaining kept the Steelers' six-game winning streak intact, and effectively ended the season of the team that ended theirs this past January. https://twitter.com/steelers/status/1064265162926911488 Down 16-0 to the Jaguars in the third quarter, it seemed as if their … Continue reading NFL Monday Morning Madness: Steelers rally past Jags; Cowboys, Bears make NFC statements
193 days removed from one of the most painful losses of his career, Tom Brady took the field against the Philadelphia Eagles with something to prove. The contrast in importance from Super Bowl LII and this home preseason tilt can't be overstated, but for Brady, this was a chance to damper the over-analyzed noise of … Continue reading Patriots go ‘once more into the fray’ in quest for sixth ring
A few weeks ago, NFL Network's Top 100 players of 2018 series culminated with Tom Brady's second consecutive -- and third overall -- finish at No. 1 on the rankings. I decided to follow that up with my own Top 50 list. Read and enjoy. Just missed: Andrew Luck, Matthew Stafford, Landon Collins, LeSean McCoy, Marcus … Continue reading Brent Schwartz’s Top 50 NFL players of 2018
No Guts No Glory 