Articles by Michael Coggin (46)
View image | gettyimages.com We are now a week into the free agency period. Last Saturday, the “legal tampering” period began. What followed was a historically rare & frantic week of transactions the likes of which the NFL has never seen. Jimmy Graham is now a Seahawk. Ndomakung Suh signed a $60M guaranteed-contract in Miami. […]
View image | gettyimages.com The weather forecast for Tuesday, March 10th in Philadelphia, PA calls for a 60% chance of rain. Incidentally, at 4:00 pm that day the NFL free agent market opens. The perfect weather, on the perfect day, to blow a disgusting amount of money on—hopefully—obscenely talented young men that fit Chip’s […]
Chip Kelly does nothing conventionally. Seriously…nothing. Trades like the one that happened yesterday are phenomenally uncommon in the NFL. The MLB trading deadline is a mid-Summer beat writer’s dream. The NBA & NHL sees players moved on a near nightly basis. The NFL is a different animal altogether. The NFL trading deadline usually passes without […]
View image | gettyimages.com As I was finishing this, the Eagles announced the release of Cary Williams via their Twitter account. IT seems that the franchise is planning on being aggressive in both free agency: freeing up cap space along the offensive line & secondary, so far, that will likely go to replacements for […]
View image | gettyimages.com It is being reported that the Eagles have begun dipping into free agent waters this morning. They had former Green Bay inside linebacker Brad Jones in for a visit. He was cut last month after spending six years with the Packers. Jones is a former seventh round pick in the 2009 […]
This is a great example of the haves & have-nots in the NFL. The Ravens & Steelers are the perennial class of the division while the Bengals—after decades of irrelevance—have clawed their way into the conversation the last couple years. Then there’s the Browns…those poor, misguided Browns. When it comes down to it, teams like […]
View image | gettyimages.com Hope everyone out there had a pleasant Monday off for President’s Day…or at least got out of work early enough to swing by the Acme before they ran out of milk & eggs. The local radio stations took advantage of the holiday and (predictably) paralleled our nations forefathers to local […]
View image | gettyimages.com Three weeks left & four divisions worth of players to preview before free agency opens: moving to the potential gold mines of the NFC North. Chicago Bears Stephen Paea Not much here. How could one roster have so much talent on one side of the ball and so little […]
View image | gettyimages.com It was a busy weekend for everybody. Mostly, people got together to see a lot of disappointingly somber commercials & a halftime show highlightted by dancing sharks & Missy Elliott. For those looking to fill the NFL hangover this morning, we continue our division-by-division look at the impending free agents that […]
View image | gettyimages.com DISCLAIMER: Under no circumstances will you read about deflated footballs in this post. What you will read about is the deflated stature of the NFC South and how the impending free agents worth a damn in that division will—if they’re smart—leave Atlanta, Charlotte, Tampa Bay, & New Orleans for (Midnight) greener […]