When the Seahawks show real emotion, people call them “fake.” Why?

Seahawks Real Emotions

Remember that Richard Sherman interview at the end of last year’s NFC Championship Game? Even though Sherman was in a physical state roughly equivalent to post-orgasm, the “real” nature of that interview — one athlete calling out another athlete, a… Continue Reading

How to beat the Seattle Seahawks: control possession and use the tight end

As you likely know by now, the San Diego Chargers beat the Seattle Seahawks yesterday. While it simply means both teams are 1-1, it was a semi-stunning result because the Seahawks hadn’t lost for seemingly years (in reality, they lost twice at… Continue Reading

Cortana nailed the World Cup. Can it predict the NFL?

Remember this summer, how Cortana (the Microsoft personal assistant device) was perfect at predicting the knockout round of the World Cup? Well, in the immortal words of Seinfeld: The app is going to try and predict every NFL game this season —… Continue Reading

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Super Bowl post-mortem: What can we learn from Pete Carroll, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer about winning as a college coach in the NFL?

Here’s a list of every Super Bowl winning coach. After last night, four total titles have been won by three men who share a similar distinction — winning a Super Bowl and a college national championship. Those three men? Jimmy Johnson,… Continue Reading

The real key to the Super Bowl isn’t Peyton Manning or Richard Sherman; it’s Kam Chancellor

Kam Chancellor is a safety for the Seattle Seahawks. Richard Sherman, a CB for the Seahawks, gets all the attention right now, but from a football sense, a very real and interesting thing happens because of the attention Sherman gets as a… Continue Reading

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The real issue with the Richard Sherman interview is that (a) contextually he basically just had sex and (b) he’s black

Been a million theories on this one (1, 2, 3) and Richard Sherman has weighed in on it himself, so this doesn’t need to be a really long post or anything. Let’s keep it simple. 1. Dopamine. The media loves to… Continue Reading

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What Colin Kaepernick, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson do and do not show us about building NFL franchises

The AFC and NFC Conference Championships are set, which means a couple of different things — for one, most of America will be watching TV for a good portion of Sunday (more than 55 million people watched the 2010 and… Continue Reading

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This whole Black Monday coach-firing stuff has insane repercussions; remember January 2010?

There’s a chance that 10 NFL head coaches could get fired tomorrow (or sometime tonight); apparently Rod Chudzinski (Browns) and Jim Schwartz (Lions) have already been fired, per various Internet reports. Then there’s this… Black Monday coming up pic.twitter.com/xppu7QYwF5 —… Continue Reading