Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Ignore the inevitable claims that Sunday’s game was the best, or even one of the best, Super Bowls. XLIII was at best the third-best Supe involving the Steelers, considerably inferior to the two Dallas-Pittsburgh games, 1975 (21-17; the one where Lynn  Swann went nuts) and ‘78 (35-31, the one where Jackie Smith dropped a game-winner).
There was very […]

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I’m now going to declare myself a pillar of naivete and gullability: I think Tom Brady is hurt.
There were a couple plays in the AFC championship game when an ankle injury to Brady could have taken place. I thought there were times after those plays when Brady’s mechanics seemed off, and an inability to push […]

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Yes, the game’s nine days away. But you’re better off making a pick before being bombarded with the annual nonsense. If anything, this should have come earlier, especially since it was promised yesterday.
My bad.
My read on the Patriots’ season goes something like this: They stomped out of the gate, whip-cracked by their coach, enraged by […]

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