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The Other Games: Handicapping the Three Non-Eagles Games This Weekend

How great are the NFL playoffs?  Fantastic!  Actually, I was thinking of what my favorite sports weekends of the year are (sounds like a nice topic for Tuesday’s Top Twelve), and I am not exactly sure where this one falls, … Continue reading

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Eagles, Etc: Week Nine

It’s time to transition from playoff baseball to midseason football.  Not that we haven’t been paying attention to the NFL, as it is after all, the most popular sport in the country, but just that with postseason baseball being played … Continue reading

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Playoff Top Twelve: Head Coaches

As we finish up our week long Playoff Top Twelve, we hit the coaches.  This ranking is done based mostly upon the answer to the question:  “Who do you trust most in a playoff game?”  I have tried to encompass my … Continue reading

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Playoff Top Twelve: Defenses

All week long, we’ve been running a special NFL Playoff Top Twelve “marathon.”  We did the quarterbacks, running backs, and receivers, but today we’re going to switch over to the other side of the ball and do defense.  Unfortunately, I … Continue reading

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Playoff Top Twelve: Receivers

This is now the third installment of the playoff edition Top Twelve.  We ranked the 12 playoff quarterbacks from Manning to Sanchez on Monday, and then Tuesday we did the running games from Dallas to Arizona.  Today, we are going … Continue reading

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Playoff Top Twelve: Running Backs

In continuing the week-long NFL playoff theme of ranking the playoff teams in their respective aspects of the game (yesterday was quarterbacks), today’s Top Twelve will be running backs.  But, it is not individual running backs, it is more the team’s … Continue reading

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Playoff Top Twelve: Quarterbacks

Usually the Top Twelve lists are reserved for those select Tuesdays when I can’t think of anything else to write about.  However, because of the NFL playoffs starting this weekend, I’ve decided to forego the convenient alliteration and even more … Continue reading

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Live Blog: Eagles Preseason and Phils-Diamondbacks

Well, when the Phillies and the Eagles are both playing on national television on the same night, I think that calls for a BSB Live Blog.  As I write this, the Phillies lead the D-Backs 3-2 in the 4th inning … Continue reading

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Spitballin’ about Week 2

The reasons that the National Football League is so incredibly popular are numerous and wide-ranging, but I have to say that one of the main reasons has to be the plethora of fascinating storylines that come out of each and … Continue reading

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End of an Era?

 Well, that could be just about all she wrote for the 2007 Philadelphia Eagles. Somewhere amid the wreckage of last night’s 38-17 debacle, you can find a 3-5 Eagles team showing only the faintest signs of a heartbeat.  It only … Continue reading

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