The NFL campaign is finally under way – which means the clock is ticking down towards our own mini-season in London. To celebrate that fact, Gridiron is delighted to reveal that we’ll be hosting our London Games Afterparty for the second successive year! Taking place once again at our home away from home, Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes on Euston Square, this year’s …
With an apology to those four teams still yet to play in Week 1, here are my award winners from the action that has taken place so far. Offensive Player of the Week Alex Smith, Quarterback – Kansas City Chiefs You’ll have to cast your mind back to Thursday night for my offensive player of Week 1 and it could …
Neil, like the majority of our Picks Challenge players, is already 0-1 for picks after New England’s unexpected opening-night defeat to Kansas City. Can he turn it around? You decide…
Want to impress your mates with your NFL knowledge down the pub this weekend? Help is at hand with one fact or statistic relating to every Week 1 game. Enjoy the opening week of the new season! Kansas City @ New England Since 2014, Tom Brady has a QB rating of 106.9 when Julian Edelman is on the field. In nine …
With coaching casualties littering the field after the final weekend of the regular season, Week 17’s Tuesday Morning Touchdown takes a look at the NFL’s situations vacant column… Puttin’ Six On The Board BUFFALO BILLS General manager Doug Whaley kept his job while Rex Ryan walked the plank in Buffalo, despite their biggest issue being an absence of players who …
Having seen its regular slot hijacked by the announcement of next year’s London games, the Gridiron team give a belated take on Week 14 for the latest Tuesday (Wednesday?) Morning Touchdown… Puttin’ Six On The Board They shoot horses don’t they? If ever there was a microcosm of why the Indianapolis Colts have been so bad under Chuck Pagano …
Having polished off the last vestiges of Thanksgiving turkey, the Gridiron team turn their thoughts to Week 12 of the NFL season for a fresh helping of Tuesday Morning Touchdown… Puttin’ Six On The Board Brees block? What a game Drew Brees had on Sunday! In putting 49 points on a previously stingy Rams defense, he tallied up his …
With rhetoric, vitriol and voting in the rear view mirror, the Gridiron team reflects on some unfettered football for this week’s Tuesday Morning Touchdown… Puttin’ Six On The Board Winning the numbers game That felt like the week the NFL needed. For all I believe the ratings slump this season was largely driven by the election and, most importantly, …
The Saints and Patriots’ offensive firepower places them among Betway NFL expert Jack Green‘s top selections for Week 10’s slate of games in the National Football League… New Orleans Saints (-2.5) @ Denver Broncos – 1/1 The New Orleans Saints are in the midst of a season renaissance as, having lost their first three games of the season, the black-and-gold have …
The Gridiron team peruses the points of interest as the NFL regular season moves into its second half, packing potential playoff contenders into this week’s Tuesday Morning Touchdown… Puttin’ Six On The Board Poised for a Charge? We’re just past halfway through the campaign and the playoff race is beginning to take shape. We have a good idea of …
Once again, Betway’s NFL expert Jack Green has selected four bets that should serve you well this weekend. Dallas Cowboys (-9.5) @ Cleveland Browns – 6/5 New England Patriots aside, the Cowboys have perhaps been the NFL’s most complete side this season, and head into Week 9 with just one loss on their card and a comeback win against the Eagles …
With the English Premier League and NFL now both underway for another season, fans new to either will be looking for pointers as to which team to follow in 2016-17. Our pals at Betway have come up with a handy guide for the uninitiated based on comparable team traits, while we’ve decided to offer a couple of alternative options… THREE …
In the first Tuesday Morning Touchdown of the new NFL season, the Gridiron Team give their takes on the talking points of Week 1, from the targeting of Cam Newton in Thursday night’s kickoff game to the resilience of less experienced QBs later in the weekend. Puttin’ Six On The Board New Same Old England Patriots Tom Brady. Rob Gronkowski. Dion Lewis. Nate Solder. Sebastian Vollmer. …
Just six months after his finest hour in Santa Clara, Denver Broncos general manager John Elway enters the 2016 campaign under scrutiny after a tumultuous offseason. Yet, as Gridiron editor Matthew Sherry learned in Santa Clara on that fateful night in Levi’s Stadium, the Hall of Fame quarterback turned personnel guru rarely gets it wrong. On April 28 2011, the …
It’s telling that, even amid the hoopla of Super Bowl Week, nobody mentioned Bennie Fowler. The wide receiver, an undrafted free-agent in 2014, walked around the new-fangled Opening Night and was barely recognised. Gridiron was one of the guilty parties; his name didn’t come up once over the course of over 20 hours of interviews and podcasts. The Big …
In the aftermath of Super Bowl 50 it’s hard not to think back to the significance of events that took place two years ago in New York. It was there that Denver Broncos general manager John Elway, coming off a humbling Super Bowl drumming at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks, began to plot. His team had been the toast …
If Peyton Manning-Tom Brady XVII was the final meeting of the NFL’s legendary recent leading lights then Super Bowl 50 promises to be a changing of the guard. From lining up against his fellow near-40-year-old, Manning must now drag his ailing body onto the Santa Clara turf to face his antithesis in Cam Newton. Where Manning runs like a man …
The MVP race is over, Denver need to resist any urges to return to Peyton Manning and why Carolina shouldn’t be resting starters but New England should. All that and more in our Christmas edition of Tuesday Morning Touchdown. Puttin’ Six On The Board The Coronation Of Cam Colour me convinced. The MVP race is done. That Cam Newton has …
With just four weeks of the regular-season remaining, Gridiron editor Matthew Sherry takes stock of the playoff picture in this week’s one-day-late Tuesday Morning Touchdown. Plus, the surging Seahawks and an MVP race that is tighter than advertised. Puttin’ Six On The Board Steeling The Spotlight There is no team more intriguing in the playoff race right now than the …
The Carolina Panthers are the last undefeated team standing after the New England Patriots’ latest quest for 19-0 failed. Matthew Sherry discusses a week that gave us much more clarity on the playoff picture. Puttin’ Six On The Board Cam Not The Only Superman Cam Newton has received plenty of credit this year, and rightly so. A team yours truly suggested would …
The Brockweiler’s time is nigh, why Green Bay’s win was fool’s gold and much, much more from Matthew Sherry in this week’s Tuesday Morning Touchdown. Puttin’ Six On The Board Brock > Crock That was a fine debut from Brock Osweiler, a man who hadn’t started a football game for three and a half years. The former second-round pick probably headed …
The issue Aaron Rodgers needs to fix, why Tom Brady is getting too much credit and some harsh truths for Andy Dalton and Mike Mularkey. All that and more from Matthew Sherry in this week’s Tuesday Morning Touchdown… that’s a day late so should be called Wednesday Morning Touchdown. Puttin’ Six On The Board Rodgers, That? I’ve always acknowledged that, from …
