It is the longest article of the year so buckle up it is going to be a bumpy ride. In a year where we thought the NFL season would not even start or finish, Super Bowl LV arrives on time. ...

Prognostication is lots of turmoil. You take a guess and the results either fall your way or they don't. I actually went 9-3 during the chaos. All-in-all, I went 4-2 the opening weekend of the tournament. I went 3-1 in the second week. I went 2-0 over the final weekend.

As of this article, he is playing which means we are running with that scenario. The difference between Chad Henne and Patrick Mahomes is well…epic but let us get on with it.

This should be an easy New Orleans win but did you know that the hardest thing to do is beat the same NFL team a 3rd time in a season. When all things are equal, you take the team that was 0-2 in the regular season.

Seven teams return to the playoffs this year. That is one more team than 2019. With a turnover of seven new teams, parity is at 50% because of the extra two teams and that keeps the NFL spicy.

I only consider this Round 1 but it is not looking so good for Bill Belichick. And for all those who doubt me, I will go out on a limb and be the first to say the New England Patriots will never win a Super Bowl again under Bill Belichick.

So you think you know fantasy football? I drafted 10th in my 10-team league. My first draft pick was quarterback Drew Brees and my second draft pick was wide receiver Michael Thomas. And yes, I still made it to the finals.

With quarterback Ben Roethlisberger having only 7 yards passing, something is amok. I guess this is just a weird year. This means that I can proudly say Christmas being early is the least of my worries as I am actually in the finals of my fantasy football championship.

Who knows who my TE will be but that has been my issue since I dropped TE Rob Gronkowski after 5 weeks of just awful performances. But he is now back and playing for one of the teams in our Final Four. Oh, the humanity.

So as you are probably aware, the Miami Dolphin team celebrates when the last undefeated team gets defeated. It happened this weekend with the Pittsburgh Steelers losing to the Washington Football Team.

Week 13 is the final regular season game in my fantasy football league. And in a fantasy football league first, for this writer and probably the first in fantasy football history, I will not know the outcome of my week ...

There will be three games played on Thanksgiving this year. The extra game is a relatively new phenomenon but everyone keeps the pumpkin pie coming well into the evening.

New England going into Week 11 has a two-game winning streak to get to 4-5. Usually this time of year, it is a forewarning to the rest of the league that while they were standing still, the team was figuring things out and accelerating toward another Super Bowl.

OK … the NFL season is a hot mess. The season is filled with ups and downs and nothing more. The Pittsburgh Steelers continue to win and everyone looks up at them.

I now have a 6-2 record but still have a two-game lead in my division. I could have had a grapple hold on my division. I have some players back and I have to decide about wide receiver Tyler Lockett.

I decided to go big or go home last week. I was playing against Irv, who just so happens to be the manager who has won our fantasy football league each of the last two years. He is a very talented fantasy football player so I needed to pull a rabbit out of my hat.

How much cider and apple pies and pumpkin patch picking can you prepare for? Well, not enough my friends. Everyone seems to be driving 40 miles per hour or less and they are bedazzled by the wonderful colors brought forth by Mother Nature. Foliage is Covid-19 friendly just like drive-ins! Who knew?

We had a Tuesday Night Football game between the “So this is what a field looks like” Tennessee Titans and the “Hey our QB Josh Allen was taken after Sam Darnold in the same draft” Buffalo Bills that kept Tennessee with a perfect record.

The shocker of the week was announced that QB Cam Newton of the Patriots tested positive for Covid-19 and the game was moved to a Monday Night game if there were no more positive tests. There were no more positive tests and the game was played Monday night.

The end of Summer has come and gone. It is the time where New England locals bid a fond farewell to the hummingbird although ours left officially on 8/31. When you are quarantining it appears that you seem to notice things like this.

A portmanteau is the creation of a word out of two words. Like smog is the combination of smoke and fog. My portmanteau is loffense. A combination of lacking with offense describes my season so far. I miss my offense and Will Fuller who went for 19 last week ended up with 0 points this week.

This week is important because every NFL player and sideline participant and coach now have to go home and come back for their normal work-week. In a strange year already, it seems appropriate that Cam Newton is starting for New England and Tom Brady for Tampa Bay.

The time has come. Amidst a backdrop of a global pandemic named Covid-19, the NFL commences this Thursday. Get your lineups in. Here goes nothing! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

Christian McCaffrey is amazingly like another player from the way-back machine. Marshall Faulk from 2000 and 2001 with the one exception is that Christian McCaffrey scores more points! History does not repeat but it rhymes.

It is my last article of the year. Super Bowl LIV is here. The term Super Bowl is credited to the Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt. But a deep-dive investigation into the veracity of this naming results in opinion ...

We are at the penultimate week of the 100th season of the NFL and the only thing we know is that there will be two new participants in the Super Bowl this year.

Next up are the Tennessee Titans and Derrick Henry traveling to Baltimore Ravens and to deal with their talented QB Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson has to prove he can win in the playoffs and I say he struggles. Upset alert as the Titans run all over Baltimore.

Six teams return to the playoffs this year. That is one less team than 2018. With a turnover of six new teams, parity is at 50% and that keeps the NFL spicy. There is only one team coming back from Super Bowl LIII and that is The New England Patriots.

The season passes and you find yourself wondering where did the time go? My article dropped around Sept. 4 this year and it asked some questions about the then-upcoming NFL season. With the season over let us try to answer them now shall we?

Merry Christmas everyone! This article will drop on Dec. 24 and in homage to Clement C. Moore … it ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas when you could read this tome and all through the house … well you know the ...

The narrative for this week is that the following will occur: QB Drew Brees will pass for more than three touchdowns because that is what he needs for the overall record over former QB Peyton Manning. He passed for exactly four touchdowns and delivered the win.

I was leading by eight points as late as 11:15 p.m. on Monday Night and tight end Zach Ertz caught a touchdown to send the game into overtimes. Then I was up by those same two points until tight end Zach Ertz caught the game-winning touchdown and went for 30 points on me. I lose on the last play of the game.

Hello and greetings. For everyone in the normal world, I have news. It is snowing in New England with an unusual flurry. However, we are better in New England at handling the elements than most. So it is without further ...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone I know and don’t know. I will be giving thanks this year for what my family possesses. I wish your time with your family brings about a more Norman Rockwell moment with that turkey than a National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation sequence of events with the same type of bird.

Well, I talk about my week and whether Mexico is naughty or Mexico is nice (#EarlyChristmasReference). I also get my Li’L Yoda on … spoiler alert the Mandalorian is freaking Lannik awesome! So let’s get to it, shall we?

What I noticed about football is that if a team is doing well or if a team is doing poorly they seem to mention the same list of issues. The only difference is the record of the team. I guess that means during football season there is always something to talk about.

Cerberus is a three-headed dog in Greek mythology who guards the gates of the underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. It is an intimidating and scary image.

Halloween is here and that means it is time for ghouls and ghosts and other costumes to take to the streets and haunt the early evening on Oct. 31. It is a trick and treat kind of week so I am going to mention all items coming into Week 9 that are treats. In this era of all things offense, there are plenty of treats to hand out.

So get out and enjoy. The winter always feels longer in the Northeast. Our summer may have been a precursor to the real bitter cold winds yet to arrive. This in-between time keeps pulling at you until the first frost on that pumpkin on my doorstep.

When my wife asks me who Baker Mayfield is, it means the information she is seeing outside of the game is not properly aligned with the performance on the field. I hope Mayfield pulls it together but the message is just not completely all there. Just like my team this week.