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Seattle Seahawks – Earl Thomas Becomes Highest Paid Safety
It was quite obvious the Seattle Seahawks were going to need to spend a lot money in order to keep their Super Bowl winning defense intact, so it comes as no surprise that they went ahead and turned Earl Thomas into the highest paid safety in the history of the NFL, going by the average salary of his new deal.
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College Football Realignment – SEC Isn’t About Being Fair
It’s hard to find someone who isn’t disappointment with the decisions made by the SEC to keep their schedule at eight conference games and with a set cross-division rivalry, which makes things quite easy for teams like Alabama who have to face Tennessee each season, while LSU seem to be stuck with Florida, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of “fairness”.
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College Football Realignment – SEC Not Changing Too Much
The moving and shaking in College Football of recent years which included the SEC becoming a 14-team conference calls for some shifts in scheduling. The latest decision maintains the eight conference games schedule which includes one set game against a non-division rival which aligns with history and tradition, and in the future, to improve the strength of schedule situation, will also force each team to play against a team from a power conference.
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Seattle Seahawks – Too Good to Play at Home on Prime Time
The NFL schedule being released is always big news, and one of the more interested tidbits to take from the big reveal is that the Super Bowl champions Seattle Seahakws won’t appear too much on Prime Time games, especially when they’re hosting the affair due to their dominance at CenturyLink Field in recent years.
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NFL Rumors – Seattle Seahawks Not Going to Help Terrelle Pryor
The Seattle Seahawks wanted a better backup quarterback, so they traded a seventh-round draft pick they probably won’t regret losing for Terrelle Pryor of the Oakland Raiders, which for them means a decent insurance policy in case Russell Wilson is injured, but for him is nothing more than another team that’s going to sit him an entire season on the bench.
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NFC North – Tampa Bay Buccaneers More Recent Champions Than Detroit Lions
One franchise that’s always easy to find something bad to say about happens to be the Detroit Lions. Decades of failure and limited success at best. Division championships aren’t exactly something to remember for years, but even in that category a team that hasn’t been in the division for a very long time has a more recent division title there, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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San Francsico 49ers & Aldon Smith – To Keep or to Cut?
It’s hard to argue about Aldon Smith and what he means on the field for the San Francisco 49ers. However, his problems with the law and with alcohol might mean that one of the more talented pass rushers in the NFL won’t get his fifth-year option picked up by the team, and if push comes to shove he might even be released before the 2014 NFL season.
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Jameis Winston Case – What the Tallahassee Police Did Wrong
Justice is an abstract notion, and too many people that there are a few too many unanswered question marks about the alleged rape charges against Jameis Winston, the Heisman winner from Florida State, and according to a very interesting piece by the New York Times (A Star Player Accused, and a Flawed Rape Investigation), better police work by the Tallahassee department could have brought everyone a much clearer version of the truth.
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Notre Dame Stadium – Finally Moving to Artificial Turf
Maintaining natural grass fields in football stadiums is getting more difficult in the Midwest and Northeast, so Notre Dame are moving ahead with the times and installing artificial turf to end the talk and speculation that comes each year around spring time about whether or not to change or keep things as they are.
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NFL Rumors – Detroit Lions Interested in Drafting Sammy Watkins
The last two years haven’t been very successful for the Detroit Lions, who keep looking for ways to improve their offense by adding skill players for their quarterback to utilize. Sammy Watkins coming out of Clemson and maybe the best wide receiver in this draft class is someone they might be willing to trade up for.