Taking stock of his two-sack game in the season opener against Allen, one thing stood out to Wild defensive end Matt Moss: his anger.

Most experts will agree that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers enjoyed a highly successful draft this season. That fact alone should make this year's team significantly better than last season's 4-12 team. Add to that the free agents they signed this offseason, and Bucs fans should be looking at a vastly improved team, and one whose offense should be worlds apart from the 2011 team that finished 27th (17 ...

Yeah, sorry about the Vokle chat. Sometimes our technology just doesn't do what we want it to do. There are plans in the works to try again. I hope you'll give us another shot if we try next week. Anyway, back to the blog. As a twist on the usual Power Rankings, we had a panel of ESPN experts put together something called the NFL Future Power Rankings , basically projecting how the Power ...

With the West Virginia Mountaineers moving to the Big 12, there are plenty of new faces on the schedule that are sure to be highly-anticipated matchups. West Virginia enjoyed a successful 2011 season which was capped off by a 70-33 drubbing of the Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl. Navigating its suddenly tougher schedule to another BCS bowl appearance will be tough. Winning these five highly ...

The National Football League's Most Valuable Player award has become a quarterback-driven accolade. Since 1957—when the NFL started handing out the award—a quarterback has won the prestigious distinction 37 out of 54 possible seasons. Seven QBs have won the award multiple times, while Jim Brown remains the only RB in NFL history to win the MVP more than one time.  Since 2000, three running backs ...

Against the Dallas Cowboys , Ben Roethlisberger has quarterbacked the Pittsburgh Steelers to two key victories during his career.  While the setting may have been different both times, gridiron wars waged at Texas Stadium and Heinz Field respectively, the series of events that culminated in both Black and Gold wins was eerily similar.  Twice, the oft-proclaimed "America's Team" had the Steelers ...

Former Duke tight end Cooper Helfet has signed a free agent contract with the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.

The winner of the how-to-order-the-Friday-links contest this week is Michael from Nashville, who suggested tying the order to fantasy sports. I went to the ESPN fantasy football page and looked up the points leaders from last year, and the links are hereby provided in order of each team's highest-scoring fantasy player from 2011. New York Giants (Eli Manning, 273) Tom Coughlin says "it's ...

The Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, fifth-year senior Josue Ortiz led the conference with 10 sacks and finished fourth with 14.5 tackles for a loss.

ATLANTA - Allowing that the caliber of competition at the league's annual Pro Bowl game has slumped dramatically, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will meet soon with NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith about the much criticized contest and could decide its fate shortly thereafter.