• Archive for August, 2008

     
    NFL Football: Peyton Manning's Knee

    NFL Football: Peyton Manning’s Knee

    August 24th, 2008 by FanYard Blake
    Proving how hard it is to predict what will happen in the NFL preseason, the FanYard Yardstick has only picked a total of three winners out of the 14 …
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  • NFL Football: Boldin and the Eagles

    August 21st, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | 1 comment
     
    NFL Football: Boldin and the Eagles
    With only one NFL preseason game today (San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears), I would like to take a quick read of one the current stories from across the NFL landscape and perhaps offer a little prescient insight into the future. Or maybe it is just fantasy. 1) Anquan Boldin has apparently asked for a release …

     

  • NFL Football Preseason Week 3

    August 20th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | Add a comment
     
    NFL Football Preseason Week 3
    Well, we are half way through the 2008 NFL football preseason games, thankfully. While, for most teams, these games are simply glorified practices, there are always the odd teams that actually have important decisions to make based on them. The two teams that will kick off Week Three NFL Preseason action are two such teams. Heading into training camp, the …

     

  • Monday NFL Football_And Kyle Orton

    August 18th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | 1 comment
     
    Monday NFL Football_And Kyle Orton
    There was little action in preseason NFL tonight, with the only tilt being that of this year’s darling playoff-hopeful team, the Cleveland Browns at New York Giants, the defending Super Bowl champs. While FanYard had the visiting Browns pegged to win by three based upon the game’s Yardstick, the Giants were the team that won by three, …

     

  • Week 2 NFL Football Preseason

    August 17th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | Add a comment
     
    Week 2 NFL Football Preseason
    At 7-6 up until tonight’s action, which is pitting Detroit at Cincinnati and the Patriots at Tampa Bay, the preseason Yardsticks are hovering at near .500 through these glorified practice games. That is about what one should expect, considering the fact that it is very tough to know which players will actually be on the field and …

     

  • NFL Football Friday Preseason

    August 16th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | 1 comment
     
    NFL Football Friday Preseason
    Tonight, the Tennessee Titans came back to win 17-16 at home versus the Oakland Raiders and improve to 2-0 in the 2008 NFL preseason. It was a competition that pitted the first quarterback draft picks in the 2006 and 2007 NFL draft in Vince Young and JaMarcus Russell, respectively. As this preseason has shown, both remain works in progress …

     

  • NFL Football Preseason Thursday Recap

    August 15th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | Add a comment
     
    NFL Football Preseason Thursday Recap
    Micheal Silver at ESPN is glowing, as his Buffalo Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steerers at home 24-21. Sure, it is only preseason in this 2008 NFL football season, but I’m sure he’ll take whatever he can get! Over in Philly, the Eagles did just what the Yardstick for the game said, beating the Panthers 24-13. The 11-point win was …

     

  • Thursday NFL Football Preseason

    August 14th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | Add a comment
     
    As Week 2 of NFL preseason comes slowly at us, the Pittsburgh Steelers are heavy favorites to beat the Buffalo Bills in New York. Micheal Silver, a Yahoo! expert, actually picked the Bills to win the AFC East. I wonder what he thinks of this Yardstick. He did pretty good at picking 2007 NFL …

     

  • NFL Football: 2008 Preseason Week 1

    August 12th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL | Add a comment
     
    NFL Football: 2008 Preseason Week 1
    In the 16 NFL Week 1 of preseason games, the Yardstick correctly predicted eight of the 16 winning teams. Not bad, all things considered. If we include the first game, the Hall of Fame game, FanYard users are just above .500 so far. To close out the first full week of preseason NFL action, the Cincinnati Bengals defeated …

     

  • Real NFL Preseason Starts Today

    August 7th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in NFL | Add a comment
     
    Now that Indy and the Redskins have thier one estra preseason game done with, we can move on to the next phase of looking forward to real football, the preseason. Each team will now play four games against other squads made up of mostly members who are looking for work with the NFL team whose jersey they are wearing. Sightings …