Saints' Payton Suspended For 2012 Season
New Orleans Saints' head coach Sean Payton felt the wrath of the NFL's discipline as he was suspended for the entire 2012 season.
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New Orleans Saints' head coach Sean Payton felt the wrath of the NFL's discipline as he was suspended for the entire 2012 season.
The Broncos chances of reaching Super Bowl XLVII have increased dramatically while the Giants' odds have dropped after Peyton Manning is set to join the Broncos.
According to Manning, there's no place for players seeking to intentionally injure opponents in the National Football League.
Boomer's 'NFL Today' buddy Bill Cowher called in this morning to talk about the Saints' 'Bountygate' and apparently mend his fractured friendship with the Blonde Bomber's radio partner.
It only made sense that the former Baltimore Ravens head coach come on today.
We heard from Eli Manning, Hakeem Nicks and Jason Pierre-Paul who all offered their take on the bounty program in New Orleans.
Before "Bountygate," there was the "Bounty Bowl." And thanks to the NFL's latest controversy, Buddy Ryan is back in the sports pages.
Now that the NFL has uncovered a big-money bounty program for players in New Orleans, it likely will zero in on other teams Gregg Williams worked for.
The revelations were shocking to those outside the NFL: A team paid bounties to knock opponents out of the game, including some of its biggest stars.
The NFL says that New Orleans Saints players maintained a bounty program over the last three seasons that targeted opponents with the intent to injure them.
The San Francisco 49ers won a thriller over the New Orleans Saints to advance to the NFC Championship game where they'll face the winner of the Giants and Packers.
The five days between playoff games for the first two rounds feel like forever. And there's only so much hype and so many predictions you can read about to fill the void. Neil Keefe went 3-1 in his wild-card weekend picks, but looks for perfection in the divisional round.
Being better at home isn't special. Home field advantage is tangible in the NFL – the home team won 56.6 percent of games this season. It just usually doesn't manifest itself quite so much as it did for these two teams, and specifically these two quarterbacks.
Record-shattering Drew Brees threw for 466 yards and three touchdowns, and the New Orleans Saints poured it on in the second half for a 45-28 NFC wild-card victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night.
Neil Keefe got his wish with the Giants reaching the postseason. Now he says they are playing with house money as they host the Falcons this weekend, and he does his best to salvage his picks season by picking the wild-card week games.
The Giants are finally getting healthy on the defensive line and Eli Manning and company can match the Falcons offensively...
Here we go, the NFL playoffs are finally here. Find out how the Giants stack up to the rest of the league's best in Joe's weekly rankings.
You won't find any local teams in Joe's Top 10, but the season isn't over yet.
The Jets continue their steady climb, but have the Giants finally resurfaced on Joe B's Top Ten?
Jason Pierre-Paul is ready to step up and deliver for the Giants with Osi Umenyiora missing to due to injury and Justin Tuck struggling to play Sunday.
They might not own a playoff spot (right now), but look who's back in Joe B's Top Ten!
