Tag: The New Parents' Guide to the 2021 NFL Season

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC North

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Chicago Bears If you're a Bears fan, these are the good times. I'm serious! This period, from the time of Justin Fields' drafting until the time he is named undisputed starter, is the period in which he can serve as a cipher onto whom the fans may project their future hopes with impunity. Once Fields … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC North

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – AFC North

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Baltimore Ravens It's no fun to be the man! You win one unanimous MVP at the helm of a 14-2 season early in your second season (and your first season as the undisputed starter) and all of a sudden everyone expects that you're gonna have unanimous MVP, 14-2 seasons for the rest of eternity. That's … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – AFC North

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC West

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Arizona Cardinals Gee, one of these things is not like the others, am I right? When I look at the NFC West, I see four teams with playoff hopes and three teams with a realistic shot at taking the division. The Cardinals have everything they need to succeed this season, but they also had most … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC West

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – AFC West

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Denver Broncos The problem with writing any sort of season preview in any sport is that eventually, at least one player whom you publicly expected great things of is going to get injured in the preseason, thus missing some or all of the coming season after you've already spoken on it. Last year, I predicted … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – AFC West

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC East

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So, here's the thing; this week has been brutal on the child-rearing front. Our poor little guy is crying most of the times he's awake, and often refuses to go to sleep unless he has had an extensive soothing session. That much is manageable during the day, but when it's 4 AM and you've been … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC East

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – AFC East

~ Rob Mackie ~ 10 Comments

What a difference a lack of Tom Brady makes! For almost all of the last 20 years, the AFC East has been home to the Patriots and three other teams shuffling between various stages of floundering, with but a small handful of Wild Card berths to provide the occasional illusion of progress. Now that Brady … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – AFC East

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC South

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When I tweeted that this first portion of this guide was unsustainably long, I wasn't kidding! Compiling this array of half-baked takes was supposed to be thing that keeps me busy in between diaper changes, in the few fleeting minutes where I have something resembling mental energy. Typing up 3,000 words on the least interesting … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – NFC South

The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – Introduction

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It's August, which means it's time to start inaccurately bloviating about the coming NFL season! In some ways, this is the most exciting time of the year to be a pro football fan. Your favorite team has yet to be decimated by injuries to key players (with apologies to any Colts fans reading this). Those … Continue reading The New Parents’ Guide to the 2021 NFL Season – Introduction