A conversation about the 2015-16 AFC South

The following discussion previews the AFC South.  Earlier previews include: AFC East, AFC West, NFC East, NFC West. 

"Seriously? The same helmet every week?!"

Tennessee Titans

2014 AFC Championship Game

Some quick points (also, click here for some thoughts on the NFC Championship game):

When Indianapolis has the ball:

T.Y. Hilton understands there are always more Patriots, like ants, like roaches, like legions out of Valhalla. 

I'm not trying to pretend I'm an expert on the Indianapolis Colts offense or New England's defense. What I do know is this: Andrew Luck's career, but especially his Playoff career, has gotten off to a rather historic start. Moreover, this historic start is not like Matthew Stafford's career, where the history making has been shaped by rule changes and Calvin Johnson.

2014 NFL Playoffs: Sunday's Divisional Round

And now on to Sunday's 2014 NFL Wild-Card games with Brendan Brody and Bryan Harvey:

Dallas Cowboys vs. Green Bay Packers @ 1:05 on Fox

These two won't be playing catch on Sunday; they'll be playing football.

2014 NFL Playoffs: Sunday's Wild-Card Round

And now on to Sunday's 2014 NFL Wild-Card games:

Cincinnati Bengals v Indianapolis Colts @ 1:05 on CBS

When will Andy Dalton do the smart thing and change his name to something cool like Boomer?

Michael Langston: When these two teams take the field Sunday afternoon, guess what stat broadcasters will mention time and time again during the playoffs.

Super Bowl Week: Peyton Manning on His Developing Humanity

P. Manning the day before John Elway revamped him.

In an interview this week, Peyton Manning reflected on where he once was in his career and where he is now, which despite everything he's been through is strangely the same place he was before--the very pinnacle of his sport, in the limelight, a mutual product of hard work and birthright. His answer, however, noted a change in himself that is inverse to everyone else who by smartphone or Google glass has become constantly wired: "Maybe I was a robot early on. Now, maybe I am a little more human." This would be news, but back in 2011, right here on this blog, we already participated in this discourse about Manning's artificial intelligence. In order to time travel back to that initial moment in our archive, click here.

Dissecting a Would Be Cyborg: My Thoughts on Peyton Manning

Same face. Different quarterback. It's strange what memories a single uniform can conjure.

I don't have strong ties to the University of Tennessee.

My memaw who grew up in Belbuckle claimed I had a great uncle who played there, his nickname having to do with the alligator wiggle of his hips going through the line. Personally, I never met the man, and if there's a grainy team photo out there with him in it, I wouldn't be able to pinpoint his pale cheekbones anymore than I might be able to pick out President Rutherford B. Hayes in a line up of nineteenth century Presidents who used the White House for a Gilded Age beard off and nothing more. But I did recognize Tyler Bray's face on Saturday, dazed in the sun, and twisted in defeat, as if the Florida Gators had poured him a shot of bad whiskey. I recognized that face, slumped jaw and saddened eyes; I'd seen it at least four times before, the viewing of it as familiar to me as my memaw's stories about uncles I never knew.