While forecasting how a team’s draft will ultimately be judged on the field remains incredibly subjective, this isn’t: The class had a much different feel this year than last. Cleaner. Fewer red flags to investigate. Players that other teams hadn’t passed on for medical or off-field issues.
The New England Patriots opened with the highest win total at 11, before sharp money drove down their number to 10½ — alongside the New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs. The Raiders opened at six wins.
The 40-yard dash went from another metric to urban legend, and no drill is more anticipated or scrutinized than when a prospect explodes from a static start.
My Super Bowl betting strategy is simple: I’m picking the Patriots to win a tight game, but I’m going to try for a “middle” by using the Rams in a 7-point teaser.
Marist School was founded in 1901 and is a picturesque setting from another time, where the current Rams head coach Sean McVay was a state champion as an option quarterback.
There is losing and then there is losing big to a dog team like San Francisco 34-3, but that’s what the Raiders did before an announced gathering of 69,592 on Thursday night at Levi’s Stadium.
This isn’t what Raiders fans imagined when they celebrated Gruden returning as head coach, his decision to trade the team’s best player in Khalil Mack, a defensive end in his prime who should he continue on a current trajectory of production, will one day be sized for a gold blazer in Canton.
It has been proclaimed on billboards that the Raiders are coming to Las Vegas in 2020. Which would be the second time.
The NFL team has identified land capable of accommodating 27,000 parking spaces within 1.5 miles of the stadium site, far more than the 16,250 required by Clark County for games and other events.
We might be looking at the most efficiently run Super Bowl week in recent memory, and perhaps all memories.
