BRYAN KNOWLES grew up watching Joe Montana and Steve Young ply their trade at quarterback, so he has somewhat overly-inflated expectations of how quarterbacks should perform. This has certainly done him no favors over the past decade or so of watching the San Francisco 49ers. A graduate of UC Davis and San Jose State University, he has opted to eschew all the useful advice those august institutions have supplied him with and become a sportswriter instead. He’s been published at Bleacher Report and Fansided, and currently lives in Chicago with a wife who for some reason puts up with him.
Third time's a charm? Minor league football is back, with the USFL trying to get off the ground once again. But is there substance behind the nostalgia?
And in the end, the bets you make are equal to the vig they take.
On Sunday, the best of the best go head to head in Los Angeles. While everybody else celebrates that, we celebrate the very worst of the worst on our annual Keep Choppin' Wood team!
A tradition like a number of others! Bryan and Andrew try to figure out who will have the most receiving yards and whether Snoop Dogg will light up underneath a badly-drawn picture of an ape.
The NFL's Final Four shouldn't be here. Logic, history, and common sense would say what these teams did last week was impossible. And yet, here are Bryan and Andrew, trying to grapple with reality anyway.
San Francisco's hopes in the divisional round rest largely on an ability to shut down Green Bay's All-Pro wide receiver.
After a week of less-than-competitive games, Bryan and Andrew become the last to try to tackle reforming the NFL's playoff criteria.
In a game where both offenses look capable of exploiting both defenses, Amari Cooper's skill in the deep passing game could be the difference.
Bryan, Andrew, and the rest of the Football Outsiders crew get together for the annual Staff Fantasy Draft! Can you beat them in the Best of the Rest challenge?
Loser League comes to a dramatic finish, with fewer than 10 points separating the top three teams. Also: the year's biggest losers, from season-long flops to short-term disasters.
