The Falcons are nearly unstoppable at home, and with the road to the Super Bowl likely running through Atlanta, they will be tough to beat – even more so following Monday’s home loss to the Saints.
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Speed kills for Eagles
With speed to spare and Michael Vick playing his best football ever, the Eagles pose numerous problems for any team matching up against them in the NFC playoffs.
When will they ever learn?
The NFL still does not know how long a player should sit out after a concussion and the league should continue to research concussions and prevent players from returning to the field too soon.
Using the evidence
New research on the effects of multiple concussions could help force the NFL to mandate longer rest periods to protect their players from absorbing more punishment.
Three strikes and you’re out
NFL players who suffer three concussions in one season should without a doubt be shut down for the rest of the year to prevent further injury.
Terrible uncertainties
Our best hope is for advances in the research on head trauma that will clarify football’s risks — but in the interim, fans must continue to push concussion awareness and treatment to the forefront of the NFL’s consciousness.
Who’s responsible?
Only when every player on the field realizes that concussions are injuries and plays the game that way will we finally see a reduction in these injuries.
Can’t rush recovery
Bringing players back to NFL action following a concussion must be a careful, deliberate and tempered process. Rushing a player like Austin Collie back too soon could result in permanent brain damage and an early ending to a career.
It’s the helmets!
The technology that has created more protective helmets for NFL players has simultaneously created more powerful, dangerous weapons to damage the heads and health of other players.
The Patriots empire strikes back
In a strange 2010 season, the New England Patriots’ return to the top is a rare slice of normalcy.