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NFL Draft 2011: Day 1, 2 and 3 Round Up (Part 2)

The 32 teams have cast their dice, signaling the all-too-anticipated NFL Draft 2011 as officially complete. 3 days and 7 rounds are a lot to process, therefore, in this football scoreboards feature, I have taken look at what the teams were looking for on D-Day and what they got.

Atlanta Falcons – the team was in need of a WR, DE and a good pass rusher. In an aggressive move, they traded away 5 picks to the Browns in an effort to get their hands on WR Julio Jones. Next, the Falcons drafted OLB Akeem Dent; however, they could’ve picked a far more able draft. Later, they drafted Cliff Mathews at DE.
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NFL Draft 2011: Days 1, 2 and 3 Round Up (part 1)

In this football scoreboards article, I have taken a look at who the rest of the NFL teams drafted during the 3 days to bring in new talent and bolster their teams.

Jacksonville Jaguars – the Jaguars came into D-Day looking to bolster their QB, safety, DE and LB positions. They filled in their QB spot with Blaine Gabbart, who was in the top 3 of the most accurate QBs coming into the NFL Draft 2011. Next, they drafted OG William Rackley, WR Cecil Shorts, S Christopher Prosinski and CB Roderick Issac.
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NFL Combine Position Drills: Defensive Back

In a football scoreboards feature, I have continued my review of the combine drill. The final group of athletes to work out every year at the combine is the defensive backs. Out of all the drills for defensive backs, the favorite of the coaches at the combine is the “speed turn” drill.

What Happens In The Drill?
A coach will start a defensive back at a back paddle, which is the basis for everything a defensive back does. The coach starts the defensive back at a back paddle of 5 – 10 yards, and then (the coach) will motion the athlete to comeback towards him. Therefore, the athlete is changing directions during his paddle. He moves towards the coach and then the coach gives the athlete a speed turn direction. This simulation emulates a scenario much like in a man-to-man play. This is a double move in which the athlete will have to plant, pivot, keep his weight and hips down, turn and go. This leaves the athlete’s back completely to the quarterback, like it would be in a speed turn in man-to-man. At approximately 15 to 20 yards, as the athlete is running, he has to turn around and locate the football.
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The NFL Combine Position Drills: Linebacker

In a football scoreboards feature, I have taken a look at the linebacker position in the NFL combine. The favorite drill for all team representatives at the combine for the linebacker is the pass-drop and hip rotation drill.

What Happens in the Drill?
In this drill, a football scoreboards coach stands across you and starts you with a 5 yard back-paddle for (by motioning you with the football in his hands). Then he will turn his hand one-way or the other (left or right), giving you a direction to run into. As soon as he directs you, you open your hips and drive in that direction without turning your back on the coach. You must always keep your eyes on the coach no matter which way you are directed into. The coach is going to give you 3 more changes of directions (of his choosing). The quickness of your response to the coach’s abrupt changes in direction is all that the team representatives need for gauging the swiftness or stiffness of your movements. This drill exposes athletes who cannot move or are unable to move fluidly in a given space.
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The NFL Draft: The Most Disappointing Picks for Every Team in the Last Decade

With the football scoreboards 011 NFL Draft day coming up, teams are scampering to acquire that player whom they think might turn the tables around for them, or keep them where they are at the top. However, as history has repeatedly shown us, no matter how good a player looks on paper; his ability to support the team and play well within a unit can be an entirely different aspect. With 28th April, 2011 just around the corner, let us take a look at the most disappointing draft picks of the last decade from 9 of the 32 NFL teams.
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The NFL Combine Position Drills: Defensive Lineman

In a football scoreboards feature, I have taken a look at the defensive lineman position in the NFL combine. If you are a defensive lineman, it is all about getting to the quarterback. There is one drill at the NFL combine that all coaches prefer to all the others for a defensive lineman. In this drill there are, essentially, two moves which every defensive linebacker and lineman rushing the quarterback have to demonstrate: the Rip and the Swim. These are 2 very different techniques but actually they are quite basic and simple. If you can show that you can do this drill to a very high level, you are on your way to getting into the NFL.
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The NFL Combine Position Drills: The Quarterback Position and What the Coaches are Looking for.

The NFL combine has a host of drills for various positions through which they can accurately measure the athlete’s abilities. In this article, we are going take a football scoreboards look at the Quarterback drills and see what the coaches want from prospective quarterbacks.

When you think about a quarterback in the NFL, what do you think about? His pass! And this is what the combine is all about for the prospective quarterbacks. The team representatives want to see the quarterback throw the football. However, it not just the throw itself that they want to see, it is also the various positions and techniques that they want the quarterback to throw under. Through the combine, they get a good idea about whether the player name is likely to light up the football scoreboards in the future.
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Football Equipment and the Best Places to Find Them

In a football scoreboards feature, I have listed the most important football equipment, and the best places to find them.

Whether you are a long standing football player or are just entering the game after your first high school football try outs, one thing is a given: you need to know the equipment and the best places to find it! With the crazy revolution that is online shopping, most of the sporting shops have no physical existence, because they exist only in the virtual world and are only a click away from you. So here is a football scoreboards list of which store sells the best football equipment:
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The Top 5 Most Hilarious Names of College Football Bowl Games

In a football scoreboards feature, I have taken an amusing look at some of the college “Superbowls” down the years.

When it comes to the NFL, there is only one bowl that matters: The Super Bowl. However, there is a whole other world of football separate to the NFL: College Football. The colleges and the universities that are a member of the National College Athletic Association have their own bowls. It may not always be Super, but it’s still a bowl and requires a lot of sponsors to bankroll the party. The sponsor who throws in the most money gets to name the bowl after their product or business, therefore, the names that the bowls end up having are quiet…well, you’ll see for yourself!
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The Top 5 Defensive ends after the 2010-2011 season

In a football scoreboards feature, I have listed the 5 top defensive ends for the 2010-2011 season, and explained what aspects of their plap have made them so successfull.

The key attributes of a defensive end is his run stopping ability and his consistency. If the defensive end can perform with consistency, whether he is a speed rusher or a power rusher, he is already a top class player. After the 2010 season, the following players emerged as the top defensive ends in NFL
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Super Bowl XLV: What Went Wrong for the Steelers?

The football scoreboards 2010-2011 season was finally put to rest by the clash between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburg Steelers in the Super Bowl XLV, with the Green Bay Packers emerging victorious and crowned as the best team of the season. The game was filled with great moments, the least of which was Christina Aguilera botching the national anthem lyrics! Therefore, before all of us start anticipating the 2011-2012 season, let us glance back at the game to see what the Pittsburg Steelers could have and should have done differently to have lifted the Lombardi trophy. So, here is a football scoreboards list of things, which if the Steelers had done, or not done, might have had a big impact on the final result!
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NFL: Mr. Irrelevants of the Past 6 Years

This is a practice started in 1976 by Paul Salata, a former NFL player, who coined the term Mr. Irrelevant. The title is awarded to the player who is the last selected player in the NFL Draft. More often than not, Mr. Irrelevant turns out to be exactly that “irrelevant”! However, sometimes, even though their selecting teams end up cutting them they do break into the team and have to have long careers, with varying degrees of success. Here is a football scoreboards list of the Mr. Irrelevants from the last 6 years, and a glimpse at how their careers have turned out:
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The NFL Labor Dispute – What is Going On?

In a football scoreboards feature, I have reviewed the latest goings on in the NFL labor dispute.

The dispute (fight, battle, war…everything fits!) is over the contract/agreement between the NFL franchise owners and the NFL Players Association. To say that the owners and the NFLPA don’t like each other would be like saying that the Cowboys and Redskins are friendly! Everyone, who pays even the slightest of attention to football, probably knows that a big battle has been going on behind the scenes (or should I say “behind the lines of the football field”!) for the better part of last year and this. However, if you don’t know what the dispute is about, or simply don’t know all the details, let me fill you in!
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The Pittsburgh Steelers 3 Greatest Moments of the 2010 Regular Season

All teams have good and bad moments, no matter how outstanding or disappointing the general play of a team is. Even though the Pittsburgh Steelers have made it to the forty fifth Super Bowl, they too have had their share of good and bad moments in the 2010-2011 season. As the final showdown between the Steelers and the Green Bay Packer is still 4 days away, the diehard Steelers fans should be concentrating on the good moments the Steelers have had during this season, to get that positive vibe rolling unto the fated day! Here is the football scoreboards list of the top 3 moments for the Steelers during the regular season of 2010.
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The Top 3 Best Super Bowl Games Ever

In a football scoreboards feature, I have taken a look back at the three most riveting, most talked about Superbowl games ever to have been played.

Super Bowl is “the” sporting event of the year for all Americans. It is the event when Americans spend more than $50 million on food and drinks, making it the day when Americans consume the most food, second to Thanksgiving. It is the day when 14,500 tons of chips are consumed, when over 100 million bottles of beer are drunk. It is the day…well you get the picture! With the forty fourth Super Bowl just completed, let us look at the top 3 best Super Bowl games ever played.
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The Top 3 Quarterbacks in the NFL 2010-2011 Season

The best offense is a good defense…or is it the best defense is a good offense? Football is a game where this particular saying doesn’t always matter because no matter how good your offense is, if your defense isn’t stopping the other team from gaining ground then it’s a moot point and vice versa! Therefore, it is safe to say that both aspects of the game are complementary and not substitutes of the other. With that in mind, in a football scoreboards feature, I have taken a look at the best quarterbacks. A team’s offense is only as good as its quarterback and his leadership!
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NFL: Top 3 Most Disappointing Players in 2010

In a football scoreboards feature, I have collated the biggest 3 flops of last year. It turns out that they are some of the biggest names in the game too…

Football is like a religion for America and their teams are like Gods to many fans. So, needless to say the fans put their teams on pedestals that are so high, they usually get dizzy and fall at one time or the other! With the money players are recieving nowadays, the fans expect great things from their teams and from particular players. So, regardless to say, when their teams and/or players don’t perform they get (to put it mildly) disappointed. And thus; rise up, the top 3 most disappointing players in the NFL in 2010!
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The 4 Greatest Players in the History of the NFL

The NFL has seen hundreds of amazing players over the years. It is very difficult to rank them because there have so many players who were superb in their very own way. Despite this, in a football scoreboards feature, I have done my best to pick out who I consider to be the 4 very greatest of them all.
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The Top 3 Dirtiest Players in the NFL in 2010

In a football scoreboards review, I have listed the players we most love to hate – and the ones that we would least want to play against!

Football is a sport that not only tests the physical strength of an athlete, but also which tests their emotional strength i.e. their ability to refrain from being emotionally provoked by their counterparts. This is because besides being a brutal contact sport, it is also a sport where athletes brutally verbally abuse each other as well. However, some athletes completely fail to show any strength in controlling themselves as well as their emotions which is why they are termed as the dirtiest and most provocative players in the sport. Here is a list of players who managed to categorize themselves as the dirtiest players in the NFL in the year 2010.
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NFL: The 2 most embarrassing defeats in the last 5 years

In a sport such as football, with its testosterone overload and insaciable desire for bloody victory, there can be no sport in which losing is quite so painful. Even in a defeat, it is one thing to lose a tight competition and another to be completely crushed by your opponent. Now, that is utterly embarrassing. In a football scoreboards feature, I have discussed 3 of the worst defeats to a team in the NFL, and their comeback against the same opponent in their next game.
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