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On Friday, Greg Jennings accepted an offer from the Minnesota Vikings that could pay him as much as $47.5 million over the next five years, with $18 million in guaranteed money. As a Packers fan, I feel 20 percent sad and 80 percent indifferent about...

With free agency and the draft process revving up, there are plenty of questions for every NFL team. But for most, there's one issue that trumps the rest. This is the first in a team-by-team look at the offseason tasks that just can't get botched. ...

Gabe's still in Vegas and I'm here at the back of the World Famous Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard. Adam Eget is hovering around me, his tremulous right hand running through hair four days unshowered, his left hand steadying itself on my shoulder, h...

The BQBL got dark this week. Pointing and laughing at the Jets and Cardinals last week was a hoot. Their mutual ineptitude gave the game a humorous, whimsical vibe — like watching tee-ball infielders turn a ground ball to second base into an in...

You may have noticed that we at Grantland take bad quarterback play very seriously. While Grantland's finest in the Los Angeles office take part in the BQBL each season, my basis for bad quarterback knowledge dates back to a childhood during which th...

With all the rookie quarterbacks going from dorm rooms to film rooms this season, there was so much potential for the marvelous missteps we have come to expect and celebrate here at BQBL headquarters. If you told me during the preseason that in Week ...

Bucs (+5) over VIKINGS Seven reasons why I worried about laying five points with Minnesota at home against the Bucs tonight ... 1. Christian Ponder's last four games since a seemed-to-be-a-breakout effort against the 49ers: five touchdowns, ...

The scores weren't high on the BQBL leaderboard this week, but the outstanding individuals occupying it performed acts displaying a level of ineptitude that we had yet to see in the BQBL. Three-and-Out Ravens (Joe Flacco), 79 points: With both...

This week, "Is This Real?" moves onto the rapidly expanding bandwagon of the 3-1 Minnesota Vikings, who are improbably tied for the division lead in the NFC North with the Bears. For a team whose biggest signing this offseason after a 3-13 season was...

If it's a trade Jim Irsay's maniacal Twitter account wants, it's a trade Jim Irsay's maniacal Twitter account will get Last night, very calm and cool Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tweeted the following: SERIOUS TRADE WINDS Swirling! We're ...

Camping out in St. Paul for the Minnesota new-stadium circus.

Don't buy into the hype. Week 15 wasn't shocking. It wasn't crazy. It wasn't weird. It was normal. It is completely modus operandi in the NFL for good teams to lose (Green Bay Packers), bad teams to win (Indianapolis Colts), and the greatest quarterb...

Despite their best efforts, T.J. Yates, Tyler Palko, and Kevin Kolb all won NFL games this week. Not BQBL games — actual professional American football games. Yates won because a defensive hold negated his pick-six, Palko won because he was up ...

The following is a list of adult men who threw passes on Sunday in the National Football League: John Beck, Christian Ponder, Kyle Boller, and ... wait for it ... Vince Young. And if that wasn't enough to have fans of repulsive quarterbacking H...

Here's your Monday whip-around on the stories dominating the headlines and lingering in the margins of the NFL. No pads needed. On WEEI over the weekend, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was candid about Chad Ochocinco's difficulty i...

There have already been a few whispers of quarterback controversies in Seattle (Tarvaris Jackson vs. Charlie Whitehurst), Minnesota (Christian Ponder vs. Donovan McNabb, at least according to Ponder), and Miami (Chad Henne vs. whomever the Dolphins a...