Part 1, The offseason in the NFL: What your team needs to do to win it all in 2012

The Glorious NFL as we know it.
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The offseason in the NFL is awesome. There are so many stories and so much anticipation leading up the combine and the draft, and then when the OTA's start rolling around in the summer, excitement once again hits an all-time high. The best thing about the NFL, unlike other sports, is that each season, every team feels like it has a shot to win it all. A team's offseason could mean the difference between missing the playoffs and winning the Super Bowl.

So without further ado, here is my list of every NFL team (listed in alphabetical order and split up into two posts due to the sheer size of each post), and what they need to address this offseason to be successful in this coming 2012 season:

Why I hated Super Bowl XLVI

Courtesy of MPR News.

In general, I don't like the Super Bowl. As a guy who watches every televised game throughout the season, I see this last game as something much bigger than, but consequently less of, just a game. The Super Bowl has become a greater cultural and social event than a sporting one.

Confusion leads to blissful halftime performance

(Reuters)

As soon as I saw 300 men covered (barely) in armor, I was sold on Super Bowl XLVI’s halftime show.  Somehow things proceeded to get infinitely weirder from that point forward.  It was the strangest half-time show I’ve ever seen, dwarfing the infamous wardrobe malfunction, and I loved every second of it.  The only Madonna songs I know are Like a Prayer and Like a Virgin, but this small fact was simultaneously completely irrelevant and relevant.  It was irrelevant because despite not knowing any of her songs, I thoroughly enjoyed whatever the hell was going on.  However, it’s also totally relevant because I’m guessing most football fans (granted a lot of people watching the halftime show aren’t football fans) aren’t that into Madonna either.

Super Bowl Fun with #15

If you bet with me on the conference championship games you're doing pretty well, I went 3-1 overall and nailed both my game picks. But after losing 75,000 dollars on the Pro Bowl, it's time I got back to my winning ways. These picks are as good as gold.

Can I skip the Super Bowl?

I'll be the first to say it: I'm not at all excited for the Super Bowl this year. The Super Bowl is the most important of all traditions for any football fan, and it pains me deeply to make a statement like that, but it's the truth. Outside of Boston and New York, I doubt I'm the only football fan with a similar disgusting feeling in their gut when the thought arises about the upcoming matchup for this year's big game: The New York Giants vs. The New England Patriots.

Bleh.