NFL Rants & Raves is your weekly dose of unfiltered football talk. Steven breaks down the games, the calls, and the storylines that had everyone yelling at their TV, and this season he goes head to head with Axis Iron, the AI challenger, in a season-long battle of NFL picks. Rants, raves, hot takes, and a scoreboard that never lies.

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Episode 11.16 – Week 11 Preview

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Steven puts together a quick show before heading out for a night at the theater. He starts with a little Chomp It In by the Dirty Catfish Brass Band and then shares a happy moment by exclaiming that Tony Romo is back!

Steven then talks about the Raiders LB Aldon Smith getting suspended for one year, the Broncos getting ready to play Brock Osweiler as Peyton Manning rests an injured foot, the Rams are going to Case Keenum over Nick Foles, yikes and the New Orleans Saints finally get rid of someone and Steven says, “It’s About Time!”

Guest Fan JD puts his picks up against Steven and makes Steven say Defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots at least nine times.

And before Richard Graves complains, Steven did NOT play “Smartest Man Alive” for Richard since the league acknowledged that they should have called a penalty on the Jaguars in the final seconds of the game along with a 10 second run-off ending the game and not allowing them to kick the game winning field goal. So there it is Richard!

Enjoy!

Episode 11.15 – Week 10 Preview

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Steven is joined by Sky Sports News NFL guru Richard Graves to get you ready for Week 10. Graves puts his picks up against Steven’s for the second time this year and he is determined to make sure the fans get back to even in the Challenge game.

After Steven’s awful 6-7 week, he is determined to get back to his winning ways.

Episode 11.14 – Week 9 Preview

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Episode 11.14 – Week 9 Preview
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Steven is still feeling the effects of some strange allergy so please enjoy this short show because he knows you don’t want to hear his stuffy, nasally voice. In this quick show where he gives you his picks for Week 9 as he puts his picks against ndogg. Fans get to vote on the Challenge Game so make sure you vote.

Steven does talk about the Titans firing head coach Ken Whisenhunt and the Lions do some firing as well, but it’s not the head coach.

Episode 11.13 – Week 8 Preview

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Episode 11.12 – Week 6 Preview

Steven is feeling better and gets back to the swing of things. He recaps Week 7 and discusses being the Smartest Man Alive as the Dolphins roll the Texans. Speaking of the Texans, Steven talks about the team cutting QB Ryan Mallett. He also talks about JPP returning to the New York Giants.

Steven then gets you ready for Week 8 with all his picks and this week the fans get their picks from meangreen.

Episode 11.12 – Week 6 Preview

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Episode 11.12 – Week 6 Preview
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With Steven playing hurt, this is a short show. Steven quickly recaps the games during Week 5 and gets you ready with his picks for Week 6.

Mark Brown from Down Under goes against Steven this week and Steven makes the Giants/Eagles game the Challenge Game.

Episode 11.11 – Week 5 Preview

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Episode 11.11, The Week 5 Preview Show.

Richard Graves of Sky Sports News joins Steven to put his picks up for the fans for Week 5. First Steven recaps all 15 games from Week 4. He did not like how kickers ruined games for the Steelers and Jaguars.

Richard and Steven spend most of the show covering the Week 5 games, but before that, Steven talks about another coach getting fired after losing in London and Steven goes on a full on ran about the refs big gaff on Monday Night Football. He even offers the NFL as solution for their current referee woes.

Plus Steven gets to pick the Challenge game, making it the Ravens over the Browns.

Episode 11.10 – Week 4 Preview

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Episode 11.10, The Week 4 Preview Show

An interesting Week 3 in the NFL is in the books. Only seven teams remain undefeated and people are talking about the defending Super Bowl Champion Evil Empire New England Patriots going undefeated all year.

Steven quickly recaps all 16 games in Week 3 before looking ahead in Week 4.

The Bears have a fire sale (Everything Must Go!!!) and Cowboys fans are asking Jerry to trade for Matt Forte! WHAAAAATTT?

This week, I selected Sugarlips_Jones to put his picks up against mine, but he did not get back to me as to why he selected who he selected so I will leave it up to you the fans to give me feedback as to which game should be the challenge game!

Fans get to email in to pick the Challenge Game. Which one will it be?

Episode 11.09 – Week 3 Preview

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Episode 11.09, The Week 3 Preview Show.

Upset Weekend is in the books. Nine underdogs won outright last weekend and blew up the NFL Rants & Raves Survivor Pool. Crazy! The pool started with 149 entries and after two weeks, we are down to just 13. How crazy is that? Steven was able to win the Challenge game and although he was a miserable 6-10, the fan challenger Mick Collington did worse, going 5-11. Steven enjoys playing the Smartest Man Alive for himself.

Steven looks at the nine 0-2 teams and tells you which ones still have a shot at the playoffs and which of the nine 2-0 teams might not be there in the end. Plus, Steven tells you the real reason why Kam Chancellor has returned to Seattle. He looks at if the Cowboys can survive without QB Tony Romo for eight weeks and on Twitter, ESPN’s Ed Werder tries to convince Steven that they Cowboys traded for Matt Cassel to make him a starter and Steven isn’t buying it. Find out why!

This week, the fan challenger is last years NFL RandR Pick ‘Em Champion, David Bryson from Down Under. He joins Steven with his Week 3 picks and makes the Raiders at Browns the Challenge Game. (Note: the audio is a bit choppy.)

Enjoy!

Episode 11.08 – Week 2 Preview

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Episode 11.08, The Week 2 Preview Show.

What a wild Week 1. Steven says, “Now that’s how you start the NFL season! With a bang!” But he cautions everyone to remember that “It’s only 1 Week. Please don’t over react!” Steven briefly talks about his weekend in Dallas with a very interesting game and some interesting Giants fans! The injury bug rears its ugly head in Week 1 and hits some pretty big names at the wide receiver position.

Greg The Bills Fan gives the fans an early 1-0 lead as his Bills really took it to the Colts making Greg, the smartest man alive!

This week, Steven goes up against Mick Collington. Unfortunately Mick never got his game comments in before the recording of the show, so Steven just made up some comment for him. They differ on five games and Steven make the Falcons vs Giants game the Challenge Game for Week 2.

Episode 11.07 – Week 1 Preview

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Episode 11.07, The Week 1 Preview Show.

The 2015 NFL Season kicks off two days from tonight!

The preseason is over but I think for the first time in a long time, we have a season that is about to begin with many unknowns. The Tom Brady “deflate-gate” saga may not be over just yet, but at least we have some temporary closure as Brady will play in the foreseeable future. RG3 is out in Washington, but not enough to get him cut, just demoted to 3rd string!

And why is the mother-ship (ESPN) bringing up “Spy-gate” again? Whatever, the season is HERE, and I’ve got 16 games to discuss so there is no time for that crazy news story.

Greg The Bills Fan joins Steven to put up his weekly picks in Steven vs The Fans. Last year Steven won and already the fans are starting strong as Steven and Greg differ on six games. That’s plenty to start the NFL season with a bang. We’ll go over those games plus give our thoughts on the 10 games we agree on!