AFC South News

Heading into the 2011 season, the Houston Texans were picked by many football experts to finish behind the Colts in the AFC South and out of the playoff picture.

It seems that the New YorkA Giants are coming to the point where it may be in their best interest A to make a deal for Osi while they can.

This is "The NFL Beat" and I have friends in 32 places. It is draft season and phone lines, text lines, Interwebs, Twitter-webs, planes, trains, and automobiles connect those of us who continue to march to the NFL beat following Super Bowl 46.

In my post from last week I had hinted at the idea of Karl Dorrell interviewing for the Houston Texans QB Coach position.

Brian McIntyre of Mac's Football Blog has done a tremendous job tracking base salary increases for 2012 triggered by things that happened in 2011.

Maybe Peyton could retire. He could retire because if he has one more neck injury, he might not walk away from the pile.

We know the Indianapolis Colts ' best-case scenario: Andrew Luck reinforces all the great opinions of himself between now and the draft and holds up a Colts jersey on April 26.

Philadelphia, PA - Betting the underdog in the Super Bowl is never a sure thing as evidenced by Green Bay's win and cover as the favorite in the 2011 contest.

Austin Peay State University will have Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins visit for a Reading on Marth 16th > on February 7th, 2011, an uncertain landscape awaited him.

Now that the New York Football Giants have wrapped the 2011 season in a victory over the "Fighting Gisele's", it's almost time to look ahead to 2012.A Before we do that, however, I wanted to share my final 2011 NFL Power Rankings of the season.

Add in that the two games that are different include a Broncos team that won the AFC West at 8-8 and got outscored by 81 points, and that first place schedule doesn't look nearly as tough, with just the Baltimore rematch of the AFC Championship game.

New Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan made waves last week and it had nothing to do with his cartoonish mustache.

News that the St. Louis Rams are considering San Francisco's Tom Gamble and, earlier, Arizona's Steve Keim as general manager candidates makes sense from at least one perspective.

The team announced Friday that the average general ticket price will increase by 8.5 percent - from $72.47 to $78.66 - for the 2012 season.

Despite the lingering disappointment from their Divisional Round loss to the Baltimore Ravens, optimism abounds for the Texans in 2012.

The cities of the AFC South loved the Super Bowl. The TV ratings for Super Bowl XLVI show three of our four cities to rank in the top seven, according to News Channel 5, the CBS affiliate in Nashville.

The Packers are 6/1 to win it all in 2012, and the Patriots are close behind at 7/1. They are followed by the New Orleans Saints and three teams tied at 12/1. This year's champs, the New York Giants , are eighth at 15/1. Of course, they are probably fine with that as they were only 20/1 last summer to win this year's Super Bowl .

As we end the NFL season with Super Bowl XLVI, the offseason quickly approaches.

In Part II of this two-part report, Texans Examiner contributor Jay Dale takes a look at the financial risks involved if the Texans are forced to match another team's restricted free agent offer to Arian Foster.

So the more I look into things, the more I feel there is absolutely no way the Texans end up signing Williams.