Our 2021 NFL Projections Like The Bucs And Chiefs (Again)
Going into last fall, we called 2020 an “abnormally normal” season of pro football — and that basically ended up being true. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic throwing the league for a loop at times, the...
View ArticleThe First Week Of The NFL Season Was Pure Chaos. What Does That Mean For The...
Week 1 of the 2021 NFL season was deeply strange. Whether it was the Saints thrashing the Packers to start the post-Drew Brees era, the Steelers upending the ballyhooed Bills in Buffalo or the...
View ArticleIs The NFC West The Toughest Division In NFL History?
One week after the Los Angeles Rams humbled the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Arizona Cardinals walked into SoFi Stadium and humbled the Rams. Four weeks after starting the season projected for...
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The Cowboys Are Putting It All Together. Is This Their Year?
The 2021 NFL season marks the 26th since the Dallas Cowboys last made a Super Bowl, improbably giving a franchise known as “America’s Team” the league’s 11th-longest active drought. Through 1995, a...
View ArticleAre The Falcons The Best Bad Team Ever?
If an NFL team is what its record says it is,13 the Atlanta Falcons aren’t bad. At 6-7, they’re tied for second place in the NFC South, one of five 6-7 teams vying for the seventh NFC playoff spot....
View ArticleWhat To Watch For In The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend
After an exhilarating week of games closed out the NFL’s extra-long 2021 regular season, the playoff bracket could deliver another helping of chaos. Most (though not all) of the teams left standing...
View ArticleThe Bengals May Be The Real Winner Of ‘The Tie That Wasn’t’
Twitter was rooting for Las Vegas to end its 2021 regular season on Sunday with a quarterback kneel and tie, but the Raiders had a business decision to make: Tie, and open the playoffs against the No....
View ArticleWhat To Watch For In The NFL’s Divisional Round
The NFL’s elite eight will convene this weekend with the divisional playoffs, and after a relatively upset-free wild-card round (sorry, Cowboys — I said relatively), we have some titanic matchups to...
View ArticleOur Guide To The NFL’s Conference Championships
After a weekend of football that was, even by the divisional round’s usual high standards, probably the best in NFL history, we can only imagine what’s left in store for the rest of the playoffs. The...
View ArticleOur Guide To The Super Bowl No One Saw Coming
Super Bowl LVI is finally here, and it offers a truly interesting — if not exactly expected — pair of combatants. Do you like star power and ferocious defense? The Los Angeles Rams could be the team...
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Good Luck Copying The Rams’ Championship Blueprint
On the surface, the Super Bowl-winning Los Angeles Rams fit the mold of any contemporary NFL champion. They reached the league’s zenith with a coaching mastermind (Sean McVay), a star quarterback...
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Our AFC Projections Are Bullish On The Bills
NFL Our AFC Projections Are Bullish On The Bills By Josh Hermsmeyer Sep. 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DAO / GETTY IMAGES After two straight Super Bowl wins by NFC teams, the AFC is...
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Our NFC Projections Foresee A Battle Of The Bays
NFL Our NFC Projections Foresee A Battle Of The Bays By Josh Hermsmeyer Sep. 8, 2022, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DAO / GETTY IMAGES In the 18 Super Bowls played between 2002 and 2019, Tom...
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The Bengals Are Following Last Year’s Script. But Will Their Turnaround Be...
NFL The Bengals Are Following Last Year's Script. But Will Their Turnaround Be The Same? By Andres Waters Nov. 17, 2022, at 6:00 AM Joe Burrow and the Bengals are eyeing a repeat of last season’s...
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Can The Dallas Cowboys Avoid Another Playoff Flop?
NFL Can The Dallas Cowboys Avoid Another Playoff Flop? By Andres Waters Dec. 22, 2022, at 6:00 AM As usual, the Cowboys are full of potential — and pitfalls. Courtney Culbreath / Getty Images Among...
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What To Watch For In The NFL’s Conference Championship Games
NFL What To Watch For In The NFL’s Conference Championship Games By Drae Harris Jan. 27, 2023, at 1:03 PM Joshua Bessex / AP Photo If this weekend’s conference championship games feel as if they were...
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