Category: NFL

2025 NFL Preview: Projecting the league’s best teams, players, stories and more, and my Super Bowl LX prediction

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Three-peat denied. The Kansas City Chiefs’ impressive bid at three consecutive Super Bowl titles culminated in a thrashing at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles, 40-22, exposing the mortality of the de facto dynasty of the 2020s. The Chiefs aren’t going anywhere as long as head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes are in … Continue reading 2025 NFL Preview: Projecting the league’s best teams, players, stories and more, and my Super Bowl LX prediction

NFL Preview 2025: 10 quarterbacks that will make or break their teams’ playoff aspirations

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Nothing differentiates the NFL’s haves and have-nots quite like elite quarterbacks — and the NFL media doesn’t shy away from that narrative. Everywhere fans look, the importance of a great quarterback is drilled in. The second season of the Netflix docuseries Quarterback followed passers Joe Burrow, Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins, who had three wildly … Continue reading NFL Preview 2025: 10 quarterbacks that will make or break their teams’ playoff aspirations

Opinion: For ascending Broncos, AFC West title would be a massive step toward Super Bowl contention. What would it take to win the division?

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After the Denver Broncos bowed out of the wild card round of last year’s AFC playoff bracket, head coach Sean Payton posed a tantalizing ‘what if’ — what if the Broncos faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs, the two-time reigning Super Bowl champions in the playoffs? “There was a lot of confidence in this … Continue reading Opinion: For ascending Broncos, AFC West title would be a massive step toward Super Bowl contention. What would it take to win the division?

Opinion: The Steelers-Aaron Rodgers partnership is historic and attention-grabbing, but meaningful success will be an uphill battle

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Decades from now, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Aaron Rodgers will be regarded as two all-time brands: the Steelers as the winners of six Super Bowls and one of the NFL’s earliest dynasties, and Rodgers as a four-time MVP and one of the five most talented quarterbacks in NFL history. The idea of the two joining … Continue reading Opinion: The Steelers-Aaron Rodgers partnership is historic and attention-grabbing, but meaningful success will be an uphill battle

Opinion: Unanimous support of NFL players’ Olympic involvement sets stage for flag football’s exciting 2028 Olympic debut

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At 25 years old, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson has decorated his trophy case quite thoroughly. Jefferson has been named as an All-Pro first-team selection two times, a second-team selection two times, a Pro Bowl selection four times and won Offensive Player of the Year for his stellar 2022 campaign. Prior to wreaking havoc … Continue reading Opinion: Unanimous support of NFL players’ Olympic involvement sets stage for flag football’s exciting 2028 Olympic debut

Opinion: Thanks to NFL’s best offseason, the New England Patriots are ready to return to playoff contention

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“Rough” might be the best word to describe the start of the New England Patriots’ offseason. Patriots owner Robert Kraft made the painful decision to fire head coach Jerod Mayo after a single year, a dismal 4-13 season that not only relegated the Patriots to the bottom of their division but also moved them out … Continue reading Opinion: Thanks to NFL’s best offseason, the New England Patriots are ready to return to playoff contention

Opinion: Shedeur Sanders’ staggering fall to the fifth round won’t doom his NFL career. But his landing spot might.

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On Sept. 21, 2024, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders braved the evening mist with his fellow Buffaloes for one last-ditch comeback attempt at Folsom Field. The Baylor Bears held a 31-24 lead with just over two minutes remaining, but a missed field goal created an opportunity for the Buffs to even the score with one final … Continue reading Opinion: Shedeur Sanders’ staggering fall to the fifth round won’t doom his NFL career. But his landing spot might.

Opinion: Nine aspects of NFL drafts that amplify the fun factor and make for must-watch entertainment

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Nestled between the intensity of the NHL and NBA playoffs and the optimism of the opening stretch of Major League Baseball, the NFL Draft somehow holds its own every year — despite having no games, scoreboard or on-the-field action. On my morning and afternoon commutes, debate over which offensive skill position player the Broncos should … Continue reading Opinion: Nine aspects of NFL drafts that amplify the fun factor and make for must-watch entertainment

Opinion: As tush push lives to see another day with postponed vote, the debate is becoming more entertaining than the play itself

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NFL teams failed to stop the 2024 Philadelphia Eagles on the football field. So now, they appear to be playing defense in another way — an attempt to legislate the Eagles’ trademark play, the tush push, out of the rulebook ahead of the upcoming season. The Green Bay Packers proposed a rule change that would … Continue reading Opinion: As tush push lives to see another day with postponed vote, the debate is becoming more entertaining than the play itself