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2025 NFL Preview: Projecting the league’s best teams, players, stories and more, and my Super Bowl LX prediction
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…
2025 College Football Preview: Predicting the 2025 College Football Playoff, and what makes each entrant dangerous
Full disclosure: college football has changed so much over the past half-decade that I felt it was necessary to complete a sweeping review of the sport’s recent developments before choosing my champion. Some moves have been overwhelming successes: the return of the EA Sports College Football video game, an expanded College Football playoff and the…
NFL Preview 2025: 10 quarterbacks that will make or break their teams’ playoff aspirations
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…
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