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On TwitterRun game dominance has Washington atop the NFC East
In a league year in which offenses are putting up record numbers and quarterbacks have 300-yard games like they’re nothing, Washington is winning with an old-school approach.
For new NFL coaches, situational aggression is now the norm
Titans coach Mike Vrabel is an example of a trend in new coaches over the last few years who are challenging the conventional wisdom of situational football.
'Sacksonville' Jaguars lose their swagger after drubbing in Dallas
After losing three of their last four games, suddenly the Jacksonville Jaguars are faltering again.
Sean McVay bucks the trend of bad bets on young NFL coaches
The recent history of youngest-ever NFL head coaches is littered with supposed boy genius flameouts, but Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay has bucked that trend.
Earl Thomas' gesture was a refutation of the NFL's team-first culture
Conventional NFL fandom ties people to organizations. Perhaps saying fans who favor teams first and foremost are “just rooting for laundry” is a little glib, but it does drive at a point that fans often disregard what’s best — or even fair — for the players.
Dolphins aim to make annual Patriots September scare into something real
If someone were to tell you that three weeks into the season, the AFC East would have one 3-0 team and three others tied at 1-2, a scant few would guess that the unbeaten team would be any other than the New England Patriots.
The Texans have their stars back, but are still on the brink of a lost season
Midway through October 2017, the Texans sat at 3-3 going into the bye. They’d already lost All-Pro J.J. Watt for another season. However, the emergence
With Cowboys in disarray, the search for a scapegoat begins
The circus that is the Dallas Cowboys never fully subsides, in times good and bad. But nothing does headlines like the bad. And boy, oh boy, did the Cowboys have a discouraging opening week of the new season.
Khalil Mack adds the Bears to a crowded NFC playoff race
There are few teams for which the prospect of acquiring arguably the best defensive player in football is anything but a no-brainer, even for the hefty sum of picks the Bears parted with to acquire Khalil Mack.
The Bills start the season with a QB mess of their own making
Fewer than two weeks removed from the regular-season opener in Baltimore, the Buffalo Bills still haven’t decided on their starting quarterback. In any year, that would at least be a story, but it’s doubly so in 2018, the season after the Bills chased away the quarterback who led them to their first playoff appearance in 18 years.
New helmet rule again makes NFL safety the players' problem
For those somehow too occupied in the mid-August doldrums to keep up with the NFL preseason, here’s what you’ve missed: Pat Mahomes threw an incredible
Washington continues to be down on its injury luck after Derrius Guice hype derailed
An NFL season always works itself out to be a war of attrition. With that in mind, it shouldn’t necessarily be shocking that preseason and training camp are also minefields of serious injuries.
Kelvin Benjamin picked the worst time to go at Cam Newton
Ten months after the trade that sent him from Carolina to Buffalo, Kelvin Benjamin decided to unload some shots at his former quarterback, Cam Newton.
Randy Moss's NFL greatness was undeniable from the start
There is a small handful of generational talents who arrive in a professional sport over the course of a few decades. Some of them live up to the hype.
Jon Gruden, Raiders bask in goodwill while they can
If there’s a prevailing theme to the Raiders' final seasons in Oakland, it’s the franchise hoping to placate hardcore supporters with fan service. Ever since the Raiders announced in March 2017 that they are bound for Las Vegas, they haven’t been content to exist in a depressing limbo.
Darren Sproles made a career of outsized production from a small role
The shifty, change-of-pace back has been a staple of NFL offenses for as long as any of us can remember: the little runner who operates mostly as a third-down specialist; a smaller player thought to be less durable than the prototypical every-down back, but absolute hell on defenses.
No one is celebrated for apathy like Jay Cutler
Jay Cutler’s playing career never quite reached the prodigious heights his ego seemed to suggest it would when he arrived in the NFL in 2006 as a first-round pick of the Broncos, but few have gotten more mileage out of a blasé attitude that flouts any expectation of passion from a professional athlete.
Kam Chancellor’s departure leaves Seattle nearly 'Boom-less'
This past Sunday, four-time Pro Bowl safety Kam Chancellor made official what fans, the team and even Chancellor himself feared for months — that the neck
Jameis Winston’s suspension will dictate Bucs' path for years
2017 was to be the breakout season for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They were coming off a just-short-of-the-postseason 9-7 campaign, with a third-year quarterback, and added star power in the form of DeSean Jackson.
For kickoffs to live on in the NFL, they must be safer in 2018
For the better part of a decade, the NFL has been chipping away at the kickoff — and for good reason. It has by far the highest incidence rate of concussions of any type of play in the sport.
Will Terrell Owens' move lead to future Hall of Fame defections?
Terrell Owens didn’t have to wait as long as some prolific players to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. For example, former Washington receiver Art Monk waited until his eighth year of eligibility despite holding the record for the most receptions in NFL history when he retired in 1995.
Are the Browns ready for respectability in 2018?
Slowly but surely, the Browns have been compiling the pieces of a formidable team in the months since becoming the second 0-16 teams in NFL history. This
The Steelers should swallow their pride and pay Le'Veon Bell
It may be about a decade now since the Pittsburgh Steelers' last Super Bowl title, but in one sense they are the envy of the NFL. No other team can claim to have three skill players on offense who are arguably among the top five at their respective positions with Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell.
No, veterans missing OTAs is not a big deal
In the post-draft football content dead zone, NFL writers, usually so flush with material the rest of the year, are desperate for just about any molehill on which to build controversy.
NFL ready to reap rewards of legalized gambling whether it admits it or not
The NFL has long maintained an uneasy relationship with the gambling community. Officially, the league contends that it brooks no association with betting.
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