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Generally speaking, the NFL would prefer to come out of Championship Sunday with the conversation driven by storylines of the Super Bowl to be. Maybe what transpired isn’t helped by the fact that one of the winners was a team that’s now been to nine Super Bowls in 18 seasons.
The Patriots are one of the most dangerous underdogs ever
The Patriots may be the underdogs, but the Chiefs can't treat this championship game as if they're favorites.
Bears, Mitchell Trubisky can continue to grow from playoff letdown
Bears fans should feel encouraged by their season, and even several aspects of their playoff exit, as traumatic as it might have been.
Kirk Cousins shares blame but was far from only issue with 2018 Vikings
The Vikings seemed like they had it made after signing Kirk Cousins to a team that went to the NFC Championship Game last season, but things did not go as planned in 2018.
Browns can cap comeback season by denying their old selves
The 2018 Cleveland Browns didn’t end up sneaking into the postseason as some imagined they might, but they certainly have put the AFC North on notice.
Philip Rivers is the overlooked great quarterback for the often neglected Chargers
Overshadowed by his contemporaries, Philip Rivers has led the oft-neglected Chargers to the top of the AFC standings.
Cowboys' outlook improving but this season may wed them to a bad future
The Cowboys have been hot since trading for Amari Cooper, but is the success sustainable beyond the 2018 regular season?
Pressure on Packers' front office after pulling plug on Mike McCarthy
After firing Mike McCarthy as head coach, the Green Bay Packers' front office is under pressure to make the right moves while the team still has Aaron Rodgers under center.
Steelers' sloppy loss to Broncos is more costly than it seems
The Steelers' loss to the Broncos is deceptively critical for those who already had designs on Pittsburgh getting a first-round bye and therefore seriously putting itself in the conversation as a Super Bowl contender.
Eagles must hope injuries are the main culprit for seemingly lost season
Back in February, the Eagles were so powerful that they took down the juggernaut Patriots with their backup quarterback. Now they’re floundering enough that some are questioning whether the team is still set up to compete over the long haul.
Todd Bowles escaped the midseason ax, but his future in New York looks grim
Firing Todd Bowles now would have accomplished little more being than a PR move, but those do have some value when trying to establish a winning culture.
Norv Turner is the old pro orchestrating the Panthers' hot hand
While it took a little bit to get the offense going, the decision to bring on Norv Turner is beginning to look like a smart one for the Panthers.
Run 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.
