The NFL playoffs are a strange, frenetic universe. Last week we were hanging by a thread to see if the Browns would do as the Bengals did last season and oust the Ravens in the regular season’s final moments. The Ravens held on this time and as a “hot...
We are a country divided on everything. Politics. Avocado Toast. Whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. That all changed Sunday afternoon. The final play of the Patriots-Dolphins game brought a collective shriek to a country and united us for ...
Some firings are easy. Take Hue Jackson in Cleveland. He should have been fired after winning one game in two seasons. He should have been fired after his inept leadership and propensity for “preventative days off” was on full display during Hard ...
12 weeks down, 5 weeks to go in the regular. Like every year around this week, the playoff picture is starting to crystallize. Sure there will be surprises and Week 17 do or die games. But even when you marry math with momentum, some teams on the margin j...
When Hue Jackson was retained for a third year as Browns head coach after posting a 1-31 record the questions were obvious: Who does he have pictures of? or more simply, Whaaaaat? Turns out 3-36-1 was the breaking point. The Browns are finally firing J...
Jon Gruden and Reggie McKenzie trading arguably the NFLs best defender Khalil Mack to Chicago is no longer this season's most baffling personnel move. They have been supplanted by Jerry and Stephen Jones who initiated an embarrassing trade with Oakland fo...
Week 7 has come and gone (no, 3 hours of Twitter writing Eli Manning’s football obituary on MNF doesn’t count as football) and here’s what we learned. Not much. The Chiefs have an explosive offense, the Pats know how to win without Gronk, the Browns...
While the NFL is reviewing three hits Vontaze Burfict made during the Bengals' Sunday 28-21 loss to the Steelers, NFL insider Ian Rapoport says fans calling for a suspension of Burfict will be disappointed. ...
A week ago I used this space to describe how things had normalized in the NFL in terms of the teams fitting our notions . Well, never mind because other than the Chiefs and Rams notching their "Ws" a lot of other football didn't make sense. The Clev...
Less than two minutes were on the clock, and the Packers were up 8 points on the visiting Vikings in Week 2. Minnesota was on their own 25-yard line when Kirk Cousins threw downfield, and Packers rookie corner Jaire Alexander caught the ball for what look...
