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With four weeks remaining in the NFL regular season, the playoff push is on. The loaded AFC, for example, has 11 teams with winning records, the most through Week 14 in any conference since 1970. That includes six 7-6 teams. Unfortunately, all 32 teams are dealing with injuries at this point in the year.  Let’s […]

The AFC’s playoff race is tighter than the sweater you tried to fit into the day after Thanksgiving. Yes, it’s that tight.  Six teams with 7-6 records are fighting for the conference’s final two wild card spots. Every team in the AFC North is above .500, although the Ravens have opened up a two-game lead […]

Every NFL team has traditions, but few revere them like the Pittsburgh Steelers do. Ben Roethlisberger, however, fears that may no longer be the case.  Pittsburgh’s former quarterback and future Hall of Fame inductee doesn’t think that the team’s traditions have been passed down to current members of the offense, who are part of a […]

The Tennessee Titans pulled off the most improbable upset of the 2023 season on Monday night, as they overcame a double-digit deficit in the final minutes to down the Miami Dolphins, 28-27. Previously, the Titans were 0-7 on the year away from the state of Tennessee while the Dolphins were 9-0 in Miami, but Tua […]

What a difference a year makes for Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.  By his own account he didn’t play his best ball in the Cowboys’ 33-13 steamrolling of the Philadelphia Eagles on “Sunday Night Football.” In 2022, that would have likely meant an interception was tossed. For Prescott in 2023, that means his output of 271 […]

The Kansas City Chiefs are in the midst of an 8-5 start the 2023 season, good for first place in the AFC West. However, you wouldn’t know it based on how distraught reigning NFL MVP and Super MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes was on the sidelines in the waning seconds of the Chiefs’ 20-17 loss to […]

Welcome to the Week 14 grades! If we learned one thing on Sunday, it’s that you can go from watching football at your mom’s house to winning an NFL game in just a matter of weeks. Three weeks ago, Joe Flacco was watching NFL games at his mom’s house. This week, I’m guessing everyone at […]

Only five weeks remain in the NFL’s regular season, and as we roll further into December there’s an increasing chance that weather will have an impact on games, including multiple matchups in Week 14 that could be wet, windy and/or snowy. That means game plans — as well as potential fantasy lineups and bets — […]

USATSI The Eagles and 49ers entered Sunday’s NFC Championship rematch with plenty of emotion, exchanging barbs in anticipation of a brawl. But the physicality reached a new degree in the third quarter, when both 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw and Eagles head of security Dom DiSandro were ejected from the matchup due to a sideline scuffle […]

Winning weeks are good. I guess. I went 8-7-1 against the spread with my NFL picks last week and was 9-7 straight up. But when you consider that the week really wasn’t that tough, I don’t feel good about it. Here’s why I know that: Kudos to my co-worker Dave Richard, who is part of […]