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Why Is Anthony Richardson Suddenly The NFL Draft’s Hottest Prospect? - 2023-04-24T10:00:00+00:00
Each spring, NFL prospects rocket up mock draft boards for both obvious and inscrutable reasons. Sometimes it’s due to a player’s performance at the NFL combine or pro day where they flash unexpected athleticism (think receiver Denzel Mims’s 4.38 second 40-yard dash at the combine in 2020 or linebacker Jamin Davis and his 4.37 pro-day […]

Why Can’t Lamar Jackson Find The Contract He Wants? - 2023-03-30T10:00:00+00:00
It wasn’t too long ago that we wrote about the Baltimore Ravens building an unconventional offense around a dual-threat quarterback. With Lamar Jackson under center, the Ravens deviated from the pass-happy spread offenses that most NFL teams use, instead using an offense that largely relied on the run game from heavy formations. And that decision […]

The Chiefs Didn’t Need Analytics To Win Another Championship - 2023-02-23T11:00:00+00:00
Super Bowl LVII proved once again that the Kansas City Chiefs don’t need analytics. They win the old-fashioned way — with quarterback Patrick Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid creating massive advantages that render ill-advised game management and roster decisions meaningless.  Mahomes needs no introduction. And Reid is one of the most respected offensive masterminds […]

Patrick Mahomes Earned A Huge Raise. So The Chiefs Got Creative With Their Roster-Building. - 2023-02-15T11:00:00+00:00
Already one of the best quarterbacks ever, Patrick Mahomes found room to get better in 2022. Mahomes leveled up against zone coverage in particular and won his second MVP award with one of his sharpest seasons yet. The culmination of all that came when he won his second Super Bowl on Sunday night, leading the […]

The Eagles Played Their A-Game, But The Chiefs Had Patrick Mahomes - 2023-02-13T05:42:20+00:00
maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): Super Bowl LVII has just ended, and not a single part of the game disappointed. (We’ll get into *that* penalty call later.) In a long-awaited matchup between the conferences’ top seeds, it was the Kansas City Chiefs who emerged victorious, scoring on every possession in the second half en route to […]

The Super Bowl Halftime Shows With The Most Star Power - 2023-02-10T11:00:00+00:00
Super Bowl LVII is two days away, can you believe it? While most of you will be watching the actual football going on, some of us will be keeping a closer eye on where the action really is — the halftime show! (Just kidding … mostly. One in 5 Americans who planned to watch last […]

What Americans Think About The NFL - 2023-02-10T11:00:00+00:00
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Growing up, I always celebrated Super Bowl Sunday with my family. I say celebrated because for us, as for many Americans, it was about so much more than the game. The food, the halftime show, the ads — it all added up to more than a championship, especially […]

This Obscure Super Bowl Prop Bet Will Baffle You - 2023-02-09T11:00:00+00:00
This year’s Super Bowl in Arizona will be the first ever played in a state with legalized gambling. Fans in Glendale will be able to bet while at the game using their phones, and gambling trade groups are projecting 50 million people will wager $16 billion on the Super Bowl — more than double last […]

The Chiefs And Eagles Don’t Look Like Their Previous Super Bowl-Winning Iterations - 2023-02-08T11:00:00+00:00
In some ways, it’s not surprising to see the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles facing off in Super Bowl LVII. These two teams are pretty familiar with the championship limelight, as both have been to (and won) the big game recently — the Eagles after the 2017 season and the Chiefs after the 2019 […]

The 5 Most Exciting Super Bowls Ever - 2023-02-07T11:00:00+00:00
There are plenty of reasons to think Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will be an instant classic. The teams are evenly matched, led by a couple of great quarterbacks, and there is no shortage of star power on either side. But of course, if the history of the Big […]

How Massive The NFL Really Is, In 4 Charts - 2023-02-06T11:00:00+00:00
The NFL has had quite an eventful year. In fact, the 2022 season has been characterized by a series of controversies that, when taken together, seem like a microcosm of the criticisms and existential threats facing the league as a whole. In just the past year, there have been major stories centered around how the […]

Which Stars Are Going To Blow Up In Super Bowl LVII? - 2023-02-01T11:00:00+00:00
The teams are set for Super Bowl LVII, and now it’s time for the longest two weeks in sports — the wait between the NFL’s conference championships and the Big Game itself. One upside of the layoff, however, is the chance it will give fans to get to know the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia […]

The Chiefs And Eagles Made The Super Bowl With Grit, Talent, Heart And (Yes) Luck - 2023-01-30T21:15:24+00:00
maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): We have our Super Bowl! And just like we all predicted in last week’s chat, it’ll be the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Kansas City Chiefs. (My crow … it’s delicious.) The two teams advanced Sunday in games that, at least in the moment, felt as though they were defined as much […]

What To Watch For In The NFL’s Conference Championship Games - 2023-01-27T18:03:41+00:00
If this weekend’s conference championship games feel as if they were predestined, it’s no accident. In fact, many prognosticators projected a version of this for these four teams — the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC and the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC — as the season began. […]

How The Eagles Built A Winner By Overdrafting Quarterbacks - 2023-01-26T11:00:00+00:00
According to most of the football world, Jalen Hurts should not be a Philadelphia Eagle. Even Hurts was incredulous at the beginning. When his phone rang on draft day and the area code was 215 — a Pennsylvania number — at first Hurts thought it was the Steelers calling. Instead, it was Eagles general manager […]

We Are No Longer Disrespecting The Cincinnati Bengals Or Brock Purdy - 2023-01-23T20:24:47+00:00
maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): After an almost (sorry, New York teams) equally fabulous divisional round, we’re looking ahead to some fabulous football in next week’s conference championships, when the San Francisco 49ers travel to Philadelphia to take on the Eagles and the Cincinnati Bengals head to Kansas City to play the Chiefs. We’re going to […]

Patrick Mahomes And The Chiefs Are Still Improving On Excellence - 2023-01-19T11:00:00+00:00
The Patrick Mahomes-led Kansas City Chiefs have crossed over into that rarest territory of sports dominance — teams so consistently good that it’s easy to take them for granted if you’re not careful. With a 14-3 record this year, K.C. just wrapped up its fifth consecutive regular season winning at least 70 percent of its […]

Saquon Barkley And Daniel Jones Are Finally Making The Giants Look Good - 2023-01-18T15:21:52+00:00
The New York Giants were built to run. Their problem in recent seasons — or, more accurately, one of their many problems — was that their rushing ability never matched the roster-construction dreams of their former general manager, Dave Gettleman. The executive arrived fresh off a tenure leading the Carolina Panthers from 2013 to 2017, […]

After A Surprisingly Tense Wild-Card Weekend, Are Blowouts Looming In The Divisional Round? - 2023-01-17T20:16:20+00:00
maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): The 2022 NFL playoffs started off with some exciting games that produced unexciting results, with only the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys knocking off a higher-seeded team (though the Cowboys, who had a better record, entered the game favored by 2.5 points). But the chalkiness of the results belies how […]

Brock Purdy Was Mr. Irrelevant. Now He’s Mr. Impossible. - 2023-01-13T11:00:00+00:00
Joe Montana. Steve Young. Yelberton Abraham Tittle. Some of the best quarterbacks to ever set foot on an NFL field played for the San Francisco 49ers, but none did what Brock Purdy has done this season. You want wins? Purdy is one of only three rookie quarterbacks since the merger to start five or more […]

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