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The Raiders Were Exposed in Foxborough
The Raiders left Gillette Stadium 3-2 and looking exactly like the team the rest of the AFC has been waiting to see. New England beat them 45-17. Drake Maye threw for 374 yards and four touchdowns, ran for another, and…
Josh Allen and Matthew Stafford Just Played a Classic. McVay’s Special Teams Lost It. Are you buying or Selling the Rams?
Monday night was not a bad game. It was two of the best quarterbacks in the league trading haymakers until the kicking unit decided the winner. The Bills beat the Rams 37-34 in overtime at SoFi. Josh Allen finally got…
Mike Tomlin in Tampa Is the Reset the Buccaneers Actually Need
The why is straightforward. Tomlin never had a losing season in Pittsburgh. He won a Super Bowl, made the playoffs repeatedly, and coached through three different quarterback situations without the building turning into a circus. Tampa is not a rebuild.…
Jim Harbaugh Just Gave Away the Chargers’ Last Chance at 0-5
Jim Harbaugh stood in front of the cameras and said he could not remember a time he had been madder at himself. He was right. Leading 17-10 with 10:33 left, fourth-and-1 from his own 41, he kept the offense on…
Nick Sirianni Just Lost the Eagles Another Game He Had Won, Should He Be Fired?
Nick Sirianni stood in London and said the quiet part out loud. “I didn’t make the right decision and I lost us that game.” That is not accountability. That is a coach reading the film back to the room after…
Dan Quinn Just Ran Out the Clock on Himself
Dan Quinn ripped his headset off, spiked it into the turf, and stood there with his hands on his hips while the clock hit zero. That is the picture. Not a coach who got unlucky. A coach who watched his…
Cowboys Collapse with Ravens Loop’s 56-Yarder Beats Dallas in Rio
Dallas Flew to Brazil to Invent a New Way to Lose Rio de Janeiro. First NFL regular-season game in Brazil. Maracanã. And the Cowboys still found a way to turn a 1-yard-line chance into a 23-yard field goal, kick a…
OMG! Chargers 0-3: Five Takeaways, Still Lost… Fire Mike McDaniel
0–3. Five Takeaways. And Justin Herbert Still Found a Way to Lose. The Chargers are 0–3. They lost to Arizona. They lost to the Raiders 26–14. On Sunday they lost to Buffalo 24–16 after forcing five turnovers. Five. Josh Allen…
WTF! Rams Blow 16-0 Lead, Lose 30-26 to Broncos
Denver 30, Los Angeles 26. Sunday night. Rams 1–2. Broncos 2–1. Los Angeles held Denver to 67 yards in the first half and walked into the locker room up 16–0. They finished with 482 yards to Denver’s 257. Matthew Stafford…
Chiefs 31–10. Walker’s Debut Was the Story. Bieniemy Brought the Standard Back.
Patrick Mahomes played football again. Kenneth Walker III made it look easy. Eric Bieniemy made it look like Kansas City. The Chiefs beat Denver 31–10 at Arrowhead on Monday night. The score is the revenge part. Last year the Broncos…
