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Deadspin Argues About Stuff: Dooley and Foote beef over Tua Time, rookie QBs
Dustin Foote: Alright Donovan, Tua Tagovailoa was just named the starter for the Miami Dolphins. They’ll face the Rams on November 1st after their bye week. Do you like the move to put Tua in now, just under halfway through the season?...

On a hot mic, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman reveal how fake the NFL’s patriotism is
The broadcast booth, like the press box, is always located in an elevated area of an arena or stadium....

An early check-in on the quarterback class of 2018
Since 1983, only three NFL drafts have produced five or more quarterbacks in the first round....

Tanking for Trevor: This week's NFL Powerless Rankings
Deadspin is proud to introduce its weekly #TankforTrevor Powerless Rankings, where we examine the sorriest teams in the league who have the best chance of selecting Clemson star quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the 2021 NFL draft....

Cleveland gets the Browns beat out of ’em, Packers get smacked with their cheeseheads, and is Adam Gase calling in plays from a bar?
NFL football is still underway, despite multiple COVID-19 scares that have endangered the season over the past few weeks. ...

Atlanta Cockatoos finally look like pro franchise against tax accountant disguised as Vikings QB
Some occurrences in life are so rare that we all need to take a timeout and acknowledge them, for no other reason than to just simply admire the event for happening. ...

Deadspin NFL Over/Under Bet of the Week: Bearing down on this under
Over/Under: 45...

Sunday Scaries: The Week 6 bets you should avoid
We’ve made it to Week 6 and everything is fine in the NFL....

After escaping from the Jets, who can blame Le’Veon Bell for wanting to win?
It’s not even fair at this point....

The NFL keeps following Trump into the abyss — first with Kaepernick then with COVID
We need to take a quick trip back in time to the year 2017. Something important happened then that explains, in part, the limp response of the NFL to the pandemic....

Is Adam Gase a better coach than a potato? Wikipedia says no
Every single day that someone, like me, wakes up and remembers they are a Jets fan is a day they know will be filled with sadness, anger, confusion, and eventually resignation....

The NFL stopped being a running back’s league long ago — just ask Le’Veon Bell
The New York Jets’ decision to release Le’Veon Bell Tuesday is not shocking — it made a lot of sense, given the direction the game has been heading....

Derrick Henry stiff-arms Josh Norman into next Tuesday
Titans running back Derrick Henry just made Buffalo Bills corner Josh Norman look like a 3-year-old child on national television....

The NFL is going along with local guidelines to COVID, but will allow the Saints to switch local guidelines
It’s pretty easy to picture Roger Goodell staring blankly as the Saints told him about this, they surely didn’t ask, like a parent who has just completely given up and is letting the kids ransack the supermarket while they head to the liquor aisle:...

Trump bullied the NFL for years and now they're both being bullied by Covid-19
It’s always been about checks and balances....

Week 5 takeaways: Another coach is gone, the Niners got smacked like they ate an edible, and the Boys’ D is as bad as Trump’s COVID team
After a crazy week in the NFL that saw more players testing positive for COVID-19, a mass reshuffling of games, and coaches getting the boot, here we are again with our weekly NFL takeaways. ...

Tony Romo's commentary is mediocre as hell
While we already covered Dak Prescott’s grotesque injury, a word on Tony Romo. It strains his credibility when he’s telling the nation that we can only hope it’s a cramp as we’re looking at Prescott holding his ankle that only has a tangential relationship to the rest of his leg. And only heightens ...
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Dak Prescott headed to surgery after a gruesome ankle injury [Updated]
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has been taken to the hospital after being carted off the field today versus the Giants after suffering what seems to be a serious lower leg injury. ...

Are you ready for some Monday afternoon football? It’s gonna suck
The NFL season is not staying on the rails. So the league is changing some games around....

MLS has been a scheduling mess for months, and the NFL might not do any better
While the NFL has had to become Tetris masters to rearrange their schedule in accommodating even more positive tests from both Tennessee and New England, MLS has been doing this dance for a while. And it also may be an indication that there won’t be a light at the end of the tunnel for the NFL....