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These are the biggest flops of the 2023 NFL seasonThe NFL is a small-sample league. Before you can even blink, 18 games have flown by and we’re left trying to make sense of everything that happened. It means that luck can play a massive part in whether a team succeeds or fails, with a few bounces of the ball defining the entire story for an entire ...

Where will Russell Wilson go now that Denver cut him?Updated March 4: The Denver Broncos will release Russell Wilson, as had been speculated. The team will be hit with a record $85 million dead salary cap charge for cutting the veteran QB. ...

The Falcons are still in the playoff hunt despite another bad lossThe Atlanta Falcons remaining in the thick of the NFC South picture has to be a source of torment for the team’s fans. Two weeks ago they were 6-6 and alone atop the division. Following an ugly 9-7 loss to the formerly 1-12 Carolina Panthers, Atlanta is now 6-8 and a full game behind the New Orleans...

Here's every NFL quarterback to start a game so far this season

Update: It’s the final week of the NFL regular season and even more backups will get starts as teams who’ve locked up playoff spots rest their normal QB1s....

Justin Fields and Josh Dobbs capped a week littered with awful QB play

There are far more important things to be thankful for in this world than being a fan of an NFL team with consistent quarterback play. Beginning with that caveat, many Americans do spend a lot of hours watching football. The product is exponentially better when the quarterbacks are above average....

Week 5 NFL Takeaways: The AFC South is entertaining TV

Even though the highly anticipated Sunday Night Football showdown revealed that Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys were no competition for the San Francisco 49ers, the rest of the NFL Week 5 slate was largely entertaining. ...

10 NFL players, team units everyone thinks will be bad this season, but won't be

Assumptions can be a dangerous thing. Take the preseason conversation surrounding Tua Tagovailoa last season. There were signs that the Miami Dolphins’ third-year quarterback was about to make a quantum leap, but he was mostly ignored in lieu of cheapshots at his arm strength. The same is true for 2...

Arthur Smith’s Falcons are riding the Bijan Robinson train in an age of aviator offenses

Arthur Smith migrated to the Falcons after laying down the railroad tracks for the Tennessee Titans’ 2020 AFC Championship berth. One would hope he isn’t trying to put his spin on the Derrick Henry cloud of dust offense he conducted for two years, but with Bijan Robinson. An essential part of buildi...