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AFC North Preview: Healthy Ravens return, but don’t forget about the Steelers

The favorites in the AFC North are the Cincinnati Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens. The Bengals scratched and clawed their way to the Super Bowl last season, and were a handful of plays away from winning the game. Injuries derailed the Ravens’ 2021 season before the train left the station, and they ...

5 breakout candidates for the 2022 NFL season

Whether it was Cooper Kupp in 2021, Josh Allen in 2020, or Marlon Humphrey in 2019, breakout players have always been difficult to predict, but not impossible. Solid underlying stats, good coaching, and an obvious opportunity for increased usage are the three main characteristics we need to look at ...

Greater need for Angels sale as Ohtani continues to amaze

The Los Angeles Angels should be appointment television viewing. Two of their players have won half of the American League MVP awards since 2014. The most recent winner of that award — Shohei Ohtani — is playing baseball in a way in which the NFL equivalent would be Patrick Mahomes putting up T.J. W...

IDIOT OF THE MONTH: We're surrounded by idiots

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain...

Baker Mayfield can’t stop being Baker Mayfield

Baker Mayfield is at it again, running his mouth and talking trash. His latest comments were allegedly uttered to Buffalo Bills sideline reporter Cynthia Frelund. ...

Lamar Jackson is playing those social media games

What does Lamar Jackson want?...

Jimmy G, Trey Lance, Kyle Shanahan trying to pull of the impossible

Jimmy Garoppolo sticking around as the backup in the San Francisco 49ers quarterback after all the goodbyes since February is one of the offseason’s biggest shockers. It probably shouldn’t be. Jimmy G and the Niners re-committing to each other ends a summer of long, drawn-out farewell NFL episodes t...

Is Tyreek Hill the high tide that can lift Tua’s boat?

Mike McDaniel’s pod of Dolphins has already made splashes. In its preseason finale, Miami dropped 48 on the Philadelphia Eagles and Tua Tagovailoa completed 6-of-7 passes for 121 yards and led three scoring drives....

Desmond Howard… explain yourself

College football season kicks off today and already people are looking to the future, making predictions for conference championships and national titles. Some of these takes are scalding hot....

If the Packers are going to take that final step, David Bakhtiari has to be dominant

After a long 2021 — complete with a rapid heel turn — that ended with a home-playoff loss as the top seed in NFL, along with Aaron Rodgers’s second consecutive MVP, the drama appears to be over. Rodgers signed a three-year extension during the offseason that guarantees him over 100 million, and aver...

The NFL’s biggest revenge games of 2022

The 2022 NFL season is just over two weeks away from kicking off, and this year will see a host of big game rematches from last year. The league isn’t wasting any time giving teams the opportunity to avenge crucial losses or rejection by players. So, here’s the list of some of the biggest revenge ga...

Jimmy Haslam is to blame for the vile T-shirts and signs in support of Deshaun Watson

Talent trumps anything in the NFL — and Jimmy Haslam knows that....

Kamaru Usman and the other athletes who’ve been stopped at history’s doorstep

Kamaru Usman’s loss to Leon Edwards in the final minute of the fifth round was the fourth latest finish for a UFC championship fight. Usman, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC will be granted a rematch to regain his title, but his chance to tie Anderson Silva’s 16 consecutive wins is likel...

Josh Dobbs shined bright for Cleveland as he looks to lock up third QB slot

Now that Cleveland knows Deshaun Watson will miss the first 11 games of the regular season (stemming from 24 sexual misconduct civil cases), they’ll need to keep a third QB on the roster. With Jacoby Brissett already slated as the starter to begin the year, that leaves Joshua Dobbs and Josh Rosen to...

NFL fails again | Deshaun Watson update

Deshaun Watson’s suspension was weak because players still refuse to stand up for women

Silence can be ear-splitting....

Browns owner thinks talent trumps alleged transgressions after Watson receives 'punishment' [Updated]

The NFL increased embattled Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s suspension to 11 games, a $5 million fine, and mandatory counseling on Thursday, per multiple reports, settling his personal conduct case. The league didn’t wait on former New Jersey attorney general Peter Harvey’s decisio...

The NFL’s old race-norming ways are about to get costly

The NFL has to cut checks to hundreds of former Black players and there’s nothing they can do about it....

Antonio Brown and Jerry Jones deserve each other in the worst way

Peanut Butter and jelly. Bacon and eggs, Jay-Z and Beyonce. We might soon be able to add Antonio Brown and Jerry Jones to that list if the former has his way. TMZ Sports caught up with Brown, where he sent a verbal message to the Cowboys owner. ...

The George Pickens show continued Saturday, this time he was in game uniform

Surely the Pittsburgh Steelers would’ve hoped that the star of their 2022 training camp would be Kenny Pickett or maybe even an improved Mitchell Trubisky. Going into their first season with a new starting quarterback since Ben Roethlisberger became the unquestioned starter in 2005, the Steelers sig...