maya (Maya Sweedler, copy editor): I have a confession: I’ve been checking every spinning top I’ve come across these last few weeks, just to make sure we’re not in some sort of “Inception” situation, because guys: All of New York’s football teams might be … good? Coming into the season, FiveThirtyEight’s model had the Buffalo […]
maya (Maya Sweedler, copy editor): Hello! Week 5 of the NFL season is almost wrapped, and at this point, we (mostly) know who everyone is. Justin Tucker continues to be clutch; Gabe Davis will kill your fantasy team when you least expect it; and Micah Parsons is very good at getting sacks. From a team […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: An NFL head coach decides to go for it on fourth down in a big, closely fought game. The team fails the attempt and goes on to lose the game. Fans are outraged, and media members are contemptuous. It’s a scene we’ve seen play out dozens of times […]
maya (Maya Sweedler, copy editor): Astonishingly, with Week 4 almost entirely completed, we’re pushing on a quarter of the 2022 season in the books. This week’s action featured plenty of fun, including a shootout between the Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks, the Green Bay Packers taking down the New England Patriots in overtime and the […]
It doesn’t take a degree in Advanced Footballology to know that marching down the field and then scoring in the red zone leads to wins. Conversely, a team that can’t score touchdowns in that part of the field is probably going to be in for a long season. But should teams that find themselves in […]