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The NFC East Is Historically Bad. How Much Worse Can It Get?

The most tragic injury of the NFL season — so far — had to be the one Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott suffered Sunday against the New York Giants. Prescott, who leads the league in passing yards, fractured and dislocated his right ankle scrambling past cornerback Logan Ryan and is expected to miss the rest […]

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NFL Week 5 Upsets Were Overshadowed By Dak Prescott’s Awful Injury

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): The action was wild and weird in Week 5 — and that was before this week’s rare Tuesday night game. Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks toyed with the Minnesota Vikings before finally finishing them off, the Las Vegas Raiders used a brilliant second half to upset the Kansas City […]

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Scoring Is Way Up In The NFL. Which Teams Does That Help?

If you’ve watched the NFL this season and thought that there’s an awful lot of touchdowns being scored, you’re not wrong. Scoring is up across the NFL. Way up. Going into Week 5, teams had reached the end zone 371 times, the most through four weeks in NFL history. Teams are passing for 1.8 touchdowns […]

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The L.A. Rams Are Running Their Way Back Into Contention

The Los Angeles Rams were the toast of football under second-year coach Sean McVay in 2018, finishing 13-3 and going all the way to the Super Bowl before losing a defensive struggle to Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots. Despite the defeat, L.A. remained the team to emulate; an arms race to hire McVay clones became […]

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Which Bill O’Brien Was Worse, The Coach Or The GM?

We start with the NFL, where the Houston Texans fired dual GM and head coach Bill O’Brien after the team’s 0-4 start. Several other teams with bad starts, including Houston’s neighbors in Dallas, aren’t quite out of things yet. But the Texans’ situation is particularly bad, as they don’t even have many draft picks they […]

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