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The Chalky AFC Is Stronger Than The Schlocky NFC

NFL watchers have been talking about how stacked the AFC is all season — not just that its top teams, like the Buffalo Bills, are better than the NFC’s best, but that second- and third-tier AFC squads would dominate some NFC divisions. But the season is long, and the football gods are fickle. In December, […]

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Will Wild-Card Weekend Give Us The Upsets We Crave?

maya (Maya Sweedler, editor):  After 18 weeks of football — of thrilling comebacks, electric plays, baffling coaching decisions and disappointing quarterbacking (and all this just from the Minnesota Vikings!) — the 2022 NFL regular season has come to an end, and we’re staring ahead at three days of wild-card play next weekend. The playoff matchups […]

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NFL Leadership Wasn’t Prepared For Damar Hamlin’s Injury

maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is still in critical but stable condition after going into cardiac arrest during a game in Cincinnati Monday night. That much we know. As of this writing, we do not know what caused the cardiac event; what his current status is; and whether or how the […]

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Can The Dallas Cowboys Avoid Another Playoff Flop?

Among die-hard NFL fans, there are really only two ways to feel about the Dallas Cowboys: Either you love them or you hate them. And around this time of year, as we get into the final stretch of the season, both of those sides are itching to be right about how and when the season […]

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We’re Still Processing Week 15’s Most Mind-Blowing Finishes

maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): Quick show of hands, who else is still picking themselves up off the floor from Sunday? neil (Neil Paine, acting sports editor): maya: One day after the largest comeback in NFL history, Sunday’s games brought some of the wildest finishes, thrilling sequences and (sorry to New England) funniest game-losing plays […]

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