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Who’s The Best Of The NFL’s Worst?

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): We’re a quarter of the way through a surreal NFL season. We had our first game postponements because of COVID-19 outbreaks: Eighteen members of the Tennessee Titans organization have tested positive, pushing their game against the Steelers to Week 7 and casting doubt on whether they’ll be able to play […]

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Patrick Mahomes Just Doesn’t Have Bad Games

Patrick Mahomes played the best game of his young career Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens. The Kansas City quarterback passed for 385 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions while rushing for a fifth TD, and he did it against a Baltimore team that boasted the best defense in football through two weeks of […]

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The New-Look Patriots Are Still Finding Ways To Win

Editor’s note: The Steelers-Titans game, which we originally highlighted for Week 4, has been postponed because of positive COVID-19 cases. Three weeks of play are in the books for the post-Tom Brady New England Patriots, and the early results have been … well, still relatively Patriots-like. New England is 2-1, winning against the Miami Dolphins […]

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The Eagles Played To Not Lose … Or Win

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): In Week 3 of the NFL season, we saw many exciting finishes from evenly matched teams — with the best game of the week and maybe even the season (on paper, anyway) yet to come. But let’s start with my favorite outcome: the tie! We got our first tie of […]

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Is Josh Allen Actually Good Now?

Josh Allen has had his share of doubters since entering the league. Perhaps his most outspoken critic — Jalen Ramsey — will be playing across the line of scrimmage from him this Sunday. Ramsey, a starting cornerback for the Los Angeles Rams, infamously described Allen as “trash” after the Bills selected him with the seventh […]

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