While it probably makes more sense to choose the field over Kansas City in the Chiefs’ quest for an unprecedented third straight victory, it was hard not to be impressed on opening night. Patrick Mahomes showed last season that he can win with less, when he overcame a number of obstacles in his own receiver […]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been curious to see what Buffalo Bills wide receiver Keon Coleman brings to the wide receiver department for a while now, so he was a natural subject for this week’s game report. Just FYI, the short week was a bit of a dilemma, so I just focused on […]
Why Ali chose the Ravens: Put aside the poor running performance, numerous turnovers, missed audible opportunities and botched stunts against the Chargers, and you have a Vegas team that led at halftime and was only one point ahead with less than four minutes left. Most of the Raiders’ problems on offense were self-inflicted, meaning they […]
The Chiefs and 49ers did well. The Panthers and Giants lost heavily. The Lions narrowly defeated the Rams in a classic at Ford Field. In week 1 everything was exactly as we left it, right?! Not quite. There were surprising results, like the Bengals—my future Super Bowl champions!—losing to the up-and-coming Patriots. Derek Carr and […]
Finally, we come to the first real football game of the year. If you step back or look at the game from 20,000 feet, it was one of the most entertaining games of the season. There were a lot of goals scored, but there were also some defensive plays. Of course, the closer you were […]
The 2024 NFL season has begun, and it already feels like this is going to be another exciting season. There are just too many teams with legitimate Super Bowl hopes, too many offenses with the potential to explode, and too many young quarterbacks developing into stars. Yes, there will be a lot of talk about […]
Game one, win number one for Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald. The first half was as chaotic as it gets, and perhaps a better team than the Denver Broncos would have condemned the Seahawks to an opening-day loss. But that’s hypothetical; the reality is that despite their countless mistakes, the Seahawks held on and […]
Statistics: 26 of 42 passes, 138 yards, 2 INTs and a rushing touchdown. Mark: There were few good moments. But in the final seconds of the second quarter, Nix threw a 25-yard pass near the sideline to wide receiver Josh Reynolds. That was Nix’s best throw of the afternoon and set up a 45-yard field […]
The run that stood out the most from this perspective came just before the two-minute warning, when the Patriots faced a 2nd-and-5. New England blocked a duo, but the Bengals’ run blitzed and brought two defenders into the backfield. Stevenson made a superb jump cut to evade both defenders in the backfield, then leapt right […]
1st quarter The Browns won the coin toss and gave up possession, giving Dallas the ball. A penalty on Jalen Tolbert and a sack on Dak Prescott made things pretty tough against a ferocious defense, and the Cowboys ended up having to punt. A nice return put the Browns in a position to do some […]
