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Air supremacy often dominates the modern game of football. In Week 9, it dominated the game’s award winners.
Fan of quarterbacks? You’ll be pleased to see who takes home the NFC hardware. Supporter of wide receivers? Well, why don’t we direct you to our first honoree? His name is Eugene Marquis, but you might know him as T.Y. Hilton. Continue reading
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The NFC West has produced the NFL’s most surprising team through nine weeks: the 6-2 Los Angeles Rams.
NFL Network’s Steve Wyche even locked them up on Tuesday as his guarantee for a postseason berth. But what one might not know about the division is those trailing the Rams are just a game and two games behind them. With half of the season left to play, there’s plenty of time for the others to catch up — starting with Thursday night. Continue reading
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It might seem as though everything is quickly taking a turn for the worst within the Giants‘ organization, but Eli Manning seems quite skilled at tuning out the madness.
A day after Giants coach Ben McAdoo said he wasn’t opposed to throwing backup Davis Webb into the game “to get a look at him,” Manning took the high — or publicly unaware — road. Continue reading
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Josh Gordon is back with the Cleveland Browns — and this time, he’s planning on sticking around.
Gordon returned to the team’s Berea, Ohio, facility on Tuesday for the first time since the league announced his reinstatement on a conditional basis last week. He’ll join his teammates on the same grass fields in the quaint Cleveland suburb on Wednesday for conditioning work and individual drills. The earliest Gordon can officially practice is Nov. 20. Continue reading
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The Houston backup quarterback carousel keeps spinning.
The Texans have released Matt McGloin and signed veteran journeyman Josh Johnson, the team announced. Houston also released defensive end Kendall Langford on Tuesday. Continue reading
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For the second straight week, road teams have won five games. With Monday Night Football yet to kick off, we still have a chance to do better than last week’s 5-8 mark. Hope remains, and it’ll be renewed next week. They say it springs eternal. We won’t go that far.
Know where there’s tons of hope? Los Angeles. Yes, even after the Dodgers came as close as possible to winning the World Series without actually taking home the hardware, folks are fired up in SoCal. They believe in the power of the horns, and the #MobSquad and all that good stuff.
The hope and belief is so strong, it’s even seeped into this space. Yep, that’s right — WELCOME TO THE GOFF SHOW.
Here are your greatest on the road from Week 9. I know, I can’t believe it’s almost Week 10, either. Continue reading
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Tampa Bay’s season might have just taken a turn for the worst.
The Buccaneers are shutting down quarterback Jameis Winston (shoulder) for the next few weeks, head coach Dirk Koetter told reporters on Monday.
Winston left Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints due to the issue, which he aggravated after suffering the initial injury nearly a month ago. Veteran backup Ryan Fitzpatrick replaced him, completing 8 of 15 passes for 68 yards and one touchdown in the 30-10 loss to the Saints. Continue reading
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The Dallas Cowboys (5-3) outlasted the Kansas City Chiefs (6-3) in a back-and-forth affair at AT&T Stadium on Sunday. Here’s what we learned from the Cowboys‘ third-straight win, a 28-17 triumph:
1. It’s been a while since we’ve had a back-and-forth game between two of the NFL’s contending teams. Well, OK, we’ll count last week’s Seattle-Houston game. But this one was of a higher caliber. This one felt like two heavyweights, trading blows in a slugfest. First, it was Dak Prescott‘s scramble for a score and seemingly a 14-3 lead heading into halftime. But being the contender it is, Kansas City did not relent, scoring in unlikely fashion thanks to Tyreek Hill right at halftime.
As the game unfolded, both teams’ records floated on the screen below their abbreviations: 6-2 (Kansas City) and 4-3 (Dallas). For most of this contest, you could have swapped records and it would have been believable. We can’t say that too often about games being played at this time of the year. Continue reading
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Twelve-year veteran Duane Brown spent much of the first half of the 2017 season at home, away from the Houston Texans as he held out for a new contract.
That might seem a tad extreme for a player who’s in the back end of his career, but Brown has been an effective left tackle for the Texans for more than a decade. You don’t make it into the double digits in seasons played without being good at what you do.
When Brown returned from his prolonged holdout in Week 8, he was a welcome addition to an offensive line that needed him. The Texans immediately inserted Brown into the starting lineup at left tackle, replacing Chris Clark at the position. Houston saw an instant improvement to its offensive line play as a result, which quarterback Deshaun Watson surely was happy to see.
That is, until Houston traded Brown to the Seattle Seahawks a day later. Continue reading
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Joe Thomas recently saw his consecutive snaps streak broken, his triceps muscle torn and his season ended.
On Friday, he also saw a nice bump to his bank account.
The Cleveland Browns increased Thomas’ 2017 pay by $1.5 million via a roster bonus that was due Friday (Nov. 3), NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported. Thomas is also receiving a $3.5 million raise in 2018 in the form of a March roster bonus, which was increased from $1 million to $3 million, and a base salary increase from $8.8 million to $10.3 million, Pelissero added. Continue reading
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