NFL Editor, USA TODAY Sports Media Group. Laura's husband. AP All-Pro/MVP voter. I wrote "The Genius of Desperation.” Kick out the jams, or get off the stage.
Your occasional reminder that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein put forth the reporting that brought a corrupt and dangerous president down, didn't hold anything back...
...and THEN, they wrote their books.
Cam Newton is not a winner. And when you refer to his past as Heisman winner, MVP, Rookie of year, it’s just that, his past. He’s 30 years old and has had many injuries including a shoulder. Not sure he fits into many offenses. People fall in love w past
Tyrod Taylor out there running his ass off in a blowout for a team that clearly thinks he's utterly worthless. He deserves much, much better than this.
Robert Quinn has faced 58 double-teams this season. Nick Bosa and Micah Parsons are each in the 40s.
Imagine what that does for everybody else on the Eagles' front.
NFL greats Keyshawn Johnson and Michael Irvin say that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s antics are “a lot” and are contributing to the Kansas City Chiefs' recent losses on the field. The Chiefs are America’s 2024 warning. Don’t take anything Taylor Swift says seriously.
Unless Brady can really play for 10 more years, Nick Saban signing Daunte Culpepper instead of Drew Brees was a bigger mistake than Bill Belichick letting Brady leave.
Peterman: “At the end of day I know where my true identity lies: in Christ. ... Being a child of God, basically. Not finding my identity in football. Just trying to find it in who I really am. I love this game and put everything I have into this game, but can’t let it define me”
I figured this out last night. Sometime in the next few weeks, Tom Brady will throw 13 more touchdown passes. At that point, he will have thrown more touchdown passes in his forties than he did in his twenties. There is no historical paradigm for this.
I've always believed that people who call NFL players "soft" should stand down on the sideline for a minute or so when a game's actually happening.
It's #$%^&* terrifying down there.
Justin Fields had the NFL’s highest passer rating with 138.5 on designed rollouts, and the Bears called them on just 19 of Fields’ attempts.
Matt Nagy is awful, Part 536,209,364.
If you are outraged today, and you chose not to vote for Clinton in 2016 because she wasn’t exactly what you wanted, you can look in the mirror on that one.
Congratulations to the Denver Broncos, who traded multiple players and first-round picks for Russell Wilson and signed Wilson to a five-year, $245 million contract, for the news that their punter was named AFC Special Teams player of the Week.
So far, Kaepernick looks like Kaepernick. Outstanding velocity, everything on a rope, can make any throw. Questions teams will have about different arcs and speeds, performance when hurried, and progression-reading -- the questions I'd have -- can't really be answered here.
In an NFL where well over 70% of the players are Black, there are now two Black head coaches.
Two.
6.25% of the group.
Keep that in mind as the league is shoving "Inspire Change" down your throats.
NFL is considering discipline against Seahawks’ Jamal Adams for his actions toward the independent concussion doctor appointed by the NFL and NFLPA following his concussion sideline evaluation in Monday night’s game.
Here's a better angle of the William Hayes injury. You can clearly see him kicking his right leg out, and the bad bend. The NFL needs to eliminate the "weight on the QB rule" now. Like, today.
Alex Smith has always been a gracious player. Suffered through NFL purgatory his first few years. Helped Kaepernick when he took his job in SF. Helped Mahomes become what he's become in KC. I hope he has a successful return.
Were I disenchanted with the NFL, it would probably be due to talking heads who provide nothing in the way of analysis, and get all crunchy when other people insist that they live a certain way.
Probably just me.
Seahawks RT Abe Lucas: "I listen to metal and people are like, ‘Dude, that sucks.’ I’m like, ‘It’s Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden is great. What are you talking about?’”
Offensive Rookie of the Year, just on principle.
The
#Bears
are expected to be in the hunt for a quarterback in the '24 draft.
After travels to see Caleb Williams & Drake Maye, detailed reports on both.
'All the struggles they’ve gone through ... if they get the No. 1 pick, there’s a payoff waiting.'
New on
@TheNFLWire
: From his deep throws, to the "Kunta Kinte" t-shirt he wore to Bob McNair's collusion deposition, to telling NFL scouts to "tell your owners to stop being scared," Colin Kaepernick was unrepentantly himself in an impressive workout.
Pretty deep into watching the Ravens' defense from last night, and that game was MUCH more about Mike Macdonald putting Brock Purdy in pure hell than anything else. One of the most amazing, diverse, and sequential defensive game plans you'll see all season long.
I am not generally good at asking for help. But my stepdaughter Claire could really use your help right now. She will soon undergo a bone marrow transplant to save her life, and the expenses are severe.
Thank you for your consideration.
Oh my God. Joe Rogan tried to say Biden is unqualified by claiming he said something that TRUMP said.
He got fact checked in real time. This is amazing.
(h/t
@Mediaite
)
I'm gonna come right out and say it: If a black quarterback was ever so busy talking shit, he was late to his own huddle in a game where he threw four back-breaking interceptions, the NFL would bury him so deep, the dude would never breathe again.
So. You punted Derek Carr out of the building, you fumbled the injury situation with a quarterback whose injury history was already iffy, and you are potentially left with a big box of meh at the game's most important position?
Cool.
Tua Tagovailoa's 14-yard touchdown pass to Trent Sherfield was seriously impressive. But it doesn't happen if RG Robert Hunt doesn't adjust to Myles Garrett's demonic spin move, which had beaten RT Brandon Shell. If Hunt doesn't stone Garrett, Tua's throw becomes a scramble.