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Week 17 NFL game picks, schedule guide, playoff scenarios and more
The Week 17 NFL slate is stacked with great matchups. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and final score predictions. Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a stat to know for each game, and the Football Power Index (FPI) goes inside the numbers with […]
Continue readingHow pro football has changed in the past 10 years: 12 ways the NFL evolved this decade
Pro football began and ended the 2010-19 decade as the country’s most popular sport. A few things happened in between, of course, and what follows is our attempt to pick out the most significant ways pro football and the NFL have changed in the past 10 years. Note: All statistics are courtesy of ESPN Stats […]
Continue readingTwo titles, 210 straight starts, one Eli: How Manning conquered New York
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning always drank beer on the team bus. It was a Broadway Joe kind of thing to do, and a fact that might run counter to an image Manning spent absolutely no time crafting. But win, lose or draw, Manning would find someone on the road to buy him a […]
Continue readingLessons from six disappointing NFL teams: Barnwell on what went wrong and what’s next
On Sunday’s day of reckoning in the NFC East, the Cowboys were the ones found wanting. Their 17-9 loss to the Eagles dropped Jerry Jones’ team out of first place in the East. The Eagles can clinch the division with a win over the Giants or a Cowboys loss against Washington in Week 17. ESPN’s […]
Continue readingWeek 16 NFL game picks, schedule guide, playoff scenarios and more
The Week 16 NFL slate is stacked with great matchups. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and final score predictions. Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a stat to know for each game, and the Football Power Index (FPI) goes inside the numbers with […]
Continue readingChargers’ Philip Rivers on his future: ‘Yes, I do want to play football’
CARSON, Calif. — With one game left in his 16th season and in the final year of his deal, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers continues to field questions about his future. As it stands now, Rivers, 38, appears to be making something pretty clear: He still wants to play. “I’m capable enough physically and […]
Continue reading15 NFL surprises nobody saw coming in 2019, from Lamar Jackson’s rise to crummy kicking
August seems like forever ago in NFL terms, but it has really only been 15 weeks. So much can change in the course of four months, and what might have seemed controversial or even absurd over the summer has turned out to be obvious and factual. In going back through the 2019 season, I can […]
Continue readingWeek 16 NFL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, plus two words to describe each team’s offseason
The NFL Power Rankings are relevant for this season (or, to be more accurate, this week in this season), but we’re at the point where it’s cool to look ahead to the future. We’re not talking Week 16 or 17 future, but start of a whole new decade future. So we’ve asked our NFL Nation […]
Continue readingPicking fatal flaws and matchups to avoid for 2019 NFL playoff contenders
There are no perfect teams in this NFL season. The Ravens have looked pretty close for the past two months, and the Patriots got off to one of the hottest starts in league history, but there’s no team that would be a mismatch for everybody or a favorite to win on every other team’s home […]
Continue readingDrew Brees sets records for most career TD passes, single-game completion percentage
Brees broke Peyton Manning’s career touchdown record with a 5-yard pass to tight end Josh Hill midway through the third quarter against the Indianapolis Colts, giving him 540 for his career. It was the highlight of a monster night from Brees, who also made NFL history by registering a 96.7 completion percentage as the Saints […]
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