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The Bills travel to Miami to face the Dolphins where the winner will be crowned AFC East champion. Buffalo might have the most interesting situation of any team entering the final week. They could be as high as the two seed, but also miss the playoffs altogether. They are a team nobody wants to face and has legit Super Bowl …

As we head into the final week of the 2023 NFL season, there are still 20 teams in playoff contention, which makes this one of the most competitive years in NFL history.  Since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, this is tied for the second-most teams that have been in contention with one week left on the schedule. The only time …

While the past several weeks in the world of college football have been known as bowl season, we are now entering All-American game season, where the focus shifts to high school players, many of whom just signed with their respective teams back in December. Starting on Wednesday, the All-American bowl season kicks off with the Under Armour All-American Bowl, played …

There are four teams outside the current NFC playoff picture that are still alive for a spot in the postseason heading into the Week 18 NFL schedule. Seattle dropped out of the wild-card picture following a loss to Pittsburgh last week, but it can still make the playoffs with a win over Arizona and a Green Bay loss. The Seahawks …

We’re here with the final edition of our MVP Watch for the 2023 NFL season, and the results are unanimous: Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is going to be named the Most Valuable Player of the NFL for the second time in his career. Fresh off a total destruction of the Miami Dolphins, which came just a week after he …

The Week 18 NFL lines are all largely in congruence, save for one outlier. Fifteen of the 16 games have spreads of 5.5 points or fewer, which makes Cowboys vs. Commanders stick out like a sore thumb as Dallas is favored by 13.5 points. Dallas will lock up the NFC’s No. 2 seed with a victory, while Washington has more …

It’s All-American Bowl season in the world of college football recruiting, and things kick off on Wednesday afternoon with the 2024 Under Armour All-American Bowl down in Orlando, Florida. The game will be televised on ESPN, kicking off at 1 p.m. PT. A total of six Oregon Duck signees from the 2024 recruiting class are playing in the game, looking …

1 Your MVP favorite. The passing numbers don’t tell the story of a guy beating up on teams through the air, but his accuracy and effortless touch on key throws have been apparent all year. It’s that natural athleticism translating inside an improved structure, and of course also excelling outside it, where he’s up over 750 rushing yards for the …

With Bill Belichick on the hot seat in New England, there’s a very real chance that this week’s game against the Jets could end up being his final one as the coach of the Patriots.  Although New England won’t be fighting for a playoff spot this week, there will be a lot on the line for Belichick: If the Jets …

The bowl games have come, and the bowl games have gone. There were 41 scheduled, and all 41 were played. That hasn’t always been the case recently, and one could certainly argue this year’s Orange Bowl wasn’t played as much as it was partially attended by a team. Still, bowl season is over, and given we ranked the games before …

Carmen Vitali NFC North Reporter The Chicago Bears’ upcoming quarterback decision was always going to be a complex one. Whether to bring back Justin Fields and pick up his fifth-year option this offseason was the main question the organization wanted to answer in 2023.  Staring down their last game of the season, they still don’t have that answer. That could …

There are a lot of questions to be answered in New England after their Week 18 game against the Jets and they start with whether head coach Bill Belichick will return for a 25th season with the Patriots. Once that is known, the future of the quarterback position will be one of the other chief topics. They will be picking …

Incoming Florida football freshman signee quarterback D.J. Lagway is in line for more potential national high school honors. Lagway was named as one of three finalists for the Gatorade National Player of the Year on Wednesday and also was named Texas Gatorade Player of the Year. The other finalists are Alabama five-star quarterback signee Julian Sayin and USC five-star quarterback …

What’s behind Eagles’ 2nd-half defensive meltdowns? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia If NFL games were 30 minutes long, Matt Patricia would be Coach of the Year. The Eagles held the Seahawks and Giants to three points before halftime and the Cards to six points. They haven’t allowed a touchdown before halftime in three games since Patricia became play caller …