Kansas City have fallen off badly after a good start. They’ll now consider whether to risk bringing in the talented but unproven Patrick MahomesKansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid is not an impulsive man. He learned at the feet of Mike Holmgren, a coach who could be maddening at times in his devotion to an offense he trusted and the players he believed would make it work. Holmgren didn’t bench many players if they had a few bad weeks and Reid has rarely done the same himself.But even Reid can’t sit patient watching his offense stagnate as his team stumbles into an abyss from which it may not recover this season. On Sunday, Kansas City lost for the fifth time...
The end of the season could see as many as eight well-known quarterbacks end their careers, or at least change jobsBetween 1993 and 2000, the NFL careers of Phil Simms, Joe Montana, Jim Kelly, Boomer Esiason, Dan Marino, John Elway, Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Warren Moon all came to a close. It was a mass exodus of talent at the quarterback position – all but Simms and Esiason are in the Hall of Fame – and led to Super Bowls being won by the likes of Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson before the Tom Brady and Peyton Manning era truly kicked into high gear.So while the NFL saw nine big-name quarterbacks leave the league over eight years two decades...
The Vikings and Chiefs signal callers are usually more conservative than Fox News hosts. But this season things could change dramatically - and permanentlyA year after Jared Goff and Carson Wentz were selected one and two overall in the NFL Draft, five months after the Bears traded up to take Mitchell Trubisky and days after DeShaun Watson made his NFL debut, it’s looking like the league may have a new batch of quarterback superstars. But it’s not any of those young quarterbacks who are taking the leap, at least not yet. No, the NFL’s new superstar QBs are ... Sam Bradford and Alex Smith? Really? OK. Sure. Continue reading...
Rodgers has thrown for 22 touchdowns in the past eight games, and he can spoil the Cowboys’ season on Sunday. Plus, go for the Falcons, Patriots and SteelersTime for the real fun to begin? Wildcard weekend was a damp squib, with every home team winning exactly as it was expected to do. That this was a predictable outcome is evidenced by the fact that more than one third of our Pick The Playoff contestants did, quite literally, predict it. Related: San Diego refused to be bullied by the NFL and billionaire owners | Les Carpenter Continue reading...
The four games this weekend look like home bankers, but history suggests at least one visiting team will win – and the Steelers perhaps have the best chanceWelcome to what the NFL calls the divisional round of the playoffs, where four teams that won a wildcard playoff game hit the road to tangle with a team that posted a better record during the regular season and thereby got a weekend off. Decks appear stacked. Related: Odell Beckham Jr's real mistake was not making himself invisible Continue reading...