An annual rite of recent autumns has been to wonder whether Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers truly belongs among the game’s elite signal-callers anymore. The reason: Rodgers’s stats, routinely off-the-charts when he was younger, have been more average of late — and so have the Packers’ offenses. As Danny Heifetz of The Ringer wrote […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): And just like that, we’ve got ourselves a Super Bowl. It would have been hard for the conference championship games to match the chaos of the first two rounds of playoff action — though about 10 minutes into the Kansas City-Tennessee game, I thought the Titans might actually take out […]
The dust is still clearing from a divisional-round weekend that gave us mostly chalk but also one massive upset. The Baltimore Ravens had been our favorite to win the Super Bowl — and pretty heavy ones at that — but Derrick Henry and Tennessee had different plans. Now, the Titans face our new favorites, the […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Well, that was quite a weekend. For a hot second on Sunday, it looked like we would lose both of the FiveThirtyEight Super Bowl favorites in one round … but the Chiefs came roaring back, so we only lost our one overwhelming favorite. Welp. So let’s start with the most […]
Now that the NFL’s wild-card weekend is complete, the top seeds in each conference — including Lamar Jackson and our Super Bowl favorites, the Baltimore Ravens — will be in action for the divisional round. Ahead of the games, we’ve broken down each matchup using our Elo ratings — which track each team’s form, with […]