It’s hard to imagine playoff football topping what we witnessed last weekend in the divisional round, but the games on Sunday have a shot. The storylines are set, and they are compelling. Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay must find a way to defeat San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan for the first […]
Twitter was rooting for Las Vegas to end its 2021 regular season on Sunday with a quarterback kneel and tie, but the Raiders had a business decision to make: Tie, and open the playoffs against the No. 2 seed Kansas City Chiefs, who’ve outscored them 89-23 this season? Or win and face the No. 4 […]
Zac Taylor was a young, lightly qualified Sean McVay acolyte entering this season on the hottest of hot seats. Quarterback Joe Burrow was an exciting prospect with a lot of question marks and an ugly knee scar. Ja’Marr Chase was the first wideout off the 2021 draft board — taken, it seemed, in the unlikely […]
As the NFL kicks off its season, quarterbacks will again take center stage. Though many existing metrics for quarterback play are a vast oversimplification, the quarterback remains the player most responsible for a team’s wins and losses. With that in mind, here are two storylines we’re watching when it comes to two of the young, […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): The FiveThirtyEight model is in overdrive. Will the red team win it all again? Can a blue team recapture glory? There were strong results Sunday in Pennsylvania and Florida but more troubling indicators in Wisconsin and Michigan. And Arizona just took the week off. Oh, right — this is football, […]