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Patrick Mahomes Just Doesn’t Have Bad Games

Patrick Mahomes played the best game of his young career Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens. The Kansas City quarterback passed for 385 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions while rushing for a fifth TD, and he did it against a Baltimore team that boasted the best defense in football through two weeks of […]

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What To Watch For In An Abnormally Normal 2020 NFL Season

Ready or not, the NFL will kick off its 2020 schedule Thursday with the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Houston Texans. It comes against a backdrop of pandemic and protest that will no doubt affect the season beyond the league simply emptying the stands and conceding a few words of support. We admittedly […]

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Offensive Team Names Are On Notice — For Real, This Time

We start with the announcement, made on Friday, that Washington is going to explore changing its team name to something that hopefully isn’t a racial slur against Native Americans. We all agree that now there’s enough social and economic pressure on majority owner Dan Snyder that a name change will happen, likely before the 2020 […]

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The Chiefs Were On Their Way To A Loss. Then Patrick Mahomes Turned It On.

For three-plus quarters during Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV, Patrick Mahomes looked mortal, uncharacteristically missing on throws he usually completes. As the fourth quarter began, and the Chiefs drove to the 23-yard line of the San Francisco 49ers, their quarterback was picked off by Tarvarius Moore — Mahomes’s second interception of the day, just the fourth […]

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