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Who’s Contending — And Pretending — Among The NFL’s Top Teams?

maya (Maya Sweedler, copy editor): Astonishingly, with Week 4 almost entirely completed, we’re pushing on a quarter of the 2022 season in the books. This week’s action featured plenty of fun, including a shootout between the Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks, the Green Bay Packers taking down the New England Patriots in overtime and the […]

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Why Daniel Jones Might Make A Leap — And Why Trey Lance Might Not

With the NFL season nearly upon us, every player in football is out to prove something. Some are battling for starting jobs or trying to validate the hype around their potential; others merely want to show they belong. With that in mind, here are three player storylines we’re watching with the preseason in full swing. […]

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The Most Important NFL Games Of Week 17

Throughout the season, we’ve usually had a little blurb highlighting the most significant and/or interesting game of each week. But for the upcoming week in the NFL, there are far too many meaningful contests to restrict ourselves to talking about just one. So here’s a rundown of the Week 17 games that will have the […]

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Are The Jets Tanking, Or Are They Just This Bad?

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): It’s Monday, and we still have three games remaining in Week 13. Such is life in the pandemic NFL. But the games that have been played so far were something else. Let’s start by talking about bad teams doing some bad things. Yes, that’s right: We have to talk about […]

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