We start with the NFL, where the Houston Texans fired dual GM and head coach Bill O’Brien after the team’s 0-4 start. Several other teams with bad starts, including Houston’s neighbors in Dallas, aren’t quite out of things yet. But the Texans’ situation is particularly bad, as they don’t even have many draft picks they […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): We’re a quarter of the way through a surreal NFL season. We had our first game postponements because of COVID-19 outbreaks: Eighteen members of the Tennessee Titans organization have tested positive, pushing their game against the Steelers to Week 7 and casting doubt on whether they’ll be able to play […]
Editor’s note: The Steelers-Titans game, which we originally highlighted for Week 4, has been postponed because of positive COVID-19 cases. Three weeks of play are in the books for the post-Tom Brady New England Patriots, and the early results have been … well, still relatively Patriots-like. New England is 2-1, winning against the Miami Dolphins […]
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is no stranger to the big moment. Last season, he tied for the NFL lead in both fourth-quarter comebacks and game-winning drives, adding to a career resume that already has him zooming up into Hall of Fame territory after just eight-plus pro seasons. But this season, the Seahawks are preemptively […]
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 […]