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Ja’Marr Chase and the Bengals are within striking distance of the Chiefs in the AFC championship game. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images) The Kansas City Chiefs looked great for much of the first half of the AFC championship game, but the Bengals aren’t going away. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce hooked up for the game’s first touchdown in the first half, but Joe Burrow‘s Bengals are right back in it in the second half after a gorgeous touchdown pass to Tee Higgins. Will Kansas City win and… Source link

Talented quarterback. Great running game. Star No. 1 receiver. Top-five defense with a superstar pass rusher. All green checks for the Dallas Cowboys. Because it’s the Cowboys, every slip turns into an exhausting examination of their flaws. If you take a break from that and look around at the rest of the NFL, you’ll realize every one of the eight remaining teams has flaws. The Cowboys surely have their issues. They also have as much upside as anyone. Part of Monday night’s 31-14 blowout win… Source link

On Oct. 23, the NBA season was five days old, the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies clinched berths in the World Series that day, C.J. Stroud and Hendon Hooker were runaway Heisman favorites with Caleb Williams well behind at about 14-to-1 odds, Frank Reich was the Indianapolis Colts‘ head coach and the start of the World Cup was about four weeks away. It’s also the last time the San Francisco 49ers lost. The 49ers lost 44-23 to the Kansas City Chiefs to fall to 3-4 that day. They’ve… Source link

Backup quarterbacks pressed into duty due to injuries have won Super Bowls more often than you’d think. Jim Plunkett was a failed Heisman Trophy winner backing up Dan Pastorini in 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and had thrown one pass all season when Pastorini broke his leg in the Raiders’ fifth game. Plunkett took over and the Raiders won a Super Bowl a few months later. Jeff Hostetler had started two NFL games when the 1990 New York Giants needed him to replace an injured Phil Simms late in… Source link

Backup quarterbacks pressed into duty due to injuries have won Super Bowls more often than you’d think. Jim Plunkett was a failed Heisman Trophy winner backing up Dan Pastorini in 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and had thrown one pass all season when Pastorini broke his leg in the Raiders’ fifth game. Plunkett took over and the Raiders won a Super Bowl a few months later. Jeff Hostetler had started two NFL games when the 1990 New York Giants needed him to replace an injured Phil Simms late in… Source link

What we’ll remember from last postseason is the Buffalo Bills losing an intense overtime game at the Kansas City Chiefs. The complaints about not getting the ball after losing the OT coin toss. The defense’s failure in the final 13 seconds of regulation. What doesn’t get enough attention is how the Bills screwed up a prime opportunity to win a championship by giving away regular-season games. Buffalo lost six regular-season games. They were favored in five of them. In four of them, they were… Source link

Before the Super Bowl last season, Sean McVay made a telling comment about his future. NFL coaches, and everyone involved with the game really, often hold back their true feelings. McVay’s honest answer about his coaching future, and perhaps stepping away long before anyone expected, opened up a new storyline about his possible retirement before he even reached 40 years old. “I know I love football and I’m so invested in this thing and I’m in the moment right now,” McVay said. “But at some… Source link

The San Francisco 49ers have boasted one of the NFL’s top rushing units almost every year since Kyle Shanahan took over as head coach in 2017. Over the past four seasons, the 49ers ranked top-15 in rushing attempts and rushing yards, and they ranked top-seven in both categories in the two seasons San Francisco made deep postseason runs (2019 and 2021). And up until they traded for Christian McCaffrey, the 49ers had accomplished all of their rushing success with relatively unknown talent. The… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Mike Tomlin on Steelers: “Where we are today, not good” The Steelers are 1-4, and they’ve lost four in a row. On Sunday, they were blown off the field by the Bills, 38-3. After the loss, coach Mike Tomlin summarized the current state of the team. “No need to really sugarcoat it, man,” Tomlin told reporters. “We got handled today. We got handled by a [more] Source link

No one knew it at the time, but the 2022 Pro Bowl was the last Pro Bowl that will be played in quite awhile. The NFL announced Monday that it’s doing away with the Pro Bowl in its current form, which has been played since 1951, and will replace it with The Pro Bowl Games, a week of skills competitions that will end with a flag football game. NFL executive Peter O’Reilly told The Associated Press that the NFL has been looking for a Pro Bowl replacement for awhile, and after getting feedback… Source link