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🔥 Who has the hottest seats in the NFL?
Here is the Sports+ hot-seat meter (1 is the coolest, 10 is the hottest) for hea𒆙d coaches, general managers and quarterbacks.
What former Jet Anthony Cioffi learned in portraying Aaron Hernan🍸dez on screen
Once the part was his, Anthonಌy Cioffi studied football film like he has for years. Only he was watching old highlights of Hernandez — not next week’s opponent.
Inside the schemes that have made the Saints' offense the talk of the NFL
If you have seen the Saints play in 2024, you might even have mistakenly thought that you time-traveled back earli🔯er into the 21st century.
Why the biggest obstacle facing Daniel Jones and other struggling QBs may be in their heads ꧃
When age 🦋isn’t to blame for a formerly successful player’s performance drastically falling off, it’s usually a matter of lost confidence.
Why NFL insiders think I'm wrong about what 10-7 is worth and say 'keep swinging' for QB savior in the draft
🔯 Shouldn’t the year-in, year-out bad teams try to get good before obsessing about championship-or-bu⭕st results and acquiring the rare species of Super Bowl-caliber quarterback?
'You’re not just gambling on roulette': Why the Super Bowl has become the perfect venue for trick plays
Something about the championship environment seems to cause coaches to feel safe breaking the glass on th🍒at in-case-of-e🉐mergency play call.
What each of the NFL's 30 teams left watching the Super Bowl need this offseason
What is one thing that each of the other 30 franc🎃hises needs in order to gain ground on the AFC and NFC champions?
The 🔥under-the-radar weapons who could help send their teams to the Super Bowl
Sunday’s two🐻 games ♕offer plenty of star power, but what if the tickets to Super Bowl LVIII are punched by someone unheralded?
What an NFL play🅘offs breakthrough would mean to Detroit and Buffalo, as told by players who lived through both droughts
Pent-up frustration will be fueling the raucous atmospheres in an unlikely pairing of home playo🔯ff crowds for Buccaneers-Lions and Chiefs-Bills.
Which NFL playoff newcomers have the mostꩲ st🍒aying power
Sure, it seems 🍸now like those four teams start every season with a playoff berth clinched, but all great runs start somewhere.
An NFL Draft prospect guide to the college football champions🅷hip game
The Michigan-Washington matchup has plenty to offer to armchair scouts re✨ady to start filling out mock drafts. 🦩
Inside the wildest NFL MVP race we've seen in years
Unlike in years💛 when Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning was a runaway favorite by this point, the MVP odds seem to change week by week in 2023. ಌ
Are all these backup QBs in playoff races changing 𝐆the market for the offseason?
🌳 Years of b༒elieving “if you have two quarterbacks, you have none” has been replaced by the thought: “If you don’t have two quarterbacks, you are done.”
How Jordan Love's evolution might give the Packers the last laugh in Aaron Rodgers trade
In case you m🌜issed it, Jordan Love is reshaping the narrative around the blockbuster A🀅aron Rodgers trade.
෴ NFL head coaches have never had such hot seats — is that such a ༺bad thing?
Since 2016, there have been eight times an NFL head coach lasted one season or less. More often than not, pulling the plug early has led to quick impro🅠vement.
✅How Tim Boyle and Tommy DeVito prepared — together — for their unlikely chances
Never could two third-stringers who spent hours throwing side-by-side under the eye of trainer Tony Racioppi have d🍌reamt they'd be quarterbacking both the Giant💞s and Jets by Week 12, but...
Are the Bills cooked? Are the S🍬teelers legit? Separating NFL contenders from prete𓆏nders
It’s time to play “Playoff Contender or Playoff Pretender💦” with 17 NFL teams whose seasons hang in the balance.
How the Desha𓃲un Watson and Russell Wilson debacles compare — and rank among worst NFL trades ever
Nineteen months later, the p𒀰ertinent question is, “Which t𒈔eam made a worse trade?”
How the out-of-nowhere rise of Bears viral QB Tyson Bagent inspired a promising tho💙roughbred — with our help
Ke💦ntucky Derby-winning trainer John Servis wanted to name a horse after Tyson Bagent months before most football fans had ever heard of the now-viral NFL quarterback. At the time,... 𝓰
What makes the NFL's controversial 'Tush Push' so effective — and dangerous
There is little question wh🍒at the Eagles — creators of the most controversial play in football — would have done in that situation.