All Don Shula Did Was Win
Don Shula died Monday at the age of 90 as one of the greatest NFL head coaches of all time. Shula’s coaching career was defined by an almost preposterous amount of winning. Over his 33-year coaching...
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Cam Newton Brings Game-Changing Mobility To The Patriots (If He’s Healthy)
Sunday night was surprisingly eventful for the New England Patriots. Within a span of less than 20 minutes, it was reported that the NFL had docked the Patriots a 2021 third-round draft pick and fined...
View ArticleThe Pats Could Only Go 3 Months Without An MVP Quarterback
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Newton Can Replace Brady, But Can The Pats Replace Half Of Their Defense?
For the New England Patriots, Year 1 A.B. — After Brady — starts in a little over a week, with Cam Newton under center against the Miami Dolphins at Gillette Stadium. The shadow of Tom Brady’s long and...
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We Knew A Football Team Would Win In Week 1. But Maybe Not ‘Football Team.’
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): The NFL season started with fans in Kansas City booing a moment of unity and smoke from the wildfires that are devastating the West Coast threatening to...
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The Big Injuries And Epic Comebacks From Week 2 Of The NFL Season
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Week 2 of the NFL season saw a classic Sunday night matchup, a very familiar collapse and a list of brutal injuries. Let’s start with the worst part of the...
View ArticleThe New-Look Patriots Are Still Finding Ways To Win
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...
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Aaron Rodgers Has A Bad Day, The Titans’ Offense Keeps On Chugging, And The...
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Week 6 is in the books save for two games to be played today: the regularly scheduled Monday Night Football matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona...
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Are Bad NFL Defenses Breaking Win Probability Models?
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Week 7 of the NFL season gave us a LOT to unpack: The Atlanta Falcons lost yet another game they seemed to have sewn up, while the Dallas Cowboys lost...
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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...
View ArticleAll The Ways That Tom Brady Is Football’s GOAT
After Tom Brady and the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX, we examined Brady’s place in the pantheon of all-time quarterbacks. Ultimately, we concluded that he was, at...
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The Patriots Have Opened Their Free Agent Checkbooks. But Will It Help Them Win?
In what has been perhaps the biggest surprise of NFL free agency this offseason, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots became buyers. One year removed from Tom Brady’s departure, and his...
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Tom Brady’s Return Gave Us Everything (Except A Well-Played Game)
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Hello from the other side … of the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick reunion. Week 4 of the NFL season brought us the long-awaited and much-hyped return of Brady to...
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Are We Buying Or Selling The Patriots?
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): It seems like each week of this NFL season has ended with more questions than answers, and Week 10 fit that bill. Tampa Bay looked like a shadow of its...
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Are The Bucs Back? Depends On What You Think Of The Colts.
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): The chaos that is the 2021 NFL season continued in Week 12, with consistency as elusive as ever. Six teams that won their most recent game lost this week,...
View ArticleThe NFL Really Does Revolve Around Tom Brady
The NFL Really Does Revolve Around Tom Brady Explore his connections to other quarterbacks through the touchdown-catching receivers they share. Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady needs no...
View ArticleWhat To Watch For In The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend
After an exhilarating week of games closed out the NFL’s extra-long 2021 regular season, the playoff bracket could deliver another helping of chaos. Most (though not all) of the teams left standing...
View ArticleTom Brady Retires With All The Records
Tom Brady has left the arena for the last time. Brady announced his retirement from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Instagram on Tuesday after a weekend of confusion and speculation over his future. “I...
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Is Tom Brady The GOATiest Of All The GOATs?
With legendary quarterback Tom Brady officially retiring (yes, we really mean it now), the accolades are pouring in. There are, um, a lot: The former QB of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New England...
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We’re Still Processing Week 15’s Most Mind-Blowing Finishes
NFL We’re Still Processing Week 15’s Most Mind-Blowing Finishes A FiveThirtyEight Chat Dec. 19, 2022, at 4:26 PM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES maya (Maya Sweedler, editor):...
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