8:56 AM ET As much as we obsess over how NFL teams look on paper before the season, Super Bowl runs can come down to who stays healthiest over the course of a long, arduous season. The 2017 Eagles are the obvious counter-example, given that they won with Carson Wentz, Jason Peters and others sidelined,
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8:00 AM ET Overreacting to Andrew Luck was a 2017 thing, remember? He was going to be back healthy for training camp. He was going to be back for the start of the season, for Week 2, for the second half … too many he-was-gonnas to count. Luck didn’t play in 2017, and the overreactions,
7:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Through 10 games last season, the Kansas City Chiefs were 6-4 and seventh in the league in scoring at about 26 points per game. Through 10 games this season, they’re 9-1 and averaging about 35 points per game. The reason for the difference is clear. “Pat [Mahomes] is 100
1:02 AM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears moved one giant step closer to ending their seven-year playoff drought with Sunday night’s 25-20 win against the Vikings, a victory so meaningful that even skeptics of the Bears’ early success must admit the road to the NFC North title runs through Chicago. The Bears (7-3) were
12:43 AM ET Los Angeles Chargers defensive tackle Corey Liuget will miss the remainder of the season with a right knee injury, according to coach Anthony Lynn. Liuget suffered the injury — a torn quad tendon — in the first half of Sunday’s 23-22 loss to the Denver Broncos and did not return. The Florida
11:45 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Sean Payton is a dear friend of Doug Pederson’s. In other words, you do not want to know how the coach of the New Orleans Saints treats his enemies. Throwing a touchdown pass on fourth-and-6 while holding a 31-point lead? Blitzing a battered Carson Wentz in the final minutes
11:26 PM ET Kevin SeifertNFL Nation Close ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 Is it possible for a coach to be on the hot seat while his team is maneuvering into playoff position? The Dallas Cowboys appear to have hit that exacta in Week 11,
10:41 PM ET CARSON, Calif. — Frustrated by his team’s late-game loss to the Denver Broncos, Keenan Allen voiced those feelings in the locker room after the Los Angeles Chargers‘ 23-22 setback to their AFC West rival. Asked if the Broncos rose up and played well, Allen had this to say: “No, I don’t think
10:02 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Malcolm Jenkins‘ return to the Superdome on Sunday was filled with frustration, which spilled over both during the Philadelphia Eagles 48-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints and afterward in his postgame comments. Cameras caught Jenkins giving his former head coach Sean Payton the finger after the Saints went
10:19 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — Both Jon Gruden and Derek Carr insisted the heated conversation between coach and quarterback late in the first half of the Oakland Raiders‘ 23-21 victory over the Arizona Cardinals was not their first such discussion. Nor will it be the last. What was different this time, though, was that