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• Hard truths to swallow about the 2024 Seahawks

Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images Perspective on how the Seahawks’ first season post-Pete Carroll went. The definition of success varies. For some teams, the dream would be to finish the year positive, but for a team that is considered a contender, finishing with only a .500 would be seen as a failure. So, be careful with the yardstick you use to measure Mike Macdonald’s first season with the Sea...2025
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• Does he fit the mold as a Sean McVay QB?

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Should the Rams draft Quinn Ewers in 2025? The Los Angeles Rams don’t know yet where they will be picking in the first round, but for now most expect Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers to be available when they are on the clock. As Matthew Stafford inches closer to 40 (he’ll be 38 when next year’s Super Bowl happens), could Ewers be Sean McVay’s developmental pro...2025
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• Report on Kirk Cousins’ future could mean Browns options in NFL free agency are limited

Brett Davis-Imagn Images With Michael Penix on a rookie contract, the Falcons have options with Kirk Cousins The Cleveland Browns must address the quarterback situation this offseason. Thankfully, whether it is through insurance or through voiding his contract, the newest Deshaun Watson injury could provide a strong opportunity for the team in NFL free agency. Whether it is with the second...2025
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• Ranking the 2024 NFL Rookie Quarterbacks: How Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye, Bo Nix, Michael Penix Jr., and Caleb Williams Stack Up
The 2024 NFL Draft provided the NFL with six first-round rookie quarterbacks, most of which saw real playing time. Who was the best of the bunch?...2025
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• State of the NFC South - A season review

Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The division had an interesting year. There were many twists and turns this year in the NFC South, and the first-place spot went down to the last day of the division. If the Atlanta Falcons beat the Carolina Panthers and the New Orleans Saints beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Falcons would be in first place. If the Bucs beat the Saints or the Panthers b...2025
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• Horse Tracks: Broncos need to run the ball vs. the Bills

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Good Morning Broncos Country! Good Morning Broncos Country! The Denver Broncos play their first playoff game since Super Bowl 50 this Sunday when they head east to take on Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. This will be a tough matchup against one of the best teams in the league and they’ll be facing an MVP contender in Josh Allen, but the Broncos have a shot....2025
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• Hard truths to swallow about the 2024 Seahawks
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• Report on Kirk Cousins’ future could mean Browns options in NFL free agency are limited
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• Arrowheadlines: Once again, Patrick Mahomes could block other quarterbacks from winning their first Super Bowl

Photo by Handout/Kansas City Chiefs via Getty Images Chiefs headlines for Friday, January 10 The latest Four Fun Story Lines Heading Into the NFL Playoffs | SI Will a post-2018 quarterback finally win the Super Bowl? One of my favorite random fun facts about the NFL right now is that no quarterback drafted in 2018 or after has won the Super Bowl. This is not a commentary on the quality of...2025
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• Cowboys listed as betting favorite on one site to be WR Tyreek Hill’s next team

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Offseason rumors are once again a thing. Does the NFL betting market know something about the Cowboys offseason plans that we don’t? This is the question just days into the unceremonious start of said offseason for the Cowboys, arriving here by missing the playoffs with a 7-10 record and ending the year on a two-game losing streak. Dallas has serious wor...2025
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• Fantasy Football ‘24: The biggest hits and misses

This call gets a Lambeau Leap! | Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Looking back at 2024 prognostications: the good, the bad, and the ugly! The 2024-25 NFL regular season came to an end on Sunday night, with the Lions blowing open a close game against the Vikings in the second half, and taking home the NFC North crown, together with the No. 1 seed in the conference. Is it me, or did t...2025
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• Sunday Dawg Chow (1/5): Draft positioning, QB talk, the season finally ends, and more!

Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the Sunday Dawg Chow. That’s all there is. There is no more. The Cleveland Browns closed out their 2024 regular season on Saturday night and the result was the same: the Browns dropped the game to end the season at 3-14. It is just the fourth time in franchise history that the Browns suffered this...2025
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• Panthers vs. Falcons Start-Sit and DFS Advice for Bryce Young, Michael Penix Jr., and Others
Here's all the fantasy football advice you need in Week 18 to determine whether you should start or sit these players in the Panthers vs. Falcons matchup....2025
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• Cowboys may learn how much run game improvements can help them improve in ‘25 in Week 18

Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cowboys season will come to a merciful end on Sunday afternoon. For all intents and purposes, the Dallas Cowboys are in offseason mode. It feels like an afterthought of all afterthoughts that this team must go through the motions of four more quarters on Sunday afternoon from AT&T Stadium against the Washington Commanders to offi...2025
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• The Bengals never belonged in the playoffs, regardless of what the Chiefs did

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Cincinnati only has itself to blame for its failures. Fans in Cincinnati were deep in their feels on Sunday afternoon with the Chiefs deciding to roll over, bench everyone of note, and let the Broncos into the playoffs as a result. It ensured the Bengals were left out of the picture, which naturally made Kansas City a point of blame. For some reason th...2025
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"The Falcons are comfortable moving forward with Kirk Cousins as their backup quarterback behind Michael Penix Jr."

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"Falcons GM explains shocking selection of Michael Penix Jr. that left Kirk Cousins 'disappointed'"

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• Hard truths to swallow about the 2024 Seahawks
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• Report on Kirk Cousins’ future could mean Browns options in NFL free agency are limited
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• State of the NFC South - A season review
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• Arrowheadlines: Once again, Patrick Mahomes could block other quarterbacks from winning their first Super Bowl
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• Cowboys listed as betting favorite on one site to be WR Tyreek Hill’s next team
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• Fantasy Football ‘24: The biggest hits and misses
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• The New York Giants need a quarterback, or two, so what are their options?

Sam Darnold | Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images From veterans to rookies, we explore the possibilities The New York Giants need a quarterback in 2025. Make that multiple quarterbacks, with third-stringer Tommy DeVito the only one on the roster who has a contract for the upcoming season. “That’s obviously the number one issue for us going into this offseason, is to find our quarterback ...2025
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• Joe Schoen: No ‘Hail Mary’s’ in trying to turn New York Giants around

Joe Schoen | Eric Hartline-Imagn Images GM says he thinks Giants are in a position to make significant improvements Joe Schoen didn’t hide from responsibility for the mess that the New York Giants have been over the past two seasons when he met with the media after the announcement he would return for a fourth season as general manager. “First and foremost, myself,” said Schoen when asked ...2025
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• Arrowheadlines: Once again, Patrick Mahomes could block other quarterbacks from winning their first Super Bowl
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• Cowboys listed as betting favorite on one site to be WR Tyreek Hill’s next team
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• The Bengals never belonged in the playoffs, regardless of what the Chiefs did
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• What Panthers-Falcons means for NFC standings in Week 18

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Panthers face the Falcons in Atlanta on Sunday. We break down what the game means for the NFL playoff picture. The Atlanta Falcons head into Week 18 with a chance at a playoff berth, but they’ll need some help. The Falcons will host the Carolina Panthers at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, with kickoff scheduled for 1 p.m. ET. Atlan...2025
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• Sunday Dawg Chow (1/5): Draft positioning, QB talk, the season finally ends, and more!
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• Cowboys may learn how much run game improvements can help them improve in ‘25 in Week 18
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• State of the NFC South

Stephen Lew-Imagn Images The division title goes down to Week 18. Carolina Panthers Regular Season record 4-12 The Carolina Panthers season has been virtually over for weeks, but the team is still fighting to end the season off on a high note. With Chubba Hubbard placed on IR, the Panthers were set to struggle against their divisional rival, the Buccaneers, in week 17. Struggle may have be...2025
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• Arrowheadlines: Once again, Patrick Mahomes could block other quarterbacks from winning their first Super Bowl
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• Cowboys listed as betting favorite on one site to be WR Tyreek Hill’s next team
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• Joe Schoen: No ‘Hail Mary’s’ in trying to turn New York Giants around
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• Sunday Dawg Chow (1/5): Draft positioning, QB talk, the season finally ends, and more!
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• Cowboys rumor: Trey Lance could be traded to Vikings for draft pick

Photo by Rich Barnes/Getty Images Maybe the Dallas Cowboys will be able to flip Trey Lance after all. The Cowboys stunned the football world when they acquired QB Trey Lance, the third pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, via trade last August. Now there’s a rumor that Dallas could be on the sending end of another Lance trade, this time with a team in desperate need of a quarterback in the Minnesot...2024
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• Who should start as Giants’ quarterback in 2024?

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Drafting a QB is one piece of the puzzle, but not the only one. Job 1 for New York Giants GM Joe Schoen this offseason is to solidify the quarterback position. Unfortunately, it won’t be possible to do that before the season starts. Schoen probably thought he’d already done it by signing Daniel Jones to a four-year contract with an out after two years, Tyrod...2024
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• How Kalen DeBoer turned Washington football into a powerhouse

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The Washington head coach turned the program from a 4-8 team to a College Football Playoff contender in two years. Every Athletic Director wants to hit a home run when they hire a football coach. The outcome is typically the defining product of the AD’s tenure, for better or worse. Of course, there is no simple formula for what will make a candidate successful in...2024
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• Heisman finalists in 2023, ranked by likelihood to win college football’s top award

Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images Let’s break down this year’s Heisman race after the four finalists were announced. We now know the four finalists for the 2023 Heisman Trophy award. But which of these four college football standouts will hear their name called on Saturday night? The four athletes heading to New York City are Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison Jr., Oregon QB Bo Nix, Washin...2023
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• Falcons GM explains shocking selection of Michael Penix Jr. that left Kirk Cousins 'disappointed'

Atlanta shocked the football world on draft night...2024
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• 2024 NFL Week 16 QB Power Rankings: Packers' Jordan Love cracks top five, Michael Penix Jr. debuts at No. 24

Assessing every team's starting signal-caller...2024
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• 2024 NFL Draft grades: Falcons pull off stunner by going Michael Penix Jr. at No. 8 to sit behind Kirk Cousins

Here's what Atlanta is getting in the former Washington QB...2024
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• Falcons surprise, select QB Penix with No. 8 pick

The Falcons selected quarterback Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday....2024
• Penix says he's healthy, set to be franchise QB

Washington quarterback Michael Penix says he has proven he is healthy and is ready to be an NFL franchise QB....2024
• Not a draft shock? 3 teams tried trading into top 10 for Michael Penix Jr. before Falcons took QB, per report

Atlanta wasn't the only team high on Penix...2024
• Why Washington can win College Football Playoff to become national champions

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Don’t sleep on the Washington Huskies in the College Football Playoff. Although considered the underdog in what will be the last of the four-team College Football Playoff, Washington is a battle-tested, undefeated team who will face off against Texas in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. The Huskies, representing the Pac-12 conference (RIP), are loaded with offens...2023
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• POLL: Giants’ fans say it's time to draft a quarterback

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images Most Giants fans are ready to draft a quarterback highly It’s safe to say that things haven’t gone the New York Giants way to start the 2023 season. Rather than building on their playoff win in 2022, the Giants are sitting at 1-4 and could be 1-5 soon. It’s too soon to write the season off yet. But as losses and injuries are piling up, f...2023
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• 12 Thoughts on the Seahawks’ improved performance, plus a shout-out to the Huskies

A collection of FTR thoughts that weren’t turned into their own articles ... I wasn’t planning to write another 12 Thoughts column quite so soon, but . . . Between the Seattle Seahawks thrilling overtime win over the Detroit Lions, the disappointment-turned-excitement of the PM slate of games, and a couple of follow-ups from the last 12 Thoughts article . . . I have some thoughts. Thought No. 1 ...2023
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• Hard truths to swallow about the 2024 Seahawks
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• Report on Kirk Cousins’ future could mean Browns options in NFL free agency are limited
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• State of the NFC South - A season review
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• Horse Tracks: Broncos need to run the ball vs. the Bills
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• Arrowheadlines: Once again, Patrick Mahomes could block other quarterbacks from winning their first Super Bowl
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• Cowboys listed as betting favorite on one site to be WR Tyreek Hill’s next team
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• The New York Giants need a quarterback, or two, so what are their options?
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• Joe Schoen: No ‘Hail Mary’s’ in trying to turn New York Giants around
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• Falcons GM explains shocking selection of Michael Penix Jr. that left Kirk Cousins 'disappointed'
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• Report: Seahawks tried to trade up for Michael Penix Jr

Aaron E. Martinez / USA TODAY NETWORK Penix went to the Atlanta Falcons at No. 8 overall. The first surprise of the 2024 NFL Draft was the Atlanta Falcons drafting former Washington Huskies star quarterback Michael Penix Jr with the No. 8 overall pick. Penix’s stock rose considerably in recent weeks to the point where there was confidence that he’d be taken in the first round, but not nece...2024
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• Vikings Don’t Need to Trade Up for a QB

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Lots of talent likely to be available for the Vikings at #11 - and maybe even #23 Since the Vikings traded for a second first-round pick in a deal Albert Breer reported was initiated by Houston, there has been widespread speculation that the Vikings will use that additional first-round draft pick to move up in the draft, perhaps as far ...2024
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• The Linc - ESPN ranks the Eagles as the most frustrating NFL team to watch

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 12/29/23. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... Most frustrating NFL teams to watch in 2023: Ranking the top 10 - ESPN+1) PHILADELPHIA EAGLES. The offensive issues have been simplified to a credo we’ve heard since the beginning of the Reid era: Run the ball more. Fans actually cheered a handoff in the second ...2023
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• Do the Giants have to draft a quarterback?

Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports The question marks begin at quarterback but don’t end there The season-ending ACL tear suffered by Daniel Jones last Sunday in Las Vegas did not ruin the New York Giants’ 2023 season. That had already happened, whether you think it was the embarrassing Monday night loss to a beatable Seattle team, the loss in Buffalo that could/should have been a victory...2023
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• Heisman Trophy leaders in college football so far for 2023, ranked

Photo by Adam Bow/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It looks like a two-horse race among QBs for the Heisman Trophy. With the college football season at least one-third of the way through, we can really get a good look at not only the best teams in the country, but the best players. The Heisman race is opening up, and we have a bevy of talented players who are in the mix for the sports’ mo...2023
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• The Pac-12 is dying, but its final football season will be awesome
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Don’t let the impending doom of the Pac-12 take your attention away from a very fun football season ahead. The Pac-12 might be dying as we speak. With USC and UCLA packing their bags for B1G-ger, greener pastures next year, the other Pac-12 schools are scrambling to find safe footing just in case things fall apart for the conference. The Arizona Board of Regents...2023
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• Which quarterbacks in the 2023 NFL Draft could be the next Brock Purdy?
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports We’ve heard a lot about the top quarterbacks in the 2023 draft, but these 5 players could also make an impact. While it is unlikely that the NFL will ever see another story exactly like Brock Purdy’s, a quarterback who was literally the last pick of the draft and then as a rookie leads a team into the NFC Championship game and nearly the Super Bowl if no...2023
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