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• Philip Rivers reveals the Saints reached out about signing him in 2021

Photo by Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images The legendary NFL QB reveals the Saints were interested in him in 2021. Former Los Angeles Chargers and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers announced his retirement in July, four seasons after he last took an NFL snap. Rivers’ late retirement announcement was shocking. Many have believed the former All-Pro quarterback was already retired witho...2025
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• Philip Rivers says he waited to retire because he was still receiving interest from NFL teams in recent years

Rivers said these two teams reached out to him...2025
• With Joe Burrow and a too-familiar cast, the Bengals’ Super Bowl window is closing fast

Cincinnati left several glaring issues unaddressed this offseason, leaving holes even elite quarterbacking can’t paper overHere the Bengals go again. They have now had five cracks at building a championship roster around Joe Burrow since drafting him No 1 overall in 2020, and have fallen short all five times. Entering year six, it’s already starting to feel like Burrow is this generation’s Dan Mar...2025
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• Indianapolis Colts Hidden Gems: 3 Secret Superstars on the 2025 roster

Photo by Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images The 2025 Colts look a lot like the 2019-2014 Colts — a lot on the ball overall, but who’s the quarterback? Here are three Secret Superstars at other positions who could help transcend that serial issue. Jacoby Brissett. Philip Rivers. Carson Wentz. Matt Ryan. Gardner Minshew. Anthony Richardson. The Indianapolis Colts have certainly gone through a crazy ...2025
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• Chargers Daily Links: Wednesday Open Thread

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Your source for all Chargers and NFL news from around the web. Good morning, Chargers fans! And now for today’s links. Chargers News: Five takeaways as Justin Herbert and Jim Harbaugh react to Philip Rivers’ retirement (Chargers.com) Khalil Mack dominated in the team’s first padded session (Chargers.com) Quentin Johnston continues to string strong practices togeth...2025
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• Chargers Daily Links: Tuesday Open Thread

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Your source for all Chargers and NFL news from around the web. Good morning, Chargers fans! Happy Tuesday, everyone! Let’s make it a good one! And now for today’s links. Chargers News: Philip Rivers is retiring a Charger after posting a heartfelt message on social media (Chargers.com) Philip Rivers discussed his top five favorite memories while playing with the Cha...2025
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• With Joe Burrow and a too-familiar cast, the Bengals’ Super Bowl window is closing fast
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• Minnesota Vikings Hidden Gems: 3 Secret Superstars on the 2025 roster

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images The 2024 Vikings fell to early postseason disappointment, but they’re better than that. Blake Cashman, Ryan Kelly, and Tai Felton are three Secret Superstars who can help them prove it in 2025. After a regular season in which they didn’t have their first-round rookie quarterback at all, and head coach Kevin O’Connell made Sam Darnold a thing for the fi...2025
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• All time great QBs: Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer cracks top 30

Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Another one will probably land higher on the list. SB Nation is putting together a list of the 30 best quarterbacks of the NFL’s Super Bowl era. While we all know one Hall of Fame quarterback who will make the list somewhere near the top of the rankings, but a Hall of Fame passer who we might have expected to be overlooked in a bou...2025
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• Los Angeles Chargers All Quarter-Century Team: Wide Receiver No. 1

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images We’re kicking off the journey to the Chargers Quarter-Century Team by voting on the team’s WR1 since 2000. ESPN recently made waves by putting together their NFL Quarter-Century Team (2000-2024) and it was not without some head-scratching decisions, especially at running back where they completely kept LADAINIAN TOMLINSON out off the starting team ENTI...2025
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• Colts scheduled to kickoff first weekend of 2025 preseason on NFL Network

Anthony Richardson #5 and Daniel Jones #17 of the Indianapolis Colts throw a pass during the Indianapolis Colts OTAs at Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center on May 28, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. | Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images “Not going to put a timetable for training camp on it, but when (Richardson) does come back, we will ease him into throwing and then we will go from the...2025
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• PFF ranks Colts as having the NFL’s 4th worst top quarterback-to-receiver pairing

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Hopefully, there are better days ahead for the Colts from a proud franchise that once featured Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, as well as Andrew Luck to T.Y. Hilton. According to PFF, the Indianapolis Colts have just the league’s 29th best quarterback to receiver pairing—featuring projected starter (and the incumbent) Anthony Richar...2025
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• Re-Grading the Colts 2017 Draft

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Let’s take a look back and regrade the Colts Drafts of the Chris Ballard era. Starting with the 1st year of his tenure: 2017. Let’s go back to 2017... Distracted boyfriend became the meme of the year. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 were hitting the big screens. Kendrick Lamar dropped DAMN. and everyone was listening...2025
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• Is it better to draft high or low in Round 1 in the NFL?

Danielle Parhizkaran/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK This year’s fifth-round option pickups defy recent thinking People can argue till the cows come home about how good individual NFL players are. In the NFL, though, money talks. Regardless of what any GM says about how much he likes his draft picks, there is an objective way to assess whether a GM’s first round pick has been successfu...2025
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• Scouting Jets defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Taking a look at a Jets defensive tackle free agent signing The New York Jets signed former Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi to a one-year contract early on in free agency. Today we break Nnadi down in detail. The 28-year old Nnadi is listed at 6’1” and 312 pounds. He was a third round pick out of FSU in 2018. He has st...2025
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• CBS Sports lists Colts as ‘potential landing spot’ for Jets veteran QB Aaron Rodgers

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images The polarizing New York Jets quarterback will likely be on the lookout for finding a new home soon. Could it be the Colts? According to CBS Sports Cody Benjamin, the Indianapolis Colts are mentioned as a ‘potential landing spot’ for New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers—who will presumably be released soon as his time in the ‘Big Apple’ appears to be n...2025
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• 2024 NFL Draft quarterback deep dive: Drake Maye, North Carolina

Photo by Lance King/Getty Images Is Maye the quarterback of the Giants’ dreams? North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye has been considered one of the top quarterbacks, and the top prospects at any position, in the 2024 NFL Draft. The New York Giants have also spent a considerable amount of time around Chapel Hill this year, with credentialed scouts at four UNC games in 2023 (that we know of...2024
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"Quarterback Philip Rivers officially retires as a member of the Chargers, five years after his final NFL game"

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"As with so many Philip Rivers games, the veteran quarterback had one final drive with a chance to win, but his final desperation heave toward the end zone fell incomplete as time ran out."

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"Super Bowl LVII almost gave us Philip Rivers vs."

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"Philip Rivers rooting for Justin Herbert to win with Chargers: 'Hopefully he can be there another 16 years'"

2021
"Saints attempted to sign Drew Brees, Philip Rivers to emergency deal ahead of Week 16, per report"

2020
"Philip Rivers, who turned 38 in December, left the Chargers with a franchise-record 59,271 passing yards and 397 touchdown passes."

2019
"NFL Week 17 insider notes: Six teams with coaches already on 2020 hot seat, Philip Rivers' next stop and more"

2018
"While we’re on that topic, not only did the Dolphins and Nick Saban blow it by signing Daunte Culpepper instead of Brees in 2006’s free agency period, but why do the Chargers get a pass for choosing to draft and then retain quarterback Philip Rivers over Brees in the first place?"

2017
"Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said the Giants' benching of Eli Manning was "pathetic."

2016
"Reich comes over from the Chargers, which ranked ninth in total offense and fourth in passing offense last season, albeit with Philip Rivers leading the way."

2015
"His 340 passing yards per game are topped only by the San Diego Chargers' Philip Rivers (353), and the Patriots currently sit atop the AFC East with a 5-0 record."

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"Not only is he the team's highest draft pick since it took Philip Rivers fourth overall 11 years ago before flipping Rivers to the San Diego Chargers for Manning, but he's also had to prove that he's durable enough to be relied upon while trying to fill Cruz's clown-sized shoes way earlier than he was supposed to."

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• With Joe Burrow and a too-familiar cast, the Bengals’ Super Bowl window is closing fast
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• Indianapolis Colts Hidden Gems: 3 Secret Superstars on the 2025 roster
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• 3-Time Pro Bowl Shawne Merriman Pays Powerful Tribute to Ex-Teammate Philip Rivers After Legendary QB Retires as a Charger
A little over four years after he played his last NFL game, Philip Rivers signed a one-day contract and officially retired as a Los Angeles Charger....2025
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• Los Angeles Chargers All Quarter-Century Team: Wide Receiver No. 1
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• Colts scheduled to kickoff first weekend of 2025 preseason on NFL Network
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• Re-Grading the Colts 2017 Draft
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• Is it better to draft high or low in Round 1 in the NFL?
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• Minnesota Vikings Hidden Gems: 3 Secret Superstars on the 2025 roster
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• Is Matthew Stafford a first-ballot Hall of Famer? This Rams defensive player thinks so

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Rams safety Quentin Lake thinks Rams QB Matthew Stafford is a first-ballot Hall of Famer When Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford takes the field in 2025, it will be for the 17th straight year that he has done so. While Stafford is signed for two more years, there’s no guarantee that he plays in 2026 and that next season is his last. Once Staffor...2025
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• All time great QBs: Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer cracks top 30
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• Matthew Stafford, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen are already among the best NFL QBs of all-time

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Our panel of experts have ranked the best NFL QBs of all-time. Here is part one of our list. There are several words and phrases to verbally sketch the most important position in sports. Signal-caller. The man under center. Gunslinger. Game-manager. Game-changer. Captain. Clutch. Conductor. Director. Field general. Quarterback. Whether they’re known as ...2025
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• Los Angeles Chargers All Quarter-Century Team: Wide Receiver No. 1
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• Re-Grading the Colts 2017 Draft
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• 2025 Arizona Cardinals’ Teaching Assignments

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images What kind of developmental growth will the Cardinals see this season from their players? One thing that sticks in my craw every year is seeing fans be so quick to believe that the coaches must know what they are doing when players get benched or cut. As a teacher and coach, for right or for wrong, whenever a student or player of mine failed, I blamed mys...2025
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• CBS Sports lists Colts as one of four desperate teams facing ‘make or break’ 2025 season

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images It’s put up or shut up time for some of the Colts’ top leadership entering a critical 2025 campaign. According to CBS Sports Cody Benjamin, the Indianapolis Colts are among his four desperate teams facing a ‘make or break’ 2025 campaign: Indianapolis Colts Like Gannon in Arizona, Shane Steichen is coming off just his second season as a head coach....2025
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• Value of Things: Can C.J. Stroud make the leap?

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Let’s compare Stroud with other similar quarterbacks Anyone who is a regular reader of this feature knows I am a lover of numbers. It is important to understand why. There is conventional wisdom and popular narratives that people love to trumpet as if it is gospel. We trumpet it as if it is fact and use that to justify claims that may be unrealistic when compar...2025
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• Chargers Daily Links: Monday Open Thread

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images Your source for all Chargers and NFL news from around the web. Good morning, Chargers fans! Welcome back to another week of the offseason! The NFL’s big schedule release is this Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PT. Will the Chargers break out yet another anime-inspired video? Will it be completely original? You’ll have to wait and see! And now for today’s links. Cha...2025
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• Scouting Jets defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi
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• Eli Manning-Philip Rivers trade among all-time most memorable NFL Draft moments

The NFL Draft is a sporting spectacle like no other, and it has produced countless memorable moments. Here are 10 of the biggest....2025
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• Can the Colts solve their Anthony Richardson problem?

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images It’s a true make-or-break season for Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis. Things have been rather… interesting for the Indianapolis Colts at the quarterback position since Andrew Luck’s surprise retirement on Aug. 24, 2019 at age 29. Since then, they’ve cycled through Brian Hoyer, Jacoby Brissett, Philip Rivers, Jacob Eason, Sam Ehlinger, Carson Wentz, Nick...2025
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• Do trades for elite veteran quarterbacks work out?

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images Occasionally, but not all that often In my previous post, I looked at the recent (21st Century) history of teams trading up into the top three in the NFL Draft to acquire what they hoped would be their franchise quarterback. For the most part, it wasn’t pretty for the trading-up team. There’s more than one way to skin a cat, though, if you’re not in positio...2025
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• Is trading into the top three to get a quarterback ever worth it?

Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images I’m sorry to say, New York Giants fans, but there are still two full months to go before the 2025 NFL Draft. The wait already seems interminable, since the Giants do not have a single quarterback under contract, and whatever else they do in the interim to improve the team will pale in comparison to the big decision they will have to make in late April....2025
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• NFC East news: Eagles and Commanders take home awards, Eli Manning misses HOF at NFL Honors

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images It has been a big week for the NFC East. Eagles RB Saquon Barkley named 2024 AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year - Kevin Patra, NFL.com Barkley having one of the best seasons ever by a running back earned him the honor. Saquon Barkley’s gallop to 2,000 earned the Philadelphia Eagles running back the 2024 AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year award on Thursday at NFL...2025
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• Source: Rivers to join Colts on 1-year, $25M deal
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• Rivers 'permanently' moves out of San Diego
Philip Rivers has moved "permanently" from San Diego to Florida to be closer to his family, the free-agent quarterback texted to ESPN on Sunday morning....2020
• Tom Brady Says He Wants to Play in the NFL for Another 10 Years
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• Report: Chargers have “moved on” from Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers has moved back to the East Coast, and it appears it’s for good reason. According to Jay Glazer of Fox Sports during an appearance on The Herd, the Chargers have “moved on” from the 38-year-old quarterback. Rivers had already moved his sizable family back to Florida, which has sparked all manners of dot-connecting [more]...2020
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• Philip Rivers to be NFL free agent: Five best landing spots for longtime Chargers quarterback
Projecting the best fits for the future free agent quarterback...2020
• Odell Beckham Jr. Does Indeed Appear to Be the Real Deal for the Giants
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• Saints attempted to sign Drew Brees, Philip Rivers to emergency deal ahead of Week 16, per report
The Saints reached out to two future Hall of Famers -- to no avail...2021
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• Twitter Discovers Robert Griffin III Is Unbelievably Injury Prone on 'Madden 16'
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• Week 5 Snap Judgments

Musings, observations and the occasional insight as we absorb an ultra-competitive Week 5 in the NFL, which has so far featured nine games decided by one score…. * Almost nine months has passed, but nothing has really changed. The Green Bay Packers still own the Dallas Cowboys. And Dallas still can’t stop Aaron Rodgers when the game’s on the line. Join the club, Cowboys. Green Bay went into AT&T S...2017
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• How the Cowboys (or Ravens, Jaguars or Even the Chargers) Can Win Super Bowl LI
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• Megadeal Makes Luck the Ultimate NFL QB: Overpaid, Overprotected and Worth It
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• NFL Super Bowl Week Hangover: Cam Newton vs. Peyton Manning vs. America
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• Oakland Raiders on Their Way to Returning to Glory Days
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• Philip Rivers reveals the Saints reached out about signing him in 2021
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• With Joe Burrow and a too-familiar cast, the Bengals’ Super Bowl window is closing fast
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• Indianapolis Colts Hidden Gems: 3 Secret Superstars on the 2025 roster
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• Chargers Daily Links: Wednesday Open Thread
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• Is Matthew Stafford a first-ballot Hall of Famer? This Rams defensive player thinks so
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• All time great QBs: Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer cracks top 30
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• Matthew Stafford, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen are already among the best NFL QBs of all-time
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• Los Angeles Chargers All Quarter-Century Team: Wide Receiver No. 1
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• Colts scheduled to kickoff first weekend of 2025 preseason on NFL Network
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• Philip Rivers reveals the Saints reached out about signing him in 2021
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• Big Blue View mailbag: Evan Neal, void years, bridge QBs, more

The mail’s here! Matt Smith asks: Listen to another Giants media person (PT) say on a podcast that “The plan is to transition Evan Neal to guard in the spring.” Have you all heard this as well? Ed says: Matt, here is what I know. The idea of playing guard has been broached with Neal. To my knowledge, he has not been formally asked to play guard or told that he will be playing guard. I believe the ...2025
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• What’s the best trade return the Rams could get for Matt Stafford?

Kara Durrette/Getty Images Why the Rams couldn’t get a first rounder for Stafford straight up, but could get creative with these 3 teams The premise of the Los Angeles Rams trading quarterback Matthew Stafford can no longer be classified as a baseless rumor or speculation because this year the franchise is putting up signals that the team is ready to make some sweeping changes. Though ther...2025
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• Vikings Links: It’s Going To Be An Interesting Offseason

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Getty Images The team has tons of options and flexibility! Still decompressing after that playoff loss against the Rams. The non-competitive nature of the game is what really depresses the most. For these dudes to not even show up for a playoff game is embarrassing. While Sam Darnold deserves plenty of blame, the offensive line really chose a great time to get th...2025
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• Drake Maye is poised to be a phenom for the Patriots

Photo by Bryan M. Bennett/Getty Images The Patriots’ rookie is playing well beyond his years. Unless you live in New England it’s been easy to overlook Drake Maye in his rookie season. The No. 3 quarterback in the 2024 NFL Draft didn’t carry near the fanfare or hype as the two guys selected before him, nor did Maye come with the same level of profound (bordering unrealistic) expectations. ...2024
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• Sadly, since ‘Deflate-Gate,’ 2014-24 is shaping up to be the ‘lost decade’ of Colts football

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Colts fans are still hoping for better days ahead, but when will those greener pastures actually come to fruition? The current Indianapolis Colts on the field football product isn’t great, and to be honest, it’s been that way for at least the past week seasons much to the dismay of the seemingly now disenchanted Horseshoe Faithful. With the New Eng...2024
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• Bucs Nation Post Free Agency First Round NFL Mock Draft

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let’s see what all first-round teams might do, and how that might affect the Buccaneers. It’s safe to say that the brunt of free agency has passed, and in its wake the NFL Draft is less than a month away. While many rosters have been drastically reshaped, others focused on keeping their cores together (a la Buccaneers), but all the s...2024
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• Cowboys news: Evaluating draft prospect replacements if Tyron Smith leaves

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Notable headlines surrounding America’s team. 3 draft prospects that could replace Tyron Smith in 2024 - Mark Heaney, Inside The Star People are looking at a possible post-Tyron Smith world for Dallas. Amarius Mims, Georgia If Dallas is looking for a Smith clone to replace him, they should do everything they can to get former Georgia Bulldog, Amarius Mi...2024
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• Bryce Young is being let down by everyone on the Panthers

Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports This is just pathetic. Bryce Young sat dejected in the Panthers locker room on Sunday afternoon waiting to address the media. His teammates had begun cycling out of the facility and heading home, but the 22-year-old understood his role as the lightning rod for criticism, readying himself to stand at the podium and take his lumps. It was Young’s third start of ...2023
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