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The Tennessee Titans travel to Duval County to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 11 in a big AFC South matchup. This is a showdown between two fun young quarterbacks who could be division rivals for years. Before Titans-Jaguars kicks off, let’s make some bold Titans Week 11 predictions. At 3-6, Tennessee’s season is […]

The NFL Week 11 schedule started with plenty of drama, with Joe Burrow and Mark Andrews going down to season-ending injury as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Cincinnati Bengals. On Monday Night Football to finish the week, it’s a Super Bowl rematch (and the Taylor Swift Bowl) with the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. […]

Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis made a bold move firing head coach Josh McDaniels after an embarrassing Week 8 Monday Night Football loss to the Detroit Lions. He installed assistant coach Antonio Pierce as the Raiders interim head coach, and the team is now on a two-game winning streak. Pierce has impressed Davis with […]

Things are not going well for Zach LaVine and the Chicago Bulls in the 2023-24 NBA season. The team is 5-9, they’ve lost both their in-season tournament games, and the Zach LaVine trade rumors are swirling. Things seem so bad with the Bulls and LaVine right now that he stormed off after a win, blowing […]

The Buffalo Bills host the New York Jets in Week 11 in a do-or-die AFC East showdown. With five losses each, both team’s playoff hopes are hanging by a thread, and the loser of this game may be going home in January. Witt those as the steaks for Bills-Jets II, let’s make some bold Bills […]

Baltimore Ravens star tight end Mark Andrews is out for the season with an ankle injury after a controversial hip-drop tackle by Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson. On Friday morning, after the Ravens’ 34-20 victory, former NFL defenders Bart Scott and Ryan Clark got into a heated debate on ESPN’s First Take over the merits […]

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is shockingly out for the season with a wrist injury after a Jadeveon Clowney takedown in a Week 11 Thursday Night Football loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Prior to the injury, the team tweeted and deleted a video of Burrow in some sort of wrist brace before the game. This […]

When the Carolina Panthers take on the Dallas Cowboys in Week 11, the offense may be overpowered by the Cowboys fans’ crowd noise. Head coach Frank Reich is preparing for this possibility, but there’s one embarrassing problem for the Panthers. The game is at Carolina’s home field, Bank of America Stadium. “Panthers in the weird […]

Less than 24 hours after Amazon Prime Video Thursday Night Football host Charissa Thompson touched off a scandal by claiming to have made up reports as a sideline reporter, she issued a statement attempting to “clarify what is being reported.” The Charissa Thompson statement In the statement posted to her Instagram story and widely shared […]

The Kansas City Chiefs are coming off their bye and right into a Super Bowl rematch against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football in Week 11. Down the stretch of the 2023 season, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs need the team’s wide receivers to play better if they hope to reach the Big […]

There might be new people in charge, but it’s the same old Las Vegas Raiders. Fullback Jakob Johnson was released on Friday, but instead of hearing it from a Raiders PR person or even an NFL insider, the player announced it himself on social media. The only thing he left out was #TypicalRaiders. “I’ve been […]

The Cleveland Browns won a stunner in Week 10 against the Baltimore Ravens, riding a 15-point second-half comeback to an improbably 33-31 victory. And they did it without one of their star defenders, Pro Bowl cornerback Denzel Ward. That’s because Ravens offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley knocked Ward out of the game with a concussion, and […]

We already know the Cleveland Browns won’t have quarterback Deshaun Watson and will start rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson for their Week 11 matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers. However, the Browns did get a positive injury update ahead of this crucial AFC North showdown, as it now seems like right tackle Dawand Jones will be ready to […]

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott made a bold move to shake things up this week after the team’s brutal 24-22 loss to the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football that dropped them to 5-5 on the season. He fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey, replacing him with quarterback coach Joe Brady for the remainder of […]

Washington Commanders rookie cornerback Emmanuel Forbes got ejected in the first quarter of the team’s 29-26 Week 10 loss to the Seattle Seahawks for a headshot on wide receiver Tyler Lockett. Ahead of the Commanders’ Week 11 matchup with the New York Giants, defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio raised several objections to the dismissal, although […]

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is now out for the season with a shoulder injury, meaning he’s now played 12 of a possible 34 games for the franchise since signing a massive contract extension with the team in the 2022 offseason. With over $90 million paid out for these 12 games and another $135-plus-million left […]

In his fantastic Hall of Fame speech, Pittsburgh Steelers iconic safety Troy Polamalu said the biggest compliment a Steelers great can give a current player is “You could have played with us.” These six words mean that a current-day player is so good, so tough, and so impactful that he would have fit in any […]

The Chicago Bulls are getting hit with Zach LaVine trade rumors left and right. The All-Star guard is the team’s most valuable asset, and after a 4-7 start to the 2023-24 campaign, it’s time to start turning some of those assets into future draft picks for a complete rebuild. The Milwaukee Bucks should be one […]

The latest Justin Fields injury update is that the Chicago Bears quarterback is on track to start in Week 11 against the Detroit Lions. Fields hasn’t played for the Bears since Week 6 when he suffered a thumb injury. “Sources: #Bears QB Justin Fields, out the last month with a dislocated thumb, is expected to […]

The Phoenix Suns are paying Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, and Devin Booker $130.3 million this season, yet the trio has yet to play a game together in the 2023-24 season. However, with the latest Suns injury updates, it looks like Durant, Beal, and Booker will finally make their season debut together on Wednesday against the […]

After news broke of Deshaun Watson’s season-ending surgery, it didn’t take long for fans and media to connect the dots to Josh Dobbs and the Cleveland Browns. The unheralded journeyman quarterback has stepped in for an injured franchise QB and is keeping playoff hopes alive for the Minnesota Vikings with his stellar play. He could […]

The Cleveland Browns got a brutal Deshaun Watson injury update ahead of Week 11, as the $230 million quarterback needs season-ending surgery to repair his injured shoulder. In a lengthy statement from the Browns, Watson’s team disclosed two injuries, a high ankle sprain and a “displaced fracture to the glenoid.” That second injury — basically […]

The Buffalo Bills lost a heartbreaker in Week 10 to the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football, 24-22. They got back in the win column in Week 11, but another brutal overtime loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 12 has the Bills in trouble. This game left Buffalo at 6-6, with their playoff chances […]

The Buffalo Bills dropped to a disappointing 5-5 on the season after a brutal Monday Night Football loss in Week 10 to the Denver Broncos. This loss led to offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey losing his job on Tuesday, but there are plenty more people to blame for this L that could ultimately keep Buffalo out […]

As the Los Angeles Rams get ready to come off their bye and take on their NFC West rival Seattle Seahawks in Week 11, the team got some great news on the Matthew Stafford injury update front. As of the Monday before next weekend’s slate, head coach Sean McVay fully expects his starting quarterback to […]

The New Orleans Saints lost a tough one in Week 10 to the Minnesota Vikings and could have lost several key players on both sides of the ball for even longer. In addition to quarterback Derek Carr exiting the game with two injuries, star wide receiver Michael Thomas and cornerback Marshon Lattimore are also dealing […]

The Los Angeles Chargers lost a barn-burner in Week 10 to the Detroit Lions 41-38. The team’s losses started in pregame warmups, though, as linebacker Chris Rumph II went down with a foot injury while getting ready for the game. Now, after the freak accident, the latest Chargers defense injury update is that Rumph is […]

The Baltimore Ravens took a beating in Week 10, literally and figuratively, on Sunday in Week 11, losing to their AFC North rival Cleveland Browns 33-31 after coughing up a 24-9 lead. It also looked like All-Pro cornerback Marlon Humphrey might be out for a long time with an Achilles strain, but the latest injury […]

The NFL Week 10 schedule gave us plenty of thrills, but there were also several chills as prominent players left games or got banged up at some point on Sunday. Here is the NFL Week 10 injury roundup, which includes some big-name quarterbacks like the New Orleans Saints’ Derek Carr, Cleveland Browns’ Deshaun Watson, and […]

Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys whooped their once-rival New York Giants 49-17 in Week 10. That brings the aggregate Cowboys-Giants score to 89-17 on the season. While Prescott didn’t put up all of those points, he did facilitate a lot of them, and he’s been doing that all over the league in the last […]

The NFL Week 10 slate started with a brutal matchup between the Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers on Thursday Night Football. True to form, we saw some terrible football, with the Bears pulling out an ugly 16-13 victory to help their 2024 draft position. To cap it all off on Monday, we get the slumping […]

The Buffalo Bills Week 10 matchup with the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football is a crucial one for the team. This is as close to a must-win game as a team can have in the middle of the season as dropping to .500 could tank their playoff chances. With that in mind, here are […]

A professional footballer is lucky if they get to play with a generational player like Lionel Messi or Erling Haaland in their career. By definition, there aren’t many generational stars around at the same time, so many players don’t get that opportunity. For Argentina and Manchester City striker Julian Alvarez, fate gave him the chance […]

After pulling out a miraculous win, led by new Minnesota Vikings quarterback Josh Dobbs, the team got even more surprising good news heading into their Week 10 matchup with the New Orleans Saints. The latest Justin Jefferson injury update is that the All-Pro wide receiver is questionable — not out or doubtful — for Sunday. “The #Vikings […]

These days, it seems like everyone is weighing in on the Michigan football sign-stealing scandal and head coach Jim Harbaugh. As of Friday, that includes Charlotte head coach and longtime Michigan football assistant Biff Poggi. “I have been quiet on the Michigan situation BUT NO longer. I was closer to Jim Harbaugh over the last […]

The Atlanta Falcons are getting ready for a big Week 10 game against the Arizona Cardinals with quarterback Kyler Murray returning on the other side of the field. The good news for the Falcons is that after the latest Drake London injury update, the away team will have a return of its own. Falcons WR […]

As the Michigan football sign-stealing scandal rages on, there is more drama building each day, both serious and ridiculous. Toward the latter end of that spectrum, it appears that the lawyers for head coach Jim Harbaugh blatantly ripped off a Michigan football fan’s blog post in a letter they sent to the Big Ten. On […]

For the Indianapolis Colts Week 10 matchup, they head across the Atlantic Ocean to square off against the New England Patriots at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany. The last game of the 2023 NFL international series isn’t a great one, records-wise, but it could be fun for Colts fans. With that in mind, let’s […]

The Michigan football sign-stealing scandal continues to rage on, and the latest person to lash out at Jim Harbaugh and his program is Illinois head football coach Bret Bielema. “If something’s been going on off-campus like it’s been noted they were going to our games before we played that game last year, that’s sickening. It’s […]