Category: NFL Buzz

NFL Week 12 is here. To keep tabs on some of the choicest highlights and other big news throughout Sunday, keep it locked here for updates.  Schedule, scores Bears 23, Lions 16 (Recap) Cowboys 31, Redskins 23 (Recap) Saints 31, Falcons 17 (Recap) Browns 35, Bengals 20 (Recap) Seahawks 30, Panthers 27

The Cleveland Browns suddenly got much better after firing Hue Jackson, who went 3-36-1 with the team.

Time to get out of this funk. Of course the one game I got wrong Thursday was a best bet — the Skins did us in. Should have been a back-door cover there if nothing else. Blown call on Jordan Reed should have set up a TD chance. Okay, stop me now. I sound like Nick Kostos and I didn’t even have a

Robert ”Bob” McNair, billionaire founder and owner of the Houston Texans, has died. One of the NFL’s most influential owners, McNair had battled both leukemia and squamous cell carcinoma in recent years before dying in Houston on Friday. When Houston lost the Oilers to Tennessee

The NFL feasted on a strong turnout for its Thanksgiving Day games, with all three match-ups posting gains from 2017’s comparable telecasts. Fox garnered an average of 30.5 million viewers, or a 12.5 household rating, for Thursday’s Washington-Dallas game that started around 4:30 p.m. ET, according to

A loaded holiday slate of NFL games features one team with the second-best record in the NFL, three teams in first place in their respective divisions and one battle that will determine which squad sits atop its division by the end of the day. Here are three keys for each Thanksgiving game: Bears (7-

After a historic performance on Monday Night Football, the Rams and the Chiefs have their byes in Week 12. However, there are still 15 other games on a packed Week 12 NFL schedule, including three games on Thanksgiving Day and Packers vs. Vikings on Sunday Night Football. The latest NFL odds show the

The business end of the NFL season is fast approaching with the race to secure a place in the all-important play-offs hotting up. All roads lead to the showpiece Super Bowl LIII, which will take place in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 3, 2019. With the growth of the sport in

The “Good Morning Football” crew debate if Washington Redskins QB Colt McCoy or Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott has more pressure to win in Week 12.

Justin Rogers, James Hawkins, John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer their picks against the spread for Week 12 of the NFL season. Chicago -3 at Detroit Rogers: Chicago Hawkins: Chicago Niyo: Chicago Wojnowski: Chicago Washington +8 at Dallas Rogers: Dallas Hawkins: Dallas Niyo: Dallas

The National Football League confirmed Monday that it will go ahead with plans to stage a game in Mexico City in 2019 despite having to move this season’s fixture back to the USA over pitch concerns. A statement from the NFL confirmed the decision following meetings between league commissioner Roger

The Dallas Cowboys looked finished at 3-5. Now they’re 5-5 and looking like the favorites in the NFC East.

The NFL usually has its strongest officials on playoff games, but this may be a regular-season first.

Welcome to Week 11 of the 2018 NFL season! We’ve got quite the slate of games for you this week, and hopefully they’ll provide as much excitement and intrigue as the Thursday night battle that saw the Seahawks defeat the Packers. In the early afternoon, we’ve got a rematch of an AFC playoff

Entering Week 11, the New Orleans Saints (8-1) are sitting comfortably atop the NFC South while the Philadelphia Eagles (4-5) are out of the playoff picture as the 11th seed in the conference. But, have no fear Eagles fans, your squad can still successfully defend their Super Bowl title as 27 teams since

The latest Week 11 NFL odds indicate that scoreboards will light up at a historic rate on Sunday and Monday. Five games have an Over-Under of more than 49 points, including eye-popping NFL totals like 56 for Eagles vs. Saints and 63 for Chiefs vs. Rams, one of the highest Vegas has ever seen. However

The Green Bay Packers dropped below .500 on Thursday night in a tightly contested showdown with the Seattle Seahawks and, Mike McCarthy criticism notwithstanding, the biggest takeaway was probably that Aaron Rodgers isn’t likely to make the playoffs. That leaves two legitimate contenders in a competitive

Bell stands alone among biggest fantasy busts OK. We can all agree that Le’Veon Bell’s 2018 non-campaign is the biggest bust in the history of fantasy football. A consensus No. 1 pick with zero yards is hard to top. But there are huge busts every season, usually because of injury. Folks last

Houston defensive tackle Ed Oliver, widely seen as a top 5 prospect in the NFL draft, got into an ugly argument with Cougars head coach Major Applewhite over a jacket during Thursday’s game against Tulane.

In today’s NFL mailbag, we discuss the best NFL tailgating cities, the Chiefs’ most valuable players, relegating the Raiders to the college ranks, and cloning Joe Montana.

While fans are fuming over sunk travel costs, Mexico City is dealing with shame of bumbling a high-profile NFL game over field maintenance.

Thirteen games make up the Week 11 NFL schedule, and all but two feature at least one team that’s still alive in the race for the playoffs. That means the Week 11 NFL odds board features plenty of tight lines like Houston (-3) on the road at Washington, Atlanta (-3) at home against Dallas, and Chicago

United States Senator Marco Rubio attempted to use a football analogy in a tweet about the election recounts taking place in Florida on Tuesday. It didn’t go well.

Close scores and traditional rivalries extended the NFL’s winning streak with TV viewers, generating double-digit ratings gains for five of the week’s six national broadcasts. The average overnight for Week 10 beat last year’s by 9 percentage points, as only the Los Angeles Rams’ 36-31

The NFL moved the Rams’ Monday night matchup with the Chiefs from Mexico City to Los Angeles on Tuesday because of the poor condition of the field at Azteca Stadium. The league announced the extraordinary decision six days before one of the most-anticipated regular-season games of the year. In a

Steve Bartkowski doesn’t have the greatest Big Game memories. He relished Cal’s rivalry with Stanford, absolutely — the history, the Axe, public school versus private school — but he watched from the sideline, detached, as Vince Ferragamo completed a last-second pass to Steve Sweeney to give

Despite a push by the NFL on Azteca stadium officials to get the turf issue resolved, league sources said the field still showed concerning issues when league and team reps had an inspection Monday.

NFL DFS players will need to adjust as they get ready for a Week 11 NFL schedule that features six teams on a bye, including the Patriots. Even with players like Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski out of the equation, there are plenty of ways to fill out your lineups. This week, FanDuel is featuring a $1.7M

Week 11 is here, and we have a whopping six teams on their bye weeks. That will lead to a feverishly competitive free agent market, especially if your league’s standings are tightly packed, like most of mine are. If you need more options than I have listed below, feel free to check out my expanded

With uncertainty surrounding the quarterback position, the first passer doesn’t go off the board until the 10th pick. But then there’s a run on them. The Buccaneers, who drafted Jameis Winston with the first-overall pick in 2015, might be ready to move on and they target Justin Herbert. Then