NFL
Harrison Butker 69-Yard Field Goal Is an Incredible Problem
Harrison Butker 69-yard field goal is a ridiculous sentence to type, but apparently that is where we are with NFL kickers now. Butker drilled one from 69 yards for Kansas City against Tampa Bay, and I think I’ve finally reached the point where the NFL should seriously consider narrowing the goal posts. These guys are...
NFL
Will Howard Roster Spot Looks Gone After Steelers Shutout Loss
It might be over for our sweet prince. The Will Howard roster spot conversation was supposed to get answered Friday night, and it did, just not the way anybody in Pittsburgh wanted. The Steelers gave Howard every single thing a fan would have asked for on his behalf. The start. The entire first half. The...
NFL
Ben Roethlisberger First Ballot Hall of Fame: 11 Ugly Votes
Here is the part nobody puts in the Ben Roethlisberger first ballot Hall of Fame argument, and it’s the part that actually decides it. A guy needs 80 percent of a 50 person committee. 40 votes. Which means eleven people can sit in a room, say nothing, vote no, walk out, and never once have...
NFL
Shedeur Sanders First-Team Reps Hit 0 On His Scheduled Day
Shedeur Sanders first-team reps went to zero on Saturday, on the exact day Todd Monken stood in front of reporters and said Sanders was getting them. And it’s worse than a coach changing his mind, because there’s already a plan. NFL Network’s Cameron Wolfe reported Cleveland intends to give Watson and Sanders one preseason start...
NFL
2027 NFL Hall of Fame Ballot, My 4 Picks and 1 Ugly Snub
My 2027 NFL Hall of Fame ballot has four names on it, and one of them is going to make some of you close the tab. Rob Gronkowski, Ben Roethlisberger, Adrian Peterson, Andrew Whitworth. Before you get to the part where you yell at me, understand what these guys are walking into. Per Darin Gantt...
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Patrick Mahomes Under Center: The Sneaky 80.6% Camp Shift
Everybody spent this week sharing the seven hours a day quote, and while that was going on the Chiefs started lining Patrick Mahomes under center at camp. That is a much bigger deal than it sounds. Last season the Chiefs lined up in shotgun on 80.6 percent of their snaps. Third most in the entire...
NFL
Steelers Playoff Win Drought: Worst Part Isn’t The 7 Losses
ESPN is out here praying my football team misses the Super Bowl and honestly? I’m not even mad. I get it. Per the Daily Mail, people inside that building are crossing their fingers the Pittsburgh Steelers don’t make it, because Aaron Rodgers got on their own airwaves and lit them up and now nobody there...
NFL
There Is No Joey Porter Jr Fifth Year Option, and the Steelers Are Acting Like There Is
Joey Porter Jr pulled into Latrobe on Tuesday, the same day Denzel Ward became the highest paid defensive back in the history of the sport, and by the end of the day Joey was on the PUP list with a bad back. Everybody wants to argue about the money. The thing that actually decides this...
NFL
Ndamukong Suh Just Invented a $200,000 NFL Salary That Does Not Exist
Please say a prayer for these NFL players only making $100,000. They are really out here struggling. I think we should all donate them money. Ndamukong Suh did the math for us. You’re in New York, you make $200,000, taxes take half, now you’re sitting on $100,000 and everybody still expects you to live like...
NFL
Kenny Pickett Begged for a Competition and Then Signed Up to Hold a Clipboard
And I gotta be honest, this man wears two gloves so the football can’t get away from him. Makes it so much better. Same week, his college coach Pat Narduzzi gets on the radio and says the Eagles never wanted to trade him. Kenny begged. That’s Narduzzi’s word. Because he wanted to COMPETE and didn’t...
NFL
Tony Romo Got Arrested in Milwaukee and Somehow Still Couldn’t Finish the Drive
Tony Romo got arrested for drunk driving on a bridge in Milwaukee Thursday night, and I need you to remember this is a man who calls the blitz 3 seconds before the ball is snapped. ERRRRRRRRM I DONT KNOW JIIIIM. 9 seasons in that booth telling you exactly what’s coming before it comes, and he...
NFL
2026 NFL Win Totals: Three Teams to Back and Three to Fade Before the Season Starts
Vegas is wrong on at least six of the 2026 NFL win totals and I’m saying it now, before a snap gets played, before training camp, before one of these quarterbacks pulls something in a Thursday walkthrough that definitely should have been a day off. Three teams the market is sleeping on and three that...
NFL
NFL Trades That Should Happen After Giannis: Jefferson, Lamar, Watt, and More
Giannis Antetokounmpo ended a fourteen-year run in Milwaukee on Tuesday and was in a Heat uniform by Wednesday, and I spent the next 48 hours thinking about every NFL guy who should be watching that and taking notes. June 1st already happened, Myles Garrett to the Rams and AJ Brown to the Patriots in the...
College Basketball
The Red Card Rule in Other Sports Would Break Baseball and Save Basketball
So I’m sitting there watching Canada hang six on Qatar yesterday and somewhere around the second red card, when Qatar’s down to nine guys defending a World Cup match with two fewer humans than everybody else on the grass, all I could think was damn, that sucks, and then about four seconds later the better...
NFL
Mike Babcock Oilers: The NHL Actually Had to Investigate Him First
The Mike Babcock Oilers situation is the only place to start. It was reported during the finals that the Oilers have decided to hire Mike Babcock as their next head coach. Now, if you don’t remember Mike Babcock has been publicly shamed for his over the top hard-ass coaching style by several players. Mitch Marner...
NFL
NFL Expansion Cities: The 5 Markets That Actually Deserve a Team
The NFL expansion cities conversation is one I’ve been waiting to have properly for a while, because the league has been flying to Melbourne and Rio and Madrid while entire American cities with millions of people sit there with nothing, and now a guy connected to Tom Brady and the Raiders just dropped that 34...
NFL
NFL Sleeper Teams That Are Going to Ruin Someone’s Season in 2026
I need to warn you about three teams this year, and I hate that I have to start with the Bengals. Genuinely hate it. I’m a Steelers fan. But I’d be doing you a disservice if Cincinnati wasn’t at the top of this list because I’ve watched that offense take my team apart enough times...
NFL
NFL Domed Stadiums Are Taking Over. Morgan Wallen Just Proved It.
Morgan Wallen canceled his Pittsburgh show yesterday. I know because my phone exploded with notifications, not because I had tickets. I don’t own a single Morgan Wallen song and I’ve made my peace with that choice. So when the cancellation hit, my reaction was basically to shrug and get on with my Saturday. And I...
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