The NFC North Will Be the NFL’s Best Division – and the Packers Will Be Left Out
Every team in the division can make a credible playoff case. That is exactly why one good team will spend January explaining how nine wins were not enough.
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The Chiefs’ Championship Window Is Closing Faster Than Anyone Wants to Admit
Patrick Mahomes gives Kansas City a chance in any season. He can no longer hide how much of the old championship machine has been replaced, weakened or asked to age one more year.
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The Bills Have Run Out of Acceptable Excuses
Buffalo changed the coach, upgraded Josh Allen’s receiving options and invested in the pass rush. The 2026 season can no longer be framed as another respectable step in a long process.
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The Seahawks Won the Super Bowl – Now Comes the Harder Part
Seattle has enough talent to remain near the top of the NFC. Repeating, however, will require Sam Darnold and a changing roster to prove that last season was a foundation rather than a perfect storm.
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The Next Great NFL Offense Will Be Built Around the Running Game
This is not a return to three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust football. The league’s smartest offenses are using bigger personnel and a credible run threat to create easier, more explosive passes.
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The 2026 NFL Season Will Be Won in the Meeting Room, Not Free Agency
A record salary cap created another summer of expensive optimism. The teams that rise fastest will be the ones whose coaches turn new pieces into a coherent identity before October.
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The NFL’s Quarterback Middle Class Is Becoming Financially Unsustainable
The league can afford almost any contract under a rising salary cap. What teams can no longer afford is paying above-average quarterbacks as though the difference between competent and elite does not matter.
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Trading Jaylen Brown: Why the Celtics’ Biggest Offseason Move Raises More Questions Than Answers
Few players become as closely connected to a franchise as Jaylen Brown became to the Boston Celtics. Drafted by Boston, Brown developed into a multiple-time All-Star, helped lead the organization to an NBA championship, earned Finals MVP honours, and signed a supermax contract worth more than $300 million. The extension signaled that Boston viewed him…
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Leaf Prospect Pool Grading
For the past few years, many hockey people and media experts (a bit of sarcasm there!) have expressed the opinion that the Toronto Maple Leafs’ high end prospect cupboard is pretty much bare as they have traded away a large number of draft picks and a prospect or 2 such as Fraser Minten in hopes…
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Are the Leafs Better?
With John Chayka and Mats Sundin taking over the day to day leadership of the Toronto Maple Leafs, they were and are faced with a substantial challenge that most so called “experts” are not supportive of. They are taking the core of the team that failed miserably last season and building around it, in order…
