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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
At the end of the 2025–26 season, the Toronto Raptors left their fans with something they had been missing for years: optimism. Scottie Barnes looked every bit like the franchise player the organization believed he could become, while young contributors such as Jamal Shead and Ja’Kobe Walter showed encouraging flashes during the playoffs. The expectation…