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📈2026 NFL Odds Tracker and Elo Ratings🏈
Aggregated predictions, Elo rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.
Aug 8
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Neil Paine
5
Drew Brees Is Underrated
The longtime Saints icon is going into the Hall of Fame this weekend — but we've still never quite figured out how to properly judge his greatness.
Aug 7
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Neil Paine
12
4
3
Football Is Back! Well, Sort Of.
Tonight's Hall of Fame Game opens the NFL calendar, signaling that football season is near, even as the league's actual stars have mostly disappeared…
Aug 6
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Neil Paine
20
2
4
The Bicentennial Summer That Made Modern Sports
America spent 1976 looking backward. But beneath all the red, white and blue pageantry, sports were changing in ways that would define the next…
Jul 2
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Neil Paine
27
1
The Liberation of Myles Garrett
Garrett was historically great for mostly bad Browns teams. Now the Rams are betting that a better situation can turn his dominance into something even…
Jun 4
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Neil Paine
16
2
The End of White Jerseys at Home Goes Beyond Nike and the NBA
Basketball is the most obvious example, but the old visual language of home and road teams has been eroding across every major sport.
May 21
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Neil Paine
20
1
2
After Fernando Mendoza, Then What?
Just how much of a "one-QB draft" is 2026? History says the gap between QB1 and QB2 matters more than you might think.
Apr 23
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Neil Paine
14
2
Quarterback Drafts Are in Their "Feast or Famine" Era
Some years, teams can't get enough quarterbacks. Other years — like 2026 appears to be — they act like the class barely exists.
Apr 16
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Neil Paine
15
1
Geno Smith Had to Leave the Jets to Get Good. Can He Rewrite the Story Now?
A rare reunion gives Smith a chance to reshape one of the most fascinating QB career arcs of the past few decades.
Mar 12
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Neil Paine
12
1
2
The 2026 QB Market is Full of Chaos Agents
Seldom have we seen a group of quarterbacks on the move in an offseason with so much variance in their potential performance.
Mar 10
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Neil Paine
5
2
Lou Holtz Was College Football's Original Turnaround Artist
The Hall of Fame coach made a career of jumping from program to program and fixing them fast — a restless approach that now defines the modern sport he…
Mar 6
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Neil Paine
11
1
2
Will the Raiders Ruin Fernando Mendoza?
The NFL keeps sending elite quarterback prospects to the teams least equipped to develop them. Some survive it anyway — and some don't.
Mar 2
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Neil Paine
18
4
5
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