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Mike Tomlin Was the NFL's Ultimate Floor-Raiser
For nearly two decades, he never let the Steelers be bad — even as his teams increasingly struggled to be great when it mattered most.
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Neil Paine
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📈2025 NFL Power Ratings and Projections🏈
Ratings, rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.
Jan 13
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What We Learned From the NFL's Wild Card Round
A chaotic opening weekend showed how little separates this crowded field of Super Bowl contenders.
Jan 13
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Neil Paine
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College Football's Expanded Playoff Works. Its Rhythm Doesn't.
The 12-team CFP is (mostly) what college football needed competitively — but its scattered timing has spoiled tradition, drained momentum and trapped…
Jan 12
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Neil Paine
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The Bills and Jaguars Are Too Good to Exit the Playoffs This Early
But unfortunately, only one can survive what is becoming an increasingly dangerous wild-card round for Super Bowl hopefuls.
Jan 9
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Neil Paine
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🏈🎙️ We're Talking About Playoffs
With the wild-card round kicking off, Tyler and I make our picks in a (mostly) evenly-matched first set of NFL playoff games.
Jan 8
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Neil Paine
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Tyler
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After Decades of the Same Dudes, the Super Bowl Is Due for a New QB (or Two)
The 2025-26 NFL playoffs are set up to produce at least one first-time Super Bowl starter — and likely a first-time winner — hinting at a long-awaited…
Jan 8
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Neil Paine
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Who Will Win Super Bowl LX?
Let’s forecast the 2025-26 NFL playoffs using a composite of my two prediction models.
Jan 5
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Neil Paine
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Just How Bad Is the NFC South, Really?
Measuring one of the NFL's weakest divisions — maybe ever — and why it's still guaranteed a home playoff game anyway.
Jan 2
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Neil Paine
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🏈🎙️ Football Bytes: Worst. Week. Ever.
After a historically brutal week, we regroup and pivot to a New Year's Hail Mary: a six-leg parlay in the regular season's chaotic final round of games.
Jan 1
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Neil Paine
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Tyler
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The Chiefs Are Doing the Weirdest "Relocation" in Pro Sports History
Is it a short commute of a stadium-switch or a full-blown franchise move? Yes.
Dec 30, 2025
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Neil Paine
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Here Are the Most Important Games Left in the 2025 NFL Season
Let's look at the remaining games most likely to swing both teams' Super Bowl odds, for better or for worse.
Dec 26, 2025
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Neil Paine
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