Wait, the Cardinals and Titans in the playoffs? Our five national NFL reporters have assessed the league landscape and are ready to make their bold predictions for 2025. Three of them feature last-place teams from last season making the playoffs this season, none of which you’ll likely have seen anywhere else. NFL football is back, so let’s get into our …
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Editor’s note: This article is part of our Countdown to Kickoff series, in which we highlight the NFL’s top teams, players, predictions and storylines to watch as the 2025 season begins. The 2025 NFL season finally kicks off Thursday night with a matchup between the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles and their NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys, whose contract …
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Ah, the dawn of a new season, when every team is destined to go 17-0 because each has 53 guys who are in the best shape of their lives and a dozen prospective Pro Bowlers. Yes, optimism springs eternal this time of year, but we all know the NFL season is full of surprises that will inevitably blindside us as …
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PLAY OF THE DAY WR CHARLIE JONES If anybody came up with an all-Camp team, Jones would have been a unanimous choice and he went out in style in camp’s last practice with a Dave-Lapham-You’ve-Got-To-Be-Kidding-Me one-arm grab of a Burrow tracer for a one-yard touchdown. For the second time in 72 hours, Burrow hit Jones with a precision touchdown pass …
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On that last drive, the Bengals got a huge break when defensive end Deatrich Wise was called for a horse collar on his second-down sack. It was a coverage sack and when Burrow scrambled away, Wise committed the foul. The Bengals have wanted to see Rivers, a fifth-round pick, work at guard with the Ones, and he replaced Lucas Patrick …
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Those in favor of their quarterbacks playing limited to zero snaps in the preseason can just point to this one Joe Burrow play to defend their logic. The Bengals’ star quarterback put himself in peril and surely had anyone rooting for the team holding their breath Monday night when he attempted to evade the Washington pass rush and instead had …
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Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow played three series to open Monday night’s game against the Commanders and the final possession saw him sharing the field with a different supporting cast. Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins were on the bench, which left the wide receiver duties to players like Charlie Jones and Mitchell Tinsley. Burrow capped that drive by hitting Jones for …
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Will the Bengals and defensive end Trey Hendrickson get a deal done? Quarterback Joe Burrow realizes that the team has a history of ramping up talks as the regular season approaches. “I think historically, these deals with us have gotten done closer to Week 1,” Burrow told reporters after Monday night’s preseason game against Washington, via Kelsey Conway of the …
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CINCINNATI – It was a bad day for the Cincinnati Bengals offense, but it could have been a lot worse after rookie first-round pick Shemar Stewart knocked quarterback Joe Burrow to the ground on a pass rush. Burrow hopped to his feet and jogged away from the site of the collision, Stewart went to the sideline and no one else …
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CINCINNATI — NFL voices have spoken, and Joe Burrow is once again right at the top of Mike Sando’s quarterback tiers on The Athletic. Burrow was ranked with Patrick Mahomes in a tie for first at the top of Tier 1. All 50 league voters Sando canvassed had him in the first tier. It’s his first time being a unanimous Tier 1 quarterback. “He …
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