DENVER — You don’t just scare them. You absolutely freaking terrify them. You’re the NFL’s Leatherface, swinging an orange-and-blue chainsaw at their Super Bowl dreams.

Playoff rematch in Denver? Patrick Mahomes doesn’t want to come back here in January, brother. Not if he can help it. Not after Sunday.

“Every time you play in this...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — From the Stat That Will Make Every Dallas Cowboys Fan Throw-up Category: the Cowboys lead the NFL in losses where they score at least 30 points.

They are the only team in the league with two losses in games where they score 30.

The Buffalo Bills and the Cowboys are the two teams in the NFL that have hit the 30-point ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The overhead freeze-frame on third down, with nine seconds remaining, suggests a clear path to the end zone.

Well, it shows a clear path for the 31 teams that have the most simple of calls in their playbook.

This is the one that did not.

The Chiefs’ final drive in Denver stalled at the 1-yard line — three times — in...Read more

The NFL trade deadline used to be a yawn-inducing nothingburger, served cold.

Major League Baseball reshuffled pennant races with its annual midseason yard sale. The NBA spent February swapping stars and setting social media on fire.

Football usually offered up a backup lineman for a conditional seventh-round pick.

Then the league pushed its ...Read more

SEATTLE — A flyover with four UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters ahead of Monday night’s Seahawks-Bears game drew audible reactions from some fans at Lumen Field.

The helicopters with the 2-158th Assault Helicopter Battalion 16th CAB flew over the stadium as the national anthem played before Monday’s game. Fireworks erupted from the tower ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With Lamar Jackson headed to injured reserve and uncertainty over how long backup Tyler Huntley will be sidelined, the Ravens continued adding to their quarterback room on Tuesday.

Baltimore signed Kedon Slovis from the Green Bay Packers’ practice squad to its 53-man roster, the team announced. He joins undrafted rookie free ...Read more

MIAMI — There are those of us who only need to be warned once or twice not to do something, benefiting from shared wisdom and guidance.

And then there are individuals who must learn the hard way, touching the stove, burning their hand before they realize it’s hot.

A costly mistake Ollie Gordon II made during Sunday’s 24-19 fourth-quarter...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The most effective running back in the NFL this season tucked the football into this right arm, and for a brief moment, it looked like he had an angle to the pylon.

He came up just a single yard short.

The play that won the Chiefs a Super Bowl, a walk-off touchdown to become the league’s first repeat champions in two ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Prediction columns are silly.

If you want to guarantee something won't happen, go ahead and predict — as Bill Plaschke did — that the Rams are going to go undefeated.

See, what happened was that his crystal ball was misfiring. Kind of like Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has this season, throwing an interception in ...Read more

SEATTLE — The final nail in the coffin was an interception by Chicago Bears defensive tackle James Lynch. Defensive end Austin Booker swatted a pass by Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold, and Lynch came down with the football for his first career pick.

On a Monday night when the Bears defense stifled the Seahawks for much of the game, a...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rams edge rusher Myles Garrett, who has been on injured reserve since undergoing knee surgery after the season opener, will practice this week, coach Sean McVay said Monday.

The Rams will open the 21-day window for Garrett to return to the roster, but McVay said the Rams would proceed cautiously before determining when Garrett ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo.— It started to feel safe to have faith again for a while on Sunday, didn’t it?

In the wake of that disillusioning 20-3 loss last week at Seattle, after all, the Chiefs seized a 24-13 third-quarter lead over host Denver in a pivotal early-season matchup. Just do no harm from there, and they take an iron grip on the AFC West ...Read more

CHICAGO — There’s a mighty big difference in the price Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles paid for Jeffery Simmons and what he gave up three years ago for Montez Sweat.

The premium the Bears met to get Simmons, a first-team All-Pro last season, out of Tennessee erases projection when it comes to the impact he can make for his new team...Read more

The Detroit Lions have shared a positive update on linebacker Jack Campbell, who was carted off the field with a neck injury during the team's game against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.

"Jack Campbell continues to rest and recover at a local hospital," the team posted Monday on X. "Preliminary indications are positive and out of respect for ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Hope is just around the corner. To get there, keep walking past the pestilence and turn left at the hellfire.

And should you arrive, it’ll be nothing but rainbows and shutouts for your Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Yes, the team that went 0 for September may have been reborn in November. Following an unconventional win at Carolina ...Read more

DENVER — The race is on in the AFC West.

The Denver Broncos beat the Kansas City Chiefs 28-24 in Denver on Sunday with a goal-line stop as the clock expired.

Here are five observations from immediately after the game:

The late stop. Again.

A Chiefs comeback fell short.

What’s new?

Well, maybe the drama of it. The Chiefs got within 1 ...Read more

DETROIT — There was chaos. And then there was quiet.

Eerie, uncomfortable silence.

And as Jack Campbell, the heart-and-soul leader of the Detroit Lions’ defense, lay motionless on the turf at Ford Field, face down after an awkward tackle early in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s NFC North showdown against the Minnesota Vikings, it was a ...Read more