This is to the Baltimore Ravens from one of your biggest fans. There are 168 hours in a week. I'm respectfully asking for just four of them.

The NFL has begun its 2020 season. Thank God. If we ever needed a break from the "real world," it's now when Americans are bombarded from every direction with the latest news of people suffering from a ...Read more

NEW YORK - Six weeks before the 2018 NFL draft, there was a sense of urgency on 1 Jets Drive. The Bills were lurking.

Kirk Cousins had just spurned Gang Green's push in free agency, leaving this star-crossed franchise with two choices: A) Sit around and stew or B) make a bold, fast decision that could provide prosperity for the next decade.

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LOS ANGELES - Two games, two big plays.

Los Angeles Rams rookie receiver Van Jefferson made his presence felt in victories over the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles, and he appears primed for an expanding role heading into Sunday's road game against the unbeaten Buffalo Bills.

Jefferson, a second-round draft pick, has easily melded ...Read more

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Maybe, it was all the pregame chatter centered around rookie Tua Tagovailoa.

Maybe, Ryan Fitzpatrick realized it could have been the final prime-time game of his career.

But as Fitzpatrick showed on Thursday night in Jacksonville, he's still got a lot of FitzMagic left in him. And the Dolphins could use every bit of it as ...Read more

Less than three years ago, the Arizona Cardinals were coming off the best five-year run in franchise history.

A new chapter was beginning - coach Bruce Arians and quarterback Carson Palmer had retired - and the team rested its hopes on first-year coach Steve Wilks and rookie quarterback Josh Rosen, drafted 10th overall out of UCLA.

But that ...Read more

The injury bug struck the NFL hard in Week 2. Here's a recap of last week's games, followed by Week 3's best bets:

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WEEK 2 RECAP

Browns 35, Bengals 30: Both Baker Mayfield and rookie Joe Burrow will be solid streaming candidates in most fantasy formats going forward.

49ers 31, Jets 13: Here's hoping Raheem Mostert doesn't miss too much ...Read more

CHICAGO - Cordarrelle Patterson saw the Breonna Taylor ruling through the eyes of his 8-year-old son.

"My girlfriend, she's white. So my kids are mixed," the Chicago Bears running back and return specialist said via Zoom Thursday. "But I'm fully Black so my kids think they're fully Black, so they don't see color.

"... So, when my kid comes to ...Read more

FRISCO, Texas - As good as the Dallas Cowboys feel about themselves following last Sunday's epic 40-39 comeback victory against the Atlanta Falcons, they are not in denial about their shortcomings, especially on defense.

The Cowboys (1-1) have offered little resistance in their first two games. They rank 24th in the NFL in yards allowed, have ...Read more

This is the 60th season of Vikings football, a winding historical path of extraordinary highs and unbelievable lows.

But even if this franchise has taught us to expect the unexpected - and despite my skepticism about their prospects for this year before any games had been played - I did not imagine that two games in I would be writing a ...Read more

FRISCO, Texas - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott didn't hold back when asked for his reaction to the news that police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, were not charged in the death of Breonna Taylor.

On Wednesday, the Jefferson County grand jury chose only to indict one officer for "wanton endangerment" for blindly shooting 10 rounds ...Read more

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes underthrew his receiver, Mecole Hardman, by about three yards on a deep route Sunday, and so Chargers cornerback Desmond King reached up and plucked the ball out of the sky.

As the Chargers sideline celebrated a game-changing, fourth-quarter turnover, Mahomes remained near the line of scrimmage, tapping his ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Very little has gone to plan for the San Francisco 49ers during the first two weeks of the 2020 season.

They lost their best pass rusher, Nick Bosa, for the year with a torn ACL. Star tight end George Kittle and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman have already missed time with injuries, and pass rusher Dee Ford's status is ...Read more

The new MetLife Stadium turf passed Wednesday's extra inspection. Giants-Niners on Sunday is a go.

"Yesterday, representatives from the NFL, NFLPA, MetLife Stadium, the Giants and Jets, Field Turf and the independent field inspector conducted an additional review of the field surface at MetLife Stadium," the league said in a statement. "The ...Read more

FRISCO, Texas - As a quarterback guru who has tutored the likes of Joe Montana, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers during his expansive coaching career, Mike McCarthy has seen his share of quarterback-led miraculous comebacks.

On Sunday, he witnessed the Dak Prescott comeback experience for the first time as coach of the Dallas Cowboys

So what did ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA - Doug Pederson cannot survive if the Eagles lose to the visiting Bengals on Sunday, then fall to 0-4 at San Francisco the following Sunday night. General manager Howie Roseman will need to shift blame from his own shortsighted transactions, which is the real issue. Emotional intelligence and a three-year-old Super Bowl win earn a ...Read more

DETROIT - What's Matt Patricia supposed to say at this point? If the Lions coach had the answers to what's ailing his team after dropping 11 consecutive games and squandering four straight double-digit leads, he'd incorporate them into his game plans, not share them via the media.

For the better part of three years, Patricia has preached the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has forever changed Kansas City, the architect of a Super Bowl parade that strolled down Grand Boulevard.

But his reach stretches far beyond Kansas City.

Mahomes has been named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2020, joining celebrities, activists, political figures ...Read more