Along with starting at quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick also knows his role is to tutor and mentor rookie Tua Tagovailoa.

Fitzpatrick takes pride in being in this position and thinks of passing along any tidbits or advice as paying it forward to Tagovailoa like other coaches and quarterbacks have done for him in his ...Read more

Remember when everybody wanted to kick the Marlins out of Major League Baseball and staple Rob Manfred through the toenails to a wooden pike outside the city gates? Man, that was a crazy week. The Phillies went seven straight days without playing a game. The commissioner's office warned the players that the season was in jeopardy. The scribes ...Read more

Brad Biggs' NFL power rankings for Week 4 of the 2020 season. Last week's ranking in parentheses.

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1. Chiefs 3-0 (1)

In the battle of the NFL's last two MVPs, Patrick Mahomes dominated the show Monday night, completing 31 of 42 passes for 385 yards and four touchdowns in a 34-20 blowout victory in Baltimore. One touchdown pass went to left...Read more

Each week I'll list the best widely available free agents for fantasy football - I define "widely available" as being owned in around half of all ESPN or Yahoo leagues - and some guys who are probably better off in the free-agent pool than collecting dust on your roster.

Follow me on Twitter @UTEddieBrown if you have questions throughout the ...Read more

BALTIMORE - These are the kind of losses that scar teams, sometimes for the entire season.

The Kansas City Chiefs didn't just physically beat the Ravens on "Monday Night Football," but might have damaged their psyche as well. After two straight close losses to the Chiefs in the regular season, the Ravens were blown out by the defending Super ...Read more

CHICAGO - Don't be angry with Mitch Trubisky. It's the wrong emotion. Disappointed? Sure. Unfulfilled? Totally fair. But angry? Nah, that's misguided. It's misdirected energy.

Trubisky's benching Sunday in Atlanta became an official demotion Monday. Matt Nagy told his quarterbacks first, then shared the news with the world.

Nick Foles will ...Read more

The NFL's first COVID-19 outbreak has hit.

The Tennessee Titans have shut down their facilities until Saturday after three players and five staff members tested positive for the virus, the league announced.

The Minnesota Vikings, the Titans' opponent this past Sunday, also shuttered their facility due to contact tracing protocols.

Neither ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA - The Eagles' Dallas Goedert suffered a fracture in his left ankle Sunday, an NFL source told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Coach Doug Pederson said Monday that Goedert would "miss some time" with a "lower body injury," but he didn't provide further detail. The Eagles placed him on injured reserve Tuesday, which would sideline the ...Read more

The NFL is confronting its first potential COVID-19 crisis.

The Tennessee Titans suspended all in-person club activities Tuesday after three players and five team personnel tested positive for the coronavirus, the league said.

The Minnesota Vikings, who played host to the Titans on Sunday, likewise suspended in-person activities, although they...Read more

The most maddening, frustrating and annoying part of Sam Darnold's development is that we might never find out he could be as long as he's shackled by this organization.

Darnold's three-interception nightmare is on the marquee of the Jets' latest stinker Sunday, but the root of the problem must be addressed.

Although the third-year quarterback...Read more

We are going to talk about Patrick Mahomes throwing an underhanded touchdown to Anthony Sherman, like the bald and tatted and 242-pound fullback was Mahomes' large child or something.

We will do that soon. Because it was ridiculous. And hilarious. The specific genius and creativity of the Mahomes-Andy Reid brain-meld is the best show in America...Read more

It's often never pretty when a former great hangs on past his expiration date. Jason Peters has defied age and the NFL's version of natural selection for so long that it wasn't far-fetched to believe that he would perform adequately in his 38th year.

But the Eagles offensive lineman has never looked as overmatched as he has this season, with ...Read more

Two weeks ago, the owner of the New York Jets called coach Adam Gase a "brilliant offensive mind."

The bad news: Evidently, there are 31 more brilliant ones in the NFL.

Yes, the winless Jets are ranked last in total offense, and their only solace is the New York Giants haven't won, either. It's the first time since 1996 that both teams are 0-3...Read more

Doug Pederson spoke Monday of the need to "unclutter" Carson Wentz's mind, perhaps with tempo and fewer choices, in an attempt to break the funk the Eagles' fifth-year quarterback can't seem to shake.

Pederson also said that ankle injuries to tight end Dallas Goedert and cornerback Avonte Maddox will cause them to miss time, presumably meaning ...Read more

The coach was angry. The quarterback sounded ticked too, and also surprised and/or annoyed by his coach's comment. Their answers appeared to be subtle jabs.

The end of Sunday's 31-30 loss to Tennessee was egregious by any football standard, which led to some interesting reactions from the Vikings afterward in postgame zoom interviews.

Zimmer ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. - Patrick O'Connor's first-quarter punt block and recovery in the Bucs' 28-10 win over Denver not only earned him the game ball, it set the stage for Tampa Bay's best all-around special-teams performance of the year.

O'Connor, who emerged last season as a key special-teams contributor, set up the Bucs' first touchdown by charging ...Read more