Blog Category: NFL

Week 2 of the 2024 NFL season has come and gone, and with it, the landscape of the league continues to take shape. As always, NFL fans are quick to react to early-season performances, but the truth behind which teams are true contenders and which might be pretenders will become more apparent as Week 3 approaches. Can teams like the Bengals, Rams, and Ravens bounce back, or will their early-season struggles continue? Meanwhile, a few

Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season is in the books. Sports fans are prone to overreaction in general, but the weeklong break between games will feel interminable to fans of teams who sputtered in Week 1. Can the Bengals, Browns, Raiders, and Giants possibly be as awful as they looked in their season openers? The opposite is also true. A few other teams looked like legit contenders. The Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans, and Lions are

Week 18 is the final week of the 2024-25 NFL regular season. It also marks the turning of our calendars as the season heads into a new month and a new year. Week 18 is a unique one as there are a few different mechanics at play for the final regular season games. First, the NFL will have flex scheduling in order to move the most important game of the week to its Sunday Night

Week 17 of the 2024-25 NFL season marks the last weekend of December and features two holiday games on Christmas Day. All four teams playing on Christmas, were scheduled for Saturday games in Week 16, to give them a little more time before the quick turnaround.  The Kansas City Chiefs will travel to Pennsylvania to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in the opening Christmas Day matchup. The Baltimore Ravens head to Texas to battle the

With just three weeks left in the regular season, Week 16 features a handful of games that will definitely impact the Playoff race in both conferences. Additionally, there are a few divisional matchups that could wreak havoc on their respective divisions.  With that in mind, Week 16 begins with a Thursday Night Football clash in the AFC North as “The Battle of Ohio” takes center stage with the Cincinnati Bengals hosting the Cleveland Browns. The

The NFL has been playing games on Thanksgiving since 1920. Legend has it that the NFL Thanksgiving games were born out of a duel between the Chicago Tigers and Decatur Staleys. They challenged each other to a high-stakes matchup on Thanksgiving in 1920, with the loser having to leave the league. The Staleys lost and folded at season’s end.  As dramatic and entertaining as that sounds, the NFL more than likely based their Thanksgiving strategy

The AFC East might wind up being the most entertaining Division in the NFL this season. The division promises to be very tight with three NFL teams that could potentially make the Playoffs: Buffalo Bills, New York Jets and Miami Dolphins. The Buffalo Bills won the AFC East in 2023-24, but it was a tight squeeze as they had to win their last five games, including a victory in Miami over the Dolphins in the