Replacing a franchise quarterback is not as simple as drafting his successor. It’s more like selecting the heir to the throne of some ancient empire:…
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What to Watch for in Sunday’s N.F.L. Wild-Card Games
Sunday brings another day chock-full of N.F.L. playoff football, with three games kicking off roughly 14 hours after the last of Saturday’s trio of postseason…
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NFL Playoff Predictions: Our Picks in the Wild-Card Round
The N.F.L. got through all 256 games, no matter how tenuous, completing the regular season. Now, an expanded field of 14 teams enters the playoffs…
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NFL Week 16: What We Learned
The Pittsburgh Steelers overcame a huge deficit to shock the Indianapolis Colts. The Kansas City Chiefs barely beat the Atlanta Falcons and the Baltimore Ravens…
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Bills Beat the Steelers, Surging as a Rival Sinks
After the interception that cemented Buffalo’s standing among the N.F.L. elite, the Bills’ defense assembled and jogged the remaining length of the field together, toward…
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Ravens-Steelers, After Delays, Ends with Pittsburgh Still Undefeated
It was a usual Wednesday afternoon television lineup, with Judge Judy on one channel arguing with a 19-year-old suing his mother after an altercation over…
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What We Learned From Week 10 of the NFL Season
A Hail Mary into triple-coverage. A 98-yard touchdown run. A roughing the passer call that handed a team a win. It was a week of…
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The N.F.L. Has Prevented Coronavirus on the Field. Off It Is Another Matter.
Before the N.F.L. season began, one of the big questions the league faced was whether a close-contact sport like football, with 22 players on the…
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Brady, Brees and Roethlisberger Just Won’t Go Quietly. Luckily for the N.F.L.
With a combined age of 85 years and 30 days, Tom Brady and Drew Brees will be the oldest pair of starting quarterbacks in N.F.L.…
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Steelers Stay Unbeaten After Stopping Lamar Jackson’s Last Pass
Of the 256 games played every N.F.L. regular season, two — and only two — are as reliably entertaining as they are vicious and close,…
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