[ad_1] The NFL season is almost over. In nine days we'll have a Super Bowl champion and the 100th NFL season will be over.From opening night in September to now, 266 regular-season and playoff games have been played and a whole lot of words have been said.It hasn't been the best year for Baker Mayfield or the Cleveland Browns. AP Photo/David Zalubowski"Jesus, Tony."That was Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield's response to
[ad_1] Hindsight is the most wondrous of evaluation tools. Just look back on all the "best offseason moves" lists from last summer if you're looking for a laugh. Almost none of what we expected came true. But that's the essence of sports anyway, so it's fine.With only one game left in the 2019-20 NFL season, we have the luxury of looking back on the 2019 offseason and knowing which moves
[ad_1] Tennessee Titans defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons was not fined by the NFL because there was no visual evidence of him spitting on Baltimore Ravens guard Marshal Yanda.After the Titans' 28-12 divisional playoff win in Baltimore, Yanda accused Simmons of spitting in his face.2 Related"I've never been spitten in my face," Yanda said Jan. 11. "I literally got spit right in my face by No. 98. He needs to be
[ad_1] OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh defended Lamar Jackson's playoff failure on Friday, highlighting the progress the quarterback has made in two NFL seasons."He's 23 years old. He's younger than Joe Burrow, OK?" Harbaugh said at his end-of-season news conference. "So he's got a pretty good head start right now. I mean, he's along the way. The Manning brothers combined to ... they had five losses
[ad_1] Trades were some of the biggest stories in the NFL over the past year, but the deals that got the greatest attention mostly ended up being disappointing. Nobody could have expected Odell Beckham Jr. and Antonio Brown to get traded within a matter of days in March. Even fewer would have believed just how inconsequential those two star wideouts would be to the football season that followed.Let's sort through
[ad_1] 12:45 PM ETNFL NationESPN Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly stunned the NFL on Tuesday night when he announced his retirement at the age of 28. Kuechly was the 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, and he was named first-team All-Pro five times. His 1,092 tackles over his eight-year career were the most since he came into the league in 2012, the year he was drafted in the first
[ad_1] A little more than two weeks from now, on the night before Super Bowl LIV kicks off, the NFL will crown the MVP of the 2019 season. A competition that emerged early as a three-quarterback race only to soon become the Lamar Jackson Award highlights the changing of the guard at the QB position. To that end, three signal-callers under the age of 25 finished in the top five
[ad_1] 7:30 AM ETNFL NationESPN Tom Brady will be available on the 2020 NFL free-agent market. So will Drew Brees. Same with Dak Prescott, Teddy Bridgewater, Ryan Tannehill and Jameis Winston. And those are just the quarterbacks who could change teams for free this offseason. (Check out our full top 50 rankings here.)As we get closer to an offseason in which all 32 teams have big needs -- even the
[ad_1] OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Quarterback Lamar Jackson carried the Baltimore Ravens to the best record in the NFL this season with jaw-dropping elusiveness, faking out defenders game after game with spin and juke moves.But what Jackson won't be able to shake for the next year is a question.Jackson fell to 0-2 in the postseason after Saturday's shocking, 28-12 divisional-round playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans. It took only 32
[ad_1] The AFC divisional round was total chaos this weekend. On Saturday, the top-seeded Ravens were bounced from the bracket in a blowout loss to the Titans, who went up 28-6 in the third quarter and barely looked back. The Texans followed Sunday and seemed to be setting up an AFC South rubber match in the conference title game, but the No. 2-seeded Chiefs went down 24-0 and ran off
