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The Winners and Losers of the NFL Week 2 September 16, 2025
Every week this NFL season, we will break down the highs and lows—and everything in between—from the most recent slate of pro football. This week, the tush push is back in the spotlight after the Eagles won the Super Bowl rematch against the Chiefs, ...
Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics September 09, 2025
Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, and you’ll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies contai...
Are the Chiefs Cooked? September 08, 2025
Patrick Mahomes may no longer be enough to cover up a mounting list of the Kansas City Chiefs’ flaws. The quarterback’s late-game heroics have saved the Chiefs time after time for years now, helping them to an NFL-record 17 straight one-possession wi...
The Last Gasp of Steelers Exceptionalism September 04, 2025
American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States exists on a separate political and moral plane from the rest of the world. The NFL has its own version of this idea, and it comes from Pittsburgh....
Bill Belichick Was Not Ready for That College Life September 03, 2025
Moments before kickoff in front of an electric sold-out crowd in Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick answered questions from ESPN’s Holly Rowe in one of the few quiet corners of Kenan Stadium. Rowe asked the new North Carolina head coach about his first firs...
The Sports Gambling Backlash Is Here August 28, 2025
With football season creeping closer, sports broadcasters are preparing for record attention to the national pastime. Earlier this month, the NFL struck a “landmark” deal with ESPN, trading control of the league’s broadcast properties for a 10 percen...
The Michael Penix Jr. Era Has Arrived in Atlanta August 28, 2025
Whenever I think about quarterback Michael Penix Jr. going eighth in the 2024 NFL draft, I still hear the words of NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah in my head. “Are they really gonna do this?” Jeremiah said, his tone a mix of bewildered and fearful, as ...
Matthew Stafford and the Rams Are in a Race Against Time August 21, 2025
Unless you’re Tom Brady, Father Time comes for every NFL quarterback. And he won’t arrive with a gentle knock and folded hands, waiting on the player to say when it’s time to retire. It’s more often a siege: He snatches the ball from the grip of the ...
Ranking Every NFL Offense for 2025 August 20, 2025
Last season, teams like the Washington Commanders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers surprised pretty much everyone [raises hand] by producing two of the best offenses in the NFL, and they rode those offenses to playoff berths in the NFC. Meanwhile, teams like...
The Quarter-Century Evolution of the NFL August 14, 2025
To celebrate the first 25 NFL seasons of the 21st century, we at The Ringer have assigned you an impossible task: decide which team of this quarter century was the best. We’ve already whittled the field down to 32 entrants (that’s down to eight as of...
Don’t Break Up the NFL’s Sunday Ticket Package July 11, 2025
A federal jury in Los Angeles delivered an eye-popping $4.7 billion verdict last year against the National Football League, finding that the bundling and exclusive-distribution features of the league’s Sunday Ticket package harmed consumers. A federa...
NFL Player Turned to Psychedelics to Help With His OCD June 26, 2025
While NFL players were in the trenches of a grueling season, Braden Smith was fighting a different battle: the one going on inside his own mind.In the middle of what was meant to be a playoff-contending season for the Indianapolis Colts, Smith instea...
How the Super Bowl Stole Football’s Soul February 07, 2025
For Americans, bigger is always better. We “go big or go home”. Big Pharma makes our medicine and Big Tech builds our phones. We wash down Big Macs with Big Gulps and jam to Biggie Smalls. College football is much the same. “Big four” bowl games once...
Josh Allen Pulled Off a Massive MVP Surprise February 07, 2025
Lamar Jackson vs. Josh Allen was a true MVP debate for the ages—the type the NFL hasn’t seen since Steve McNair and Peyton Manning split the award for the 2003 season. When Jackson was overwhelmingly voted the first-team quarterback on the Associated...
Saquon Barkley Could! Go! All! The! Way! February 06, 2025
Midway through the fourth quarter of the Philadelphia Eagles’ 55-23 NFC championship game win over the Washington Commanders, the Fox broadcast aired a brief highlight reel of running back Saquon Barkley: twirling down the field, striding up the side...
College Football Is Not and Should Not Try to Be the NFL February 03, 2025
In the days following the College Football National Championship Game, Outkick founder Clay Travis took to X to note that:Just 22.1 million viewers watched Ohio State-Notre Dame, the third lowest playoff title game viewership on record. Truly awful n...
The Eagles Offense Finally Looks Super Bowl Ready January 28, 2025
The Eagles have punched their ticket to Super Bowl LIX in the most unlikely way—by passing the football. After they scuffled through most of the season offensively, everything finally came together for Philadelphia and quarterback Jalen Hurts, who co...
The Buffalo Bills Have Put Their Fans in a Trap January 28, 2025
There is not a lot left to say. Every publication is allotted one story with the headline “God Just Hates the Buffalo Bills,” and we used ours last year. We have already established in these pages, a few times, that the modern NFL has one fundamental...
I Hate That I Hate the Chiefs January 28, 2025
Some thoughts after our Kansas City Chiefs overlords again dispatched Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills to again make it back to the Super Bowl…There’s a lot of research to suggest that people rationalize their emotional urges, retroactively. First you feel...
The Remarkably Quiet Death of Tackle Football January 27, 2025
Tackle football currently dominates the landscape of our national culture like no sport has done for almost a century. Almost single-handedly, it is keeping the major television networks—otherwise in a death spiral of their own badly broken business ...
The Bills Are a Footnote in the Chiefs’ AFC Dynasty January 27, 2025
Again.First there was 13 seconds. Then Tyler Bass’s miss, wide right. And now, this. Once again, the Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl, after winning the AFC championship game on Sunday, 32-29. And once again, they’ve gotten there on the...
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills Are on a Quest January 22, 2025
Relative to the home crowd at Highmark Stadium, which frothed over at each inflection point as the snow fell on Sunday night, Buffalo Bills players were calm after winning the biggest game of the season 27-25 against the Baltimore Ravens in the divis...
Mike Tirico Has a Note for That January 21, 2025
This NFL season, I was present for the birth of a Mike Tirico Note. Specifics are important. On November 17, the Bengals played the Chargers on Sunday Night Football. The score was tied at 27 with 7:20 left in the fourth quarter. I was standing behin...
Playoff Paradise in the D January 17, 2025
Long before they had their own television show, Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson had each other. After they met at Second City Detroit in the early 2000s, the two hometown boys started bro’ing out over their favorite teams. Robinson, Richardson’s impr...
The Year of the NFL’s Running Back Revival January 14, 2025
Two summers ago, the NFL’s running back market hit rock bottom. Saquon Barkley, Josh Jacobs, and Tony Pollard, three veteran starters who had been among the most productive players at the position, had each received the franchise tag in the spring of...
