Recovering NFL star Damar Hamlin has spoken publicly for the first time since suffering a cardiac arrest during the Buffalo Bills’ Monday Night Football Game against the Cincinnati Bengals earlier this month. The 24-year-old promised fans they would ‘hear from him soon’ and he sent out a message Saturday night, speaking publicly for the first … Read more
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Jalen Hurts can conduct a singalong about as well as he can orchestrate the kind of punishing scoring drives that sent the Eagles into the Super Bowl. At the end of one more triumph, Hurts stood on the stage on the field — as his Eagles teammates passed around the NFC championship … Read more
There’s little doubt the NFL’s four best teams are still standing on conference championship weekend; both title games feature a pair of juggernauts. How, then, is the consensus tilted so dramatically in one direction for each game? For the third consecutive week, The Athletic polled a handful of NFL coaches and executives to get their … Read more
There’s little doubt the NFL’s four best teams are still standing on conference championship weekend; both title games feature a pair of juggernauts. How, then, is the consensus tilted so dramatically in one direction for each game? For the third consecutive week, The Athletic polled a handful of NFL coaches and executives to get their … Read more
Jay Kornegay — executive vice president for SuperBook Sports operations — says what’s transpired over the past 72 hours is unprecedented in an AFC or NFC Championship Game. Kornegay’s SuperBook Sports opened its line Sunday night with the Kansas City Chiefs favored by three for Sunday’s home game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Less than 24 … Read more
Tuesday was Bills general manager Brandon Beane’s turn in front of the microphone to recap the 2022 season, which ended with Sunday’s 27-10 second-round loss to the Cincinnati Bengals: Five takeaways from Beane’s press conference, which lasted 54 minutes. Weren’t in a groove late The story: The Bills saved their worst overall game for the … Read more
CINCINNATI — Standing at his locker last week, a few days removed from his team’s 24-17 wild-card victory against the Ravens, Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase was praising coach Zac Taylor for a game plan that moved him around in various formations. and led to nine catches for 84 yards and a touchdown. “Zac did … Read more
This group of Bills expected to spend Monday thinking about their grudge match against the Kansas City Chiefs, not filling up giant boxes containing their locker-stall items, exchanging phone numbers with teammates and making flight arrangements to return to their offseason homes. Instead, they asked questions. Myriad questions. Tough questions. Required questions. But let’s start … Read more
CINCINNATI – Like most great friendships, the one forged between Sam Hubbard and Joe Burrow developed over meals. Not just any meals, though. Repeated, gluttonous attacks on the digestive system. Hubbard was a sophomore backup at Ohio State, in the process of converting from Moeller High School safety to college defensive lineman. Burrow, working in … Read more
This weekend’s NFL divisional round playoff schedule might just have the matchups to one-up last weekend’s thrilling wild-card slate. The Chiefs and Eagles are coming off their byes with a chance to validate their No. 1 seeds, but they’re each taking on a pair of foes — the Jaguars and Giants — who have exceeded … Read more