This week in football: Chiefs' act is getting so old; No Supe for Al Michaels; Tommy DeVito's stupid situation with the Giants

God, I’m sick of the Kansas City Chiefs

Full disclosure, I’ve never been on board with the Kansas City Chiefs. Sure, they were, for a while, the best team in America, with a young and exciting generational talent under center and a head coach who never had to answer for anything because he wears Hawaiian shirts, has a funny mustache, and struggled with masking. Sure, it was impossible to make it through a Sunday without seeing Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelce multiple times every commercial break, but I survived the era of Aaron Rodgers’ discount double-check, so I figured I could survive this, too. – Julie DiCaro Read More

Tommy DeVito, Daniel Jones and the stupidity of the New York Giants’ QB room

Of all the moronic ways the first season of Daniel Jones’ four-year, $160 million contract could play out, this might be the dumbest. Not only did he go down for the year after two TDs and six picks in five and a half starts, but the team’s third-string QB took over the fanbase and maybe the locker room. – Sean Beckwith Read More

Patrick Mahomes is entering his Donovan McNabb era

The Kansas City Chiefs can point to a myriad of issues behind their offensive struggles, including Matt Nagy’s playcalling, but their rapid disarmament over the last two years has hit them where it hurts. If you’re searching for a culprit for Kansas City’s offensive demise and fall from the top 10 in scoring for the first time since 2016, their wideouts have already been caught holding the bloody knife on the gridiron over the Super Bowl champions’ body. Patrick Mahomes, king of the tight spiral, discovered this season that he, too, is subject to the whims of his wideouts. For the second time in a matter of weeks, a Chiefs receiver has become the main NFL Twitter protagonist after butchering a miraculous Mahomes play on national television. – DJ Dunson Read More

Al Michaels phased out for nepo baby

After 17 years of legendary calls, Al Michaels has officially been completely phased out of NBC’s NFL coverage. According to the New York Post, Michaels is out of NBC’s NFL playoff coverage. – Cale Clinton Read More

Joe Flacco is doing something no one thought possible

There is a whole mess of teams clustered together with 7-6 records in the AFC. One of those teams is not the Cleveland Browns. Joe Flacco stepped in as a starting quarterback for the injured Deshaun Watson and Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Even with Thompson-Robinson now healthy, head coach Kevin Stefanski has named Flacco the starter for the rest of the season. – Stephen Knox Read More

Florida officials aren’t gonna let the FSU playoff snub go

The Florida State playoff snub saga continues.

Ashley Moody, the Attorney General of Florida, formally started looking into the College Football Playoff on Tuesday. It is an antitrust investigation looking into anything that could have had an anticompetitive effect. – Mackenzie Meaney Read More

What the Vikings and Raiders did on Sunday was so bad, it was tremendous

The pace of NFL Sunday slows down during the late window. Usually, three or four games kick off between 4 and 4:25 p.m. EST. One of those is a featured matchup, like Kansas City Chiefs vs. Buffalo Bills, with all of the brilliant throws and yelling about a wide receiver being rightly flagged for lining up half of his foot across the line of scrimmage, – Stephen Knox Read More

Outlawing the ‘hip-drop’ tackle next season is going to wildly change the NFL. And not for the better

Tackling another human being is not easy. A good little-league coach teaches a step-by-step approach of facemask up, chest-to-chest contact, wrap, grab cloth, and drive. However, a live ball carrier does not stand still. In order to tackle fully equipped ball carriers who sprint, slide, spin and shake, coaches usually instruct players to do their best to get their pad level low, wrap and head to the outside. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to add one more caveat: No slipping allowed. If a player falls off of an opposing player’s body and still makes the play on a lower part, that is known as the infamous “hip-drop tackle.” – Stephen Knox Read More

NFL officials have been asked to influence games because of betting: Ex-VP of officiating

One of the biggest names in NFL officiating revealed that there have been attempts to fix games for gambling purposes.

Dean Blandino, current FOX Sports rules analyst and former NFL VP of Officiating, appeared on the “Awful Announcing” podcast to discuss how legalized sports gambling has affected current-day officials. – Cale Clinton Read More

Suddenly, the Lions, Eagles and Chiefs are staring at the panic button

There are four weeks remaining in the NFL regular season. I know what many of you are thinking: “Damn, I have to buy Christmas presents already. Maybe I shouldn’t have spent that weekend in Vegas at the end of the summer.” Credit cards are about to be burning the next couple of weeks, but this time of the year is also the final 400 meters of the NFL regular-season schedule. – Stephen Knox Read More