No matter where this Miami Dolphins season goes — no matter if they solve their issues, no matter if they sink into January — owner Steve Ross has two substantial issues to weigh to protect his franchise:

1. How to best invest in another frontline quarterback?

2. Should general manager Chris Grier make that decision?

There’s no debate ...Read more

Brian Daboll’s New York Giants lived and died by the coach’s aggressiveness and desperation on Sunday Night Football against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The third-year head coach put his foot on the gas as the offensive playcaller after the Giants were shut out in the first half, converting multiple fourth downs on a third-quarter touchdown ...Read more

Please do not read this as a glowing endorsement of Justin Fields. He wasn’t great Sunday in the Steelers' 32-13 win. Hardly. I still wonder if he would have been pulled if not for a debatable roughing the passer call that wiped out a late first-half interception.

If that pick had counted, the Steelers likely would have gone to halftime ...Read more

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The future of the New England Patriots stood wrapped in the past Sunday, red and white from head to toe.

He launched bombs. Skirted around danger. Inspired hope.

Along the way, Drake Maye even made a little history. His pinpoint 40-yard touchdown pass before halftime?

That was the Patriots’ longest completion at home ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Detroit Lions star pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson suffered a gruesome leg injury in Sunday's lopsided 47-9 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

While sacking Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott in the third quarter, Hutchinson's leg whipped around and inadvertently hit teammate Alim McNeill. Hutchinson stayed down on the field and ...Read more

LONDON — Years ago, in the backyard of his Arlington Heights, Ill., home, Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet used to spend time with his dad and brothers dabbling in the art of long snapping.

Why not, right?

His uncle, Jeff Zgonina, had experience with that skill throughout a 17-year career as an NFL defensive tackle. And as Kmet envisioned ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — He had jawed with Eagles fans and jawed with two Cleveland Browns players and heard faint “Fire Nick” chants from a few furious folks in the bleachers as his players trudged to the locker room at halftime. Now Nick Sirianni entered the Lincoln Financial Field postgame press conference room Sunday with his three children in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It was only the lowly and beat-up Las Vegas Raiders, but the Pittsburgh Steelers needed that.

They walked into Allegiant Stadium, took it over with their fan base and then did it on the field, too, in a 32-13 win Sunday afternoon. It was their most lopsided road victory since 2020 at Jacksonville, a 27-3 rout.

The quarterback ...Read more

DENVER — Flanked by team medical personnel, Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh shuffled to the locker room as his offense took the field against the Denver Broncos.

Suffering from an undisclosed illness, strode back onto the sideline midway through the first quarter and several plays later, after quarterback Justin Herbert laced a ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Over the last decade, the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium has been a house of horrors for the Detroit Lions.

Even in a 38-point victory, that remained true on Sunday.

The Lions snapped a six-game losing streak against the Cowboys and avenged last year's controversial loss, but it came at the expense of Lions edge rusher and ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Atlanta Falcons suspected the Carolina Panthers would put up a fight.

They did with veteran quarterback Andy Dalton trying to have a flashback, the Panthers were on the move in a one-score game. But cornerback A.J. Terrell stepped in front of a pass intended for tight end Ian Thomas for an interception to help lift the ...Read more

Take away the three interceptions, the double-digit penalties and the punt return they gave up for a touchdown, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were absolutely brilliant Sunday.

Okay, so it was sloppy. Also, frustrating and briefly nerve-racking. But Tampa Bay eventually pulled out a 51-27 victory against the New Orleans Saints with a franchise-...Read more

LONDON — The Chicago Bears celebrated their dominance in London with a tea party Sunday afternoon at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Early in the third quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Bears wide receiver Keenan Allen caught a 9-yard dart from Caleb Williams for a touchdown and immediately motioned for his teammates to sit beside him. The...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Another week, another high-drama finish for the Eagles.

Back home at Lincoln Financial Field for the first time in 27 days, the Eagles managed to hold off the Cleveland Browns from pulling off a late-game comeback and emerged with a 20-16 victory. The Eagles got well over the bye week with the returns of A.J. Brown, DeVonta ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Commanders arrived for the Battle of the Beltway on Sunday afternoon at M&T Bank Stadium as the highest-scoring team in the league. They left it with a defense that couldn’t get off the field.

For a Baltimore team with difficulty holding onto leads and a struggling pass defense, it figured out the best defense was an offense...Read more

The Lineup came within .12 points of cashing last week, which isn’t bad when you consider everything that went wrong.

The feast-or-famine roller coaster Josh Allen (14.64 DraftKings points) is on took another dip. Allen failed to score at least 15 points for the third time in the last four weeks. He’s surpassed 30 in his other two games ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — George Pickens can boast he is always open all he wants. He can bounce his helmet off the sideline turf like a tennis ball as many times as he desires. He can avoid celebrating touchdowns by other teammates if he so chooses.

There is no penalty for petulant behavior.

But there are times when behavior crosses the line into poor ...Read more