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Streaming options for Week 5 include two teams with strong potential for multi-week utility, highlighted by a surprising Broncos defense that just dominated in two tough road games and now has four straight startable matchups before facing the Ravens and Chiefs in Weeks 9 and 10. The Bears’ defensive success is less of a surprise, and they have a good chance to improve to 4-2 with home games against the Panthers and Jaguars over the next two weeks.If you can’t grasp one of these two defenses, there’s no shortage of functional streaming alternatives, using the familiar approach of targeting error-prone…
The Seahawks – and their fans – are still getting to know Mike Macdonald.They learned more about the new coach Monday night, thanks to a decision he made in the second half. Seattle loses 42-29 against the Detroit Lions.This made people wonder about what happened.The NFL’s youngest coach and his team decided to attempt a two-point conversion while trailing 28-20 late in the third quarter at Ford Field. That is, rather than scoring the usual extra point to lead 28-21 with 18 minutes to play.This represented Macdonald’s approach to analytics-based game management.Macdonald, 37, has Seahawks research analyst Brian Eayrs in…
GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers drafted two veteran kickers, Chad Ryland and Lucas Havrisik, on Tuesday, but no signings were made, according to a source.Publicly, the Packers have thrown their support behind Narveson, the rookie with a strong leg but a penchant for hitting the ball to the right.Through four weeks, Narveson is 9 of 13 on field goals. Among the 29 kickers who attempted at least six field goals, his 69.2 percent ranked 28th. Oddly enough, the player at the bottom of the list might be the best kicker in NFL history. Justin Tucker of the…
The Green Bay Packers pass rush has a chance to get back on track this week against a Los Angeles Rams team that has struggled in pass protection.According to Pro Football Focus, the Rams currently have the lowest pass blocking rating in the league and the third lowest pass blocking efficiency. For those unmoved by PFF grades, Los Angeles has given up 54 total pressures as a team, tied for sixth-most in the NFL.The Packers need a bounce-back performance after Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings, in which Sam Darnold threw for 278 yards and three touchdowns. For far too…
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are back on top after a 33-16 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Their Week 3 loss to the Broncos looked like a fluke and the Bucs proved that was exactly that in Week 4. The team is still short several key players on its roster, but is still finding a way to win behind a d-what it takes. in attack and a solid defense. Next up is a short week’s trip to Atlanta for their first divisional game of the year on Thursday Night Football. See where everyone has the Bucs after the Eagles’…
After spending his NFL career yo-yoing on and off the Carolina Panthers roster, Eku Leota joined the Pittsburgh Steelers. THE NFL team announced On Tuesday, he signed former Auburn linebacker and former high school running back Theodore La’Mical Perine to his practice squad.Pittsburgh signed Leota and Perine while releasing linebacker Marcus Haynes and running back Jack Colletto from its practice squad.Practice squad members do everything active roster players do except participate in games. However, each NFL team can elevate two players from its practice squad to active status for each game.Leota began his NFL career as an undrafted rookie on…
It’s interesting. THE New Orleans Saints announced some changes to its practice squad on Tuesday, with Rookie running back Jacob Kibodi sidelined to open up a spot for freshman wide receiver Jermaine Jackson.Jackson, 5 feet 6 inches and 174 poundsinitially signed with the Saints as an undrafted free agent out of Idaho earlier this year. But he suffered an injury during training camp and was released from injured reserve with a settlement. Now he’s back.It’s hard not to connect Jackson’s return to Rashid Shaheed’s big mistake against the Atlanta Falconsmuffling a punt deep in his own territory that was recovered…
TEMPE — The Arizona Cardinals’ 42-14 loss to the Washington Commanders on Sunday can be summed up in one word: Awful. Outmatched, outmatched and outmatched, the Cardinals don’t have much to fall back on after Sunday’s blitz. But as ugly as this 1-3 home loss was for the Cardinals, head coach Jonathan Gannon remains convinced that the Week 4 score is not indicative of where his team currently stands heading into its game against the 49ers from San Francisco. “I said (to the team) today, you have a game like this and you think we have to blow everything up,…
THE Buffalo Bills received some good news Monday regarding their injured defense. They received some bad news Tuesday about a future Hall of Famer facing disciplinary action.Starting middle linebacker Terrel Bernard, who has not played since leaving with a pectoral injury in Week 2, is expected to practice all week and may be able to play when the Bills travel to the Houston Texans at 1 p.m. Sunday. But Von Miller, an eight-time Pro Bowl standout, will begin serving a four-game suspension handed down Tuesday for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.It’s the latest blow for a Bills defense that…
Curran, Breer: There is no “easy” sequence for these Patriots originally appeared on NBC Sports BostonThe New England Patriots enter Week 5 having lost three straight games, including two blowout losses to the New York Jets. and the San Francisco 49ers. Luckily for them, their schedule gets lighter over the next six weeks.Their next six matchups are against the Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Jets, Tennessee Titans and Chicago Bears. These are winnable games on paper, but as our Tom E. Curran and Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated said Tuesday First editionthere is nothing “easy” about the 2024 Patriots.”There…