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The Manning-Brady Era, as Seen by Some of Its Top Defensive Players

January 22, 2016

For a decade and a half, they have been each other's great impediments. If Peyton Manning had played in another time, Tom Brady might have six Super Bowl rings instead of ...

The Greatness of Larry Fitzgerald, as Seen Through the Eyes of His QBs

January 21, 2016

With each passing year, each game, each reception, the greatness of Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald becomes clearer.  The YouTube catches and the scrapbook seasons just keep stacking one on top ...

The Secrets of Bruce Arians’ Success: Style, Risk, an Open Mind…and Old Guys

January 14, 2016

Night before the game. Hotel ballroom. All Cardinals players present. Bruce Arians walks to the front of the room. The noise stops. He speaks. "Tomorrow, are you going to be the guy who says, ...

Overlooked Kirk Cousins Has Studied His Way to the Top of the Game

January 7, 2016

The winner of a contest to announce the first of the Redskins' two fourth-round picks in 2012 took the microphone. "With the 102nd pick in the draft," Bridget Dowd said, "the ...

How Russell Wilson Made the Leap from Super Bowl Star to Superstar

January 5, 2016

What has been perceived as a leap has, in fact, been a climb. Russell Wilson's performance down the stretch this season is the culmination of a methodical, paced effort.  The Seattle ...

Death, Hollywood and the Duersons’ Complicated Relationship with Football

December 23, 2015

On the television stand in the bedroom of Tregg Duerson's home is a burgundy leather Bible. A name is embossed in gold on the cover. David R. Duerson. The book belonged to Tregg's ...

Inside Malcolm Butler’s Journey from ‘Reject’ Prospect to Revis Replacement

December 16, 2015

There Malcolm Butler is, leaping in the end zone to break up a potential Nate Washington touchdown in a Patriots victory over the Texans.   And there he was, hobnobbing with ...

How Andy Dalton Destroyed Your Cheap Punch Line

December 3, 2015

Bolder. Held together. Reaching new heights. There is change in Andy Dalton that cannot be ignored.  And then there is his hair. Spectacularly different, vividly red and unconventionally styled, it has become his ...

How James Jones Found His Way Home

November 5, 2015

James Jones stood there on 3rd-and-3, split out left, waiting for the snap on the Packers' second series of the season. It had been just seven days since the 31-year-old ...

The Mystery of Dion Lewis: Where Did Pats RB Come From, and Can Anyone Stop Him?

October 16, 2015

New England Patriots running back Dion Lewis seemingly has emerged from crumb rubber, musket smoke and pixie dust, so we are inclined to chalk him up to mystery. How else can ...

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