With awareness of head trauma in the NFL increasing every year, a lot is being done to get the league to try to protect its athletes. However, something that people aren’t necessarily looking closely at is the helmets themselves. VICIS, a helmet manufacturing upstart that NFL teams are contracting for their new headgear, has designed a […]
Bill Belichick will be slightly warmer on Saturday. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) It’s Week 2 of the NFL preseason, which is about 100 percent more important than Week 1 but probably around 36 percent less important than Week 3 (my numbers are a little fuzzy on this). In any case, even though the games don’t mean […]
Editor’s note: NFL.com analyst Lance Zierlein is previewing the 2017 college football season by counting down the 25 teams with the most NFL-caliber talent, concluding today with teams ranked 1-5. Click through the tabs above to see the rest of the rankings. In compiling this list of the most talented college teams, I weighed each […]
Dennis Waszak Jr., The Associated Press Former New York Jets scout Connie Carberg poses with a recently released book, “X’s And O’s Don’t Mean I Love You,” outside the Jets practice facility in Florham Park, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. How she helped deliver the sack-dancing Mark Gastineau to the Jets is just one of […]
Positional distinctions are disappearing. Rushing yards are losing meaning. And offensive and defensive schemes are shifting from game to game — if not drive to drive. The most popular sport in America is changing faster than it ever has before — yet the way we talk about the game has largely stayed the same. It’s time for the conversation […]
Jason E. Miczek/Associated Press It’s hard to avoid overreacting to the NFL preseason. Especially this year. Football is back, which also means the onset of fantasy football and everything else great about the season. The first week of the preseason provided some eye-opening performances by new faces such as Chicago Bears rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, […]