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NFL award winners haven’t been Super in the big game

Extremely Bowl LVI will feature four NFL Honors Awards winners: Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase (OROY) and Joe Burrow (CPOY) as well as the Rams’ Cooper Kupp (OPOY). Rams’ offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth also won the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, but that’s not important for the context of this piece. Read more…

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Aaron Rodgers wins another MVP… wake me up when it’s another Super Bowl

By most metrics, Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback and person than Brett Favre. He throws considerably less ( Stannis Baratheon: fewer ) interceptions, completes a higher percentage of passes, has a better win percentage, hasn’t been a creep, and didn’t bilk a charity out of money for an appearance he didn’t make . … […]

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Calm down! Brady wasn’t jabbing at New England with his retirement letter

Welp, we all knew it was going to happen, but Tom Brady’s retirement announcement still caught several people off-guard. Even after Adam Schefter tweeted out that Brady was likely going to hang up his cleats this offseason, the fact that Brady would do so despite being a frontrunner for the MVP Award and failing to… […]

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Reid-Mahomes’ run reminiscent of Belichick-Brady

It’s a remarkable reference point of consistency that the Kansas City Chiefs will host their fourth straight conference championship game Sunday, this time trying to stave off the resurgent Cincinnati Bengals en route to a third straight Super Bowl appearance. Read more…

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The lower 28

There are 28 NFL teams not playing this weekend, which means there are 28 teams trying to figure out how to get to where they want to go: the Super Bowl. Some, naturally, have better ideas about it than others. Read more…

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Cooper Kupp is the NFL’s most valuable player — he just won’t win it because it’s a QB award like the Heisman

Since value is defined as something of “great worth, ” it means that Cooper Kupp is just that — ask Rams fans. After a sacrifice of fowl. |Leaving the|A|Using} season in which he led the NFL in receptions (145), receiving touchdowns (16), and receiving yards (1, 947) — the receiver Triple Crown — Kupp caught […]

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The 49ers are asking Trey Lance to play like Aaron Rodgers in order to prep for the Packers

Despite trading three first-round draft picks in order to move up to draft him, Trey Lance’s most important job with the 49ers this week will be trying to emulate Aaron Rodgers in practice. Will he get the opportunity to play like Aaron Rodgers during the Niners’ divisional round matchup against the Green Bay Packers?… Read […]