NFL Weekend Preview: Week 10

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With nine of 18 weeks — and 138 of 272 games completed — the 2024 NFL regular season has edged past its halfway point with the Kansas City Chiefs still clinging the league’s last unbeaten record, having moved to 8-0 with a hard-fought overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football. With the win, the Chiefs became …

GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 10

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Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 10 power ranking.  Heading into Week 10, we have movement towards the lower end, with the Texans having a tough time of it against the Jets, leaving them clinging on to top 10 status.     GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 10 1 Detroit Lions (7-1) = Last Sunday’s meeting with the Green Bay Packers at a sodden …

GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 9

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Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 9 power ranking.  Heading into Week 9, we have a new leader atop the dais. Although the Kansas City Chiefs still remain as the only team unbeaten, they’ve looked far less than convincing, and with the Detroit Lions scoring 52 points over the weekend, the side from ‘Motor City’ are deservedly leading the way.    GRIDIRON …

NFL Weekend Preview: Week 8

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Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season sees all 32 teams in action, and all back on American soil with the London leg of the International Series in the books. A rarity in being a full house during bye weeks, there is also no shortage of fascinating matchups, with legends chasing history, historic powerhouses looking to kickstart their season and …

This Given Sunday: Lions, Vikings live up to billing

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This past Sunday gave us a heady mix of matchups. Division rivalries were renewed, star quarterbacks clashed, and recent Super Bowl adversaries locked horns once again. The action lived up the billing. Four games were won by teams that had been trailing by more than ten points, while two games were decided in the final minute of regulation.  Detroit and Kansas …

NFL WEEKEND PREVIEW: WEEK 7

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Although the NFC North is currently stealing headlines due to its winning start to the 2024 NFL campaign, it is hard to look past a Super Bowl rematch when it comes to the biggest talking point on the Week 7 slate. Sunday primetime pits the reigning champion — and still unbeaten in 2024 — Kansas City Chiefs (5-0) against a …

NFL WEEKEND PREVIEW: WEEK 6

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The NFL is ridiculously wide open after five weeks of action in 2024. Two teams are still unbeaten, with the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings both boasting 5-0 records, but, beyond them, it’s hard to say that there are any truly dominant sides. Six teams that missed the postseason last year have at least three wins this season, and …

TFTB: MASON ON COURSE TO RUN DOWN RECORD

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Undrafted entering the NFL in 2022, running back Jordan Mason has had to wait quite a while for his chance to play a leading role for San Francisco, but he has emphatically taken that opportunity in 2024 to fuel the 49ers’ quest to go one better after last season’s defeat in Super Bowl 58, albeit one that hasn’t yet gathered …

This Given Sunday: Vikings outlast Jets at Tottenham

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After weeks of dominant defensive football, offenses finally kicked into life in Week 5 of the NFL season. High octane shootouts in Cincinnati and Jacksonville provided spectacular entertainment in the early window, with the Jaguars picking up their first win ahead of their annual trip to London next week. The defenses didn’t lay down completely however. Week 5 marked the …

This Given Sunday: More surprises as Bo nixes Baker

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If Week 2 of the new NFL season didn’t provide enough surprises, Week 3 added to the haul as six teams — the Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants — all earned their first win of the season, with two more — the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals — hoping to …

‘Dialled in’ Bosa looking to lead league once more

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Given their history during Kyle Shanahan’s time as head coach, it was no surprise the San Francisco 49ers made life extremely difficult for Aaron Rodgers in Week 1, and it was similarly no shock that defensive end Nick Bosa was leading the charge in swarming Rodgers on the New York Jets quarterback’s first appearance since tearing his Achilles in last …

This Given Sunday: Carr mows down Cowboys

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Ahead of the Monday night matchup between Philadelphia and Atlanta — which, based on last week’s performances, may not be as close — 11 of the weekend’s NFL games were decided by one score, including four that featured a game-winning score in the final minute of regulation or in overtime. One that wasn’t featured two of the highest scoring teams …

NFL Weekend Preview: Week 2

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Close games, dramatic comebacks and memorable plays highlighted the opening weekend of the new NFL season but, as always, there will be teams heading into Week 2 thinking they should have won while others will know they got away with a result perhaps they did not deserve. It may only be one game but, since 1990, league history has shown …

Four-Day Weekend celebrates NFL kickoff

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The NFL is set to stage its biggest opening weekend ever, with four days of games and global events designed to engage fans worldwide. To excite fans for the start of the season, the NFL recently unveiled its season-long brand campaign for 2024, titled ‘This Is Football Country’. The campaign highlights the passion and community spirit that football cultivates, while …

Eight live games to close NFL preseason coverage

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NFL Network will wrap up its preseason schedule by showing no fewer than eight live games this week, including a double-header on Friday (August 23rd) and a quadruple-header on Saturday (August 24th) as well as re-airs of every game played over the three-day period. The schedule kicks off in the early hours of Friday when the reigning Super Bowl champion …

Make Sure You Catch This!

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The team that brought you Quarterback in 2023 has unveiled its latest NFL-themed project, Receiver, which will follow the fortunes of five of the league’s best pass-catchers through last season. The eight-episode series is set to premiere this summer and serves as a continuation of Netflix’s relationship with the NFL that began with the ultra-successful Quarterback, which hit the Netflix …

World tunes in as Super Bowl LVIII sets TV records

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A global TV audience of 62.5m viewers watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, representing a 10% increase over 2023 as NFL fandom continues to grow around the globe. According to Nielsen’s National panel measurement, February’s Super Bowl was the most-watched television event of all time, airing live in over 195 countries and …

STARS ON 58: WHO TO WATCH IN SUPER BOWL LVIII

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Every NFL team has its superstars, the names everyone knows whether they follow the sport or not, but who are the players to pay special attention to in this year’s big game? PATRICK MAHOMES Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was at his best on shorter passes this season, recording the most completions (320) and touchdowns (19) on passes travelling less than …

No magic to stopping Mahomes, insists 49ers defense

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The San Francisco 49ers had to go through a lot of adversity to get to Super Bowl 58. It was predominantly adversity brought about by their own slow starts, but their ability to overcome a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit in the divisional round against the Green Bay Packers and fight back from 17 points down at half-time of the NFC Championship …

Niners keen to thwart Spagnuolo defensive plan

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One of the most jarring aspects of the San Francisco 49ers’ first-half struggles across their opening two playoff games was the lacklustre performance of the offense. In each of the two first halves against both the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round and the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship Game, the 49ers struggled to find the devastating offensive …

Lions’ first or Niners’ eighth?

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The Detroit Lions might be the underdog in Sunday’s NFC Conference Championship game, but that suits Dan Campbell’s men just fine. Playing in only their second Championship Game — the first was way back in 1991 — the Lions are one of four current NFL franchises never to have played in the season finale, but they have the look of …

Greenlaw always a player living on the edge

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A tone-setter on the 49ers’ defense, Greenlaw’s aggressiveness and extreme physicality can often draw the ire of referees. However, he has taken no greater risk than the decision he made in last Saturday’s divisional round playoff win over the Green Bay Packers. Greenlaw snagged the game-clinching interception, his second of the game, picking off a throw from Packers quarterback Jordan …

EXCLUSIVE: ‘BIG HAT’ A PERFECT FIT FOR FREAK WILLIAMS

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There was a clear and considerable contributing factor to three straight defeats for the San Francisco 49ers between Week 6 and Week 8 of their 2023 season: injuries to wide receiver Deebo Samuel and left tackle Trent Williams. Consistently the first players out of the tunnel, bouncing and head-bobbing their way to the field to the bombastic sounds emanating from …

Purdy wins votes in Eagles ‘referendum’

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Monday 4th September marked one year since the start of what has fast become one of the greatest stories in modern NFL history, as an injury to quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, something with which the San Francisco 49ers were frustratingly familiar, in the first quarter of a Week 13 game against the Miami Dolphins catapulted the final pick in the 2022 …