By Sam Robb O’Hagan Lost in the on-field fireworks of the last month of the NFL season has been history off the field. When the 2022 trade deadline elapsed on the Tuesday afternoon after Week 8, 20 players had been traded midseason — the most in NFL history — and on the Tuesday of the […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan There’s a cliché in the NFL that is almost as old as the sport itself. A true football thing: There are no moral victories in football. Well, in reality, there are. The Tennessee Titans’ overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday Night Football in Week 9 was brimming with […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Boston University Men’s Basketball (1-1) couldn’t recover after a dominant start from the Connecticut Huskies (2-0), losing their first game of the 2022-23 season 86-57 at Gampel Pavilion. UConn, led by Big East Preseason Player of the Year Adama Sanogo, opened their second game of the season on a convincing 20-2 […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan On Sunday, following the Carolina Panthers’ surreal divisional defeat against the Atlanta Falcons, Patrick Mahomes went to Twitter to claim PJ Walker’s game-tying 62-yard touchdown pass to DJ Moore with 23 seconds left in regulation as the “best throw of the year and not even close.” From a Pro Bowl, All-Pro […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Football is weird. For a game that can be micromanaged like no other, it is remarkable just how often it is decided by inexplicable trends. The layers upon layers of schematic reason that can control the game down as far as the individual movements of individual players make the sport one […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Very few outsiders who play at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, the longest tenured stadium in the NFL, walk out feeling better than they did walking in. Even fewer walk out of the bowl, filled to the brim with fans without fail, with a win. Even fewer walk out with a win […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Geno Smith has been through it. There’s a fine line that every young, highly touted NFL quarterback nervously creeps along when they first enter the league: Where the dream becomes the nightmare, the promise becomes the disappointment, the stud becomes the bum. Geno can tell you all about it. As a […]
The 2022 Chicago Bears have walked through the first four weeks of the NFL season with no real outside conviction. They’re 2–2: an almost invisible win against the Houston Texans, a somber and familiar loss against the Green Bay Packers, an upset of the San Francisco 49ers that quickly became more about the weather than […]