PITTSBURGH — The Steelers-Ravens rivalry is the best in the NFL and has been for quite some time.

The games are always highly competitive, physical and have a high dose of good, old-fashioned, slobber-knockin' football. There is trash talking, there are bragging rights on the line and there are almost always playoff and AFC North implications...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The stalest phrase in Kansas City first turned up some 5,000 miles, three time zones and one entire continent away.

Well, first turned up this year.

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid walked into a postgame news conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the aftermath of a Week 1 loss to the Chargers, and greeted a question from ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Pardon the intrusion, but where’s the party?

Where is the laughter, the excitement, the anticipation? Why the short tempers and long faces?

Sure, it feels a little snobbish to say it, but this is not the December we had in mind.

The Bucs are potentially a handful of games away from clinching their fifth consecutive NFC South...Read more

GREG COTE’S NFL WEEK 14 THURSDAY PICK

COWBOYS (6-5-1) at LIONS (7-5)

Line: DET by 3.

Cote’s pick: DET, 34-30.

TV: 8:15 p.m., Prime Video.

What is this, Thanksgiving leftovers? The two annual Bird Day hosts are back, rested for the Precarious Bowl, with Detroit and Dallas opening Week 14 sitting eighth and ninth in the jockeying for ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Ravens tight end Mark Andrews will be staying in Baltimore a little longer.

On Wednesday, he agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep him with the Ravens through 2028, the team announced. He was slated to be a free agent after this season.

The deal is worth $39.3 million with $26 million guaranteed, according to a...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger, among the greatest Steelers of all time, has officially registered his opinion on Mike Tomlin's future.

"Maybe it is 'clean-house' time. Maybe it is time," Roethlisberger said on his "Footbahlin'" podcast. "I like coach Tomlin. I have a lot of respect for coach Tomlin. But maybe it's best for him, too. Maybe a...Read more

America feasted on NFL football this past Thanksgiving.

Several viewing records were set Thursday, including the most-watched regular season NFL game in history. The CBS telecast of the Dallas Cowboys' 31-28 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs was watched by 57.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen data.

The number blew past the 42 million ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kevin Patullo said Wednesday that he’s ready to “move on” after becoming the victim of a vandalism incident in the aftermath of the Philadelphia Eagles’ loss to the Chicago Bears.

According to the Moorestown Police Department, Patullo’s home was vandalized with multiple eggs early Saturday morning, just hours after ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For a husband and father who had just experienced an act of vandalism that impacted his wife and family, Kevin Patullo didn’t just take the high road. He took the highest of all possible roads.

He complimented the overwhelming majority of fans and media who have called for his dismissal and created an environment that can ...Read more

CHICAGO — It was on the heels of a 31-point beatdown in Detroit that Ben Johnson predicted the Chicago Bears would be playing their best football in December.

He has a heck of a challenge looming — for the Bears to be better than they were in November — with five games remaining and his team atop the NFC at 9-3 entering Sunday’s game ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man accused of trespassing at the Leawood, Kan., home of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in September entered a diversion program Tuesday.

Justin Lee Fisher, who was charged with criminal trespassing in Leawood Municipal Court after Leawood police arrested him around 2:15 a.m. Sept. 15, later wrote in a court ...Read more

SEATTLE — What a difference 11 months make.

On Dec. 22, 2024, Sam Darnold was the starting quarterback for a Super Bowl contender. Trailing the Seattle Seahawks 24-20 with 3:58 left, he faked a handoff, climbed a disappearing pocket and ripped a 39-yard rope to Justin Jefferson for the deciding score. The Minnesota Vikings left Lumen Field ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are signing cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. to their 53-man roster and waiving veteran cornerback Darius Slay, sources have told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

That wasn’t their only move on Tuesday. They claimed former Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen off waivers and signed him to their 53-man ...Read more

Each week I’ll list the best widely available free agents for fantasy football — I define “widely available” as being owned in around half of all ESPN or Yahoo leagues — and some guys who are probably better off in the free-agent pool than collecting dust on your roster.

Follow me on X (formerly known as Twitter) @UTEddieBrown if you ...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — The next NFL MVP calls New England home.

His team lords over the AFC East.

And after being bloodied, beaten and downright lucky to slink out of Cincinnati with a win last week, the Patriots unleashed all they had left before their long-awaited bye.

Even the optimist’s optimist had to admit there was a decent chance that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Younghoe Koo says Monday’s flubbed field-goal attempt wasn’t a matter of him taking a misstep.

Rather, it was the result of the ball moving as Koo prepared to kick it, prompting him to stop suddenly, he said after the Giants’ 33-15 loss to the New England Patriots.

“[With] the ball and the cold weather, and the ball kind ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — It has been admirable how the Pittsburgh Steelers have been able to milk two or three years out of this roster, but all they have done really is kick the can of an actual rebuild down the road.

That isn’t a compliment, either.

I get the obsession with no losing seasons. I get the obsession with the pipe dream of sneaking into ...Read more

SEATTLE — The cliché that players will use — and boy do they use it — is that every week is about going 1-0.

This week, though, the Seahawks essentially went 2-0.

One victory came via a 26-0 thrashing of the Minnesota Vikings at Lumen Field. The other came about three and a half hours earlier, when the Panthers upset the Rams in ...Read more

It’s said so often around football that it has become trite:

Games are won and lost in the trenches.

And while I’m not here to knock the big men, I have a different spin on things, at least when it comes to the defensive side of the ball.

I have a saying that I’ve used so often that it elicits eye rolls from those who talk football with...Read more