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Which division is most likely to put three teams in the playoffs?
The NFL expanded to 14 total playoff teams, seven per conference, in 2020. In each of the five seasons since expansion, at least one division sent th…
5 months ago
TAFS Goes Camping: Conversations with The Athletic's Panthers, Browns and Commanders beat writers
Look, you visit with eight teams in one week, you gotta have two Beat Writer Notebooks. In this edition, Robert talks with Joe Person, Zac Jackson an…
5 months, 1 week ago
TAFS Goes Camping: Conversations with The Athletic's Bills and Steelers beat writers
Robert Mays is coming off his busiest week of training camp yet, having spent the previous seven days with eight different teams (gotta love joint pr…
5 months, 1 week ago
The early training camp storylines that actually matter
Teams have been at training camp for a couple weeks now, so you know what that means. We've got plenty of storylines floating around out there. Some …
5 months, 1 week ago
Quarterbacks at a crossroads in 2025
There is a subset of quarterbacks for whom the 2025 season is an inflection point. For some of them, it's about their future in the league. For other…
5 months, 1 week ago
Half-baked takes for the 2025 NFL season
Some takes are meticulously crafted, with each ingredient that leads to the final perfectly balanced to create a rational, thought-out, deeply held b…
5 months, 1 week ago
We're ready to get hurt again: The teams, players and ideas we just can't quit
We should know better. We really should. We've been at this for a long time, and we know that believing in certain teams and players is bad for us. A…
5 months, 1 week ago
TAFS Goes Camping: Conversations with The Athletic's Eagles and Jets beat writers
Robert Mays went to so many training camps in the previous week, we had to split this weekend's Beat Writer Notebook into two episodes. On this editi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
TAFS Goes Camping: Conversations with The Athletic's Seahawks, Falcons and Ravens beat writers
Robert Mays began the previous week in Seattle. He ended it in New York, by way of the southeast and mid-Atlantic. So, yeah, he's been around a bit. …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The team DNA changers for the 2025 season
Most offseason acquisitions are going to bring some change to their new teams. There's a reason why their new teams went out and got them, after all.…
5 months, 2 weeks ago