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While the NFL and its fans recover from a busy week of horse trading, two former division rivals square off in Pittsburgh Thursday night.   And it shapes up to be a game that football romantics might describe as young quarterbacks passing in the night.    A ...

Las Vegas Raiders interim head coach Antonio Pierce introduced himself to the media Wednesday citing street cred as being Straight Outta Compton and boldly declaring he was ready to turn the page in the franchise’s difficult recent history.  “It’s a new day, a ...

A couple of hours before midnight on Halloween, 2023, the Las Vegas Raiders shed their Patriots costume. It was a bad fit.   In his best move since hiring Jon Gruden, Raiders owner Mark Davis fired head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler, whose ...

TENNESSEE TITANS (3-4) AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS (4-3) DATE: Thursday, Novmeber 2, 2023 GAME TIME: 8:15 PM ET Acrisure Stadium REFEREE John Hussey Prime Video: Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit, Kaylee Hartung Westwood One: Kevin Kugler, Ross Tucker SiriusXM (team ...

Not counting the upcoming presidential elections, major changes are afoot in Washington where the new ownership of the NFL Commanders obviously wants to rebuild for the future. After trading defensive end Montez Sweat to the Chicago Bears on Monday, the Commanders ...

In the 2023 season, where predictability is a scarce commodity, the one thing we did not need was a rash of injuries at the quarterback position to muddle things. But such is the landscape of most NFL seasons. The return of a healthy star QB (Joe Burrow) is marred ...

Week 7 again showed that the 2023 NFL season has not emptied its chamber of surprises and confounding results. Heading into this slate of games, we at the Xchange were held in thrall by the same questions that gripped most NFL observers:   Can the Lions — so ...

It may have seemed that a fairly unpredictable 2023 season may have reached its zenith of off-centered zaniness last week with near upsets (Hello, Buffalo) and shockers that scarred unbeaten teams (Eagles, 49ers) and their fans.   But injuries to key players ...

With the passing of NFL legends Russ Francis and Dick Butkus casting a shadow over the league this week, fans were in need of some distraction. And that diversion came in the form of a slate of games that produced a bushel of WTF moments and "did not see that one ...

As we wait for the 40th renewal of the 49ers-Cowboys rivalry, a series tied at 19-19-1, let's look back at a turning point in the battles between these two franchises. Going into an October 11, 1981 game between Dallas and San Francisco, the 49ers won only two ...