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Getty Images Football coaches are conditioned to want to work — to spend more hours at the office, to watch more film, to continue to grind. So it took Saints coach Sean Payton some time to figure out how to handle time off. Via Amie Just of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Payton put in a...

Getty Images The Vikings, if they hope to turn 6-2 into a special season, need to win in Kansas City on Sunday. To do that, they need to control the clock. But dominating the time-of-possession battle won’t be easy, given the Chiefs in recent weeks have decided to force the issue with a defense...

Getty Images Patrick Mahomes was a limited participant in practice on Wednesday, which leaves the door open to his return to the lineup against the Vikings this week. Mahomes was limited in practice last week as well, but wound up being ruled out due to the dislocated kneecap he suffered in a...

Getty Images After a sluggish start to the season, Minnesota’s offense has improved dramatically. The team’s offensive coordinator tried to explain the spike in production on Thursday. “I think we’ve looked at it and pulled it apart and it’s maybe not as simple an answer as we all would like,”...

Getty Images Yes, the Jets talked to several teams about a potential trade for running back Le'Veon Bell. And Bell has publicly disclosed the teams that were talking to New York about a deadline deal. “There was a lot of trade speculations and rumors about, you know, me getting traded...

Getty Images Two weeks since Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a dislocated kneecap, he once again was on the practice field, participating in a limited basis. It’s still unclear whether he’ll play on Sunday against the Vikings. Last week, the Chiefs ruled him out on Friday. This...

Getty Images Whether Patrick Mahomes is ready to play so soon after dislocating his kneecap remains to be seen. But he’s at least increasing the amount of work he’s doing in practice. According to Vahe Gregorian of the Kansas City Star, Chiefs coach Andy Reid said his star quarterback would...

Getty Images Vikings receiver Adam Thielen didn’t practice at all last week, in advance of a Thursday night game against Washington. On Wednesday, four days before a critical game at Kansas City, Thielen practiced on a limited basis. The Vikings listed only three players on Wednesday’s...

Getty Images Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Wednesday morning that Patrick Mahomes would do “a little bit more” in practice than he did last week. While that might have happened, the Chiefs still list their starting quarterback as limited. Mahomes dislocated a kneecap on a quarterback sneak in...

Getty Images Before 2010, the NFL deliberately avoided staging a Sunday night game that competed with the World Series. Nearly a decade later, it’s not much of a competition. The Mahomes-less game between the Packers and Chiefs averaged 18.3 million viewers, according to NBC. The fifth game of...

Getty Images Before the Chiefs lost to the Packers on Sunday night, Patrick Mahomes told Michele Tafoya of NBC that his knee injury would not have kept him out of the lineup had it been a postseason game. Given that feeling, Mahomes’s presence at practice last week and three losses in the last...

Getty Images Aaron Rodgers is good at throwing the football, but we knew that already. His ability to make plays with his feet — and running back Aaron Jones‘ ability to catch big plays — became a key Sunday night, as they led the Packers to a 31-24 win over the Chiefs. With the Chiefs trying...

Getty Images Packers running back Aaron Jones might not have expected the 159 receiving yards. But the fact he scored a pair of touchdowns in the Packers’ win over the Chiefs last night doesn’t surprise him. In fact, it’s written on his bathroom mirror with the rest of his goals “No, it’s not...

Getty Images Chiefs coach Andy Reid made a costly decision with 5:13 left in the fourth quarter on Sunday night, punting on fourth-and-3 near midfield. The Packers ran out the clock and the Chiefs never got the ball back. So why didn’t Reid go for it on fourth-and-3? “It didn’t work out,”...

Getty Images The Chiefs found themselves down 14-0 in the first quarter to the Packers on Sunday night and that seemed like a very bad spot to be given that Patrick Mahomes wasn’t running the offense as they tried to get back into the game. That job fell to Matt Moore, who was making his first...

Getty Images Something strange is going on in the NFL this season: There’s a road-field advantage. Through Sunday’s games, road teams are 63-56-1 this season, according to Judy Battista of the NFL. That’s the most road wins through Week Eight in NFL history. Since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger...

Getty Images Linebacker Blake Martinez was on the Packers’ injury report all week with a wrist injury, but it didn’t stop him from practicing. The Packers did not have Martinez on their status report Friday. But the team downgraded Martinez on Saturday, listing him as questionable to play...

Getty Images On four consecutive nights, professional sports teams headquartered in Washington have had prime-time platforms on FOX. And, of course, the dyfunctional D.C. football franchise drew a larger audience than the overachieving baseball team that is trying to bring a World Series title...

Getty Images His new coach refers to him as an “old man.” But Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is feeling spry, thanks to the youth that’s surrounding him. “I think there’s just such a young energy about this team,” Rodgers recently told Mike Tirico of NBC’s Football Night in America. “When...

Getty Images Although he won’t play tonight against the Packers, the fact that Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes even had a chance to return only 10 days after suffering a dislocated kneecap becomes one of the most surprising developments of the entire 2019 season. The specific timetable for...