Bill Barnwell

Great to see a Leicester-forged legend like Harry Kane win the Ballon d'Or.

New column: Asking "Is it time to..." - Worry about Derrick Henry? - Give up on the Texans defense? - Start talking about the Vikings as a historically great defense? - Move on from Aaron Glenn? And a bunch more from Week 7! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Dan Campbell understood the game flow and knew Trey Smack was going to miss that kick, everyone chill

The Lions ran mesh with Penei Sewell (335 pounds) and Jameson Williams (184 pounds) as the two crossers, which has to be the biggest disparity in Air Raid history

The Lions just ran mesh with Penei Sewell as one of the crossers

"Nobody better in the league at breaking tackles than Cam Skattebo"?

Even suggesting that the Rams should trade for Spencer Shrader apparently broke him.

Mike Gesicki's TD counting as part of National Tight End Day is stolen valor

The 49ers tried so hard to have Kaelon Black vulture that TD

Third-and-long for the Saints. You would really hope this goes to Chris Olave (12).

If you asked me under oath whether the Steelers defense is good I would not be able to answer

New column: 11 trades for NFL teams to consider before the upcoming deadline, including deals for: Saquon Barkley Khalil Mack Brian Thomas Dallas Goedert and more! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

If you can win an Emmy for an idea Shaq should win it for his game move here

Hold my calls

Intentional offsides!

Vrabel deserves credit for trying any type of offense at the end of the half! 9 seconds left, two timeouts at -34. A lottttttt of head coaches are kneeling it out there. Rams essentially gave up at that same spot on the field this week with 46 (!) seconds left, 0 timeouts.

Allowing a TD on a third and 17 screen when you aren't even blitzing is tough

New podcast: @conororr.bsky.social joins for an NFC East chat: - Should the Eagles sell at the deadline (and who) - Jalen Hurts's future - Who on earth is going to win the NFC East - Should division champs with losing records get to host playoff games youtu.be/YAkoePtPM3Y

New column: 11 trades for NFL teams to consider before the upcoming deadline, including deals for: Saquon Barkley Khalil Mack Brian Thomas Dallas Goedert and more! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Convinced that Rico Dowdle just picks a jersey number at random each year

Fourth down for the Commanders.

Anyway, here's a commercial where the analytics lead for the defending Super Bowl champion talks about how he helps the coaching staff every week www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdq3...

It's the same grift

New column: The Rams, preseason Super Bowl favorites, are 2-4. No team in NFL history has had a losing record through six weeks and gone on to win the Super Bowl. What's gone wrong? Can the Rams buck that trend? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Taunting the Cowboys is supposed to be an inalienable right

Love Joe Brady disdainfully shaking his head. It's C.J. Gardner-Johnson! What were you expecting?

FWIW, C.J. Gardner-Johnson said last week that his favorite conspiracy theory is that eggs don't taste like chicken. HALFTIME: Bills and Raiders tied at 13-13

This tweet apparently triggered the Saints offense to start scoring points again, they can suddenly run the ball now

If the claw of shame had done this, Nathan would be in jail.

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

Bringing in J.J. McCarthy for a package each week to run power read and zone read concepts is also a punishment but I am the one being punished

Sending Drew Brees around the country to watch this version of the Saints offense each week feels like a punishment

The virtual measurement should have been in centimeters in the UK, come on

Marvin Harrison showing up in Houston immediately to get usurped by Jaylin Noel would be fitting

I'm not sure which side of the Nebraska-Oregon boxscore is worse

In preparation for the 24-team playoff this week all top 24 teams have elected to lose

I won't spoil but if you want to see YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING spoiler-free you've got like two days before the spoiler is just something everyone knows

These two quarterbacks under pressure tonight: 4-for-20, 7 sacks, minus-18 net yards

The Seahawks have a 42-yard completion and are still averaging four yards per dropback with that included

Bo Nix is really an artist who shows us new, previously undiscovered ways to narrowly avoid intentional grounding penalties

Sam Darnold's sack rate up over 10 percent after that opening drive. Almost double where it was last year (5.36 percent)

New podcast: Breaking down pleasant surprises from the start of the season with @acosta32jp.bsky.social youtu.be/zJH1wNx82IM

New column: Players and coaches who are on the hotseat www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

A lot of Bijan Robinsons fit in that hole

Before the season, I made bold predictions for all 32 teams. Five weeks in, I'm checking in on those predictions to see which are on track, which still have a chance, and which already need to be thrown out. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Kyren Williams hit this LB with the Arn Anderson spinebuster

I took a deep look into Marvin Harrison's profile. He hasn't been getting much separation, hasn't hit high-end speed, and isn't winning on contested catches very often. He needs to be a different player altogether in Houston. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

The Packers exposed a weakness in the Bears defense for huge plays

He has the highest fumbles per touch rate of any full-time starting RB in the league since the start of 2025, too.