Quick Slant: TNF - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
Rams @ 49ers, Thursday @ 8:15 PM Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, two rivers flowing from the same spring, were once apprentices in the erudite playbook of Mike Shanahan, Kyle’s father, the architect of the zone-blocking scheme that reshaped the tenets of 100 years of offensive football. Soon after, Shanahan
Quick Slant: MNF - And Then, Darkness
Bengals @ Cowboys, Monday @ 8:15 PM It is appropriate that the calendar has flipped to December; Monday Night Football features teams skittering on paper-thin ice. The 4-8 Bengals and the 5-7 Cowboys entered the season with massive aspirations, but, by now, those aspirations have been proven unrealistic. Each team has
Quick Slant: SNF - Building a Winning Culture Out of Wins
Chargers @ Chiefs, Sunday @ 8:20 PM On the western edge of Missouri, the noises of GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, the loudest outdoor venue in the world, hitch a ride on the wind over a small metropolis dolloped into the Midwestern plains. The roar of 70,000, huddled in the
Quick Slant: TNF - The Caiman and the Jaguar
Packers @ Lions, Thursday @ 8:15 PM Green Bay is the NFL’s Old Testament. The league’s roots grow from there – a lush maroon-brick stadium sprouts from a suburban neighborhood, its PA system inspiring the dreams of children sound asleep on school nights. The smell of brats augments sleepy, cold
Quick Slant: MNF - Can the Browns Spoil the Season That Was Never Meant to Be?
Browns @ Broncos, Monday @ 8:15 PM The Broncos have been one of the NFL’s most pleasant surprises in 2024. Under HC Sean Payton, they’ve found a way to navigate a season that, for all intents and purposes, should have been a dead end. Strangled by cap issues after
Quick Slant: SNF - The Bills Look Them in the Eyes and Smile, Holding Scissors to the Thread by Which the Niners' Season Hangs
49ers @Bills, Sunday @ 8:20 PM The forecast for Sunday is pure Buffalo—snowy and blustery, cold cutting through layers of down and wool. Amid the white flakes of an after-dark snow shower illuminated by halogen, Highmark Stadium will be alive under a sea of royal blue and red, breathy
Quick Slant: Black Friday - Will It Be a Black and Silver Friday, or Will the Raiders Be Seeing Red?
Raiders @ Chiefs, Friday @ 3:00 PM In the autumn of 1959, Lamar Hunt paced his office. Professional football – a sport he loved – was growing, but the NFL had turned its back on him. When he proposed bringing a team to Texas, the league's owners scoffed at this naive
Quick Slant: MNF - Draw Thy Sword, That Thy Arm May Do Thee Justice
Ravens @ Chargers, Monday @ 8:15 PM If Shakespeare wrote a rivalry, it would be that of the Harbaugh brothers. King Jim: O younger brother, thou hast seized the crown that eludes mine grasp. Whilst I toiled, longing for triumph, thou didst snatch from me what fate denied. Blood of my