Matt LaFleur’s decision to kick a late field goal Sunday with the Packers trailing by eight points was one he immediately came to regret. But it didn’t punch the Buccaneers’ ticket to the Super Bowl. A pass interference call on Green Bay cornerback Kevin King did moments later. With 1:46 remaining and the Bucs looking to convert third-and-4, Tom Brady […]

The Packers had their chances.   Now, the painful question that follows is obvious: How many more chances does Green Bay have with quarterback Aaron Rodgers following a 31-26 loss to the Buccaneers in the NFC championship game?  Rodgers didn’t take long to add to that narrative in his postgame press conference with a Favre-like response about his future.  Considering Rodgers has […]

The Kansas City Chiefs knew the NFL had their number all season. They didn’t blink. The Chiefs used stellar coaching and a stable of talent to answer nearly every challenge and engineer a second consecutive Super Bowl berth.  Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes posted a spectacular AFC championship performance just one week after entering the NFL’s concussion protocol. He cleared protocol on Friday and […]

The most unusual season in NFL history will end with something (else) that has never happened: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will become the first team in league history to compete for a Super Bowl title in their home stadium. Super Bowl LV will be played on Feb. 7 at the Buccaneers’ Raymond James Stadium, a date the NFL awarded years […]

Covered Packers for Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1997-2013 Two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association GREEN BAY, Wis. — Even Aaron Rodgers doesn’t know what the future holds for him with the Green Bay Packers. That’s how he left things after Sunday’s 31-26 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Sunday’s NFC […]

Aaron Rodgers is coming off an MVP-caliber NFL season. He’s also coming off his second straight berth in the NFC championship game. But the longtime Packers quarterback also turned 37 in December. He just completed his 16th NFL season. He’s coming off his second straight loss in the conference title game. And second-year coach Matt LaFleur still traded up to draft […]

The Green Bay Packers forced two turnovers in the fourth quarter and scored zero points off of them, but in the final half of the fourth quarter, they were knocking on the door of the end zone. Then, Matt LaFleur elected to kick a field goal. It wasn’t as simple of a decision as that, of course, but the outcome […]

Good news for Kevin King: After being listed as questionable with a back injury earlier in the week, the Packers defensive back managed to play in Sunday’s NFC championship game, finishing with four tackles. Bad news for Kevin King: Uh, basically everything else that happened against the Buccaneers. In Green Bay’s 31-26 loss, King was beat by Tampa Bay receivers, used as a surfboard […]

The Bills will not get the reprieve from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes they had hoped for in Sunday’s 2021 AFC championship game. Mahomes was knocked out of the divisional round by a hit to his head area, but he passed though the NFL concussion protocol during the week and will start at Arrowhead Stadium. Chad Henne would have been the choice […]

Tom Brady: NFL star ‘summons’ Rob Gronkowski in 2016 Tom Brady has landed himself a monster bonus after guiding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Super Bowl LV with a victory over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Brady has earned himself $500,000 after leading the Bucs to their first Super Bowl since 2002. Brady put in a show-stopping performance to […]