Gregg Easterbrook

Plus: Larry Fitzgerald reminds us how great Jerry Rice was, exaggerated crime on TV, and diplomatic blunders.

Plus: Larry Fitzgerald reminds us how great Jerry Rice was, exaggerated crime on TV, and diplomatic blunders.

Plus: Larry Fitzgerald reminds us how great Jerry Rice was, exaggerated crime on TV, and diplomatic blunders.

The league has an abuse problem with narcotics and with Toradol. Marijuana could be an off-ramp. Also: GM, GHWB, and GA football folds.

Booth crews just don't understand sports analytics. They should. Also: A less extreme (and more responsible) interpretation of the administration's climate report.

Booth crews just don't understand sports analytics. They should. Also: A less extreme (and more responsible) interpretation of the administration's climate report.

An all-time classic puts the future of the NFL on display. Plus: The NYT advocates for price controls, but not on newspapers; and how Donald Trump is like a cornerback.

An all-time classic puts the future of the NFL on display. Plus: The NYT advocates for price controls, but not on newspapers; and how Donald Trump is like a cornerback.

Plus: seeing space in a certain kind of light, and 2018 ballot referendums.

Plus: seeing space in a certain kind of light, and 2018 ballot referendums.

The program's and school's insiders put power and money ahead of academics, even ahead of human life, in the case of player Jordan McNair's death. Plus: No more unbeatens in the NFL.

The business of NFL broadcasting contracts. Plus: All things Scotland, from notes from a visit to notes on the TV show 'Outlander.'

Plus: 'Tis the season for around-the-clock coverage of Elizabeth Warren and around-the-clock Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel.

Plus: 'Tis the season for around-the-clock coverage of Elizabeth Warren and around-the-clock Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel.

The three most prolific QBs ever are evidence. Plus: the annual New York Times Corrections on Fast Forward!

Headlined by the record-breaking Drew Brees (b. 1979). Plus: Wonder Woman explains the American electorate, and 'Chicago P.D.' fails miserably to explain American crime.

Term limits for SCOTUS, anyone? In addition to TMQ, this week it's Tuesday Morning Courterback.

Term limits for SCOTUS, anyone? In addition to TMQ, this week it's Tuesday Morning Courterback.

Term limits for SCOTUS, anyone? In addition to TMQ, this week it's Tuesday Morning Courterback.

With Mahomes and Fitzpatrick putting up video-game numbers early, Clay Matthews and fellow pass rushers show why it's that much tougher to slow them down. Plus: On prep schools and fraternities in light of the Brett Kavanaugh saga.

With Mahomes and Fitzpatrick putting up video-game numbers early, Clay Matthews and fellow pass rushers show why it's that much tougher to slow them down. Plus: On prep schools and fraternities in light of the Brett Kavanaugh saga.

With Mahomes and Fitzpatrick putting up video-game numbers early, Clay Matthews and fellow pass rushers show why it's that much tougher to slow them down. Plus: On prep schools and fraternities in light of the Brett Kavanaugh saga.

Plus: Patrick Mahomes already looks like a star. And what's with Rudy Giuliani doing one job when he's listed as having a million of them?

Plus: Patrick Mahomes already looks like a star. And what's with Rudy Giuliani doing one job when he's listed as having a million of them?

Plus: Politicians as Plagiarists.

Pro football is about to gamble away its future. Plus: Sen. Richard Russell's place in history and on buildings.

Pro football is about to gamble away its future. Plus: Sen. Richard Russell's place in history and on buildings.

The changing of the guard continues in the league's best conference, but Drew Brees and the Saints may have one last run left. Plus: More generous catch rules in 2018, but not as generous as the "rules" for cosmic travel in sci-fi.

Will the Texans finally get healthy and become favorites? Plus: "Packing" the court, and packing as much action into an episode of "24" as creatively possible.

Will the Texans finally get healthy and become favorites? Plus: "Packing" the court, and packing as much action into an episode of "24" as creatively possible.

A record number of signal-callers goes top-10. Plus: Misleading studio flicks, and breaking down the world one decimal point at a time.

A possible record number of QBs will be taken in the NFL Draft's first round (and there's a chance that analysts will really, really like the picks). Plus: Why teams make seemingly inconsequential trades.

Will Super Bowl 52 be the event that changes how the football establishment thinks? About going for it on fourth down, of course.

You may not believe this, but in the United States there are more weeks without football than with it. How can that be!

So the Patriots are heading back to the Super Bowl for the 278th consecutive year. The last time New England did not make the Super Bowl, the Hapsburgs were still on thrones. Gosh is it exciting when the same team wins over and over and over!

If a season of neurological hazards, political controversy, public subsidies, and bad officiating has left you wondering why Americans like football so much, Sunday was your answer. First, David outscored Goliath in Pittsburgh, then the triple-comeback contest in Minnesota built up to the best…

Jon Gruden is the new head coach of the Raiders, a high-profile move that may or may not pan out in football terms but is certain to ensure round-the-clock ESPN coverage when the franchise relocates to Las Vegas in 2020. Once at Vegas, the team will be known to this column as the Sinners. If NFL…

Tuesday Morning Quarterback’s Authentic Games metric tracks quality victories in high-pressure situations, and has a decent track record at predicting Super Bowl pairings. During the regular season, I employ a super-sophisticated proprietary algorithm to determine what counts as an Authentic game.

Because this year’s schedule meant football on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, TMQ didn’t watch any. But how can you miss me when I won’t go away? My holiday gift to readers is a column-length expansion of Tuesday Morning Quarterback’s A Cosmic Thought item.

Santa hasn’t even begun to pack his sleigh and already an NFL head coach, two general managers, and three coordinators have been shown the door, along with numerous head coaches and athletic directors cashiered at Power Five football programs. Plus an NFL owner just agreed to give himself the boot…

Last week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell inked a five-year contract that is expected to pay him up to about $200 million. This agreement has a little implication and a big implication.

“Sure you won two Super Bowls, but what have you done for us lately?”New Jersey Giants to Eli Manning, benchwarmer.

There are regular old games, then there are Authentic Games. Tuesday Morning Quarterback judges teams by the latter.

The big play of the 2010 Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a surprise onside kick. The big play of the 2016 Alabama college national title win was a surprise onside kick. These weren’t just plays that worked in ho-hum contests—they were plays that won championships. Yet the surprise onside remains…

Prep football playoffs have begun in many states and are about to kick off in Texas, home of the Dillon Panthers of Friday Night Lights renown and center of high-school football culture. The crazed Texas playoff system invites countless schools to gargantuan sets of brackets that produce 12 state…

In week nine, many NFL head and assistant coaches were dressed in camo-stylized gear that suggested military fatigues. At attention along the sidelines were even larger than usual contingents of color guards from the services, dress-uniformed law enforcement officers, and other first responders.…

Halloween marks the halfway juncture of the NFL regular season, and is a good time to assess who’s likely still to be suited up in January when most of the league has retired to the couch to drink boysenberry IPA and watch the playoffs. Tuesday Morning Quarterback proposes a new way to make this…

Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffp. That’s the sound of the air rushing out of the Falcons’ balloon. Atlanta’s NFL team has not merely staged an epic fail. The Falcons are, in every way, the Epic Fails.

“Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country?” Donald Trump tweeted last week, using German-style capitalization. Trump may have been thinking of the NFL’s headquarters tax exemption which, applying to the league’s New York City…

Note to readers: Last weekend I attended a ceremonial event, and paid no attention to sports. But how can you miss me when I won’t go away? Please note that I wrote today’s column in advance, not knowing what happened last weekend in sports or current events.

Thousands of people work on National Football League coaching staffs and in front offices. Millions of Americans pretend to do these roles in fantasy leagues, or simply fantasize about running an NFL team. Everyone wonders: What is the secret to NFL success?

Recent NFL seasons have begun with waves of negativity: the Ray Rice controversy to start the 2014 season, the assault on the airwaves by DraftKings and FanDuel at the start of 2015, the Tom Brady suspension in the first month of 2016. This year it’s President Donald Trump denouncing NFL players as…

Ye gods the Bills at Panthers game was awful to behold, and not just because no touchdown was scored. Dropped passes, missed assignments, overthrown receivers—these guys are paid millions of dollars a year and the owners wallow in public subsidies. How could the result be so crummy? The game is…

Ah, September. The air is turning crisp. Soon leaves will show colors; the holidays are in prospect; everyone looks better in sweaters. Yours truly loves autumn and its September-to-Christmas parade. Each year we live through two days that are not September-to-Christmas to earn the privilege of…

With the NFL about to start, predictions are everywhere. TMQ’s Super Bowl picks come at the end of this column—along with the disclaimer, All Predictions Wrong or Your Money Back.

All the Atlanta Falcons had to do was run straight ahead and they would have won the Super Bowl. Yet they got cute, and paid a price.

Since the turn of the 21st century, NFL ratings have steadily increased, and Tuesday Morning Quarterback has gotten steadily longer. Then a year ago this time, I took a year off to complete my next book. Untoward things happened in TMQ’s absence. Donald Trump was elected. Waffle-flavored Oreos came…