The Giants simply don't have a running back who can carry the workload in the ground game.

How important is playing for a coach who focuses on "situational football"? @devinmccourty lived it for 13 years in New England.

International games complicate the effort to provide proper health care to injured football players.

Team doctors don't need any directives from the coach, GM, or owner. The pressure to clear players to play is inherent to the assignment.

The only way to get the truth as to what happened with Jalen Hurts is to fully investigate and commit to transparency of the findings.

Giants should start Jameis Winston at Texans, but they should have J.J. McCarthy ready to step in, if necessary.

The NFL needs to have unaffiliated doctors who are willing to tell teams when players should not be playing for health reasons.

49ers S Malik Mustapha could be one illegal hit on a defenseless player away from an automatic one-game suspension.

Jed York's six-game suspension is over, and there's still a clear disconnect between the financial consequences of owner suspensions and player suspensions.

Dan Quinn's explanation of the failed fourth-down play in the first half, even if true, exposes more problems with the team's attention to detail.

After his car accident in July, Kyle Shanahan is doing some of his best coaching ever.

It's time for the Giants to turn to J.J. McCarthy.

The Rams are bottoming out, and it's just a matter of time before they use the media pointing out their struggles as motivation to prove everyone wrong.

The situation with the Chargers is not sustainable, and changes should be coming now that they're 0-6 at the bye.

Sunday's game at Kansas City is the last chance before the bye for the Chargers to avoid getting someone (i.e., Mike McDaniel) fired.

With everyone in Washington taking the blame for the OT clock debacle, it's impossible to know who was truly responsible and why/how it happened.

The handling of Jalen Hurts' blood clot raises plenty of questions that probably will never be answered.

The Seahawks made a mistake letting Kenneth Walker III leave in free agency. They could rectify it by trading for Saquon Barkley.

Ryan Fitzpatrick's postgame comments about Bo Nix were so unusually strong that it invites speculation as to whether they were prompted by the Broncos.

The handling of Jalen Hurts' calf injury is fishy, and there's nothing to protect gamblers from not getting enough information about it.