Full features from The Grid, outside the paywall. No card, no email, no extract. These are the pieces exactly as subscribers read them in the magazine.
One subject, taken apart properly.
Ninety men become fifty-three in an afternoon. Who decides, what they are weighing, and how much of it is money rather than football.
Read it Issue 6 · The Deep DiveThree of the sixteen games in Week 1 were settled by a quarterback who was not supposed to be playing. What the second chair now costs, and the week the bill arrived.
Read itThe piece with nothing to do with last Sunday.
Ten new head coaches, and almost every one of them from the same family tree. Why the league’s offenses are converging, and what it looks like on a Sunday.
Read it Issue 3 · Camp WatchTraining camp is not a rehearsal. It is six weeks of men being removed from the picture, and the injuries decide as much as the coaches.
Read itWho is actually in charge, and what they believe.
Promoted from within to keep a star quarterback comfortable, and to do the one thing his predecessor could not.
Read it Issue 3 · Atlanta FalconsTwo Coach of the Year awards in Cleveland and a quarterback carousel that would have finished most men. Now Atlanta.
Read itThe one-offs, from sections that do not run every week.
A bust in New York, a stopgap in Carolina, a clipboard-holder in San Francisco, and then a Super Bowl winner against the team that made him a punchline.
Read it Issue 5 · published free, 3 SeptemberTwenty-five years on from 9/11. Why the NFL cancelled a weekend in 2001, the decision Pete Rozelle got wrong in 1963 and regretted for the rest of his life, and why almost nobody now playing was alive when it happened.
Read itA feature comes out of the paywall three issues after it is published. Nothing newer than that appears here. Game reviews, statistics, league leaders, deep numbers and more statistics, injury report, Fantasy, game previews and matchups stay with subscribers.
