Sean Payton took the ultimate bottom-line approach in providing motivation to his New Orleans Saints players last Monday, as they began preparing for Sunday’s divisional-round playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

As a rookie tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Goedert is seeing the qualities that allowed quarterback Nick Foles to become one of the greatest stories in sports.

In preparing for Saturday night’s wild-card playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys, the Seattle Seahawks have certainly done a good bit of studying of the regular-season encounter between the teams in Week 3.

This year, the Eagles’ playoff road figures to be much tougher, as a 9-7 wild-card team that has to travel to Chicago to face the 12-4 Bears Sunday.

Two teams and one game left in the 2015 NFL season. While Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos is still two weeks out, that doesn’t mean the scrutiny and media obsession hasn’t already begun! To … Continued

Denver, New England, Carolina and Arizona. It’s the NFL’s final four. It’s Championship Weekend and our own Lisa Ann is back, previewing the NFC and AFC games while also dropping some fun facts to get you ready. Wanna get really … Continued

And then there were four. The NFL Playoffs divisional round saw some close calls and wild finishes, but eventually went the way of chalk with the top two seeds in both the AFC and NFC advancing to their respective conference … Continued

WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK… There are so many things that I learn on Morning Men on Mad Dog Sports Radio Sirius XM 82! However, what I learn each week is not what everyone else has learned, making the “What Babchik learned … Continued

Good morning! A lot happens in sports, even when you’re not watching, so here are the top headlines and moments from yesterday, in case you missed anything while you were praying you won the Powerball. Down goes Golden State The … Continued

As weird as it sounds, despite all four wild-card teams advancing to the divisional round, these are the matchups we all were hoping for. These games feel like the best of the best: no teams who won an abysmal division, … Continued

For football fans, this past weekend felt like an emotional rollercoaster. I laughed, I cried, my heart raced, my heart stopped (at least it felt like it did) – and I don’t even root for any of the teams that … Continued