Dan Wetzel

Dan Wetzel
Columnist
Dan Wetzel has been a Yahoo Sports national columnist since 2003, covering events and stories around the globe. He is also a New York Times bestselling author and host of the Yahoo Sports College Podcast. Follow him on Twitter (@DanWetzel) and Instagram (wetzelsports).
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Tom Brady's evolution from David to Goliath was buoyed by this Michigan moment
All the Super Bowl titles and records might not have happened if Brady didn't listen to then-Wolverines head coach Lloyd Carr after his second season in Ann Arbor.
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Tom Brady retires with nothing left to prove and nothing left to give
Brady heads into retirement, leaving the NFL as the most obsessive winner the league has ever known.
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Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs wouldn't be in another Super Bowl without an incredible success rate in the NFL Draft
Kansas City has absolutely nailed the last three drafts, which is key for a team that has so much of its salary cap tied up in Mahomes and a few other stars.
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Joseph Ossai's hit on Patrick Mahomes goes down in Bengals infamy, but he didn't face scrutiny alone
Head coach Zac Taylor came and embraced him and let him cry into his shoulder. For Ossai, the support meant the world, but he also still thought he had let the Bengals' world down.
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Super Bowl 2023: Chiefs 'show it's Arrowhead, not Burrowhead,' beat Bengals thanks to late penalty to win AFC
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs will face the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII thanks in part to a critical late Bengals mistake. They
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Will easygoing Patrick Mahomes, whose Chiefs could be underdogs come Sunday, finally lean into a slight for motivation?
Unlike Tom Brady, Michael Jordan and other great athletes, Mahomes has never leaned into slights. But if there were ever a chance for that to change, his 0-3 record against Joe Burrow's Bengals and the talk that accompanies it could do it.
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Tom Brady or Greg Olsen? Fox has a future decision to make on its No. 1 analyst
Greg Olsen has been excellent in the booth, but Fox isn't paying Tom Brady big money to be No. 2.
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Dak Prescott has been good, but the Cowboys need great to win the Super Bowl they so desperately covet
Great quarterbacks find ways to make up for deficiencies and deliver victories. They usually don't set teams back like Prescott did in Sunday's loss to the 49ers.
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'Better send those refunds' — Joe Burrow's grip on AFC remains firm and he's not ready to bow to Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes
Maybe the predicted NFL narrative featured the AFC being run by either Mahomes or Allen for the years to come, but Burrow has now defeated both in the playoffs.

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