Nick Folk

— We figured that Devin McCourty owed some of his teammates dinner. A nice cut of prime rib for Mr. Prime Time Tom Brady maybe, for impeccable efficiency in answering his critics on that last-minute drive in regulation. A big Maine lobster, surely,...

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This was supposed to serve as the best gauge for the Miami Dolphins. The opponent wasn't too good (Houston). The opponent wasn't too bad (Oakland). The New York Jets were nearly their equal, and the Dolphins had every opportunity to prove they were...

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The reminder to their former defensive coordinator and a nationally-televised audience came with every punishing hit of Mark Sanchez, every crushing tackle of one of the New York Jets, and every ball that either bounced off the turf or fluttered in the...

The Ravens responded to the New York Jets' rhetoric with resiliency. Overcoming turnovers and capitalizing on penalties, the Ravens wrestled out a season-opening 10-9 victory over the Jets before 78,127 at New Meadowlands Stadium. A less-than-full-...

Three Things on the Miami Dolphins' wildly successful, remarkably easy 30-9 win over the New York Jets: Thing 1: Monday I posted a blog looking at the Dolphins' special teams under Darren Rizzi and suggesting that could be the difference in this...

Three Things on this Miami Dolphins-New York Jets overtime madness: Thing 1: Can't blame Joe Philbin for calling the timeout just before Nick Folk's first attempt at the game-winning field goal.  That's what you do in that situation. It's just horrible...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — So much for those high-powered New York Jets. Or those creaky Pittsburgh Steelers.   Ben Roethlisberger passed for 275 yards and two touchdowns and the Steelers smothered the lifeless Jets in the second half of a 27-10 victory on...

The Ravens will hold their first full-team practice of training camp on Thursday. Each day leading up to the official start of camp, The Sun will examine several key position battles that will be decided during preseason. KICKER The competitors: Billy...

The two names you read here and pretty much everywhere else in the days leading up to the draft as it related to the Ravens and their original 29th overall pick were Alabama linebacker Dont’a Hightower and Wisconsin center Peter Konz. As it turns...