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Former Texans, J.J. Watt and DeAndre Hopkins, right at home in Arizona

TEMPE, Ariz. — Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins doesn’t question the way things happen. When former Houston Texans teammate J.J. Watt was traded to the Arizona Cardinals in March, Hopkins said it was “destined.” “I guess we were supposed to be on the same team,” he said. Six games into their first season back together, they’ve picked up where they left off in Houston, where they won four AFC South…

Defense has been the difference for unbeaten Arizona Cardinals

GLENDALE, Ariz. — What took place Sunday afternoon inside State Farm Stadium showed how capable the Arizona Cardinals are of winning when things don’t go their way. The Cardinals escaped with a 17-10 victory, but the San Francisco 49ers used a talented defensive front to pressure Arizona and it worked. Arizona had averaged 35 points per game through the first four weeks of the season, but San…

Making sense of a wild few days of head-turning moves in AFC South – AFC South

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The new league year hasn’t even begun and the AFC South already has had an incredibly eventful week.

NFL Nation reporters Sarah Barshop (Texans), Turron Davenport (Titans), Mike Wells (Colts) and Michael DiRocco (Jaguars) reveal their favorite and least favorite moves of the past few days for the other teams in the division — moves that set the stage for 2020 in the division.

Favorite…

Which new NFL coach will break through in Week 2? – NFL Nation

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Seven head coaches were fired last season and seven new ones took their places in 2018. What are they learning? It’s not easy to win in the National Football League. Matt Nagy, Mike Vrabel, Jon Gruden, Frank Reich, Pat Shurmur, Matt Patricia and Steve Wilks all lost their debuts.

According to Elias Sports Bureau research, it was only the fourth time since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger that no…