The University of West Florida football team has some question marks entering the 2024 season, at least on the offensive side of the football. While a good number of questions could be answered on Thursday during the Argos’ annual Fan Day Scrimmage, it probably won’t be until the regular season when a few big questions – such as the team’s …
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Aaron Rodgers calls this year’s Jets camp “much harder” than last year’s
Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he’s been through his toughest training camp in years. Rodgers said Jets coach Robert Saleh has put the players through a much harder camp than they had last year, or that teams including the Packers typically run in today’s NFL. Rodgers sees pros and cons to that approach. “Camp is much harder this year, and …
Read More »Cats moving ahead through injury woes
Injuries have been a nagging concern for the Kentucky football program throughout the offseason, and even after taking precautions in fall camp, the Wildcats will enter the 2024 campaign a bit shorthanded. UK, which wrapped up its final scrimmage Saturday in Lexington, will be without running back Chip Trayanum and wide receiver Hardley Gilmore at least through the start of …
Read More »Tom Brady reveals his list of top five active NFL quarterbacks
Tom Brady reveals his list of top five active NFL quarterbacks originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in NFL history. The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers star won a record seven Super Bowl titles, five Super Bowl MVPs and owns many league/team records. But who are the best quarterbacks in pro …
Read More »Bobby Petrino believes Arkansas football’s offense is rounding into form to end preseason
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino was not a happy camper walking off the field inside Reynolds Razorback Stadium after the second scrimmage of fall camp. His quarterbacks had just thrown eight combined interceptions — with Taylen Green tossing two — and the offensive line struggled to protect the passers. There were some positives, like the Razorbacks’ work …
Read More »Tom Brady, Peyton Manning mostly agree on the top quarterbacks in the NFL, with 1 exception
Throughout much of their careers, the debate raged among fans and pundits. Who’s the best quarterback in the NFL: Tom Brady or Peyton Manning? Now the Hall of Fame quarterbacks (or soon to be, in Brady’s case) are the pundits. And it’s their job to rank the quarterbacks. Both did over the weekend on “The Stephen A. Smith Show” at …
Read More »8 takeaways from Indiana football’s 2024 fall camp
BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti saw a little bit of everything during his first fall camp in Bloomington. “There was good, there was bad and there was ugly,” Cignetti said, this month. That was true for both the offense and defense, but even at their lowest point the team still performed better than it had in the spring. Cignetti …
Read More »Commanders sign S Kendall Brooks, LB Chapelle Russell
The Commanders have made some roster moves to change personnel on defense. Washington announced on Tuesday that the team has signed safety Kendall Brooks and linebacker Chapelle Russell. While Brooks has not yet appeared in a regular-season game, Russell last played in 16 contests for the Jaguars in 2021. He was on the field for 72 percent of special teams …
Read More »After carrying Braintree football with one arm, record-breaker is finally at full strength
BRAINTREE — In terms of history-making for the Braintree High football team, it appears that James Curry was ahead of the curve last year. Now imagine if he was full strength. Thankfully, he finally is. Curry, despite sporting a heavy-duty brace on his dominant right arm, turned a monster statistical season thanks to a second-half breakout to his junior year …
Read More »Patriots claim WR Matt Landers off waivers
The Patriots tweaked their wide receiver group on Tuesday. The team announced that they have claimed Matt Landers off of waivers. The Browns cut Landers on Monday. Landers signed with Seattle after going undrafted out of Arkansas last year. He moved on to the Panthers and the UFL before signing with the Browns in May. He had two catches for …
Read More »These twins have seen it all with the Southeastern football. Now they want to keep winning
They wouldn’t exactly call it twin telepathy, but Southeastern football players and twin brothers Zach and Sean Pechulis say they think alike in most situations. In some cases, they say the same thing in conversation or finish the other’s sentences before turning to each other and laughing. Even on the field, they sometimes find each other in the same spot on …
Read More »Cowboys release S Sheldrick Redwine
The Cowboys released safety Sheldrick Redwine on Tuesday, the team announced. He had a hamstring injury that had hampered him during camp. Redwine, 27, spent last season on the Cowboys’ practice squad. The team activated him for one game, and he played seven defensive snaps and 12 on special teams. The Cowboys signed him to a futures contract in January. …
Read More »TV broadcast crew announced for Clemson vs. Georgia
“ESPN’s industry-leading coverage of college football will once again feature the deepest roster of on-air personalities in the sport for the 2024-25 season – a blend of veteran voices, familiar faces and talented newcomers. “More than two dozen teams of veteran play-by-play commentators, informative analysts and versatile reporters will cover the season from August’s Week 0 kickoff through the College …
Read More »Aaron Rodgers has “no preference” when it comes to playing in preseason finale
We’ve yet to see Aaron Rodgers in the 2024 preseason. Rodgers doesn’t particularly care if we see him in the third and final game. Via Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, Rodgers told reporters on Tuesday that he has “no preference” on whether he faces the Giants. Previously, coach Robert Saleh had said his instinct was to not play Rodgers in August. …
Read More »the unlikely championship that launched Tim Walz
“We’re hiring another football coach,” Mankato West high school principal John Barnett told Scarlets head football coach Rick Sutton after interviewing Tim Walz about a geography teaching position. “You’re definitely gonna want to talk to him.” This was back in the spring of 1997, when Walz was a 30-something national guardsman relocating to Minnesota from Nebraska so his wife could …
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