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Stay or Go: Should Jets bring Carl Lawson back for 2024 season?

The Jets signed defensive end Carl Lawson to a three-year, $45 million contract ahead of the 2021 season, but their plans for him were thrown into disarray when he suffered a season-ending Achilles tear during training camp later that year. While he returned to action and had a good season in 2022, Lawson didn’t play much in 2023, as the …

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Emmitt Smith is ‘tired’ of the Cowboys, says Jerry Jones is losing respect, players don’t want to fight

Emmitt Smith is a lifelong Dallas Cowboy, helping bring three Lombardi Trophies to the franchise while carving out a 15-year Hall of Fame career of his own. But he couldn’t be more dissatisfied with the team going into the 2024 offseason, telling “PFT Live” Friday that he’s “tired” of the team failing to reach expectations, suggesting everyone from Dallas’ star …

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The NFL is a cultural colossus. Could its mounting legal woes leave a mark?

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks at his invitation-only state of the league news conference on Monday.Photograph: Matt York/AP A month before the NFL’s Las Vegas Super Bowl, a different sort of high-stakes football contest unfolded in the Supreme Court of Nevada. That’s where the league was called to defend itself in a lawsuit from Jon Gruden – the disgraced NFL …

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PFT’s 2023 NFL Super Bowl LVIII picks, Florio vs. Simms

The competition is ending, and there’s no competition whatsoever as to our final selections of the year. Chris Simms and I both agree on the winner of Super Bowl LVIII: Kansas City Chiefs. The picks were made at the live joint podcast from the Mandalay Bay sportsbook on Wednesday night. If you haven’t seen it, you should. If only to …

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Sauce Gardner: An Aaron Rodgers pass left burn marks on my gloves

Say what you will about Aaron Rodgers away for the football field (and I sometimes do), but the guy continues to be a special quarterback talent. Jets teammate Sauce Gardner, appearing this week on PFT Live, gave us an explanation of just how good Rodgers is. “He’s a true leader,” Gardner told Chris Simms and me. “It’s always great to …

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