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Ranking the 2024 NFL head coaching vacancies: Commanders sit up top, with Panthers bottoming out
The 2023 NFL season flew by but the 2024 NFL offseason is off to a slow start, with the possibility of some big names holding up coaching movement. Until freshly minted national champion Jim Harbaugh and six-time Super Bowl champ Bill Belichick figure out their situations, we could be in a bit of a holding pattern. Mike Vrabel’s situation is …
Read More »Matthew Stafford vs. Jared Goff in 2024 NFL playoffs: How Lions, Rams QBs have fared, who has the edge
Do you remember where you were on March 18, 2021? You can bet that Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford do. That’s the day the Pro Bowl quarterbacks swapped teams in a blockbuster trade that would go on to rewrite the state and future of two franchises. At the time, and certainly a year after the Rams shipped Goff to the …
Read More »Like it or not, Nick Sirianni sticking with Matt Patricia
Like it or not, Nick Sirianni sticking with Matt Patricia originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia When the Eagles beat Tampa 25-11 back in September, they held the Bucs to 174 yards of offense, 12 first downs, 41 rushing yards and just one field goal until the middle of the fourth quarter. That was Tampa’s 3rd-fewest points, fewest scrimmage yards, …
Read More »Like it or not, Nick Sirianni sticking with Matt Patricia
Like it or not, Nick Sirianni sticking with Matt Patricia originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia When the Eagles beat Tampa 25-11 back in September, they held the Bucs to 174 yards of offense, 12 first downs, 41 rushing yards and just one field goal until the middle of the fourth quarter. That was Tampa’s 3rd-fewest points, fewest scrimmage yards, …
Read More »Chargers request interviews with Dan Quinn, Patrick Graham
A couple of defensive coordinators have landed on the list of candidates for the Chargers head coaching job. According to multiple reports, the Chargers have requested interviews with Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn and Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham. The Chargers fired head coach Brandon Staley and General Manager Tom Telesco during the regular season. Quinn has been a popular …
Read More »Soccer players revitalizing the NFL kicking game
It was Brandon Aubrey’s wife Jenn who first realized her husband might have been playing the wrong sport. Two years after being selected in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft, and a year after retiring from soccer without appearing in an MLS match, the Aubreys were watching an NFL game on TV when a kicker set up for a …
Read More »What happened this year can’t happen again
Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson posted 95 catches for 1,042 yards while playing with four different starting quarterbacks this season, but don’t tell him that he did a good job of turning lemons into lemonade. Wilson told reporters on Monday that the 2023 season was “the worst year of my life” and that “football hasn’t been this hard” at any …
Read More »Ranking C.J. Stroud’s 2023 among best rookie QB seasons since 2010: Where Texans star fits after huge season
En route to winning the AFC South, C.J. Stroud was one of nine quarterbacks to eclipse 4,000 yards passing, did so with the third-best yards-per-attempt average a 8.2 and tossed 23 interceptions to just five picks. Quite easily, he just completed one of the finest rookie quarterback seasons we’ve ever seen. Where does his rookie season rank among the best …
Read More »Brotherly ties, Ravens connection laid foundation for Michigan’s championship defense
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer HOUSTON — The private plane carrying two of Michigan football’s most ardent supporters was waging an unexpected battle with a stormy Texas sky as kickoff for Monday night’s national championship game neared. It had taken off from Baltimore a few hours earlier but encountered rotten weather on the approach into Houston, where …
Read More »Flores’ Early Appeal Bid in NFL Race Case Nixed by Trial Judge
Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores’ legal effort to force his former employer, the Miami Dolphins, to answer his claims of racial discrimination and retaliation in a real court—not the “court” of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell—suffered another setback last week. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, who last year sent Flores’ claims against the Dolphins to an arbitration process overseen by Goodell, denied …
Read More »Jim Harbaugh wins national championship; is “unfinished business” in NFL next?
Jim Harbaugh has taken his alma mater to the top of college football’s mountain. Will he now try again to climb a bigger one? With Michigan winning the national championship in his ninth year as head coach of the program, Harbaugh will surely have interest in going back to the NFL. He has referred to having “unfinished business” in the …
Read More »Fans line street leading to Halas Hall with signs for Justin Fields
Fans line street leading to Halas Hall with signs for Justin Fields originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Justin Fields ended what may or may not be his last season with the Chicago Bears sharing a heartfelt message to fans, and in response, fans made their thoughts on Fields known outside Halas Hall Monday. With his future in question, fans …
Read More »Will Jim Harbaugh return to NFL? Michigan coach faces decision after national championship win
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s flirtations with the NFL are a staple of college football’s offseason news cycle. Now that the athletic calendar turns to the 2024 season following Michigan’s 34-13 win against Washington in Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship, those talks are sure to heat up once again. In fact, they’ve already started. Multiple teams have been making calls over the …
Read More »More than a dozen teams could be on QB carousel
As it turned out, the team that has the first shot at Caleb Williams didn’t have to tank for him at all. The Chicago Bears have the first pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, and it’s because the Carolina Panthers traded Chicago its first-round pick and then went 2-15. But now that we’ve gotten to this point, we don’t know …
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