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The Bills entered the fourth quarter down 14-7 but have scored two touchdowns in quick success to take a 21-14 lead with 7:16 left in the regular season. After Deonte Harty’s 96-yard punt return tied the score at 14, quarterback Josh Allen hit tight end Dawson Knox with a 5-yard touchdown to gain a seven-point advantage. That pass capped an …

Getty Images As much as things change, some things do stay the same in the NFL. That’s certainly the case in the NFC South, as the Buccaneers are once again NFC South division champs after Sunday’s 9-0 win over the Panthers.  Tampa Bay’s third and most recent division-championship run was a roller coaster. After a 2-0 start, the Buccaneers endured …

Photograph: John Amis/AP The Jacksonville Jaguars had every opportunity to make the 2023 season a success. Instead they made it a disaster, culminating with their 28-20 loss at the Tennessee Titans on Sunday afternoon. The Jaguars needed only to beat a 5-11 team to clinch the AFC South. But Trevor Lawrence threw two interceptions and got stacked up shy of …

Getty Images For the fifth time in six years, the Pittsburgh Steelers found themselves in a very similar predicament on the final weekend of the regular season. Once again, the Steelers needed to win and get help if they were going to continue playing beyond Week 18.  The Steelers had four playoff scenarios entering their regular season finale in Baltimore (h/t …

The Miami Dolphins can end one of the longest division title droughts in the NFL when they host the Buffalo Bills on Sunday Night Football. The Dolphins have not won the AFC East since 2008. Only three franchises – the Browns (1989), Raiders (2002) and Jets (2002) – have longer active division title droughts. Miami (11-5) enters Sunday night’s showdown …

When it comes to the postseason, the Bengals’ game against the Browns on Sunday was essentially meaningless for both teams. The Browns had already clinched the fifth seed in the AFC and the Bengals had already been eliminated from playoff contention, which means there wasn’t much at stake in the game.  Although there wasn’t much on the line from a …

The NFL play-offs start next week after some thrilling final day games The Jacksonville Jaguars agonisingly missed out on the play-offs by losing their last game of the season, while the Green Bay Packers claimed an impressive victory in their must-win game and the Buffalo Bills beat Miami in the big clash of the night. The final Sunday of regular …

Getty Images King Henry has said goodbye. Mere moments after helping the Titans defeat the Jaguars in Week 18, running back Derrick Henry addressed the Titans crowd in what was possibly his final game with the franchise.  “I hope I was an inspiration to all the young kids,” Henry said during his address, via NFL Media.  On Sunday, Henry passed …

Getty Images Cowboys two-time First Team All-Pro linebacker Micah Parsons, who entered Week 18 as one of the top two players on the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year odds list and the NFL’s leader in quarterback pressures, only added to his claim on Sunday against the Washington Commanders.  Parsons’ third-quarter sack of Washington quarterback Sam Howell ran his season total to 14 …

Dallas Cowboys first-year kicker Brandon Aubrey was sailing toward NFL history with a historic first 16 games in his 2023 season. The NFC’s Pro Bowl kicker had connected on all 35 field goal attempts this season, tying him with former Minnesota Vikings kicker Gary Anderson (1998) for the second-most makes in a season without miss. If he were able to drain three in …

Falcons owner Arthur Blank has not waited until the light of day to make a change. Atlanta has fired head coach Arthur Smith, the team announced just after midnight. Smith compiled a 21-30 record, going 7-10 in each of his three seasons with the Falcons. The club lost to New Orleans 48-17 on Sunday to close the season. “Decisions like …

Arthur Smith, who inherited a rebuilding project in his first NFL head coaching job and failed to lift Atlanta from its playoff drought, was fired late Sunday night, hours after completing his third season with the Falcons. Smith, the 41-year-old son of FedEx founder Fred Smith, went 7-10 in each of his three seasons. The Falcons’ 48-17 loss at New …

The Atlanta Falcons are making a head coaching change. The Falcons fired Arthur Smith following the team’s Week 18 loss to the division rival New Orleans Saints, the team announced in a statement soon after the clock turned from Sunday night into Monday morning. “Decisions like this are never easy and they never feel good,” Falcons owner Arthur Blank said …

With the 2023 regular season ending on Sunday, 18 of the NFL’s 32 teams are done for the year. That means it’s time to turn our attention toward the league’s coaching carousel where there are currently four vacancies: the Carolina Panthers, the Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers and the Atlanta Falcons with the team firing Arthur Smith Sunday evening just after midnight.  …

What 49ers’ past playoff appearances taught Warner about postseason originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Fred Warner has learned plenty about the NFL playoffs across his six seasons in the league, with the 49ers punching their ticket to the postseason in over half of those campaigns. As San Francisco prepares for its fourth playoff trip in the past five …