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Jets Coach Ryan Says His Team Should Be Favored to Win it All
During today’s news conference with the New York media, Jets coach and Jabba the Hutt impersonator Rex Ryan was asked how he felt about the team being underdogs to the Bengals just days after beating them 37-0.
“I wasn’t aware of that,” Ryan said “but we should be favorites.”
When asked to clarify if he meant the [...]
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January 06, 2010
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Agent Says Cribbs Insulted by Browns Offer to Pay Him $1.4 Mil Per Year
It looked a few days back like Josh Cribbs was going to get a deal done with the Browns and stay happy. Now, there seems to be a division that may end Cribbs’ career in a Browns uniform. Reports are the Browns offered Cribbs a deal that would pay him $1.4 million a [...]
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January 06, 2010
Chiefs Coach Haley Sounds Like He Wants Weis to Run the Offense
If Chiefs coach Todd Haley gets his way, the Chiefs offense next season will be run by former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis.
“Charlie’s a guy I have a great amount of respect for as a coach,” Haley said Wednesday at his final news conference of the season. “He’s a coach that system-wise, I would [...]
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January 06, 2010
Can Vick Be an X-Factor for the Eagles Saturday vs the Cowboys?
Just as it seemed the Eagles were really starting to figure out how to use Michael Vick, things started to go off track. In Atlanta, Vick suffered a hand injury that kept him from probably playing the entire fourth quarter at quarterback. A few weeks later, when Vick was still finding success, he [...]
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January 06, 2010
Bengals Wednesday Updates
Injury Updates
In addition to Chad Ochocinco, who practiced despite a sore knee, the Bengals got four other starters back for practice on Tuesday, three of them defensive starters.
RB Cedric Benson, DT Domata Peko, DE Robert Geathers, and S Chris Crocker all fully participated in practice yesterday indoors at Wall-to-Wall Soccer in Mason, OH.
All four players [...]
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January 06, 2010
Patriots QB Brady Wins Comeback Player of the Year Award
As expected, Tom Brady on Wednesday was named the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year. The Pats QB received 19 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL, beating Tampa Bay running back Carnell “Cadillac” Williams, who got 14.
The three-time Super Bowl winner and a finalist [...]
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January 06, 2010
Unpacking The Giants Players Performances: Defense
In the wake of the Bill Sheridan firing, I got to thinking that it would be helpful for us to establish an objective benchmark for how the players performed over the course of the season so that we can intelligently talk about changes that need to be made this offseason.
Stats are nice to have to [...]
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January 06, 2010
Steelers Coach Tomlin Ready to Make Changes on His Staff?
There’s been plenty of rumors over the last 24 hours about what route the Steelers and coach Mike Tomlin will take with the coordinators as they head into the offseason. There’s two names that continue to pop up when it comes to guys that may not be around in 2010 – special teams coach [...]
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January 06, 2010
Redskins Hire Former Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan as Head Coach
The first offseason coaching vacancy will be filled about 48 hours after it became open, as the Redskins have landed former Broncos Super Bowl winning coach Mike Shanahan. Reports say that he agreed Tuesday to become the coach of the team, and will have the final authority on football decisions, according to ESPN.com.
Shanahan’s [...]
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January 06, 2010
Saints At The Top of the NFC As the Regular Season Ends
All 16 games have been played and the six teams for the NFC Playoffs are set. Here are the seeds:
*1. New Orleans Saints- 13-3
*2. Minnesota Vikings- 12-4
*3. Dallas Cowboys- 11-5
*4. Arizona Cardinals- 10-6
5. Green Bay Packers- 11-5
6. Philadelphia Eagles- 11-5
* show division winners
This weekends games are all rematches from week seventeen as the Eagles go [...]
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January 06, 2010
New Browns GM Holmgren Starts His New Job; Will Mangini Be There to See It?
Today marks the first day of the new sheriff in town for the Browns, as Mike Holmgren is in town, as he’ll meet with the media at 4pm today. All the talk over the past few days has been about the quick impact that Holmgren will make, and if Eric Mangini has done enough [...]
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January 05, 2010
Bears Fire Ron Turner as Offensive Coordinator
A poor season for the Bears on offense has cost a coordinator his job. The team on Tuesday canned offensive coordinator Ron Turner day after reports came out that coach Lovie Smith will retain his job.
The team went 7-9 this season, and the offense with new QB Jay Cutler had its moments of struggle, [...]
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January 05, 2010
New Bills GM Nix Will Get His Shot to Right the Teams Sinking Ship
As we trickle into the New Year, there are still people asking me about this Buddy Nix hire and who he is and where he came from. Friends have once again chuckled at the notion of the hire, proclaiming the Bills continue to succeed at failing to grasp what it takes to win. [...]
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January 05, 2010
Is Eagles QB McNabb on the Chopping Block After Sunday?
We all know about all the various talks that have gone on about the Eagles and their relationship with Donovan McNabb. We know his time in Philadelphia has to come to an end at some point and there has been much talk as to when that time will be. Many said he had a lot [...]
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January 05, 2010
Three Cardinals Starters Hurt Going Into Sunday’s Playoff Game
As the Cards get set to have a rematch with the Packers at home in the wild card playoff game on Sunday, the team may not have three players who fill significant roles for the team.
Wide receiver Anquan Boldin has a sprained left ankle, defensive end Calais Campbell a broken left thumb and cornerback Dominique [...]
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January 05, 2010
Is Somebody Ready to Get Canned in the Windy City?
I am going to outline several scenarios of potential changes for the Bears organization following the dismal disappointment of the 2009 season. I think it is inevitable that something is going to have to change. What it is, no one can tell for sure yet. Did Ron Turner and Lovie Smith do enough at the [...]
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January 05, 2010
Time for the Patriots to Reverse the Curse
Why do they hate us? The Football Gods (TFGs), I mean. They seem to have a malign and perverse interest in knees and in yesterday’s TexMess smote yet another brilliant player with their evil touch. Oh, Wes, say it ain’t so!
Last week I mentioned significant injury as worst-case scenario, and that nearly happened. [...]
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January 04, 2010
Time to Panic in New Orleans?
Losers of three straight..
Their once potent offense has only scored 44 points the last three weeks after averaging nearly 40 a game..
The defense gave up over 100 yards rushing again this weekend..
No team that has lost their last three games of the season has made it to the Super Bowl.
Sounds like trouble in Who Dat [...]
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January 04, 2010
NFL ANNOUNCES LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON RESEARCH PROJECTS RELATED TO CONCUSSION PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
The NFL announced today additional important developments in its ongoing work related to player health and safety in the area of concussions.
The NFL has confirmed its partnership with the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy to research the long-term effects of head trauma in athletes. The league through the NFL Alumni Association [...]
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January 04, 2010
Can the Giants Make the Switch to a 3-4 Defense?
I’ve gotten lots of emails and comments about the Giants defense. Of course, everyone and their mother wants Bill Sheridan fired. I think he will be tomorrow. The common theme I see is fans wanting to see a change to a 3-4 defense. For those unfamiliar, a 3-4 defense has 3 down lineman, and 4 [...]
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January 04, 2010
Buffalo GM Buddy Nix Fires Coaching Staff
If Bill Cowher wants to be the next head coach of the Buffalo Bills, he now has a clear path to doing so. Monday new GM Buddy Nix canned the entire coaching staff, this after the Bills wrapped up the season with a win over the Colts, but still finished the year a down [...]
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January 04, 2010
Redskins Officially Dismiss Coach Jim Zorn; Is Shanahan Next?
Black Monday started with the first firing being in the nation’s capital, as to the surprise of no one, the Redskins fired head coach Jim Zorn. The move opens the door for the team to take a long look and flirt with former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan.
Reports say that Zorn was informed [...]
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January 04, 2010
Tough Year for the Lions in the Books
Back in August, the Lions were looking ahead to the 2009 season as a chance to redeem themselves from the 0-16 record of 2008. Few fans thought they would suddenly become playoff contenders, but most hoped that they would rack up enough wins to finally reach respectability in the league. Mission not quite [...]
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January 04, 2010
Wild Card Weekend Playoff Schedule
NFL WILD CARD WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Saturday, Jan. 9
AFC: 4:30 p.m. ET — N.Y. Jets at Cincinnati (NBC-TV)
NFC: 8 p.m. ET — Philadelphia at Dallas (NBC-TV)
Sunday, Jan. 10
AFC: 1 p.m. ET — Baltimore at New England (CBS-TV)
NFC: 4:40 p.m. ET — Green Bay at Arizona (FOX-TV)
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January 04, 2010
Seahawks Awful Season Over as Titans Run to 17-13 Win
Disappointment.
No other word is better suited to sum up the Seahawks’ 17-13 season-ending loss at home to the Tennessee Titans as well as the season as a whole.
For the first time since 1992, Seattle finished its season off by dropping each of the last four games to its opponents.
In the season finale, Titans running back [...]
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January 04, 2010
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