Month: January 2025

The Bucs and Commanders might be playing the best wild-card game of the weekend thus far. The teams headed into the locker room tied 10-10 at halftime. Tampa Bay trailed 10-3 when Baker Mayfield let Mike Evans take over in the final two minutes. Evans, playing his nemesis Marshon Lattimore,

The 49ers completed an interview with Jett Modkins for their vacant special teams position, the team announced Sunday night. Modkins is the current assistant special teams coach for the Lions. The interview was virtual. The 49ers parted ways with special teams coordinator Brian Schneider after three seasons. Modkins joined the

Notre Dame CB Benjamin MorrisonJames Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Packers are likely to take a best-player-available approach early in the draft. Logically, though, they’ll target defense in the opening round. Green Bay just used a first-round pick on a tackle, and the 2025 draft class isn’t particularly impressive

The Bears reached into their past for their latest head coaching interview. The team announced that they have completed an interview with Ron Rivera on Sunday. He is the eighth candidate to meet with the Bears, although Mike Vrabel is now out of the running because he’s accepted an offer

The Packers have gotten on the board, but they lost one of their wide receivers on the way to their first points of the game. Romeo Doubs slammed the back of his head into the turf while trying to make a catch in the end zone and he remained down

When the Buccaneers are clicking, they can play with — and potentially beat — anyone. For quarterback Baker Mayfield, he knows whether it will be clicking before the game even starts. After his five-touchdown day two weeks ago against the Panthers, I asked Mayfield when he knows everything is going

Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels continues an incredibly impressive rookie season tonight, as he tries to lead the team to its first playoff win since Daniels was five years old. That victory happened in January 2006, in the same stadium where he’ll play tonight. And in the same stadium where he

The Bills are still alive, and next weekend the Ravens will be coming to Buffalo. Today’s AFC wild card matchup was a mismatch, as the Bills beat the Broncos 31-7 and moved on to the divisional round. As he has all season, Josh Allen made big plays with his arm

The AFC’s third wild card game is going the same way as the first two: A blowout win for the home team. Josh Allen hit Curtis Samuel for a 55-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter to give the Bills a 28-7 lead over the Broncos, and the rout is

Bills running back Ray Davis has gone to the locker room with an apparent concussion after an ugly hit in the third quarter today. When Josh Allen floated a pass to Davis, Broncos defensive back Brandon Jones pursued and put a nasty helmet-to-helmet hit on Davis. Davis immediately went to

Deion Sanders may have interest in the Raiders’ head coaching job, but the Raiders have “zero interest” in the Colorado head coach. That’s the word from TheAthletic.com, with Vic Tafur and Tashan Reed speculating that Sanders is merely using the Raiders for leverage. Sanders reportedly has “very strong interest” in

During the latter months of the regular season, Jon Gruden’s name was emerging as a potential candidate for a 2025 head-coaching job. A full week into the coaching carousel, however, his name has not been mentioned in any report linking any team to any candidate. Because he’s not currently employed

It didn’t take the underdog Broncos long to make a statement against the Bills that they’ve come to play. The Broncos got the opening kickoff and promptly marched down the field 70 yards on five plays, with the last play a 43-yard touchdown pass from Bo Nix to Troy Franklin.

It’s official. As we all expected. Mike Vrabel is the new head coach of the Patriots. The team has announced the move, along with the announcement of a press conference on Monday at 1:00 p.m. ET. For now, the statement from the team posted on the team’s website says only

Broncos rookie running back Audric Estime came on strong late in the season, but he’ll start the postseason out of uniform. Estime, a fifth-round pick who had 76 carries for 310 yards during the regular season, is inactive today against the Bills. The Broncos’ other inactives are third quarterback Zach

Bo Nix believed that playing 61 college football games would give him an edge at the next level. It did. Nix now prepares to play his first career postseason game, after adding 17 regular-season NFL games to his experience at the college and pro level. By the time rookies get

Now that D.C. has control of the RFK Stadium campus for the next 99 years, it’s time to tear down the building that has been there for the last 64. Via WJLA.com, demolition of the venue will commence later this month. Few tears of sadness will be shed by Commanders

The Titans continued a busy weekend of General Manager interviews on Sunday morning. The team announced that they have completed an interview with Bears assistant G.M. Ian Cunningham. The Titans fired Ran Carthon last week after two years on the job. Cunningham has been with the Bears since 2022 and

The first five Texans possessions of Saturday’s game against the Chargers ended with two turnovers and three punts, but the team remained in the game thanks to the work of their defense. After field goals on their first two possessions, the Chargers failed to sustain any drives for the rest

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert made the wrong kind of history on Saturday. Herbert threw three interceptions during the regular season, but his four interceptions were a major reason for the Chargers’ 32-12 loss to the Texans. Herbert is the first quarterback with at least 200 attempts in a season to

David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Might it be Primetime in Las Vegas? Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Colorado football coach and Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders “has his eyes on the Raiders’ coaching job, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.”

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh says he deserves the blame for not having his team ready to play in their 32-12 loss to the Texans on Saturday. “They were the better team today. All respect to them. Not being the better team today, I’m accountable for that, so that’s on me,

The Baltimore Ravens’ Derrick Henry runs for a touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Scott Taetsch/Getty Images Derrick Henry Provides Baltimore Ravens With Closer for Long Playoff Run The narrative of Lamar Jackson not delivering in the postseason will disappear now that Derrick Henry is in the same backfield. The Ravens

The Ravens ran had an even 300 rushing yards on Saturday against the Steelers until Lamar Jackson kneeled down on the final play of the game, leaving them at 299. That’s the most a team has had in an NFL playoff game in 12 years. The last time a team

Just when it looked all but over for the Chargers, they got a little life. But then a key special teams play, gave the Texans momentum right back. Quarterback Justin Herbert connected with Ladd McConkey over the middle on third-and-26 for an 86-yard, catch-and-run touchdown. But Cameron Dicker’s extra point

The Texans started slowly on Saturday afternoon, but used a strong performance in the second half to beat the Chargers 32-12 and advance to the divisional round. Houston was down 6-0 late in the second quarter, but a broken play got the team’s offense going and shifted the energy in

The awards are out. Ten in all. Here’s a list of them along with links to the corresponding stories, which also give credit to the others who were in contention for each one. Offensive rookie of the year: Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels. Defensive rookie of the year: Rams linebacker Jared

Quarterback Russell Wilson has said he wants to return to the Steelers in 2025. Receiver George Pickens might feel differently about himself. He was asked during his post-game press conference whether he’s seen signs of growth in the Pittsburgh offense. “Yeah, I’ve seen signs of growth, for sure,” Pickens told