Offseason Low Down: NFL Transactions Tracker The NFL is a busy place. Some teams make upwards of 200-plus transactions in a calendar year. (See: 2013 Jaguars.) This is the spot where we’ll keep track of all of the offseason’s moves. Below is a list of every transaction across the league since the Monday following Week 17 in chronological order by team. It will be updated daily. Enjoy.Don’t … [Read more...]
Cowboys could franchise Dez Bryant, allow DeMarco Murray to test market
We are getting closer to figuring out the Dallas Cowboys' offseason strategy plans. Monday is the deadline for the Cowboys — and every other NFL team, for that matter — to receive the franchise tag. All indications point toward Dez Bryant being the recipient of it, with the team telling his agents that it planned to do so (per ESPN.com's Todd Archer) short of some kind of Hail Mary contract … [Read more...]
Goal Line Stand: NFL’s Best Coaches 2015
Goal Line Stand: NFL's Best Coaches 2015 If you had to win a game tomorrow, who do you want coaching your team? Not five years from now, not five years ago. Tomorrow. That’s the guiding principle behind my second annual coach rankings. This is not an exact science. No good coach has ever won without good players. No bad coach has ever gone 2-14 all by himself. Coaches are overpraised and … [Read more...]
Fastest combine receiver played at now-defunct football program
Fastest combine receiver played at now-defunct football program UAB football is dead. Long live UAB football. Mere months after the University of Alabama-Birmingham shut down its football program, one of its wide receivers made a little noise Saturday at the NFL scouting combine. Diminutive J.J. Nelson might only stand 5-10 and weigh a paltry 156 pounds, but he can flat out fly. Nelson ran a … [Read more...]
Frenemies Bill Belichick, Rex Ryan looking dapper at NFL scouting combine
Frenemies Bill Belichick, Rex Ryan looking dapper at NFL scouting combine This picture is worth a thousand whats. Here's Rex Ryan in the Super Bowl 25 @buffalobills Thurman Thomas jersey, entering Combine with, yes, Bill Belichick pic.twitter.com/gp0vDKTF3w— Rich Eisen (@richeisen) February 20, 2015 Where to start? First, rivals Bill Belichick and Rex Ryan appear to be fairly cordial — even … [Read more...]
Report: Chargers, Raiders joining forces on shared stadium bid in L.A.
Report: Chargers, Raiders joining forces on shared stadium bid in L.A. AFC West rivals, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, both frustrated with their home-city stadium situations, have decided to join forces on a Los Angeles stadium bid in case things don't work out in their current digs, according to an incredible report from the Los Angeles Times' Sam Farmer. The Chargers and … [Read more...]
Colts, Trent Richardson at odds over complications with girlfriend’s pregnancy
Colts, Trent Richardson at odds over complications with girlfriend's pregnancy Trent Richardson has twice been a flop to date in the NFL — first as the No. 3 overall pick in 2012 of the Cleveland Browns, then after the Indianapolis Colts traded a first-round pick for him the following year. He simply hasn't panned out as a football player. But some fascinating details are emerging from … [Read more...]
What in the heck is going on with the San Francisco 49ers?
What in the heck is going on with the San Francisco 49ers? From the time Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers “mutually” parted ways right after the season ended, two things happened. Pretty much nobody believed that it was truly “mutual,” and people started wondering what in the heck was going on with the 49ers. Over the past few days San Jose Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami, who … [Read more...]
Quiet, productive Kevin White expects to make noise at NFL combine
Quiet, productive Kevin White expects to make noise at NFL combine Kevin White is just getting used to the attention. The West Virginia wide receiver was a virtual unknown a year ago, coming off a 35-catch, 507-yard junior season in 2013, and not even listed as one of the Mountaineers' 10 best returning players entering this past season. (For perspective, two other wideouts were, as were a … [Read more...]
Mariota and Winston prepare for combine by working out with each other
Mariota and Winston prepare for combine by working out with each other People around Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston didn't really know what to make of the top two quarterbacks working out with each other before the combine, but the players were on board. "You talk to them and they’re like, ‘No, I want to work with him,'" said Ryan Flaherty, who has been training both of them at Prolific … [Read more...]