Referee from Lions-Cowboys explains controversial non-call against Cowboys According to the referee whose crew called pass interference on Dallas Cowboys linebacker Anthony Hitchens and then announced the call was reversed, an official with a better view came in and that caused the change. Referee Pete Morelli met with pool reporter Todd Archer of ESPN.com and explained why and how the call … [Read more...]

Officials change minds on controversial call, helping Cowboys to win Conspiracy theorists had their smoking gun in the fourth quarter of the Dallas Cowboys-Detroit Lions playoff game on Sunday. You rarely see an officiating crew pick up a flag as late as the Cowboys-Lions crew did on the most controversial play of wild-card weekend. On third down, Matthew Stafford threw to Brandon … [Read more...]

Panthers wallop Cardinals 27-16 in an ugly start to NFL playoffs CHARLOTTE, N.C. - When ugly meets ugly, they don't offset. They multiply. The Carolina Panthers are the first team with a losing record to make the playoffs in four years. The Arizona Cardinals are quarterbacked by a guy who's a replacement for the replacement. The NFL always places its least-desirable playoff game in the … [Read more...]

Matchups: Silva's Week 18 Matchups Saturday Football4:35PM ET GameArizona @ CarolinaAt 38 points, the Vegas total on Cardinals-Panthers is easily the lowest of the Wild Card Round. Carolina is a 6.5-point favorite, setting Arizona's team total at under 16 points. The Panthers are the best defensive play of Week 18 and priced accordingly on daily-league sites. Over its final four regular season … [Read more...]

NFL Coaching Tracker: Updating searches for all five vacancies A little more than 24 hours after Black Monday, we have our first idea of how teams will go about replacing their fired head coaches. Five in all — the Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers — are conducting coaching searches. [Join FanDuel's $1.75M Wild Card fantasy league: $25 to … [Read more...]

Looking at what went wrong with the New York Jets FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Monday brought the end of the "Odd Couple," a New York Jets power relationship that was doomed from the start. With the firing of general manager John Idzik and head coach Rex Ryan on Monday, the Jets are clearly going in a different direction. And for once, it might be the right direction. It has now been four … [Read more...]

NFL Winners and Losers: Would you pay DeMarco Murray? DeMarco Murray might be one of the toughest calls in NFL free agency in many years. Somehow the Dallas Cowboys will have to reconcile these two points: It’s unwise to invest big money or high draft picks in running backs because their primes are so short, yet their tailback has a good case as the MVP of the entire NFL this season. Murray … [Read more...]

Rex Ryan has cleaned out his office Black Monday has come early to New York. According to NJ Advance Media, New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan has cleaned out his office at the team's headquarters. The Jets will be playing in Miami on Sunday, and it appears Ryan doesn't anticipate his tenure with the team will last much longer than the final horn. Jets owner Woody Johnson has reportedly … [Read more...]