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The Houston Texans are sticking with Tom Savage at quarterback on Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. Savage made his first career start in place of Brock Osweiler on Saturday night in a 12-10 win over the Bengals that allowed the Texans to clinch the AFC South. Osweiler was benched in the second quarter two weeks ago against Jacksonville and Savage took over to help the Texans rally for a 21-20 victory.
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Landon Collins knows that defense wins championships in the NFL. He’s preparingto help theNew York Giants achieve that very feat.The New York Giantsare going to the NFL Playoffs for the first time since 2011. For all of the scrutiny that general manager Jerry Reese faced forinvesting $2…
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The Kansas City Chiefs can score in all sorts of ways, so was it really necessary for Andy Reid to turn his 346-pound defensive tackle into a quarterback ?
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PITTSBURGH (AP) The image of Antonio Brown’s seemingly elastic left arm fighting off a pair of tacklers to stretch the ball across the goal line and send the Pittsburgh Steelers into the playoffs will live on. One more highly GIF-able moment in the star wide receiver’s weekly dance with the improbable.
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Chad Johnson gave one child an incredibly special Christmas morning.
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New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese quietly made some changes to roster building that have paid off handsomely for the team in 2016.About a year ago, there was little doubt about what New York Giants team owner John Mara was feeling after having witnessed his franchise flounder for a fourt…
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Bob Diaco, UConn head football coach and a man of many ideas, has been fired, the school announced today. It’s unclear why UConn waited a month after the team closed its 3-9 season, because the timing reduces Diaco’s job prospects and the Huskies’ candidates for a new coach, but regardless, the era of innovative thinking at Storrs is over.
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Chants of “MVP…MVP” could be heard throughout Lambeau Field, as Aaron Rodgers spearheaded yet another victory moving the Packers one step closer to their mission of conquering the NFC North in a decisive Christmas-Eve romp over the offensively-challenged Minnesota Vikings.Alth…
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NEW YORK (AP) Jets coach Todd Bowles was scheduled to meet with his doctors on Monday after being hospitalized late last week.
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After playoff spots were clinched in NFL Week 16 and key injuries occurred, The Dime Package returns with 10 thoughts on the holiday week.It’s no surprise that many playoff races would become much clearer in NFL Week 16. With so many division races and potential berths on the line, the action…
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Few outside of ‘Falcons Nation’ have bought into the Atlanta Falcons are Super Bowl LI contenders.Why aren’t the Atlanta Falcons being hyped for a Super Bowl run like the Dallas Cowboys or Green Bay Packersare? The Falcons are 10-5, NFC South Champions, and in position to clinch of…
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Gregory is expected to play plenty of snaps on Monday night.
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Time to take a look back at our most popular posts of 2016. We have our own thoughts about what our best posts were, but these are the ones that brought in the most readers.
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Jets coach Todd Bowles was scheduled to meet with his doctors on Monday after being hospitalized late last week. Bowles, who is in his second season with the Jets, also had a health scare in February when a benign mass was removed from his throat. The Jets are off Monday.
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The much-maligned unit of the Arizona Cardinals reversed their fortunes with an impressive performance this past SaturdayIt was looking bleak for the Arizona Cardinals. The Seattle Seahawks had just rallied to tie the game in the final minute. All they needed was for kicker Steven Hauschka to put …
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The Oakland Raiders will have to go through the postseason without quarterback David Carr, who broke his fibula during Saturday’s win over the Indianapolis Colts.If you’re a fan of the Oakland Raiders, this is not going to sit well with most of you. Quarterback Derek Carr will miss 6-8 w…
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The Baltimore Ravens were eliminated from playoff contention on Sunday, and wide receiver Steve Smith hinted that he’s heading toward his final NFL game.Sunday’s 31-27 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers dropped the Baltimore Ravens to 8-7 with one game to go this season, and officially elim…
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This has been the year of the penalty in the NFL.
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The Baltimore Ravens lost one of the most heartbreaking games in a while and here are my 3 takeawaysIn the blink of an eye, the Baltimore Ravens season is over. The 31-27 gut wrenching loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers pushes the Ravens out of playoff contention. All it took was an outstretched arm …
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Steelers rally behind Tomlin after icon’s criticism
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Henrikh Mkhitaryan has only gotten a handful of Premier League starts this season, a fact that has given United fans good reason to grumble. After you see the goal he scored against Sunderland today, you’ll understand why they want him on the pitch more often.
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This has been the year of the penalty in the NFL.
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Thank the schadenfreude gods for the Minnesota Vikings, once a 5-0 team, who have unleashed an extremely lame scandal at the tail end of their disappointing season.
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Garrett answered that very question ahead of Monday’s meaningless game.
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Thanks to excellent drafting and talent acquisition in recent years, the Dallas Cowboys are setting themselves up to be the NFL’s next powerhouse dynasty.The Dallas Cowboys are 12-2 and playoff bound. And on top of that, they have clinched a first round bye and home field advantage throughout…
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will likely miss the postseason again, but that shouldn’t determine how their season is viewed.Yes, Buccaneers fans, there is still a small, microscopic glimmer of hope the Buccaneers can make the playoffs this season. For a team that controlled their own playoff dest…
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The Jacksonville Jaguars have the right pieces, but need the right coach to make it all work. Tom Coughlin would ensure that happens.It’s no secret that even at 70 years old, Tom Coughlin still has that itch to return to being a head coach. Things didn’t end particularly well with the Ne…
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It took 109 days but FOX8’s Scott Sabol finally was able to shed his facial hair
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There are plenty of lists out there compiling the year’s best sportswriting—try this one if you’re looking for some good holiday-weekend reading—and that’s as it should be, because there is a lot of great sportswriting out there, possibly more than ever. You won’t find any of it here, though. Instead, we celebrate the worst sportswriting of the year: The purple prose, the writers too clever by half, the overuse of the majestic plural. This is what brought the Deadspin staff the most joy in 2016.
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