Category: NFL Buzz

After last year’s Super Bowl with the infamous “Philly Special” play executed on fourth and goal from the Patriots’ one-yard line, many coaches around the NFL took notice. Writing in the foreword of Fearless, by Philadelphia head coach Doug Pederson, Eagles owner Jeff Lurie gave him credit. Pederson

For years he’s called the league soft. Now, Donald Trump says football is dangerous and he wouldn’t want his son to play.

Patrick Mahomes’ breathtaking breakthrough season earned him the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award. The Chiefs quarterback landed a pair of honors at NFL Honors on Saturday night, taking The Associated Press 2018 MVP and Offensive Player of the Year awards.

Director Peter Berg said he had an ”emotional and satisfying” feeling while watching an all-star cast of retired and active NFL players film a new Super Bowl commercial. Berg directed the commercial called ”The 100-Year Game” that paid homage to past and present players

Patrick Mahomes may have just been named the NFL’s MVP, but seven years ago coaches were unsure if he was even the best quarterback on his high school team. The signal-caller’s remarkable first season as the Chiefs’ starter was recognized on Saturday when it was confirmed Mahomes had won

ATLANTA (AP) — For towering tight end Tony Gonzalez, this was a slam dunk.

When it was announced a few weeks ago that, for the first time ever, there would be male cheerleaders performing at the Super Bowl, it was met with fawning media fanfare. Headlines about how the two Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders, Napoleon Jinnies and Quinton Peron, are “making history” splashed across

The NFL wants to make punts safer. How to do it? A Shark Tank-style event where creative fans pitch their ideas to improve the game, and a panel of judges decides which pitch they like best. That’s what happened today on the campus of Georgia Tech, where a panel of judges that included Falcons coach

ATLANTA —  ATLANTA (AP) – Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham and Joe Montana were the first names that came up during a random online search for “NFL legends.” Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor popped up following a quick scroll down the page. For Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of

SportsPulse: Our experts predict the one key that’s going to make or break the game and who will be holding the Lombardi Trophy in the end. ATLANTA — All is not well with the NFL. Oh, everything looks great as the league prepares a yearlong bash for its 100th season. Ratings rebounded this year,

When we think of football players, names like that of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady or Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald often come to mind — household names with multi-million-dollar contracts and lucrative endorsements with sportswear companies and other brands. Brady’

Marietta High will be the host site for the NFL’s Play Football Family Festival on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.  It will include NFL players to meet and greet families, guest speakers, a parents’ forum, youth league sign-up stations, music, food trucks and giveaways. The Falcons’ cheerleaders

Former NFL wide receiver Anquan Boldin says it’s a ”travesty” that Colin Kaepernick isn’t in the league.

Colin Kaepernick’s lawyer slammed NFL team owners on Thursday for blackballing the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, accusing them of colluding to keep Kaepernick out of the league in response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on players who protest during the national anthem. “The

SportsPulse: Trysta Krick sits downs with Action Network’s Chad Millman for advice on which Super Bowl team to bet and which prop bet is a must. The biggest spectacle of the NFL season has finally arrived. Super Bowl LIII is set for Sunday night between the Patriots and Rams in Atlanta.  New England

Recently we put out some grades for the Raiders rookie class. There were some who grumbled that you can’t grade players after one season, but that’s simply not true. You can grade them every step of the way to see their progress. In that spirit, we look back to the previous class to see how they

At the time, Anderson had been in Tampa setting up business meetings for his company and his foundation, Dreams Never Die, which aims to help inner-city youth back in his hometown.

Making pass interference reviewable would open up a pandora’s box for the NFL.

Yahoo Sports’ Amanda Borges looks back at the season and how some key moments helped New England and Los Angeles make it to the big game.

‘Gladiator’ spent six episodes going deep into the tragic story of Aaron Hernandez — but a new bonus episode pivots to the problem of drug use in the NFL at large

A word of warning to all those soon-to-be Super Bowl champions in New England or Los Angeles: Don’t get too comfortable. You might be looking for a job fairly soon.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Pro Bowl center Alex Mack rattled off all he does before the snap: Checks for blitzes, keeps an eye on the play clock, makes blocking adjustments and communicates all the changes to everyone else. All that happens in seconds — with 300-pound defenders a few inches away and ready

Rob Gronkowski is about to play in one of the most important games of his life amid retirement rumors. So, naturally, he’s dancing as much as he can.

Pro Bowl center Alex Mack rattled off all he does before the snap: Checks for blitzes, keeps an eye on the play clock, makes blocking adjustments and communicates all the changes to everyone else. All that happens in seconds — with 300-pound defenders a few inches away and ready to pounce. “It’

Falcons owner Arthur Blank is expecting NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to address the non-call at the end of the NFC championship in his state of the league address on Wednesday.  Blank said he also understood the plight of the Saints and their fans when asked about the billboards posted around the city

NFL team owner Arthur Blank said Monday he believes the league will introduce rule changes following the officiating furor that saw the New Orleans Saints controversially denied a place in the Super Bowl. Blank, the billionaire boss of the Atlanta Falcons, told reporters that the NFL’s competition

The NFL will launch NFL100 to commemorate its centennial season. The year-long celebration intends “to bring generations of football fans, players, communities, and all 32 clubs together for a unique line-up of programming and activities.” “Over nearly 100 years, the NFL and the game of football have

ATLANTA (AP) — Tom Brady and the New England Patriots have arrived. So have Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams.

Bill Vinovich, the head official from the Rams-Chiefs NFC Championship that ended with pitchforks over a missed pass-interference call, could not hide himself in the college basketball stripes he donned for BYU’s 71-66 win over Saint Mary’s on Thursday in Provo, Utah. The crowd at the Marriott

In 2006 and 2011, the players union and the NFL tried to do something about that, adopting salary and bookkeeping rules with the potential to extend the careers of these veterans. It hasn’t worked. In a first-of-its-kind analysis, The Associated Press found that since 2005, the average amount of