Dan Campbell wants the Lions playing spoiler now

Plenty of teams remain in the hunt for playoff spots in the NFC, but the Lions are not one of them. At 0-10-1, the Lions are trying to avoid the second winless season in franchise history and they’ll be making that bid against some of the teams who still have postseason aspirations. That includes the [more]

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Andy Reid on post-bye success: I don’t know if there’s any secret there

Throughout his career, Andy Reid’s teams have always performed well off of a bye week. As a head coach, Reid has a 19-3 record off the bye in his long tenures with Philadelphia and Kansas City. The Chiefs haven’t lost after their bye since 2017, when the club lost a 12-9 overtime contest to the [more]

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Week 13 NFC playoff picture: Status quo on top, but changes in the Wild Card race

Week 12 ended with Washington beating Seattle 17-15 on Monday night and that win led to a change in the makeup of the Wild Card race in the NFC. Washington’s third straight win has lifted them to the No. 7 position in the conference with six weeks left in the regular season. They also dug [more]

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Ron Rivera: Joey Slye will be out for at least three weeks with hamstring injury

Washington needs a new kicker. Again. Washington has already churned through three kickers, but will need a fourth after Joey Slye suffered a hamstring injury late in the first half of the Football Team’s win over the Seahawks on Monday. Slye was trying to chase down defensive end Rasheem Green after a blocked extra point [more]

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Joe Judge: Normal week allows us freedom to dig into some different things offensively

The Giants fired offensive coordinator Jason Garrett after losing to the Buccaneers on Monday night last week, so they didn’t have much time to implement changes to their scheme ahead of Sunday’s game against the Eagles. Given the circumstances, it was no great surprise that the offense failed to light the world on fire. The [more]

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Minkah Fitzpatrick: Certain things have to change with how we move throughout the week

The Steelers have gone winless in their last three games and they were on the receiving end of a major beating from the Bengals on Sunday, so the hottest topic around the team this week is what needs to change in order for the team to get some wins. Safety Minkah Fitzpatrick offered his thoughts [more]

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Jaelan Phillips sees the work he’s put in starting to pay off

Wide receiver Jaylen Waddle had a big day for the Dolphins in Sunday’s win over the Panthers and he wasn’t the only one of the team’s first-round picks to play a starring role. Edge rusher Jaelan Phillips was selected 12 picks after Waddle and he spent much of the 33-10 win in Carolina’s backfield. Phillips [more]

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