Ryan Poles: Bears need receivers, but we won’t force it in the draft

Bears General Manager Ryan Poles knows his team needs wide receivers. He also knows the Bears don’t have a first-round draft pick, having traded it away to get Justin Fields last year. But he’s not overly worried. Poles said he believes there’s talent in the second round at wide receiver, and that if the board [more]

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Justin Fields was “pissed off” with Bears’ game plan in his first start, private coach says

Justin Fields‘ longtime personal quarterback coach says Fields had some issues with former Bears head coach Matt Nagy’s game plan last year. Ron Veal, a private quarterback coach who has worked with Fields since Fields was in sixth grade, said on 670 The Score in Chicago that Fields hated the game plan the Bears installed [more]

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NFL has no comment on report that Daniel Snyder has resumed his day-to-day role

On Tuesday, Commissioner Roger Goodell said that Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder continues to not be involved in the day-to-day operations of the team. Thereafter, the Washington Times reported that Snyder has indeed returned to his prior involvement. We asked the league for comment on the contention from the Times. The league had nothing to [more]

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Could the key to a Baker Mayfield trade be 2023, not 2022?

As the Browns wait for a serious contender (or, for leverage purposes, more than one serious contender) to emerge for Baker Mayfield‘s contract, there’s an angle to consider when it comes to whether or not some other franchise will develop interest in him. Could a team be looking at Mayfield, who has one year left [more]

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Arthur Blank: Falcons need a long-term plan at quarterback

Matt Ryan spent 14 years as the Falcons’ franchise quarterback before they traded him last week. Now the Falcons want to find a new quarterback who can lead their franchise for that long. Falcons owner Arthur Blank said moving on from Ryan was the right call for the long-term health of the franchise. “It has [more]

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Todd Bowles: I think the world of Byron Leftwich

There was a time earlier this offseason when it appeared Buccaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich was about to become the Jaguars head coach. That didn’t work out, as Doug Pederson got the job working with G.M. Trent Baalke. But it means that Leftwich will be back with Tampa Bay in 2022, now working under new [more]

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Braxton Berrios: Zach Wilson “doing everything” to make a real change in second season

Jets quarterback Zach Wilson‘s rookie season wasn’t a smash success, but there were a few signs of growth in the final weeks that provided hope for better things to come in the second season. The early part of the offseason has been spent trying to build on those things. Wilson has been traveling around the [more]

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