Jan 1, 2019 The regular season is history, but there’s no time to catch your breath in the NFL. Teams are busy either gearing up for a playoff run or planning for a better future. How can they improve in 2019? Our NFL Nation reporters get into the spirit of the holiday with a New
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1:27 AM ET To get a feel for what the playoff teams do well, ESPN’s NFL Nation reporters asked a number of players, coaches and team personnel for their anonymous thoughts on each contender. Here’s what they had to say: NFC: 1. NO | 2. LAR | 3. CHI | 4. DAL | 5. SEA
1:22 AM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The standard is the standard. No explanation needed if you play for the Los Angeles Rams. The standard has just come to be
12:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Sunday’s victory against the New York Giants was quarterback Dak Prescott’s finest moment. All three of the Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl offensive linemen — Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick and Zack Martin — were spectators for health reasons. Ezekiel Elliott, the NFL’s leading rusher, wasn’t in uniform, either. In a
6:42 AM ET PITTSBURGH — The only certainty with Antonio Brown‘s career with the Pittsburgh Steelers is his place in the record books. Tony Toe Tap might be ready to place two feet in another locker room, a notion coach Mike Tomlin sounds open to embracing. Brown has six straight 100-catch seasons, a contract worth
1:37 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — The obvious choice is 2009. That was the only Super Bowl team in New Orleans Saints history. And they proved just how good they were in the playoffs by rolling through future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Kurt Warner, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning. But if it’s possible to just
2:02 AM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — As he strolled into the tiny, dimly lit, all-brick restaurant 10 years ago, Matt Nagy had one goal: to put football in his past. But little did he know his three-hour dinner meeting would circuitously lead to the exact opposite. And the stranger he was about to meet
6:01 PM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions announced they won’t renew the contract of offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter after the offense sputtered throughout head coach Matt Patricia’s first season with the franchise. Cooter, 34, had been the Lions’ offensive coordinator for three and a half seasons, surviving the team’s move from
5:15 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks have placed strong safety Delano Hill on injured reserve because of a fracture in his hip. Coach Pete Carroll announced the move Tuesday and called it a non-displaced fracture that Hill suffered in Sunday’s game. Hill started the past two games while Tedric Thompson
6:06 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is feeling rested and fresh entering Saturday’s wild-card playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks after sitting out of the regular-season finale. “Normally after a real game I’m not feeling ready to play until about Friday, Saturday, but I’m ready to go right now,”