12:46 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Don’t expect to hear much in the near future from Mike McCarthy after he was fired by the Green Bay Packers with four games left in his 13th season as head coach. He told ESPN.com that he planned to “lay low and try to finish this professional chapter
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12:04 PM ET The Washington Redskins issued a statement Thursday requesting privacy for Alex Smith and his family as the quarterback continues his recovery from a serious leg injury suffered in a November game. “On behalf of Alex Smith, we appreciate all of the concerns and prayers over the injury he incurred on November 18th
9:57 AM ET Timothy McManus PHILADELPHIA – Eagles linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill got the trash-talking started in earnest in front of Sunday’s pivotal game against the Dallas Cowboys, with comments that are sure to make their way onto Dallas’ bulletin board. “I mean, you look at Dallas’ history, they always choke,” Grugier-Hill said, via NBC Philadelphia,
8:00 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With four games left in the season, the Tennessee Titans find themselves in contention for the final playoff spot in the AFC. The Titans probably have to win out,
8:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The 2018 season has been a disaster for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Injuries hampered the offense, quarterback Blake Bortles regressed, the defense has been good but not the elite unit many expected despite returning all but one starter, and they failed to win a game in October and November. The
8:00 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Far from a fashionista, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle isn’t much into using clothes to make a statement. Given his druthers, Kittle would arrive to and leave every game in a pair of sweatpants and a cutoff sweatshirt. To this point in a career that’s a
8:00 AM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — Antonio Gates is looking at the back end of his career through rose-colored glasses. At 38, Gates knows his days of 1,000-yard receiving and double-digit touchdown seasons are in the rearview mirror. But the allure of winning an elusive Super Bowl drew Gates back in for one more
8:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — At some point Friday — like he does every Friday — Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich will meet with his team’s two analytics pros, John Park and George Li, to go over the playcall sheet for their game against the Houston Texans on Sunday (1 p.m. ET, CBS). The call
8:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — It has been over a decade since John Harbaugh was on Andy Reid’s staff, but the Baltimore Ravens coach will forever carry two words from his time with him. Harbaugh, a longtime special-teams coach with the Eagles, remembers walking into Reid’s office in their first year together and
8:50 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The hardest thing Aaron Rodgers will have to adjust to with Green Bay Packers interim coach Joe Philbin calling plays on Sunday might be the accent. Even though Philbin has spent more time in Green Bay than any other place in his coaching career, the Massachusetts native’s dialect