12:00 PM ET SEATTLE — It would have been bold — one of the most daring decisions of his 13-year coaching tenure — but Mike McCarthy stared the moment in the face, pondered it and then punted. &• Best receivers on secret behind big play&• The David Johnson we’ve been waiting for&• Fournette’s return gives
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1:07 PM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. — A day after Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia held his team’s practice outside in the cold and snow despite playing four straight games indoors or in Arizona, the first-year coach spent about four minutes and 900 words explaining his decision to do so. Matt Patricia gave a 900-word,
11:55 AM ET Bill Parcells defeated fellow Hall of Famer Bill Walsh in their third and final playoff clash, but not before the former Giants coach accused the 49ers coach of cheating in their previous postseason meeting, according to a book to be released next week. In “Guts and Genius: The Story Of Three Unlikely
8:18 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — David Johnson is starting to play like it’s 2016. And it’s been a long time coming. Coming into 2018, and off a season in which he missed 15 games with a fractured wrist, Johnson shouldered the expectation that he’d return to his 2016 level with the Arizona Cardinals. That
9:00 AM ET NFL Nation Winning Super Bowls buys head coaches a lot of job security in the NFL. However, string together a few disappointing seasons and that security evaporates quickly. That’s the case for a couple of our coaches on the hot seat as we enter Week 11. For other coaches, mediocrity and below-average
7:00 AM ET NFL Nation Being a new NFL coach is no picnic. Besides needing to find assistants and install new schemes, most new coaches are taking over teams that were so bad their predecessors were fired. The degree of difficulty is even steeper for those with no head-coaching experience; five of the seven new
11:52 PM ET SEATTLE — Another game in Seattle, another potentially season-wrecking loss. There won’t be any catchy name for this one like the 2012 Fail Mary or the 2014 NFC Championship Game collapse. But had the Green Bay Packers won, it might have become known as “The Robert Tonyan Game.” Or “The Kyler Fackrell
2:30 AM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — Russell Wilson overcame a lousy start with an excellent finish to send Green Bay packing. Sound familiar? No, Wilson wasn’t as bad in the first half this time as he was in the NFC Championship Game in 2015, nor was he as brilliant Thursday night as he was
The Seahawks trail the Packers 21-17 after an up-and-down first half for Seattle. The down included some of their sloppiest play on offense of the season. Chris Carson lost a fumble on the first play to set up a Green Bay touchdown, Russell Wilson missed at least one and maybe two touchdown throws, and the
8:51 PM ET Eric D. Williams COSTA MESA, Calif. — The waiting and watching was the hardest part for Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa. Bosa practiced as a limited participant for a second straight day Thursday and could be available for Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos after missing the first nine games