Posts Tagged ‘2018’

AROUND THE NFL Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com thinks Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer could find a place in the NFL:   Most memorable game-show winners fade from view after their runs end. James Holzhauer may be the exception.   Holzhauer, who has cracked the Jeopardy! code through a combination of encyclopedic knowledge, instant recall of it,…

AROUND THE NFL NFC EAST   DALLAS Jason Garrett does not have a contract beyond this year, and that looks like the way it is going to stay.  Jason Reed of Sportsnaut:   Jason Garrett is set to play out the final year of his current contract. Rather than offer him an extension, Dallas Cowboys…

AROUND THE NFL Herbie Teope of NFL.com explains why some new free agent signings could be in the works:   The next wave of free agency could be primed to begin Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. ET.   The passing of the league-wide deadline signals current veteran players on the open market no longer count in…

AROUND THE NFL Peter King with six games that became more compelling after the draft (we added the network the game is currently slated for):   Here are the games that got more compelling after the draft:   Sunday, Sept. 8. Detroit at Arizona. It’ll be a major upset if this is not the debut…

AROUND THE NFL The fifth-year option deadline is a great way to get a read on how a team feels about their first round skills a few years previously.  Michael David Smith has this year’s review for the class of 2016:   When NFL teams decline to pick up the fifth-year option for a first-round…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   DETROIT RB KERRYON JOHNSON is ready to go.  Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com:   Kerryon Johnson missed the last six games of his rookie season with a knee injury, but now, months removed and with the Detroit Lions offseason workouts underway, he said Thursday that he’s fully back to his…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   DETROIT The Lions have picked up the 5th-year option of T TAYLOR DECKER.   NFC EAST   WASHINGTON What number will QB DWAYNE HASKINS wear?  Michelle Martinelli of NBCSports.com:   Minutes after the Washington Redskins selected Dwayne Haskins with the No. 15 overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft,…

AROUND THE NFL Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com on the “attendance” of the draft:   The NFL’s TV ratings possibly were down by two percent for the first night of the draft in Nashville possible because all those extra people were actually at the draft in Nashville.   Via the Tennessean, the NFL initially estimated that…

AROUND THE NFL Two years ago, the Bears were first round idiots for trading up to draft an unsung QB from a North Carolina school (MITCHELL TRUBISKY), while John Lynch and the 49ers had owned the draft by getting DL SOLOMON THOMAS and snatching LB REUBEN FOSTER later in the first round.  This from Bleacher…

AROUND THE NFL It’s Draft Day!   It may rain on Nashville’s big day.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:   The draft will start tonight in Nashville, and the weather could be an issue.   Via the Tennessean, if the weather becomes a significant issue, the draft would likely move inside, to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center,…