Posts Tagged ‘Fox Sports’

AROUND THE NFL The biggest trade of deadline day so far is the Jets sending CB SAUCE GARDNER to the Colts.  We’ll get the DB out now, and cover any upcoming deals in the morning.- – -If The Season Ended Today in the NFC – In the highly competitive NFC, the 49ers loss at Houston proved…

AROUND THE NFL If The Season Ended Today, the team the oddsmakers continue to proclaim as the favorite to hoist Lombardi in February, is not even in the playoffs and multiple games outside it division lead.   The Chiefs have fallen to eighth in the AFC after Jacksonville’s win at Las Vegas. AFC                                                            ConfIndianapolis                South      7-2           6-1New England             …

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH  DETROITLions DC KELVIN SHEPPARD might be a sneaky good candidate to replace the departed Brian Kelly as head coach at LSU.  He certainly has greater familiarity with the intricacies of the job than Kelly did upon leaving Notre Dame and heading to the bayou.  Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com: Lions defensive coordinator Kelvin…

AROUND THE NFL The NFL won the annual Monday Night in late October head-to-head with the biggest event in MLB.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL went head-to-head with the World Series and came out with more viewers on Monday night. ESPN announced that the Monday Night Football game between the Chiefs and the Commanders drew 17.6…

AROUND THE NFL Josh Edwards of CBSSports.com updates us on the current draft order – with the Jets out of the number one spot: As a reminder, there are three teams without a first-round pick in 2026 as a result of draft day trades, plus the Micah Parsons deal: Atlanta, Green Bay and Jacksonville.  Here is the current 2026…

AROUND THE NFL Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season will not be one the League’s PR folks will be extolling for the tightness of the competition. With 12 games in the books, only one, the Jets 39-38 comeback win at Cincinnati, was decided by fewer than 10 points.   And only two other games were decided by…

AROUND THE NFL The NFL does not accept the conventional wisdom that Vikings PK WILL REICHARD missed a field goal in London because it hit a Sky Cam cable – and it doesn’t want its announcers saying that.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: During the first half of Thursday night’s Vikings-Chargers game, Prime Video’s Al Michaels said the…

AROUND THE NFL Changes to the Pro Bowl Games, reflecting a distinct down-sizing of the event.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: When it comes to the Pro Bowl, the only constant is change. The NFL has announced that the event, known officially as the “Pro Bowl Games” in the years since the elimination of the Pro Bowl game, will…

AROUND THE NFL If The Season Ended Today – thru Week 7 – the oddsmakers favorite to win the Super Bowl would not be in the playoffs. If The Season Ended Today In the NFC, the team that lost to the Browns sits atop the NFC NFC                                                           ConfGreen Bay                   North       4-1-1      3-0-1San Francisco             West        5-2         5-1 Philadelphia                 East        5-2        …

AROUND THE NFL WHAT HAPPENED IN DENVERImagine.  Your team is up 19-0 at the end of the third quarter – and they don’t take their foot off the gas offensively and score two more touchdowns.  Surely, they win.  But the Giants did not on Sunday in Denver.   Jeff Legwold and Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com explain what happened. As the…