Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images For some Bills fans of a certain age, the ghost of Scott Norwood’s wide right 47-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV and the three further Super Bowl losses that followed in successive years had begun to dwindle. After all, it’s a new era in Buffalo. They have a frequent shopper card to the NFL playoffs. …
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Buccaneers benefit from missed call, score touchdown on next play
A big missed call went against the Lions late in the third quarter today. Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield was sacked for what should have been a loss of 11 yards, but the officials incorrectly ruled that Mayfield had thrown the ball away before he was down. Replays clearly showed that Mayfield’s leg touched the ground while he was still in …
Read More »As Josh Allen’s Bills fall to Patrick Mahomes’ Chiefs for third time in four playoffs, what’s next for Sean McDermott and Buffalo?
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Thirty-six minutes after the clock had expired, Josh Allen was still in uniform. Allen’s season was over, the Kansas City Chiefs (yes, them again) having outlasted his Buffalo Bills 27-24 on Sunday in a divisional-round playoff game at the Bills’ Highmark Stadium. The quarterback sat on the wooden stool by his locker. He alternated between staring …
Read More »Texas coach Rodney Terry apologizes for rant over ‘Horns Down’ gestures
Texas men’s basketball coach Rodney Terry has apologized for his postgame criticism of several Central Florida players who made “Horns Down” gestures following a game last Wednesday. “I had no intention of trying to show up anyone, or offend anyone in terms of what occurred at the end of that game,” Terry said Saturday after the Longhorns’ 75-73 upset of …
Read More »Lions hold off Bucs, set up NFC championship game vs. 49ers
The Detroit Lions are one win away from playing in the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski) The Detroit Lions are going to San Francisco. Detroit built a late two-touchdown lead, then held off a late Tampa Bay Buccaneers rally with an interception of Baker Mayfield to secure a 31-23 win in the divisional round of the playoffs on Sunday. The …
Read More »Arizona star quarterback and receiver will go to Big 12, not Big Ten, in 2024
The news hit like a thunderbolt on Saturday in the midst of the NFL playoffs and college basketball action: Arizona football will retain its star quarterback and top wide receiver. New coach Brent Brennan has to be elated that Noah Fifita and Tetairoa McMillan will stay in Tucson for the 2024 season. They won’t follow Jedd Fisch to Seattle to …
Read More »Bills go up 10-3 on Josh Allen touchdown
The Bills running game is in high gear in the first half at Highmark Stadium. Quarterback Josh Allen ran five yards to cap an 11-play, 75-yard drive with a touchdown that put the Bills up 10-3 with 13:32 left in the first half. The Bills ran for 55 of the 75 yards on that drive and they have 94 rushing …
Read More »Former Georgia WR Dominick Blaylock declares for NFL draft
Former Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver Dominick Blaylock is declaring for the 2024 NFL draft. Blaylock transferred to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for the 2023 college football season. Now, the former four-star recruit will look to find success at the next level. Blaylock hauled in 21 receptions for 337 yards and two touchdowns in 2023 with Georgia Tech. The Marietta, …
Read More »2024 NFL Mock Draft: Buccaneers get Baker Mayfield another playmaker; Packers, Bills beef up offensive line
… Source link : https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2024-nfl-mock-draft-buccaneers-get-baker-mayfield-another-playmaker-packers-bills-beef-up-offensive-line/ Author : Josh Edwards Publish date : 2024-01-22 02:50:35 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Read More »Texas football lands commitment from four-star ATH Lance Jackson
Texas added another member to its 2025 recruiting class on Sunday. Four-star athlete Lance Jackson announced his commitment to Texas. The 6-foot-6, 260-pound playmaker becomes the second-highest ranked player in Texas’ 2025 class. According to On3, Jackson is rated the No. 8 athlete in the nation and No. 19 overall prospect in Texas. The Pleasant Grove product is expected to …
Read More »2024 NFL Draft order: All but four slots locked in after Chiefs, Ravens, 49ers and Lions keep seasons alive
The 2024 NFL Draft is still three months away and for fans of teams that won’t be participating in the postseason, April can’t get here soon enough. Here is the current draft order through the divisional round of the playoffs, according to Tankathon. Note: Team needs are built out based on the projected free agents and are not necessarily a reflection …
Read More »Joe Thuney to have MRI on pectoral injury
Chiefs left guard Joe Thuney wasn’t around for the end of Sunday’s 27-24 win over the Bills and his status for the AFC Championship Game will be determined by further medical testing. Head coach Andy Reid told reporters at his postgame press conference that Thuney suffered a right pectoral injury. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Thuney will have an …
Read More »QB recruit Julian Sayin transferring from Alabama to Ohio State. Demond Williams Jr. to Washington
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: NOV 04 Ohio State at Rutgers COLUMBUS, Ohio — Julian Sayin, the top-ranked quarterback in the 2024 recruiting class, is transferring from Alabama to Ohio State. Sayin told ESPN about his decision Sunday. He had entered the transfer portal on Friday, becoming the 26th player and second signee to leave Alabama since coach Nick Saban announced his retirement …
Read More »2024 NFL playoffs: Early odds for AFC, NFC title games as Ravens favored over Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs
Getty Images And then there were four. The NFL playoffs have whittled down to the final four after a wild divisional round, and now we have Championship Sunday to look forward to which features a handful of the league’s elite clubs. Both No. 1 seeds emerged out of their lone playoff game victorious following the first-round bye and Baltimore along …
Read More »‘Wide right’ haunts Bills again, 33 years later: Last-minute field goal miss dooms Buffalo vs. Chiefs
Wide. Right. They are “the two most dreaded words in Buffalo,” as Jim Nantz put it Sunday night. And they returned with a vengeance to close the Bills’ divisional round matchup with the Chiefs. As if falling to Patrick Mahomes and Co. yet again weren’t painful enough, Buffalo relived its infamous history in the closing minutes of Sunday’s contest, a …
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