The Jets provided the NFL with another Tuesday surprise last week, when owner Woody Johnson fired G.M. Joe Douglas. On Tuesday of the current week, quarterback Aaron Rodgers addressed the situation for the first time with Pat McAfee and A.J. Hawk. Did Rodgers know it was coming? “Well, I didn’t know,” Rodgers said. “I was on a plane about to …

Nov 26, 2022; Athens, Georgia, USA; Georgia Bulldogs linebacker Smael Mondon Jr. (2) chases Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets quarterback Zach Gibson (15) during the second half at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports The No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs (9-2) play the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (7-4) at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 29 in Athens, Georgia. The …

The Lions are 10-point favorites to beat the Bears on Thanksgiving. But recent history suggests a win for Detroit at home is no sure thing. Detroit has lost its las seven consecutive Thanksgiving games, with three of those losses coming against Chicago. The Lions lost 16-14 to the Bears in 2021, 24-20 to the Bears in 2019 and 23-16 to …

STILLWATER — If he found himself seated across a poker table from Maealiuaki Smith, Patrick Walsh wouldn’t be in a hurry to push any of his chips to the middle. “I would never play poker against him,” said Walsh, Smith’s high school coach at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California. “He could have a straight flush or 10-3 …

The Morning Lead newsletter will pause for Thanksgiving and return next Monday. Click here to sign up and get it delivered straight to your inbox. Happy Thanksgiving! There are worse things than the New York Giants, although admittedly not a lot of them. Thursday’s main course is one example; turkey may be the clucking embodiment of a sort of Tebow-esque blandness, but …

It’s time for December football. It begins this Sunday. That means November is in the past, which is a good thing. I can’t think of a worse November I’ve had picking games. It’s been horrendous. My colleagues on CBSSportsHQ have taken to mocking me. Yes, it’s that bad. I went 5-8 against the spread and 7-6 straight-up. That brings my …

Nov 24, 2011; College Station, TX; General view of the lone star showdown logo on the field before a game between the Texas A&M Aggies and Texas Longhorns at Kyle Field. Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Texas A&M (8-3, 5-2 SEC) will enter the final week of the regular season with everything on the line postseason-wise, as the Aggies’ quadruple overtime …

Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has become a magician with the football. At times more point guard than quarterback, he runs a sleight-of-hand offense that keeps defenses constantly guessing as to where the ball is going. On Tuesday, Tua was asked whether his no-look skills, whether throwing it down the field or flipping it nonchalantly behind him, were inspired by any …

The season hasn’t gone the way Louisville football wanted, but it will still be considered a success with a win over Kentucky in the Governor’s Cup. All four of the Cardinals’ losses this season were by a touchdown or less. Their last-second loss to a last-place Stanford team effectively removed any statistical chance they could make the ACC championship game. …

Not long after the Giants suffered a humiliating blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, a handful of players expressed their frustrations before cameras and microphones. But the team’s second-worst loss of the season particularly irked rookie receiver Malik Nabers, who labeled the performance “soft as f–k” and took issue with his number of targets. …

Here comes little ol’ Clemson. Two weeks ago, when a reporter asked Dabo Swinney to offer a pitch for his Tigers to make the College Football Playoff, the Clemson coach obliged, but his heart didn’t really seem in it. Swinney offered some meandering rhetoric that amounted to: Why not Clemson? The answer, at that time, was that Clemson’s résumé didn’t …

Daniel Jones was the No 6 overall pick in the 2019 draft. Photograph: Matt Krohn/USA Today Sports In each of the last three seasons, a quarterback who was highly drafted but did not initially fulfill started to flourish in a new location with the right offense and coaching staff. In 2022, the Seattle Seahawks decided 2013 second-round New York Jets …

Mack Sutter will be deep entrenched in college football rivalry week. The four-star Dunlap tight end, part of the class of 2026, will be in Oxford, Mississippi, on Friday for the Egg Bowl. On Saturday, he will head to Tuscaloosa for the Iron Bowl. He announced both of those unofficial campus visits on social media. Sutter will be taking in …

Nick Sirianni explains why Eagles still need Brandon Graham even after injury originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Brandon Graham’s season is over but that doesn’t mean he’s done contributing to the 2024 Eagles. The longest-tenured member of the team suffered a torn triceps on Sunday night in Los Angeles, which could be the end of his 15-year career. But …

PISCATAWAY – It’s been a decade since Rutgers football has earned seven wins in a regular season. The Scarlet Knights have a chance to end that streak on Saturday. Greg Schiano’s team will head to East Lansing to play Michigan State at Spartan Stadium hoping to improve to 7-5 and close out the regular season on a high note before …