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The 49ers ruled out defensive end Clelin Ferrell for Saturday night’s game against the Packers. Ferrell injured his knee early in the Week 18 game against the Rams, and coach Kyle Shanahan said Ferrell would miss at least one game. The 49ers had a bye last week. The 49ers list linebacker Dre Greenlaw as questionable. He has Achilles tendinitis and …

The Buffalo Bills are slight favorites (-2.5) in an AFC Divisional round matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs. The expected point total for the matchup is set at 45. The Bills have been scorching hot recently, winning seven of their last eight, including taking down the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-17 in the wild-card round last weekend.  Meanwhile, the Chiefs enter this …

FRISCO, Texas — Now that the Dallas Cowboys are officially retaining head coach Mike McCarthy for the fifth and final season of his contract for the 2024 season, he has the ability to adjust and reconfigure the coaching staff of what he calls “a championship program.” The first domino to fall in that process is whether or not defensive coordinator …

PHILADELPHIA — Fletcher Cox wouldn’t even entertain the thought of the Philadelphia Eagles not having Nick Sirianni next season. The 12-year veteran actually was furious when the subject was even brought up.   “Huh? Come on, man. He’s the head football coach of this team. Come on, man,” a frustrated Cox said when asked on speculation regarding Sirianni’s future. “There ain’t …

Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are hitting the road to face the Detroit Lions in the NFC divisional round of the NFL playoffs after taking down the Philadelphia Eagles in the wild-card round. The biggest challenge facing Mayfield & Co. in Detroit? It could be crowd noise. “Talking to some of those [Los Angeles] Rams guys, they said …

The Lions went from a walkthrough practice on Wednesday to a normal practice on Thursday and one starter’s participation level dropped in the process. Tight end Sam LaPorta was estimated to be a full participant in practice Wednesday, but he only got in a limited session on Thursday. LaPorta hurt his knee in Week 18, but he played and caught …

USA Today Instead of possibly leaving Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin will likely receive a contract extension this offseason. Steelers president Art Rooney II told the Post-Gazette on Thursday that the plan is to extend Tomlin’s contract before the start of the 2024 season.  Tomlin himself alluded to the possibility of receiving a contract extension during Thursday’s season-ending press conference. He added, …

FRISCO, Texas — Just over three hours. That’s how long — 3 hours, 9 minutes to be exact — it took for the second-seeded Dallas Cowboys’ 2023 season to come to end in their 48-32 home loss in Super Wild Card Weekend against the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy informed local media at his end-of-season …

Ben Arthur AFC South Reporter Coming out of 2022, a record-setting extension looked inevitable for the Jaguars’ Trevor Lawrence.  He’d established himself as a franchise quarterback, guiding Jacksonville to a surprising five-game winning streak to end the regular season with an AFC South title. He won a playoff game, too. The expectation was that Lawrence’s ascension would continue into 2023, …

Colin Cowherd claims Bears firing Luke Getsy, interviewing Kliff Kingsbury is calculated for Caleb Williams originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Bears are expected to interview their ninth candidate for the offensive coordinator position, USC quarterbacks coach and former Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury. To NFL analyst Colin Cowherd, the Bears interviewing Kingsbury — and firing Luke Getsy …

Football is a young man’s game, they say. And this year’s NFL playoffs are backing that up. Not only does the postseason still include the league’s youngest team in the Green Bay Packers, but it’s also got a rookie quarterback vying to upset the AFC’s No. 1 seed in C.J. Stroud. In celebration of the fresh faces on the scene, …

Martin Rogers FOX Sports Insider There are three things for absolute certain in Buffalo right now – that there is a monumental game of football to be played this weekend, that the weather is bonkers, and that both of those prior facts are inextricably intertwined. Sunday’s divisional round contest between the hometown Bills and the visiting Kansas City Chiefs is …

For the first time in his career, Patrick Mahomes is going to be hitting the road for a playoff game, and he actually sounds kind of excited about it.  The Chiefs quarterback has played in a total of 15 postseason games throughout his career and the Chiefs have been so good that most of those have been at home. Since …

Three days removed from a playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills, Mike Tomlin was in considerably better spirits on Thursday. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach opened his season-ending news conference with a smile and an invitation for questions about his contract status. He then told reporters that he’s staying in Pittsburgh and expects to sign an extension to his contract that’s …

Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! For everyone hoping that I’d be singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl this year, I have some bad news: The NFL has decided to go in another direction. I’m guessing it’s because they saw me do karaoke once, which led them to quickly realize that I don’t have …