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Only eight teams are left in the 2024 NFL playoffs with just over three weeks remaining until Super Bowl LVIII. Like every week in the NFL, we’ve got a bevy of injury updates to address with conference championship appearances at stake.  While each remaining team is dealing with injuries, no one has been hit harder than the Buffalo Bills. Head coach …

The NFL postseason rolls on to the divisional round, and so far we’ve been cruising. After a strong 32-16 ATS record to cap off the final three weeks of the regular season, I was able to go 5-1 ATS during Super Wild Card Weekend with the only loss coming via the Dallas Cowboys getting absolutely smoked by the Green Bay …

Jerod Mayo opens up about imposter syndrome: ‘It’s a motivator’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston On Wednesday, the New England Patriots officially introduced Jerod Mayo as Bill Belichick’s replacement. While there’s plenty of pressure that comes with replacing the greatest head coach in NFL history, Mayo is embracing the challenge. The former Patriots linebacker is approaching his new role …

With the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears have the chance to select their new franchise quarterback (e.g. USC’s Caleb Williams), but cornerback Jaylon Johnson doesn’t want to hear it. Chicago’s star cornerback explained to Keyshawn Johnson on the inaugural edition of “All Facts No Brakes” that he wants the franchise to stick with quarterback …

Henry McKenna AFC East Reporter After parting ways with Bill Belichick last week, the New England Patriots made a move toward what’s familiar: head coach Jerod Mayo. Will their next set of moves be about sparking change? “As you evaluate the players and the scheme, I think you have to evaluate the culture and evaluate how the pieces fit,” Mayo …

Hello everyone, and buckle your seat belts, because the next round of playoff football is just days away. John Breech is taking the day off to mentally prepare for a potential Baltimore Ravens trip to the AFC title game, so you’ve got me, Cody Benjamin, to deliver the latest. This is the Pick Six newsletter. Now let’s get to it. …

Getty Images The Buffalo Bills overcame both extreme winter weather and the seventh-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers to earn the opportunity to play host to the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes in the AFC divisional round on Sunday. Mahomes will be experiencing his first true road playoff game in his career after playing his first 15 either …

The Ravens will start their playoff run without Melvin Gordon on their 53-man roster. Baltimore has waived the veteran running back, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media. Gordon, 30, spent most of the season on the practice squad. He appeared in four games, recording 81 yards on 26 carries with a touchdown. He also caught three passes for 46 …

Martin Rogers FOX Sports Insider By now, so many overseas athletes have come to the United States to take their shot at the National Football League that it no longer feels particularly newsworthy.  Louis Rees-Zammit is an exception.  This week, Rees-Zammit, a 22-year-old winger for Wales’ national rugby team and a genuine star of last year’s Rugby World Cup, created …

History was made Wednesday in Foxborough, as the New England Patriots introduced Jerod Mayo as the franchise’s 15th head coach. Mayo, who is replacing six-time Super Bowl champion head coach Bill Belichick, becomes New England’s first Black head coach. That fact was not lost on Mayo, a former All-Pro linebacker and assistant coach for the Patriots.  “You better believe being the …

ARLINGTON, Texas — The seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers entered this postseason as the NFL’s youngest playoff team since the 1974 Buffalo Bills, and on Sunday on the road against the second-seeded Dallas Cowboys, they pummeled the home team 48-32. Green Bay led by as many as 32 in the fourth quarter before head coach Matt LaFleur took his foot off …

Carmen Vitali NFC North Reporter No matter what happens in Sunday’s divisional round showdown in Detroit, the NFC Championship Game will be started by a quarterback who was once given up on. Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff was the afterthought in a trade that sent then-Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams. The former Rams first-round pick was …

In 2022, the Bills liked punter Matt Araiza enough to use a sixth-round pick to draft him. Now, when they need a punter in advance of the most important game of the year, they had no interest in bringing him back. By signing Matt Haack to the practice squad as the potential replacement for Sam Martin, who suffered a hamstring …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter When Adam Peters, the newly hired general manager of the Washington Commanders, took stock of the franchise he’s now running, he didn’t see a complete mess. He saw “a few cornerstone pieces” on the roster. He believed the foundation for success was already there. “This is not a total rebuild,” Peters insisted in his introductory …

Football isn’t the only thing Baker Mayfield has gotten better at during his time in Tampa. The Buccaneers’ starting quarterback had the perfect response to Lions safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson trash-talking him ahead of Sunday’s divisional-round playoff matchup.  In case you missed it, here’s what Gardner-Johnson said about Mayfield when he was recently asked about the Buccaneers’ receiving corps.  “This group probably …