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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Philadelphia Eagles will square off in the final game of Super Wild Card Weekend. The Buccaneers enter the 2024 NFL playoffs averaging just 88.8 rushing yards per game, which ranks dead-last in the NFL. Buccaneers running back Rachaad White is averaging 3.6 yards per carry this season, but should you consider including him in your …

Belichick to Cowboys? Playoff exit sparks fascinating scenario originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston There are a handful of intriguing NFL head coach openings for Bill Belichick to pursue this offseason. But they would pale in comparison to a potential opportunity in Dallas. The No. 2 seed Cowboys suffered a shocking upset to the No. 7 seed Green Bay Packers …

The Chiefs entered the 2023 NFL playoffs with perhaps more questions than at any point in recent memory, going 4-5 in Patrick Mahomes’ final nine starts and struggling to match the explosive production of past title bids. One game in, however, fresh off a 26-7 rout of the Dolphins on Saturday night, is it premature to suggest Kansas City has …

This isn’t how the Philadelphia Eagles wanted to enter the playoffs. Philadelphia has lost five of its last six games heading into the postseason, which includes consecutive losses to the Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants. The Eagles are the first team to start 10-1 and lose six-or-more games heading into the playoffs since the 1986 New York Jets.  The …

Sunday night was doubly painful for Rams tight end Tyler Higbee. His team’s season came to an end with a 24-23 loss to the Lions and he was absent for the final minutes after suffering a knee injury on a hit from Lions safety Kerby Joseph in the fourth quarter. It looks like that injury will be one Higbee is …

Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander wasn’t a sure bet to play against the Cowboys on Sunday because he hurt his ankle when someone stepped on it during practice last week, but he wound up getting the green light to play and he made a big impact in Green Bay’s win. Alexander picked off Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott late in the first …

Greg Auman NFC South Reporter TAMPA, Fla. — As the Buccaneers’ equipment director, Brad Berlin is responsible for everything the team wears and uses — about 25,000 pounds of helmets, pads, jerseys and everything else, enough to fill a 53-foot tractor trailer or the entire belly of a 767 wide-body jet. For the past two seasons, one of the smallest …

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (9) and Lions quarterback Jared Goff (16) hug after the Lions defeated the Rams 24-23 during the NFC wildcard game at Ford Field in Detroit on Sunday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) When it comes to power, Jerome “The Bus” Bettis had plenty. Over the course of 13 seasons, the legendary Pittsburgh Steelers running back …

Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines celebrated their national title with a parade and ceremony in Ann Arbor on Saturday and Harbaugh will be moving on to other business on Monday. According to multiple reports, Harbaugh will meet with the Chargers about their head coaching vacancy on Monday. Reports last week indicated that such a meeting was coming as Harbaugh …

After 30 years without one, Lions fans were going to be fired up about facing any opponent in a home playoff game on Sunday night but the fact that it was the Rams made for an even more electric scene at Ford Field. Fans booed former Lions quarterback and current Rams starter Matthew Stafford before the game and they chanted …

After the Rams wrapped up a 5-12 season in 2022, head coach Sean McVay took some time to contemplate his future before ultimately deciding to return for another season on the sideline. That was the first step toward a big rebound for the Super Bowl LVI champs. The Rams would go 10-7 and advance to Sunday night’s playoff game in …

Detroit fans got to see the first Lions home playoff game in three decades on Saturday night, and head coach Dan Campbell thinks playing in front of Detroit fans made a difference. The Lions’ 24-23 win over the Rams featured plenty of crowd noise when the Rams’ offense was on the field, which Campbell believed was crucial. “That was arguably …

Photograph: Michael Ainsworth/AP The Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs are always a must-watch, usually for all the wrong reasons. With their 1990s run of dominance firmly in time’s rearview mirror, the Cowboys’ 21st-century legacy mostly consists of postseason disappointment. After grabbing the NFC’s second seed in the regular season, it felt like these Cowboys should have easily handled a visiting …

Lions quarterback Jared Goff (16) signals from the line against his former team, the Rams. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Jared Goff telegraphed this pass. We should have known he would flip a U-turn in the Motor City, leading the Detroit Lions to their first playoff victory in 32 years. He was a big part of dramatic turnarounds in …

DETROIT — The roar was primal. It was visceral. It was generational. It felt like it couldn’t get louder, and then it did. It felt like it couldn’t last, and then it never waned. It rattled the beams of Ford Field and poured out television sets across the country. It was loud, of course. Sixty-six thousand-plus screaming Detroit Lions fans …