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One of the NFL’s most important owners has left one of the NFL’s most important committees. Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal recently reported that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has left the media committee. Fischer calls it a “rare change” to the league’s $12.4 billion TV rights operation. Jones will not be replaced on the committee, which is chaired by …

Why Gore believes CMC should decide his 49ers workload this season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Christian McCaffrey is the 49ers’ MVP and, because of his relentless work ethic, no one doubts he’ll recover from the strained calf that made him miss most of training camp. However, how San Francisco should use McCaffrey is widely debated. Should he …

49ers confident they’ve turned page on 2023 heartbreak to 2024 originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CLARA – Brock Purdy sees no reason to look backward. With the 2024 NFL season getting started, the 49ers quarterback is only concerned with the here and now. The past is the past, and that’s where he intends to leave it. That …

How Shanahan phone call ended Williams’ 49ers contract holdout originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area It took one phone call. After months of holding out and standing his ground while awaiting security with a new contract, Trent Williams received a phone call from 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan last Sunday, eight days before San Francisco’s 2024 season opener, that put …

The Giants will certainly already be fired up when they hit the MetLife Stadium turf for their regular season opener Sunday against the Vikings, but in case they needed some bulletin board material, here it is. When asked how good of a matchup Big Blue’s offense is for the Minnesota defense, second-year linebacker Ivan Pace Jr. was extremely confident about …

Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love limped off the field with assistance after being injured in the final seconds of their 34-29 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday night. The injury came just after Love had thrown a 33-yard completion to Jayden Reed to get the Packers near midfield. On the next play, Love faced major pressure from Jalen …

Packers head coach Matt LaFleur didn’t have much information about quarterback Jordan Love’s knee injury after Friday night’s loss to the Eagles, but the team should have a better idea of what Love is dealing with on Saturday. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that initial testing showed that Love’s ACL is intact, but he is scheduled to have more …

Jets head coach Robert Saleh had no new update on the Haason Reddick situation ahead of Saturday morning’s final practice prior to the season opening matchup against the San Francisco 49ers. With Reddick continuing onto day 47 of his holdout from the organization in hopes of a long-term deal, Saleh indicated that it’s “fair to say” that the team will …

Through two games, the dynamic kickoff has largely gone as expected. Returns haven’t gone up. In fact, they’ve gone down. Of 24 kickoffs, five have been returned. Nineteen have not. That translates to a 20.8-percent return rate. Or, conversely, as a 79.2-percent touchback rate. Last year, 74 percent of all kicks were touchbacks. Last night’s game featured one of the …

Packers coach Matt LaFleur says he and his assistant coaches needed to do a better job in Friday night’s loss to the Eagles. “There’s a lot to clean up,” LaFleur said. “It was definitely a sloppy game from us. I think there was some uncharacteristic things that we did as a staff, quite frankly, and that trickled down to our …

‘I put us in a bad spot:’ Jalen Hurts still trying to solve interception problem originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Jalen Hurts wasn’t about to run from it. He wasn’t about to make excuses. Hurts knows how bad his two interceptions were Friday night against the Packers. He knows they could have cost the Eagles an opening-day win. And …

Ralph Vacchiano NFL Reporter Saquon Barkley has always insisted that he didn’t sign with the Philadelphia Eagles just because of the money. It was about the chance to finally play on a good team, behind a powerful offensive line. And it was about getting a chance to remind the world how good he really is. That is exactly what Barkley …

The Jets open their season with one of their toughest tests of the season as they face the NFC champion San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football. San Francisco lost just three games at home last year, two of which were after they had already clinched a playoff berth. However, New York will be eager to get the 2024 season …

Wide receiver DJ Chark won’t take part in Jim Harbaugh’s first game as the Chargers head coach. Chark has been ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Raiders due to the hip injury that’s kept him out of practice this week. Chark signed a one-year deal with the Chargers this offseason and his absence leaves the Chargers with Quentin Johnston, …

The NFL will be staging its first Brazilian game in a stadium where the locals despise the color green. And the NFL sent two teams to that stadium with green in their color schemes. Appearing this morning on CNBC, Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked how that happened. “Well, you try to pick the two best teams,” Goodell said. “And I …