Month: August 2013

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end and noted “F**king soldier!” Kellen Winslow has been shipped out. The Bucs signed Dallas Clark Monday night, one of the few veterans on a very young team that spent last season as a doormat for the NFC South division. As if Clark’s signing wasn’t message enough, Buccaneers head coach Greg…

Why Seahawks’ Hail Mary Win Is the Breaking Point for NFL-NFLRA Negotiations That’s the one. The image of one referee signaling interception while his counterpart signals touchdown while presiding over the deciding, final play of a nationally televised game has given the NFLRA the first true leverage in www.falconsnflofficialshop.com/Authentic-Steven-Jackson-Jersey the continuing standoff between the league…

Bleacher Report’s 2013 NFL Offseason Awards It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the B/R Offseason Award winners. Over the past decade or so, it’s become www.falconsnflofficialshop.com/Authentic-Tony-Gonzalez-Jersey clear: The NFL offseason is almost as entertaining as the game itself. Exploding ratings for the draft, round-the-clock live…

NFL 2013 Offseason Grades: San Francisco 49ers This is part of a series of videos grading NFL teams’ offseasons, from the opening of free agency to the end of the draft, up through OTAs and minicamps. That failure will undoubtedly drive the team throughout the entire 2013 season, as it clearly has throughout the offseason…

Slate is far from the first to take a stand against the nickname. Why are we joining Washington City Paper and Gregg Easterbrook and writers from the Buffalo News and the Philadelphia Daily News? We’re a national, general-interest magazine, not the Washington Post or ESPN. Our coverage is sporadic, and I doubt that Dan Snyder…

As the Carolina Panthers scramble for public money to upgrade their stadium, other NFL teams are getting significant help from state and local governments. Of the 20 stadiums built or renovated since 1997, a year after Bank of America Stadium opened, all but one have used public money. Things as diverse as food, property and…

Bill Polian, General Manager: Most fans cringe when they hear this and immediately say no, but like it or not, Polian is the greatest executive in football history. He built the Bills team that went to 4 straight Super Bowls, quickly took the expansion franchise Panthers to the NFC Chamionship game in just their second…

of quarterback Aaron Rodgers. “It’s happened before here,” Thompson said, somewhat non-chalantly. “I’m sure it’s happened in a lot of places. It is what it is.” Although Bulaga was holding out hope of somehow playing through his injury, coach Mike McCarthy announced Wednesday that Bulaga will indeed have surgery and be lost for the season.…

The Atlanta Falcons entered training camp with a veritable all-star team on offense with the exception of the unproven commodities up front. The offensive line questions grew more pressing Tuesday, when right tackle Mike Johnson was carted off the field with a left leg injury. The injury was serious enough that Johnson departed the team’s…

The San Francisco 49ers linebacker will be sidelined at least two weeks www.falconsnflofficialshop.com/Authentic-Julio-Jones-Jersey after undergoing surgery to repair his injured right hand, ESPN’s Mike Sando reported Monday. Willis is expected to be ready in time for the start of the regular season. Willis injured his hand during practice last Wednesday. Though 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh…