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By James Hicks, The Sports Xchange   In Sunday’s Divisional Round games, precedents will be set. For the first time in franchise history, the Lions will host back-to-back postseason games, as they welcome Baker Mayfield and the NFC South champs Tampa Bay Buccaneers.   For ...

  Jan 19, 2024​ 20 Additional Players Granted Special Eligibility for 2024 NFL Draft for Total of 54 Players ​NEW YORK –– Jan. 19, 2024 –– The National Football League announced today the names of 54 players who have been granted special ...

The conferences’ top seeds get their first taste of postseason action Saturday. And though the Ravens and 49ers play upstart franchises, both games project as anything but walkovers.   The two games also showcase four of the league’s best and most intriguing ...

Ready, aim. . . . The trigger fingers on the NFL firing squads are so sensitive these days that even the NRA might call for more judicious use of artillery. After last weekend’s Super Wild Card playoff losses, the blame game put crosshairs directly on Philadelphia’s ...

For the second NFL playoff game in as many days, a young gunslinger outdueled a veteran quarterback in the Lone Star state, as Jordan Love and Green Bay stunned Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys, 48-32.   Later in the day, Detroit edged the Rams, 24-23, in ...

In the NFL’s Wild Card Round doubleheader, the exciting Joe Flacco experiment came to an abrupt halt in Houston. Meanwhile, his counterpart, rookie CJ Stroud, picked up in the playoffs where he left off from his sensational regular season.   Houston’s 45-14 Wild ...

NFL WILD CARD WEEKEND SCRIPT!  We are in the final hours leading up to the start of the first weekend of the NFL playoffs. This article is solely being written on the basis that one might believe that the NFL does find a way after an eighteen week season to get ...

Those football gods that like to use snow to level the playing field apparently went a little too far.   With blizzard-like conditions and high winds forecast for western New York and the greater Buffalo Area this weekend, the NFL Saturday postponed Sunday’s ...

The NFL playoffs kickoff with Wild Card weekend, with a Saturday doubleheader that is sure to dazzle viewers still buzzing from a stirring 2023 regular season.   Unless, of course, these fans do not subscribe to NBC’s Peacock streaming service.     Game 1, ...

Pete is gone, and there will again be sleepless nights in Seattle.   As reported by Bob Condotta of The Seattle Times, Pete Carroll, who led Seattle to the franchise's only Super Bowl win in its 48-year history, is out as the Seahawks’ head coach.    Two questions ...