Gov. Kathy Hochul: Steelers-Bills won’t be pushed back again New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the playoff game between the Steelers and Bills “will not be pushed back again,” despite an ongoing travel ban in the area around Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. The wild-card game is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET Monday after originally being planned for 1 p.m. Sunday. The decision to push back the game was announced early Saturday afternoon. Hochul was speaking in a news conference Sunday afternoon with other government officials amid the lake-effect snowstorm in the Buffalo area. Snow continued to fall Sunday in some areas…
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Titans and Bengals OC Brian Callahan wrap up their interview for the position of head coach. On Friday, Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan had a head coaching interview with the Titans. Callahan is anticipated to participate in at least four interviews, this being the first. This was an online interview. On Tuesday, he has an interview with the Chargers as well. He has also been asked for an interview by the Panthers and Falcons. In addition, the Chargers, Panthers, and Falcons have all asked to interview him for their head coaching positions. With Jerod Mayo taking over as head coach…
Four downs: Goff leads the Lions past the Rams in the playoffs. QB1 was the first to go down. By defeating his former team and leading Detroit to its first postseason victory in thirty years, Jared Goff eliminated any last vestige of doubt. For the foreseeable future, he will continue to be the quarterback for the Lions. He had to contend with the Los Angeles Rams, who selected him first overall and passed on him in favor of Matthew Stafford, for the entire week. With the manner in which he performed to lead the Lions to a 24-23 victory, it is…
Green Bay Packers shock Dallas Cowboys; Detroit Lions win their first game in thirty-two years. The Detroit Lions secured their first play-off triumph in thirty-two years, holding on for a 24-23 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. When Dan Campbell’s squad won the first postseason game to be played in Motor City in 30 years, several of the long-suffering Lions supporters, including artist Eminem, broke down in tears. That also ended Detroit’s nine-game losing streak, which was the longest losing streak in NFL history during the playoffs. The Green Bay Packers shocked everyone earlier on Sunday by defeating the Dallas…
coach sacked; front office actions The Atlanta Falcons sacked coach Arthur Smith shortly after midnight Eastern Time, only hours after the team’s disastrous loss to the only hours after the team’s disastrous loss to the New Orleans Saints ended Smith’s three-year tenure. And that was only the beginning of the activity. Coach Ron Rivera was let go by the Washington Commanders early on Monday morning. For the league’s front offices and coaching staff, this day serves as an annual reckoning. Keep an eye on USA TODAY Sports for all the developments about resignations and firings. More actions are undoubtedly forthcoming,…
Bengals to play in Super Bowl 58 as a WWII veteran According to Ashley Kirklen of WLWT5, a longtime Cincinnati Bengals season ticket holder, she will be attending Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas on the team’s dime. Dearborn County resident and 97-year-old World War II veteran George Klopp Sr. said he can still clearly recall his first Bengals game, an exhibition versus the Kansas City Chiefs in 1968, when the team made its debut in Cincinnati. Klopp has attended practically every game in Cincinnati since then. His best Bengals fan memories are of the 1980s Super Bowl teams…
Coach Zac Taylor announced an injury case today In the absence of their franchise quarterback, the Cincinnati Bengals will have to salvage their season. Coach Zac Taylor announced the wrist injury Joe Burrow suffered on Thursday night in Baltimore was a season-ending ruptured ligament. On Friday, the results of an MRI showed the severity. Surgery is probably needed to treat the injury. If Burrow were an ordinary person, you would be concerned about it. He isn’t,” Taylor declared on Friday. “His wiring is different.” The Bengals’ season is running out of time while they wait on Joe Burrow’s wrist diagnosis. According to…
Zac Taylor believes that this season has improved him as a coach. Cincinnati Bengals‘ head coach Zac Taylor has had a winning record in three straight seasons, but in a chat with Bengals.com reporter Geoff Hobson, he stated he thinks going through this season made him a stronger coach and playcaller. “You learn through these events you’re in,” Taylor remarked, citing Hobson. “Every year is a bit different, and we definitely experienced some difficulty like many teams do. I’m happy to help the squad develop as well as myself, and I definitely feel like I’ll be an improved head coach…
A Bengals player is accused of making severe threats against a lady. The Cincinnati Police Department charged Joe Mixon, a standout running back for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, on Friday with aggravated threatening after he allegedly pointed a gun at a lady in January of last year. “In order to preserve a fair and unbiased judicial procedure for the parties involved, no details of the investigation or evidence will be revealed outside of official court proceedings,” was the warning from the Police Department. According to Cincinnati Police, the case was originally dropped on14 January of this year due…
Candidates with the best probability of landing a position are general manager and head coach As we approach the end of the first week, the Las Vegas Raiders may now officially begin their offseason. The Raiders have been in the headlines a lot lately because Mark Davis has been interviewing candidates for the general manager position and because there are a lot of unfounded speculations around the team’s potential future head coach. So, that will be the primary subject for this week’s mailbag. Do the Raiders make the right decision by selecting a general manager first? Or does…