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The Cowboys’ search for a new head coach could best be described as a soap opera.

Cowboys offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer may be negotiating to become the 10th head coach of the team, but now comes intriguing and interesting news.

Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Jones has spoken with former Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll regarding the opening. Harris described the conversation “as informal, although the interest is legitimate enough to be reported.”

There are no plans for a formal interview, per Harris.

Jones began the search with a conversation with Colorado coach Deion Sanders that has gone nowhere since.

Seattle assistant Leslie Frazier, former Jets head coach Robert Saleh and Schottenheimer are the only in-person interviews Jones has conducted. Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore had a virtual interview since his team remains in the playoffs.

Schottenheimer worked for Carroll from 2018-20, so it’s possible Jones’ conversation with Carroll was about Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer has spent the past three seasons in Dallas, including serving as offensive coordinator the past two. He did not call the plays under Mike McCarthy.

Carroll, 73, wants to return to the NFL after a year off. He has 18 seasons of NFL head coaching experience and won a Super Bowl in 2013.

Jones’ previous eight hires were familiar faces to Jones and/or previous head coaches. If Schottenheimer is hired, he would follow the hires of Dave Campo and Jason Garrett as coaches on the Cowboys staff who were promoted to head coach.

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The Tennessee Titans’ reward for being the worst team in football this past season is the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. The Titans will have three options with this pick: They can select the prospective franchise quarterback they so desperately need, they can trade the pick and collect extra selections or they can select the best player in the class — who may not be a quarterback. That third option feels more realistic after this week.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker told reporters they won’t pass on a “generational talent” with the first pick in the draft. They will do their homework on all the prospects, including quarterbacks. 

The top prospect in the draft may be do-it-all wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter out of Colorado. The 2024 Heisman Trophy winner was also a Unanimous All-American, Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, and the Fred Biletnikoff Award winner. You read that correctly, the best defensive player in the Big 12 was also the top receiver in the country. In 2024, Hunter caught 96 passes for 1,258 yards and 15 touchdowns. He also recorded 35 total tackles, 11 passes defended, one forced fumble and four interceptions. It remains to be seen what position Hunter will play at the next level, but regardless, he appears to be the top player in the draft.

After Brinker made his comments, Hunter’s odds of becoming the No. 1 pick skyrocketed. They went from +1400 on Wednesday morning to +140, per DraftKings Sportsbook. 

Here are the top odds for the No. 1 pick (per DraftKings Sportsbook):

Cam Ward

-200

+100

Shedeur Sanders

+140

+140

Travis Hunter

+1400

+350

Abdul Carter

+2000

+1400

What’s interesting about the Titans’ situation is that…

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(Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Nov. 7 and has been updated to reflect the New York Jets’ hiring of Aaron Glenn.)

Three years ago, when Ben Johnson was elevated to be the offensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions, he got a direct challenge from Aaron Glenn, the team’s defensive coordinator.

Bring it.

In every head-to-head between the offense and defense, from training camp to a midweek practice, bring it all. Bring the creativity. Bring the trick plays. Bring everything Johnson could conjure up.

Mainly bring the competitiveness.

Not only would it help make each unit better — and help Detroit go 15-2 this season and secure the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs — it would make Johnson and Glenn better, especially when they eventually became head coaches.

“It’s always iron sharpens iron,” Johnson told Yahoo Sports this season of Glenn’s attitude. “He has really challenged me to stay cutting edge, attack him. We’ve gone back and forth during training camp and in the springtime, we’ll make some adjustments and he’ll make some adjustments. It’s just constant competition between the two of us.”

On Monday, Johnson, 38, became the new head coach of the Chicago Bears. On Wednesday, Glenn, 52, took over the New York Jets.

Glenn will now need to bring that same attitude to the Jets — competitiveness, pressure, relentlessness. The same attributes that drove him as a Pro Bowl lock-down corner, including eight seasons (1994-2001) with New York and then as a grinding-assistant coach that he demanded be reflected in his Lions defenses.

He takes over a five-win team in New York that hasn’t sniffed the playoffs since 2010. He does it with the only mentality he’s ever known, one that drove him from an unlikely place to NFL head coach.

Glenn grew up in the Bordersville neighborhood of Humble, Texas, just on the outskirts of Houston. It was built in the 1920s, a settlement of wooden shacks, created so African Americans could work at a nearby…

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With the Baltimore Ravens out of the playoffs, it sounds like Lamar Jackson is now going to be rooting for Josh Allen to go out and win his first Super Bowl. 

After the Ravens’ heartbreaking 27-25 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Jackson and Allen quickly found each other on the field. 

Following the game, Jackson was asked what he told Allen and he shared the message that he had for the Bills quarterback. 

“Great players recognize greatness,” Jackson said, via Sarah Ellison. “And we both recognize each other, but I told him, ‘Man, go get something. Go win something.’ MVP or Super Bowl, do something. I want him to be successful.”

In the days leading up to the divisional round game, Jackson raised some eyebrows around the league by making it clear that he wasn’t really friends with Allen (or any other quarterback for that matter). 

“I don’t really chill with people in the offseason, especially not other quarterbacks,” Jackson said on Jan. 16. “Don’t get me wrong, there’s no problem, but we’re competing against each other. I’m trying to beat you. I’m not trying to be your friend.”

Jackson might not be trying to be Allen’s friend, but there’s definitely a professional respect between the two and Jackson clearly admires the way Allen plays. Allen has never been voted MVP and he’s never won the Super Bowl and Jackson is now joining millions of Bills fans who want to see one or both of those things happen in the very near future. 

As for Allen, he also shared his side of the conversation during a postgame interview with CBS Sports’ Tracy Wolfson. 

“I just have so much respect and love for him,” Allen told Wolfson after the game. “The way he plays the game, he’s a true competitor, he’s a true football player, one of the greatest to ever step on the football field, so nothing but love.” 

If Allen is going to win his first Super Bowl, he’s going to have to do something he’s…

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Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown knew this was a risk.

His prized offensive coordinator leaving for a division rival? The Chicago Bears had not reached a deal with Ben Johnson last week, when St. Brown and his brother Equanimeous St. Brown hosted Bears quarterback Caleb Williams on their podcast.

But the rumblings were enough that Amon-Ra St. Brown joked last week: “Just so you know, I told Ben, ‘Caleb is f***ing trash.’”

“That’s all right,” Williams deadpanned in response. “What he does with that information, that’s all good.”

Amon-Ra St. Brown doubled down: “Caleb’s a diva. He’s a selfish motherf***er, wants to do everything on his own, thinks he’s the smartest guy in the world, not coachable.”

His brother rolled his eyes: “Amon, he’s gone. Say goodbye.”

Ben Johnson is reportedly a top candidate for multiple head coach openings, including Chicago, and Amon-Ra doesn’t want to see him leave 😅 pic.twitter.com/Xj0bbTEtC8

— St. Brown Podcast (@StBrownPodcast) January 16, 2025

By Monday, Johnson was.

The Bears reached a deal to hire Johnson as their next head coach Monday afternoon, according to multiple media reports including a post from the coaching agency representing Johnson. While the team has not yet officially announced Johnson put pen to paper, the pending marriage certificate seems to be a matter not of if but when. Bears fans have reason to celebrate.

Because while a front office whose words and actions don’t always align, citing different goals for its coaching search, the success of the Bears’ next hire will hinge most strongly on one facet: maximizing the potential of Williams, whom they selected first overall in the 2024 NFL Draft.

The three offensive coordinators and two head coaches he navigated as a rookie stunted that goal. Now, a high-ceiling talent has the chance to recover and grow in his sophomore year.

Williams learned, through a tumultuous rookie year, how powerful stability could be. Hiring a head…

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Mark Andrews’s drop effectively ended the Ravens’ season.Photograph: Gregory Fisher/USA Today Sports

Josh Allen v Lamar Jackson was set to be an epic. The idea of this season’s MVP favorites sharing a field was chill inducing. Because whichever quarterback punctuated a brilliant individual season with a conference championship berth would do so because he outplayed his counterpart.

Then the actual game was played in snowy Buffalo. It turns out there’s so much more to a football game than the two men under center, even men as supremely talented as Allen and Jackson. Many will blame Jackson for Buffalo’s 27-25 win over the Ravens, especially as the weeks and months go on. They’ll credit Allen too. But neither player was the key factor in the outcome. It’s often the easy chances players don’t take rather than flashes of brilliance that decide games.

Jackson wasn’t perfect on Sunday but he stepped up when it counted. Driving 88 yards in eight plays to set up a game-tying two-point conversion in the final moments of a playoff contest is what MVPs do. But Jackson didn’t dial up the play call for the two-point conversion, and his pass was fine – it was tight end Mark Andrews who dropped the simplest of catches to effectively hand the game to the Bills.

Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken decided to put the season in the hands of Andrews, who had fumbled and squashed a promising Ravens drive earlier in the half.

“We wouldn’t be here without Mark Andrews. … It’s like anything else. Destiny is a decision that you make, and how you handle what comes in life. And Mark will handle it fantastic,” Jim Harbaugh said in his postgame press conference.

“Destiny is a decision that you make” sounds fancy and metaphysical. In this game, it was the little decisions that led to Buffalo advancing to the AFC championship.

Playing Sliding Doors is easy but, in the moment, the decision not to put the ball in the hands of Jackson or Derrick Henry with the…

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When the Philadelphia Eagles played the Los Angeles Rams during the regular season, the Eagles piled up 314 rushing yards in a 37-20 win. The first quarter of their rematch was a clear indication they’d get near that number again in the divisional round of the playoffs. 

The Eagles rushed for 115 yards in the first quarter, and a big reason they were able to do that is because they accomplished a feat that no NFL team had pulled off in the postseason in more than 60 years: They had two touchdown runs of 40 yards or more. 

They would end up piling up 285 rushing yards in a 28-22 win over the Rams.

The first score came on Philadelphia’s opening drive when Jalen Hurts took off for a 44-yard touchdown, which set the franchise record for longest scoring run by a quarterback in the postseason. 

That score gave the Eagles an early 6-0 lead after Jake Elliott missed the extra point. 

After the Rams responded with a touchdown, the Eagles rushing attack struck again, and this time it was Saquon Barkley. 

The Eagles running back, who ran for a career-high 255 yards in Philly’s first meeting with the Rams, scored there on a 62-yard run. 

With the score, Barkley became the second player in NFL history to have three scoring runs of 60 yards against the same team in a single season, including playoffs (In their first meeting, Barkley scored on runs of 70 and 72 yards). 

The two touchdowns made the Eagles the first team in the Super Bowl era to get two scoring runs of 40 yards or more in the same quarter. The last time it happened came before the first Super Bowl when the Chargers did it against the Patriots in the AFL playoffs in 1963. 

It also marked the first time that ANY team scored on two runs of 40 yards…

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