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Former head coach Jimmy Johnson, honored at halftime of Dallas’ 20-19 win over Detroit, was known to roll the dice and defy game-management convention. But the risk-taking exhibited by Detroit coach Dan Campbell Saturday night had to curl even Johnson’s famously ...

As much as some NFL fans might want to, there’s no regifting a bad NFL season. Fans of the Jets, Giants, Chargers, among others, will just have to live with the batches of tube socks and frustrating losses and wear them until next fall — or at least until the Indy ...

When Joe Flacco was leading the Baltimore Ravens — aka the team formerly known as the Cleveland Browns — to a Super Bowl win after the 2012 season, we imagine Cleveland fans didn’t too care much for the strong-armed quarterback at the time.    After the Browns’ ...

Oddsmakers and analytics guys say the Browns have a 99 percent chance of making the playoffs, in what would be just the team’s third playoff appearance in the last 24 years.   But pessimistic fans in The Land will warn you: If there’s one NFL franchise that could ...

CHRISTMAS MONDAY GAMES Ravens QB Lamar Jackson seizes control of MVP race as Baltimore humbles 49ers Forty Niners quarterback Brock Purdy commited five turnovers Monday — four interceptions and the NFL's MVP award, which he neatly wrapped into a Christmas Day ...

Like a dedicated coordinator, NFL fans are already game-planning for a weekend when holiday committments collide with televised pro football. But instead of Xs and Os, these pro football diehards are scripting their first 15 reasons why they need to excuse themselves ...

The Los Angeles Rams (7-7) host the New Orleans Saints (7-7) at SoFi Stadium this Thursday in a game between playoff hopefuls.    If last Thursday's game in Vegas is a new standard, then the first team to 60 points wins.   The Saints find themselves deadlocked ...

Dramatic Monday Night Football finishes at Seattle’s Lumen Field are not unprecedented. And while not as controversial as Russell Wilson’s “Fail Mary” in 2012, this Monday's ending will be recalled fondly for years by Seattle fans if their team makes the postseason ...

Philadelphia (10-3) at Seattle (6-7), Monday Night Football, ESPN, 8:15 ET   The Eagles received an early Xmas gift yesterday from Buffalo when the Bills thrashed the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, 31-10.   Now the Eagles are presented a chance to reclaim sole possession ...

Looking at Sunday’s slate of NFL games before kickoff was like looking at an assortment of Christmas presents under the tree.    When opened, some were likely to disappoint; others to surprise, spark interest, or entertain.   As for disappointment, the marquee ...