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In a time of great uncertainty, the N.F.L.’s 2020 regular-season schedule, which was revealed Thursday night, abounds with optimism. A full 17-week slate was released, with no obvious contingency plan in case the coronavirus pandemic prevents the season from starting on time. The league had already canceled the international games in London and Mexico City, […] More
The N.F.L. will announce its schedule for the upcoming season on Thursday night in a prime time TV event. But a handful of teams have begun tempering expectations that fans will be able to attend some of those games — assuming they will be played in front of fans at all. On Wednesday night, the […] More
Don Shula owns some of the most hallowed records in N.F.L. history: the most wins by a coach, the most games coached, the league’s only perfect season. Despite all the victories and accolades — Shula was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997 — he was proudest of how his teams won. […] More
The N.F.L. Players Association announced plans to review provisions in the collective bargaining agreement ratified in March that are set to take away tens of thousands of dollars in benefits from permanently disabled former players. Cleveland Browns center J.C. Tretter, the N.F.L.P.A. president elected in March, notified the union’s membership in his monthly newsletter that […] More
The Cincinnati Bengals cut quarterback Andy Dalton on Thursday one week after drafting his replacement, Joe Burrow of Louisiana State, with the first overall pick. Dalton spent nine seasons as their starter and will now head into a free agent market that is already crowded with talent and offers very few landing spots for veteran […] More
In the video, posted three weeks ago on Twitter, Jameis Winston has his right arm cocked, feet shuffling as if he’s moving around the pocket, as his trainer launches an oversize speed bag at him, again and again. The drill, it seems, is intended to simulate defensive pressure, and Winston, looking trim and coiled, evades […] More
When Mekhi Becton signed up for the football team at Highland Springs High School in Virginia, he picked wide receiver and tight end as his positions. He was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 215 pounds. “At 13 years old, when someone is that big, you anticipate them growing even more,” Loren Johnson, Becton’s […] More
Harland Svare, who played linebacker in the celebrated defense that helped take the Giants to three N.F.L. championship games in the 1950s and became, at the time, the youngest head coach in the N.F.L.’s modern history when the Los Angeles Rams hired him in 1962, died on April 4 at a nursing home in Steamboat […] More
