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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots’ quest for a record seventh Super Bowl championship ended abruptly Saturday night at Gillette Stadium with a 20-13 upset loss to the Tennessee Titans in the wild-card round of the N.F.L. playoffs. The defeat for the defending Super Bowl champions was a startling setback at home, where New […] More
Over his nine-plus years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Jason Garrett, like nearly every coach not named Bill Belichick, has been on and off the hot seat. Things looked up at the end of last season, when the team went 10-6, won its division and a playoff game. With young stars in quarterback […] More
Sam Wyche, who was the last coach to lead the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl, but who was later fined by the National Football League for barring a female reporter from the team’s locker room, died on Thursday at his home in Pickens, S.C. He was 74. His family said the cause was complications […] More
At noon in the parking lot outside a Carolina Panthers game in November, Dean Nass, 64, pressed a button on his laptop. “The Star Spangled Banner” began to play. His friends and family — 15 in all — put down their barbecued chicken, potato salad and cans of beer and stood at attention. The Nass […] More
Seventeen weeks of preamble led to this. Eight N.F.L. teams will fight for a chance to move on from a wild-card round that features the winners of the last three Super Bowls and that has one game in which the road team is favored. Here are our predictions for how the games will sort out, […] More
The N.F.L. coaching carousel revolved again on Tuesday, as the Washington Redskins hired Ron Rivera, according to multiple reports. A spokesman for the team declined to comment. Rivera had been dismissed in early December by the Carolina Panthers after eight and a half seasons. During his tenure there, he took the Panthers to four playoff […] More
As the 2010s come to an end, there is one unmistakable N.F.L. trend: Quarterbacks are a lot more proficient than in decades past. But the funny thing is that 10 years ago an article recapping the decade could have begun with the same statement. A steady improvement of quarterback statistics has been a theme going […] More
In late June, the sleepiest part of the N.F.L. calendar, several of the sport’s most prominent minority coaches and executives gathered at Morehouse College in Atlanta to try to dispel a persistent football myth: that there are not enough qualified candidates of color for the league’s coveted offensive coaching jobs. At the event, known as […] More
