Archive for January, 2010

What Next for Buffalo in Their Head Coaching Search?

As of this moment, the Buffalo Bills search for a new head coach appears to be stuck in neutral.  When their search will gain any significant traction is pure guesswork at this juncture. Let’s begin to dissect what we do know.  The Bills tried to court Mike Shanahan.  They flirted with Bill Cowher.   Neither attempt was [...]

Steelers Say They Want to Keep Free Agent to Be Nose Tackle Casey Hampton

There’s been plenty of talk about a couple high profile free agents for the Steelers, one of which is NT Casey Hampton. The big guy says he doesn’t want to be franchised, but the team wants to keep him according to the Tribune-Review, which means he could see a tag coming: Art Rooney II made [...]

Bengals Marvin Lewis Wins AP Coach of the Year Award

The Associated Press announced today that Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis has won their Coach of the Year honors for 2009. Lewis led the Bengals to a 10-6 record in 2009 after a 4-11-1 finish the previous year. In addition, the Bengals swept their division for the first time in franchise history, defeating Pittsburgh, Baltimore, [...]

Raiders Coach Tom Cable to Learn His Fate by Tuesday

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that a decision on Raiders head coach Tom Cable’s fate is likely by Tuesday. Teams must make a decision on their assistant coaches by the third Tuesday after the season. According to Schefter, Al Davis is planning to fire about six assistant coaches. It is unlikely Tom Cable will survive [...]

Dalls Losing Defensive Line Coach Todd Grantham to Georgia

ESPN.com reports that the Cowboys are losing d-line coach Todd Grantham to the University of Georgia: Cowboys defensive line coach Todd Grantham was hired as the defensive coordinator at Georgia on Friday. “I’m excited,” Grantham said. “It’s an opportunity to be a coordinator, coach in the SEC. They’ve won a lot of games there. They [...]

An Offseason To Do List for the Browns

The Cleveland Browns once again have a new regime and are ready to turn the corner and getting back into being a perennial playoff team. The Cleveland Browns have many holes to fill this offseason and it probably will take at least to offseason for the Browns to compete for a Championship. This NFL draft [...]

Jerome Bettis Says Bill Cowher “Holding Out” to Coach the NY Giants

WOW this is interesting, hopefully Jerome is right Bill Cowher wants to be the next head coach of the Giants. At least, he does according to Jerome Bettis, Cowher’s former running back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis said the reason Cowher hasn’t returned to coach is because he’s “holding out” for the Giants job to [...]

Site Editor Matt Loede’s NFL Divisional Playoff Predictions

Time for the final 8 in the NFL to battle it out, and here we go with our Divisional Playoff predictions: Arizona (10-6) at New Orleans (13-3) – The opener of the divisional round pits a team that couldn’t stop the Packers and allowed 45 points against a team that lost their last three after [...]