NFL.com Greg Rosenthal and others report that Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy is all-but-signed as the next head coach of the San Diego Chargers. Let the Tebow to Chargers rumors begin. The Chargers swept away GM A.J. Smith and Head Coach Norv Turner at the end of the season and seem ready for big […]

  Dick's Sporting Goods is on to something. The Dicks's store in West Nyack, NY, creatively displayed the dummy bearing Tebow's jersey as benched in a display that set every other Jets and Giants player in a manly stance. You might say the display diss'd Tebow, but I think it mocked the Jets for their […]

  The Mayans predicted this. The Mayan calendar ends in the same week the Jets lost their 2012 playoff bid. The Mayans saw this coming and that makes them whole lot smarter than the New York Jets organization. A report on NFL.com says the Jets are likely to make a (long overdue) quarterback switch when […]

  King Solomon solved a thorny legal question with a decision to split a baby in half. It was the stuff of Biblical legend. Retired NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue split the baby today by giving all sides in the New Orleans Saints Bountygate scandal a face-saving way to claim a win. Tagliabue deserves a paragraph […]

Fingers on the remote control. Switch from Thursday Night Football imminent. Thurs., December 6, 9-3 Denver Broncos at 3-9 Oakland Raiders – For fantasy eyes only The marketing trolls at the NFL Network are working overtime to promote tonight's Thursday Night Football contest between the Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders. This stinker will interest […]

It was a bad day all around for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more so for one Steelers fan who found both his team and his car torched in Cleveland. Steelers-Browns: As you might expect from a Browns game, there were 9 turnovers. Fortunately for Cleveland, Pittsburgh committed 8 of them. — Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton)

Doctors treated San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh for an irregular heartbeat today, according to an Associated Press story circulating through the media. Harbaugh visited doctors Wednesday afternoon after feeling ill. They advised that he have the "minor surgical procedure" that took place at Stanford University Hospital. Harbaugh led 49ers practice Wednesday, where players […]

    This is one of those sneaky games where you have one team in Minnesota who is reeling after a hot start and another team that is finally starting to fire on all cylinders after a rough start to the season.    So the issue here is to figure out if the trends will […]

I could be making too much of a simple tweet, but I'm a blogger. It's what bloggers do. NFL PA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith tweets that he talked to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. WHAT? I have been in touch with Roger. He has formally notified me that he will recused himself. Paul Tagliabue will step […]

  1. Unless Michael Vick leads Eagles to the playoffs, league sources believe that this will be the quarterback’s last season in Philadelphia. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter)

  Dramatic news that Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano has been struck with leukemia means that he is in for drastic treatment. The same is true for the Colts. Pagano suffers from a form of acute myeloid leukemia. Information at the Johns Hopkins Medicine web site puts it as: "…the original acute leukemia cell […]

  Your loud voices r heard about getting Refs back. We're desperately trying 2 get it done! We want a deal that improves officiating overall. — Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay)