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As the old saying goes, quarterbacks usually get the credit when a team wins but also take the brunt of the blame during the down times. FOX Sports Senior NFL Writer Alex Marvez takes a look at 11 QBs who enter the preseason under even more pressure than what playing the position customarily brings.
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrives for his appeal hearing at NFL headquarters in New York, Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Brady and representatives from the players’ union are meeting with Commissioner Roger Goodell as the New England quarterback appeals his four-game suspension. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The NFL Players Association extended a settlement offer to the NFL last week regarding Tom Brady‘s suspension for his alleged role in Deflategate, a source told ESPN.com’s Dan Grazia
Dez Bryant will be on the field opening day for theDallas Cowboys. Expect him at training camp, too.
Bryant agreed to a five-year, $70 million contract with $45 million guaranteed, a person familiar with the situation told USA TODAY Sports’ Jarrett Bell. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because Bryant had not yet signed the deal.
Wednesday was the deadline for players with the franchise tag to sign multi-year deal.
The $14 million annual average makes Bryant the league’s second
The Jameis Winston era is about to begin this fall in Tampa Bay, and Winston seems to have made a positive first impression on his new teammates. During an appearance on Sirius XM radio, veteran receiver Louis Murphy lauded Winston’s competitive spirit and compared him to Eagles backup Tim Tebow.
“He competes. He doesn’t like losing. He wants to win and that’s a guy I want to play with. He’s young, kind of similar to Tim Tebow in a way, he just wants to win. He’ll do anything it takes to wi
The New Orleans Saints should see Cam Newton for several more seasons with the Carolina Panthers. The Charlotte Observer and USA Today are among many outlets to report Newton will be paid at least $20 million per year over a five-year extension that will run through 2020.
The contract will put Newton in the company of the Saints’ Drew Brees as a quarterback with a $20 million average annual salary. Other quarterbacks with $20 million per year deals are the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, Steelers’
The Minnesota Vikings will open their optional team practices this week without Adrian Peterson.
The star running back has told coach Mike Zimmer that he will not attend the three days of team work that begin Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday night. The person requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
Peterson did attend the optional workouts last summer while Zimmer was orienting himself in his first
The Deflategate controversy took an interesting turn on Tuesday when Robert Kraft threw in the towel instead of challenging the NFL like many thought he would.
On Sports Tonight, Michael Felger suggested Kraft did an about-face with his argument because he and coach Bill Belichick were starting to believe that Brady wasn’t being completely transparent with what he told them.
That’s when Ron Borges threw out an interesting piece of information.
“Belichick never believed his story, from what I
Tom Brady, the star quarterback of the New England Patriots, was suspended for four games after an investigator concluded he was probably aware that team personnel let air out of footballs for a playoff game.
The league informed Brady in a letter from NFL Executive President Troy Vincent, who wrote that Brady failed to cooperate fully with the investigation and offered testimony that “was not plausible and contradicted by other evidence.”
“Quarterback Tom Brady will be suspended without pay
Despite a near constant stream of trade rumors, the Titans held onto their No. 2 pick and landed Marcus Mariota.
The 2014 Heisman Trophy winner was thought to be coveted by his former college coach, Chip Kelly, as well as higherups from the Browns, Bears and Jets.
In the end, though, the Titans liked him enough to decline any and all offers that headlined one of the busier pre-draft periods in recent memory.
Mariota will provide a challenge for Titans head coach Ken Whisenhunt, who will need
Florida State QB Jameis Winston addresses reporters at the combine Friday.
(Photo: Doug McSchooler, AP)
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are counting on Jameis Winston to help them become relevant again.
The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback was selected with the first overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night, instantly becoming the face of a franchise that missed the playoffs the past seven seasons and hasn’t won a postseason game since the club’s Super Bowl run in 2002.
Class is in session, and Robert Griffin III is taking notes.
The Washington Redskins quarterback got a firsthand look at how Tom Brady and the New England Patriots operate last preseason when the two teams held joint practices in August. The squads then went in completely opposite directions, as Griffin’s Redskins finished 4-12 while Brady’s Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl.
Yet apparently RGIII’s observations of New England stuck with him. In a recent interview with NFL Media’s Jeff
Tim Tebow is headed back in the NFL after two years out of the league thanks to Chip Kelly’s willingness to take a risk.
The Philadelphia Eagles will sign Tim Tebow on Monday, according to a report from Jay Glazer of Fox Sports. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports the two sides began working on the framework of the deal when Tebow worked out for the Eagles in March. The deal was then finalized on Sunday, allowing Tebow to join the team ahead of the start of offseason workouts.
Tebow, 27, has been ou
Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first-degree murder.
A Massachusetts jury on Wednesday found Hernandez killed Odin Lloyd on June 17, 2013. Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. He was found shot six times in an industrial park less than a mile from Hernandez’s home.
At the time, Hernandez had a $40 million contract with the Patriots.
Hernandez’s lawyer acknowledged during closing arguments that he was there when Lloyd was killed. But
Super Bowl XLIX between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots kicks off Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. ET. The game will be televised by NBC. Here is everything you need to know, including how to watch the game live on television or online and how to listen to it on radio.
NBC.com is streaming the Super Bowl in its entirety on its website, including NBC’s pre-game coverage, the halftime show featuring Katy Perry, as well as post-game coverage. Streaming will begin at noon ET (9am PT), and
The New England Patriots, coach Bill Belichick and the NFL are really going to have some questions to answer in the run-up to Super Bowl XLIX now.
ESPN reported late Tuesday night the Patriots had 11 of their 12 allotted game footballs underinflated by 2 pounds per square inch for Sunday’s AFC Championship Game rout of the Indianapolis Colts, citing “league sources either involved or familiar with the investigation.”
NFL spokesman Michael Signora said in an email the league is “not commenting
Blue Media vinyl installers install a Super Bowl XLIX sign on the exterior of University of Phoenix Stadium, Sunday, January 18, 2015. The sign should be finished Monday. (Via OlyDrop)
(Photo: Tom Tingle, The Arizona Republic)
It took the most unexpected of finishes to set up the finish everyone expected.
The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots will meet in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, a match-up pretty much everyone has been eyeing since mid-October. As defending champions, the Seahawks
Just days after Johnny Manziel admitted that he needs to take his job ‘a lot more seriously,’ the rookie quarterback was late to report to the team for medical treatment after, according to ESPN, throwing a party on Friday night that led to teammates Josh Gordon and Justin Gilbert missing team meetings (Gilbert was deactivated for the season finale, and Gordon was suspended).
Manziel’s misstep off the field has reignited the debate over whether or not he’s committed enough to become a succes
Peyton Manning became the second player in NFL history to throw 500 career TD passes, joining Brett Favre.
AP Photo/Joe Mahoney
Among the many NFL records set in the 2014 season, most notable — and hardly surprising — was something done by Peyton Manning.
The Denver quarterback easily surpassed Brett Favre’s mark of 508 touchdown passes and now stands at 530. Manning, 38, has said he plans to keep playing.
Manning and longtime rival Tom Brady also extended their lead for division titles by a
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy would be okay with an NFL team signing Ray Rice. (Mike Garafolo/The Star-Ledger)
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy would be fine with signing ex-Baltimore Ravens and Rutgers running back Ray Rice, even with all the baggage and media attention he’d bring with him.
Here’s what Dungy said on Sunday’s “Football Night in America”:
“I would [pick up Rice] under one condition. Ray Rice made a terrible mistake, but he paid the penalty from the League and from the legal system.
Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was accused of not being Black enough and essentially called an ‘Uncle Tom,’ within the confines of his own locker room. It’s unfortunate that every person in that locker room that looks like Wilson doesn’t see him a as a brother because Wilson embodies everything that is Black and everything that is American.
He is the great-great grandson of a slave to a Confederate colonel, who was freed after the Civil War. His grandfather
