TWENTYMAN: 5 areas Lions should focus on (Detroit Lions)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
After a rough 1-7 start to their season a year ago, the Lions clawed their way back by finishing 6-2. Most people don't subscribe to the theory that momentum carries over from one year to the next because of the dramatic turnaround to NFL rosters every year ... NFL rank ... NFL rank ... 1 reason the Lions were able to turn things around last season ... 'First half of the season we turned the ball over (20) times ... NFL rank ... NFL rank ... NFL rank ... NFL rank....

Browner took 'millions and ran with it' on Saints (NFL - National Football League)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
NFL - National Football League) ... According to NOLA.com, Browner said that he 'took that few millions (and) ran with it,' yet another dig at a team who paid him more than $7 million last season ... Browner became the most penalized player over a single season in NFL history last year (a stat that began officially tracking in 1999) thanks in large part to a bevy of defensive holding calls....

Dare anyone tear their gaze from the Ryan brothers' football megalomania?

Edit The Guardian 31 May 2016
The 2016 NFL season will have the traditional storylines of whether the defending champs can repeat, how the top rookie QBs will do and if the Patriots and Roger Goodell can draw out a dispute over deflated footballs even longer, but in a wide-ranging interview with MMQB last week, Rex and Rob Ryan reminded us that their unique brand of football megalomania will dominate all contenders for the headlines crown....

AP sources: NFL moving Pro Bowl to Orlando in 2017

Edit Austin American Statesman 31 May 2016
Three people with knowledge of the negotiations have told The Associated Press that the NFL is moving the Pro Bowl from Honolulu to Orlando this season....

Buffalo Bills sign free agent linebacker Jamari Lattimore

Edit The Oklahoman 31 May 2016
Listed at 6-foot-2 and 229 pounds, Lattimore has five years of NFL experience ... Rex Ryan's second season ... AP NFL websites....

One of pro football's greatest games happened in the crazy USFL

Edit Yahoo Daily News 31 May 2016
This offseason, Shutdown Corner will travel down memory lane with a series of stories presenting some interesting and sometimes forgotten stories from the NFL's past ... In the 1985 USFL season opener, the Houston Gamblers and Kelly faced the Los Angeles Express, who were quarterbacked by Steve Young ... The USFL was entering its third and final season. The USFL's first season was fairly strong, but popularity was up and down after that....

O-line continuity — which every team craves — could bite Giants

Edit New York Post 31 May 2016
However, you know there is a “but’’ lurking as the Giants prepare for the 2016 season ... 10 pick in the NFL draft and plucked him down as their new right tackle, but the first round did not go their way and the Titans traded up into the No ... The loss of Will Beatty for the entire 2015 season triggered a seismic shift on the line, with Flowers as a rookie moving from right tackle to embark on his NFL career at left tackle....

Big Ben: Young Steelers receivers need to step up in 2016 (NFL - National Football League)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
NFL - National Football League). One of the more tired clichés in the NFL lexicon is 'stepping up' for a player who has been injured or suspended ... Over the final six games of the season, he caught 28 passes for 476 yards and four scores, thanks mostly to a monster game against the Seahawks in Week 11. Coates, a third-round pick out of Auburn in 2015 with one NFL catch on his resume, might be a little bit more of a longshot....

Dion Jordan on possible second chance in NFL: 'I can't waste it'

Edit Yahoo Daily News 31 May 2016
Being the third overall pick of the NFL draft carries a measure of expectation; being the third overall pick as a pass-rusher immediately fills fans' heads with visions of that player standing over another helpless quarterback, brought down by the young player ... The Miami Dolphins moved up in the 2013 draft to take the Oregon product, who had totaled 12.5 sacks and 23.5 tackles for loss over his final two seasons with the Ducks....

Eagles listed as potential landing spot for Greg Hardy

Edit NJ dot com 31 May 2016
The most controversial NFL free agent is still looking for a team ... Defensive end Greg Hardy, last seen during a tumultuous season with the Dallas Cowboys, is still without a team for the 2016 season ... It's hard to imagine the Eagles ownership or front office signing off on bringing Hardy aboard despite his 40 career sacks across parts of six NFL seasons....

Will Defensive Line Depth Be Needed Again In 2016? (Indianapolis Colts)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
Without Arthur Jones and Henry Anderson for the second half of the 2015 season, a group of youngsters and Kendall Langford banded together to sturdy the depleted Colts' defensive line ... Langford has yet to miss a game in his eight NFL seasons ... When Anderson and Jones were out last season, it was Kerr starting the final four games of the season ... Parry was one of just two rookie NFL defensive linemen to start every game last season....

Time Is Now For "Next-Step" List (Philadelphia Eagles)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
Is there any reason to think that Zach Ertz, who has made major strides in all parts of his game -- can't be among the top pass catchers in the NFL this season? He's got the hands and the route-running ability and everything you want in a tight end, and he's in an offense that should give all of the tight ends ample chances to make plays....

It looks like another one of ESPN's most recognizable names is being shown the door

Edit Business Insider 31 May 2016
Eyebrows were raised when a report on Thursday from The Big Lead said the 61-year-old Berman was expected to retire when his contract expires sometime after the 2016 NFL season ... He is going to ride out this football season ... and possibly short segments for the network's "Sunday NFL Countdown" show, where Berman currently serves as the show's host....
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