Rams to hire Tim Walton as defensive coordinatorCurtis Crabtree, profootballtalk.com After a lengthy search for a new defensive coordinator, the St. Louis Rams finally have their guy. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, the Rams plan to hire Detroit Lions defensive backs coach Tim Walton as their next defensive coordinator. The Rams… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com It has been eight years since the Lions have had a running back who gained more than 1,000 yards in a season. Eight years. The last guy to do it was Kevin Jones. Since then, a revolving door of role players have failed to get to the four-digit threshol… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com The Lions entered the offseason only $3 million under the salary cap, but that wasn’t necessarily a significant concern. Lions President Tom Lewand says the amount of cap space a team has at any given time is less relevant than how flexible the team is … |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Trade speculation surrounding Percy Harvin is rampant with the new league year set to begin March 12, but Minnesota Vikings teammate Adrian Peterson said Tuesday there's no way he'd trade the wide receiver if it was his call to make. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Bears’ decision to cut ties with wide receiver Johnny Knox now despite having him under contract for the 2013 season doesn’t send the best message about Knox’s readiness to play after rehabbing for more than a year after a spinal fusion operatio… |
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Another in a series of posts circling back on the 2012 season and some of our preseason themes: In 2012, 38 NFL players stayed on the field for 100 percent of their teams' plays. Of that that total, 34 were offensive linemen -- a position where players … |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com We noted yesterday that former Vikings and Falcons defensive end Ray Edwards won a boxing match against an out-of-shape opponent who fell to the canvas without Edwards even hitting him. But it turns out that Edwards’ opponent was even worse than previou… |
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Another in a series of posts circling back on the 2012 season and some of our preseason themes: A minor hubbub ignited last summer in the Minnesota Vikings' training camp when new defensive coordinator Alan Williams suggested that it might help to reduc… |
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Offseason previews: EaglesFeb 12
New coach Chip Kelly faces a tricky rebuilding task with the Philadelphia Eagles as he incorporates his up-temp attack into the NFL. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com There’s been a lot of attention paid to the Vikings’ first-round pick from the 2009 draft, but wide receiver Percy Harvin isn’t the only player from that draft that Minnesota has to make a decision about this offseason. Tackle Phil Loadholt, their s… |
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Alert: No chat todayFeb 12
Truly sorry about this, but due to some unavoidable conflicts I'll need to pass on this week's SportsNation chat. We'll make it up at some point, and I'll be on Twitter (@espn_nfcnblog) periodically throughout the day if you have a question/comment wort… |
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We're Black and Blue All Over: Well then. It's one thing for me to suggest that free-agent running back Steven Jackson would make some sense for the Green Bay Packers. It's quite another for ESPN.com senior writer John Clayton to make a similar assertio… |
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