Chicago Bears stand ready to raise funds for the family of murdered fanDoug Farrar, yahoo.com 42-year-old William "Christopher" Pettry was a resident of Lake Villa, Ill., and a longtime Chicago Bears fan. He was in Jacksonville last Sunday to watch his team beat the Jaguars, 41-3. Hours before the game, Pettry went to an Irish restaura… |
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Bears raising funds for Jacksonville murder victimOct 11, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com A Bears fan who traveled to watch the team play was murdered early Sunday in Jacksonville. Now, Bears tight end Kellen Davis is raising money for the victim’s family. Per various media reports, 27-year-old Matthew Hinson slashed the throat of 42-year-… |
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Of whistleblowers and witnessesOct 11, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com When it comes to the Saints’ bounty scandal, the NFL has said that whistleblowers must be protected at all costs. When it comes to the original whistleblower in the Saints’ bounty scandal, the NFL inexplicably outed former Vikings defensive tackle J… |
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Report: WR Johnson says he played concussedOct 11, 2012
ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Calvin Johnson said Thursday he returned to a game against the Minnesota Vikings earlier this season after suffering a concussion. Johnson told the Detroit Free Press he suffered a concussion on a helmet-to-helmet hit from Chad Greenway. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com On the same day Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was featured on this page in response to allegations that he’s not showing enough fight on the field, he’s showing too much fight off it. Allegedly. According to FOX 2 in Detroit, Steve Vines claims… |
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Picking apart the Week Six picksOct 11, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Every Thursday morning, we unveil the respective picks from MDS and yours truly. Every Thursday afternoon, MDS joins PFT Live to discuss the games on which we disagree - and other games that make us nervous. Today, we talked Vikings-Redskins, Broncos- |
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Jack Dickey, deadspin.com Lots of football players get concussions. That's how it works. It's a violent sport, and they play it for so long, that most every football player you encounter, even long-retired dads, will say, oh, yeah, I had a concussion or two. So football players … |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen will be away from the team, after the sudden and unexpected death of his mother on Wednesday. Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said Griffen’s mother was visiting her son in the Twin Cities when she died. The cause is no… |
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Packers still missing three key playersOct 11, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com As the Packers prepare for a must-win game that based on their remaining schedule really isn’t, they’re still missing three of their key players. Actually, four. But there’s no way one of them - running back Cedric Benson - will be back by Sun |
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RGIII on track to play Sunday despite concussionOct 11, 2012
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is still on track to start Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. |
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NFC North Thursday practice reportOct 11, 2012
Let's get inside a newsy Thursday practice report: Detroit Lions: All players participated in at least a portion of practice except defensive tackle Corey Williams (knee). That includes receiver Titus Young (knee), who was limited. Meanwhile, coach Jim … |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Vikings running back Adrian Peterson returns to FedEx Field this Sunday for the first time since his 2011 season ended with a torn ACL he thinks occurred on a hit by Redskins safety DeJon Gomes. Peterson said Thursday that he felt “99.9 percent” sure … |
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Cowboys LB Spencer expects to play SundayOct 11, 2012
Calvin Watkins, ESPN.com Dallas Cowboys starting outside linebacker Anthony Spencer said he expects to play in Sunday's game at the Baltimore Ravens. Spencer missed the Week 4 loss to the Chicago Bears with a pectoral muscle injury. |
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Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com On Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Green Bay Packers in an NFC wild card playoff game at Lincoln Financial Field. It was Fox's first postseason broadcast that season, which meant that it was the first opportunity for the network… |
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Answers on Jahvid Best coming FridayOct 11, 2012
Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best used optimistic and hopeful phrases Thursday in an interview with local reporters, revealing he took his latest battery of concussion-related tests Monday and that he will learn the results Friday. If all went well… |
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Bears' Urlacher: I'll be impact player againOct 11, 2012
ESPNChicago.com, ESPN.com Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher admitted Thursday that he's been somewhat of a spectator during his team's strong start, but he maintained he could return to an All Pro level despite a knee injury that he said will never |
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Jahvid Best hopes to be cleared for return FridayOct 11, 2012
Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Lions running back Jahvid Best has missed a full year after suffering two concussions early in the 2011 season, but he hopes he is less than 24 hours away from being cleared to return. Best said on Thursday that he has gone through a battery of tests an… |
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Lions: The real obstacle of Eagles' defenseOct 11, 2012
Already this week, we've heard several Detroit Lions players express optimism that the Philadelphia Eagles will ignore a season's worth of video evidence and use man-to-man coverage against their pass-catchers Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. Most rec… |
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Move over, Packers and Lions, Leslie Frazier has Minnesota Vikings playing like NFC North contendersOct 11, 2012
It's bottoms up in the NFC North where the Packers and Lions were expected to fight things out for the division. But in perhaps the biggest of surprises of the NFL season, the Vikings have stormed out to a 4-1 record matched by the Bears. |
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By the bye: Chicago BearsOct 11, 2012
Reviewing the Chicago Bears at their bye: Record: 4-1 Five-game capsule: The Bears are in excellent position after rebounding from a Week 2 debacle at Lambeau Field. Their defense leads the NFL in takeaways (17) and touchdowns (five), getting elite perf… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com It was the kind of thing that could have easily landed Bears rookie defensive end Shea McClellin on the sequel to Broke. Instead, after a brief scare, he realized it was all just a joke. After taking the defensive line and a few linebackers out for a Ro… |
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Anonymous GM rips Lions’ personnel choices; Ndamukong Suh questions GM’s manhood in responseOct 11, 2012
Doug Farrar, yahoo.com It seems like only last season that the braintrust behind the Detroit Lions -- general manager Martin Mayhew and head coach Jim Schwartz -- were lionized (sorry) for the miraculous team turnaround they engineered. Oh, wait ... that's because it WAS only… |
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Blogger Blitz: Revisiting QB rankings?Oct 11, 2012
This exchange during Tuesday's SportsNation chat spurred some thought: Tom (Brooklyn) Kevin, virtually everyone's preseason rankings of the division QBs went 1. Rodgers, 2/3. Cutler/Stafford, 4. Ponder. Care to go again? Kevin Seifert (2:41 PM) No, not … |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com When Jordy Nelson was breaking out for the Packers last season, his fellow wide receiver Greg Jennings said that he thought Nelson got underestimated around the league because he’s white. According to some members of the Dolphins, Nelson’s big 2011 se… |
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Remembering Alex Karras as a Football PlayerOct 11, 2012
Andy Barall, nytimes.com The movie and television actor should also be remembered as one of the N.F.L.'s defensive stars of the 1960s. |
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