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Browns interview Trestman

CNNSI.com

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Browns' coaching search turned toward one of their former assistants.

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Authorities say Oakland Raiders linebacker and former University of Alabama player Rolando McClain has bonded out jail on charges of violating rules on car window tint and trying to lie to police about his identity.

Steve Corkran, insidebayarea.com

Embattled Raiders middle linebacker Rolando McClain was arrested in Alabama on Tuesday. According to WHNT-TV, McClain was pulled over for a window-tint violation. McClain proceeded to give the police officer that pulled him over a false name. At that po…

Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com

The Raiders ultimately didn’t cut linebacker Rolando McClain during the 2012 season.  That could be changing in 2013. McClain was arrested in Alabama on Tuesday, according to WHNT-TV.  After being pulled over for a window-tint violation, McClain gave …

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2012 Targeting Davis & Walker About 15 minutes of numbers crunching produced a lead in the case of the San Francisco 49ers' missing tight end. Vernon Davis isn't really missing, of course. He's playing nearly all the offensive snaps. He's contributi…

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San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis caught six passes for 83 yards and a touchdown against Chicago in Colin Kaepernick's first start at quarterback. That was in Week 11. 2012 Passer Rating Targeting TEs Davis then had six catches for 61 yards and…

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The initial reaction was negative or at least underwhelming, as I recall, when the San Francisco 49ers named future NFL executive of the year Trent Baalke as their general manager following the 2010 season. Baalke was not a big name. He was not new to t…

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Notre Dame middle linebacker Manti Te'o has been often connected to the Kansas City Chiefs, who have the No.1 pick in the April draft, and the Oakland Raiders, who have the No. 3 pick. Both teams will investigate the top impact defensive players and Te'…

Don Banks, CNNSI.com

When it comes to NFL predictions, I have a favorite credo that I trot out from time to time to remind myself what we're up against in this business: It's the NFL, nobody knows anything, and if they say they do, they're lying. I would imagine the coachin…

Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com

It had appeared that 49ers director of player personnel Tom Gamble would end up being the G.M. of the Jets and that Falcons director of player personnel Dave Caldwell would become the G.M. of the Jaguars. But one thing we’ve learned in the latest NFL hi…

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The guys at numberFire, fresh off projecting all wild-card winners correctly, use their latest Insider piece to project a Seattle-San Francisco matchup in the NFC Championship Game. Their projection model has the Seahawks beating Atlanta and the 49ers b…