Новости за 07.01.2020

Kaare Vedvik’s tour of the NFL will continue in Buffalo. The Bills announced on Tuesday that they have signed Vedvik to a future contract that will make him part of the team’s 90-man roster once the offseason is officially underway. Vedvik has tried his hand at both kicking and punting since entering the NFL as [more]

Since hiring Ron Rivera as head coach, Washington has been deliberate to turn over the medical and athletic training staff. And that could serve as a big benefit to them on the field soon. Via NBCSportsWashington.com, running back Chris Thompson said he thinks left tackle Trent Williams will return to the team now that the [more]

The 49ers may be getting a few defensive players back in the lineup against the Vikings this weekend and it looks like safety Jaquiski Tartt is going to be one of them. Tartt missed the final four games of the regular season with injured ribs, but there’s been optimism about his chances of playing in [more]

When he was talking to the Jets last offseason, the composition of his staff was apparently a stumbling block for Matt Rhule. It’s apparently not a problem for the Panthers, who have given him a seven-year contract to be their head coach. According to Ralph Vacchiano of SNY.com, Rhule intends to hire Lions quarterbacks coach [more]

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said last week that he expected running back Mark Ingram to practice this week, but he didn’t repeat that prediction when he spoke to the media before Tuesday’s session. Harbaugh said everyone would have to wait for Saturday to find out about Ingram’s status, but the team’s practice sessions will [more]

To say that the Rooney Rule isn’t working is to presume that it ever did. It never truly did, at least not in the way it was intended. Ideally, the rule requiring at least one minority candidate to be interviewed for every head-coaching vacancy will prompt owners to engage in a deliberate, patient, inclusive search, [more]

Saints quarterback Drew Brees wasn’t interested in talking about his plans for 2020 after last Sunday’s loss to the Vikings, but it remains a topic of great interest in New Orleans. Brees is not under contract for 2020, which leaves a couple of decisions to make. One is whether he wants to play another season [more]

Special-teams coordinators rarely get the respect and consideration that they should, when teams are hiring head coaches. The Giants decided to reverse that trend on Tuesday, making Patriots special-teams coach Joe Judge their new head coach. It’s about time. John Harbaugh has proven that special-teams coordinators can make very good head coaches. Like Harbaugh, Judge [more]

Vikings running back Dalvin Cook missed the last two regular season games with what was described as a shoulder injury. But he said Tuesday there’s a difference between being injured and being sore at the end of a long year. “I’m fine, just to let y’all know,” Cook told reporters today. The fact he touched [more]

Titans running back Derrick Henry is coming off a big game against the Patriots in the Wild Card round of the playoffs and Ravens safety Earl Thomas praised the effort on Tuesday. Tennessee relied heavily on the running game in last Sunday’s 20-13 win and Thomas said it was a credit to how well Henry [more]

The University of Georgia is going to need to find some new starting offensive linemen in 2020 because three of theirs have decided to leave school early for the NFL Draft. Guard Solomon Kindley is the latest to announce his intention to head for the professional ranks. Tackles Andrew Thomas and Isaiah Wilson previously announced [more]

Before long, Washington will surpass Buffalo as having the greatest concentration of former Panthers staffers. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, new Washington coach Ron Rivera is “zeroing in” on Scott Turner as his offensive coordinator. The 37-year-old Turner was Rivera’s quarterbacks coach in Carolina, and called plays for the four games after Rivera [more]

Vikings cornerback Mackensie Alexander wasn’t able to play in the team’s win over the Saints last Sunday and he won’t be playing in this weekend’s game against the 49ers either. Alexander went for further consultations with doctors about his knee injury this week and the diagnosis will result in a trip to the operating room [more]

The coaching carousel moved quickly this year. With today’s news that the Giants are hiring Joe Judge and the Panthers are hiring Matt Rhule, there’s suddenly only one team without a head coach: The Cleveland Browns. Among the coaches the Browns reportedly are considering are Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, [more]

Panthers owner David Tepper apparently didn’t get the memo that, despite the absence of a salary cap for coaches, NFL teams don’t spend as freely as they could on the men who run their teams. Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports that the seven-year deal given to new Panthers coach Matt Rhule has a base value [more]

Shortly before word came that the Giants have agreed to terms with Joe Judge as their next head coach, there was a report that the Giants wanted to interview Jason Garrett for the position. It appears that their desire to speak to Garrett didn’t end with the decision to hire Judge, however. Ed Werder of [more]

The Ravens will release an injury report after their practice on Tuesday and that will be the only official comment on running back Mark Ingram‘s status from the team. Ingram missed Week 17 with a calf injury and there was optimism that he’d be back in time to play in the divisional round of the [more]

Panthers owner David Tepper talked about wanting to build something stable, like the Steelers organization he came from. He’s certainly giving new coach Matt Rhule time. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Panthers are giving Rhule a seven-year contract worth $60 million, which could be worth up to $70 million in incentives. That’s an [more]

And another one bites the dust. The Giants have hired Joe Judge to serve as the team’s next head coach, according to multiple reports. Judge is both the special-teams coordinator and receivers coach in New England. He arrived in 2012 as assistant special-teams coordinator, taking over the coordinator job in 2015. He added the receivers [more]

The Lions announced last week that offensive line coach Jeff Davidson would not return to the team in 2020 and they announced his replacement on Tuesday. They didn’t have to look too far to find the new position coach. Hank Fraley has been promoted from assistant offensive line coach to the head job. Fraley joined [more]

Officially, Jason Garrett is still under contract to the Cowboys for another week. Which means anyone who wants to interview him has to get the Cowboys’ permission. An NFC East rival is now seeking that permission. The Giants have asked the Cowboys for permission to interview Garrett for their head coaching vacancy, Ian Rapoport of [more]

The primary candidates to coach the Panthers were Eric Bieniemy, Matt Rhule, and Josh McDaniels. And one of them is indeed getting the job. Rhule will leave Baylor for Charlotte, as first reported by Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports. The Panthers moved on from Ron Rivera with roughly a month to go during the season, [more]

Whenever the question of the Packers not having a single owner comes up, some react by saying, “It could be worse. They could have Jerry Jones.” Mike McCarthy will be uniquely qualified to compare the two experiences. In the latter years of his Green Bay tenure, McCarthy received criticism for letting a sense of complacency [more]

Yesterday the news on the Cowboys offensive coordinator front was that new head coach Mike McCarthy was “open” to keeping offensive coordinator Kellen Moore. Today the interest in keeping Moore sounds a little stronger. McCarthy wants Moore to stay as offensive coordinator and the question is whether Moore wants to stay in Dallas, according to [more]

Safety Jamal Adams was the only Jets player selected to the Pro Bowl and All-Pro team, which would seem to make him the kind of piece the Jets would want to build around in 2020 and beyond. They haven’t made it abundantly clear that’s the case, however. Adams’ name came up in trade talks before [more]