PITTSBURGH — The reason for league-wide interest in assistants from the Los Angeles Rams is fairly evident.

Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor, Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell and Jacksonville coach Liam Coen all either jumped directly from Sean McVay's staff to their current jobs, or got their NFL start with the Rams. That's one AFC championship ...Read more

The Los Angeles Rams are not a perfect football team. They haven’t been consistent. They have strengths – and weaknesses. They’ve let games get away and they’ve just gotten by.

Absolutely, they can win the Super Bowl.

This Rams’ season – next up: Sunday’s NFC title game against the Seahawks in Seattle – isn’t a lesson in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Long, blank stares across players’ faces Sunday night in the Chicago Bears locker room at Soldier Field reflected the abrupt ending of the season.

Harrison Mevis’ 42-yard field goal in overtime propelled the Los Angeles Rams to a 20-17 victory and the NFC championship game. Fourteen hours later, Bears players were filling ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Harbaugh family could ruin the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ plans for an offensive coordinator.

Former MiamiDolphins head coach Mike McDaniel, who met with the Bucs Friday in Tampa, Fla., is expected to become the Los Angeles Chargers’ offensive coordinator barring a change of heart, according to multiple reports.

McDaniel has...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Baker Mayfield is no fan of new Falcons head coach Kevin Stefanski and said Tuesday he can’t wait to play the former Browns boss, who the Bucs quarterback said ghosted him after he was traded to the Panthers in 2022.

Mayfield was responding to a post from Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter D. Orlando Ledbetter on the social...Read more

DENVER — Whichever way the Denver Broncos’ 2025 season finishes — if the coming weeks bring glory or despair — the story of the end begins in a tiny corner of a hallway inside Empower Field.

This is where Bo Nix chose to rest, finally, on Jan. 17. Slumped with his arms across his chest on the floor, still in a crumpled Broncos jersey ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Charges against Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison have been dropped following his arrest in Tampa, Fla., last week.

A “Notice of Termination of Prosecution” was issued Tuesday via the state attorney and is included in Hillsborough County Court case filings.

Addison was accused of first-degree misdemeanor ...Read more

NEW YORK — Hiring John Harbaugh doesn’t guarantee the New York Giants will win another Super Bowl soon or even turn themselves around in 2026.

But what Harbaugh did on Tuesday was offer hope that he can make this a competent, football-first operation again.

The words he used most in his first official day on the job were “work,” “...Read more

NEW YORK — Chris Mara spoke on behalf of Giants ownership Tuesday after John Harbaugh’s introductory press conference, confirming Mara’s rise to a more prominent role and influence in the organization as his brother, co-owner John Mara, battles cancer.

“I’m just helping him anyway I can,” Chris Mara said of how he has assisted John ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — They were all there to take a good, hard, long look at him. All there to see him up close.

All there to check out who just might be their quarterback of the future. Their franchise guy.

The one who would begin the (very) long process of rebuilding.

The Las Vegas Raiders sent their A-team to the College Football Playoff...Read more

NEW YORK — Fifteen months after he was fired by the Jets, Robert Saleh is leading a franchise again.

Late on Monday night, the former Jets coach and 49ers defensive coordinator agreed to a five-year deal to become the Tennessee Titans’ new coach.

Saleh, 46, was reportedly scheduled to meet with the Cardinals about their coaching opening. ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Robert Saleh is again leaving his job as the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator for an NFL head-coaching post, this time with the Tennessee Titans.

“He wanted to make sure it was right and not just any job,” Saleh’s agent, Doug Hendrickson, told the Bay Area News Group. “He felt really good where this ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — If the Pittsburgh Steelers' history of coaching searches means anything in their fourth such venture since 1969, the Rooney family has a type of coach that's made their franchise one of the most successful ones of the modern era.

Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin each came from the same background as assistant coaches of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — If the Baltimore Ravens made a miscalculation when they hired John Harbaugh 18 years ago, they should make the same mistake again in 2026.

All Harbaugh did was win Super Bowl XLVII, post 13 winning seasons with a career record of 193-124 (including playoffs), win six AFC North titles, advance to four AFC championship games and ...Read more

So, the Miami Dolphins’ Green Bay-based general manager hired the Green-Bay-based coach. It’s as simple as that. Maybe it’s as inspired as that, too.

Maybe general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan hired Jeff Hafley as coach because he saw a rare talent sharing a similar vision for winning football who is ready to be a NFL head coach.

Or maybe ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In the past week, the Philadelphia Eagles have made it known to sources around the league that hiring former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel as their new offensive coordinator is their No. 1 offseason priority. That includes fired Giants coach Brian Daboll, who is expected to interview for the position this week. Virtually no ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — We've seen these movies before, or at least most of them.

With the NFL's conference championship games set — the Rams at Seattle following New England at Denver — three of the four possible Super Bowl permutations are rematches.

Rams-Patriots? There have been two of those, at the end of the 2001 and 2018 seasons.

And ...Read more

MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins and owner Stephen Ross have once again demonstrated that prior NFL experience at being a head coach is not a job prerequisite in Miami. Or even preferred, evidently.

So welcome to town Jeff Hafley, former Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator now tasked with making relevant again a Dolphins franchise that has not ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — It’s not a matter of “who” when we talk about the Miami Dolphins new head coach, it’s a matter of “what,” and the “what” is a winning mindset, a determined mentality and an aggressive disposition.

The Dolphins’ organization needs an attitude adjustment. The Dolphins need to accept nothing but winning. ...Read more

MIAMI — The search is officially over.

After about 10 days, the Miami Dolphins decided to hire Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley as the 15th head coach in franchise history, according to multiple outlets. Widely regarded as one of the brightest, young defensive minds in the league, Hafley will be tasked with the turnaround ...Read more