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With the departure of longtime quarterback Tom Brady in the offseason, Patriots fans have thrown the idea of the club to consider signing free agent Cam Newton. On paper, the proposed move would have made sense since Newton’s veteran leadership and ability to run the football could provide New England another weapon for their offense. […]

After seismic changes this offseason saw the New England Patriots lose their legendary quarterback Tom Brady to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in free agency, the Pats have a question mark at the QB spot for the first time in two decades. According to head coach Bill Belichick, the team likes its options at the QB […]

Lights will shine bright for the Raiders in their inaugural season in Las Vegas. In the NFL schedule reveal earlier tonight, the Raiders have announced that the silver and black will have four of their games broadcast nationally on primetime. Among Las Vegas’ marquee matchups will be on Week 11 when the reigning Super Bowl […]

Aaron Donald of the Los Angeles Rams is one of the most fearsome defensive lineman in the NFL. And former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer remembers when he realized that fact. Palmer made an appearance on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM radio station and relayed his remembrance of the final game the Cardinals played against the […]

Carolina Panthers star running back Christian McCaffrey, who recently signed a four-year, $64 million extension, claimed it’s “asinine” to say running backs don’t matter. During a recent appearance on 610 Sports Radio, McCaffrey responded to the critics who say running backs don’t matter much in the NFL. “That’s an asinine statement,” McCaffrey said on Thursday. “When […]

The Minnesota Vikings’ Kirk Cousins is looking forward to his upcoming matchup against the New Orleans Saints. The NFL announced its 2020 season schedule on Thursday and the Vikings will play the Saints for the fourth consecutive season. Not only will Minnesota play New Orleans on Christmas, they’ll do so on a Friday night. Needless […]

It looks like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys are two of the top headliners in the NFL entering the 2020 season. As per the NFL’s schedule release for the 2020 season, it has been revealed that eight teams have five primetime games each for the upcoming season. The Buccaneers and Cowboys are two […]

The NFL released its full schedule on Thursday night, and Vegas has already released betting odds for Week 1. These odds come courtesy of SuperBook USA at Westgate Las Vegas. 🏈 NFL Week 1 Odds OUT in Vegas! Notable spreads:– Saints -4.5 vs Bucs– VEGAS Raiders PK vs Panthers– Patriots -6.5 vs Dolphins📉📈 Updated NFL […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers 2020 schedule has officially been released. The Steelers will open the season with a Monday night game against the New York Giants on Sept. 14. Our 2020 season schedule has arrived! More on our 2020 season schedule: https://t.co/Lvoi4eAf4a 📺: Schedule Release '20 | 8 pm on NFL Network pic.twitter.com/irnzHPwf3z — Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) […]

The New England Patriots have an extremely tough road ahead as they prepare for life without Tom Brady in 2020. New England released its full 2020 schedule on Thursday night, with the misfortune of playing against the NFC West and AFC West. Football? Is that you?! 🚨 2020 #Patriots schedule: https://t.co/da7ZpBljtf pic.twitter.com/T76qvzbv68 — New England […]

The NFL released the full 2020 schedule on Thursday evening, with the season set to kick off in a Week 1 clash between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 10. Week 1 offers an awesome slate of matchups to kick off the year. The early window is highlighted by an NFC North […]

The Seattle Seahawks have released their full 2020 NFL schedule ahead of the league-wide release on Thursday evening. Seattle opens the year on Sept. 13 against the Atlanta Falcons, with the season finale coming against the San Francisco 49ers on Jan. 3. The Seahawks came up inches–literally–short of stealing the NFC West from the Niners […]

The NFL is releasing the league-wide schedules on Thursday night, including an appetizing slate of primetime games. Adam Schefter tweeted out the full 2020 schedule for Monday Night Football, which–as has been the case for the past few years–will open with a doubleheader in Week 1 on Sept. 14. The Pittsburgh Steelers square off against […]

The NFL is releasing the league-wide schedule on Thursday evening, but individual teams have been granted permission to release their schedules ahead of time. The Green Bay Packers are among the first teams to show the fans a full slate, tweeting out their 2020 schedule ahead of the official release. 🚨 The 2020 #Packers schedule […]

The Los Angeles Rams figured to select a running back at some point during the course of the 2020 NFL Draft. Los Angeles parted ways with former All-Pro back Todd Gurley in March, and–while Darrell Henderson’s abilities have prompted some excitement–were in desperate need of quality depth at the position. The Rams selected former Florida […]

Bobby Wagner and NFL Draft experts might know that Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead has been with the team since it was in St. Louis in 2012. Naturally, Snead has had his fair share of misses from a personnel standpoint. One of those misses was trading back from No. 45 to No. 50 […]

Kansas City Chiefs star safety Tyrann Mathieu will no longer have the opportunity to play against Philip Rivers twice a year. Rivers–the longtime quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers–signed with the Indianapolis Colts in free agency, moving from the AFC West to the AFC South. Mathieu explained he will miss Rivers’ trash talk. The All-Pro […]

Former Florida and Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer is not concerned about Bill Belichick, Jarrett Stidham, or the quarterback situation in New England with the Patriots. Meyer said projected starter Jarrett Stidham is in a great place as the quarterback of a winning franchise, and he added Bill Belichick and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels […]

The NFL is releasing their league-wide schedule on Thursday night, but California governor Gavin Newsom hinted the 2020 season might have to open without fans due to the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. Newsom said he found it unlikely fans could return to stadiums until there is “immunity” or the development of a vaccine for […]

The San Francisco 49ers selected Javon Kinlaw with the No. 14 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft after trading back one spot to get him. Despite him not knowing much about him before the draft, Nick Bosa believes Kinlaw is the perfect replacement for DeForest Buckner. “I didn’t watch too much of South Carolina until […]

Former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin did not start his football career as a wideout. Rather, he was recruited as a quarterback. But the school Boldin attended, Florida State, already had a starting quarterback in Chris Weinke. Boldin approached former Seminoles head coach Bobby Bowden about playing a position change, requesting to move to […]

The New Orleans Saints chose to sign Jameis Winston, making him the backup to Drew Brees next season. Following the surprising move, Saints general manager Mickey Loomis opened up about the move to bring in Winston on SiriusXM NFL Radio (h/t Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk): “The one thing that we’ll miss here with […]

The Jacksonville Jaguars have a new nickname for quarterback Gardner Minshew, with a bit of an ode to the Netflix smash hit, Tiger King. FOCO Collectibles released a bobblehead with Minshew in the role of Joe Exotic from the show, dubbing the quarterback “Jaguar King.” 11-5 without even seeing the schedule: pic.twitter.com/bzXSOC0rry — Mark Long (@APMarkLong) […]

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning will spend his first year in retirement fully removed from football. Manning said he has not ruled out a future in broadcasting and might look to coach youth sports, though he noted he has no interest in coaching at the NFL level. Regardless, Manning will take this year […]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski shocked the entire league with his decision to come out of retirement and reunite with his former teammate Tom Brady. Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians didn’t even think it was a possibility that Gronkowski wanted to come out of retirement. In a recent appearance on ESPN’s NFL Live, […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers are getting Ben Roethlisberger back in 2020, but they need to be prepared in case he gets injured again. Kevin Colbert, the GM of the Steelers, spoke about Pittsburgh’s backup plan for Roethlisberger next season. “Lot of times when we get into salary cap management and you have significant dollars in your […]

The 2019 season was pretty good to the Baltimore Ravens. They went 14-2 and enjoyed major breakout seasons from big-name players. That success led to them having the best record in the NFL. They got a bye in the first round of the playoffs as well. However, that’s where the fun stopped. Baltimore lost to […]

NFL free agent quarterback Joe Flacco may have taken a hit to his comeback chances after the Denver Broncos released the longtime Baltimore Ravens signal-caller, as this week it was discovered the one-time Super Bowl MVP underwent surgery on his neck last month. Flacco, 35, was traded last offseason to the AFC West’s Broncos following […]

NFL free agent quarterback Cam Newton was once an MVP and leader of a near-undefeated Carolina Panthers team, but that and more doesn’t appear to interest New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who’s dealing with a hole at quarterback himself. Per Joseph Person in The Athletic: Some observers have made a big deal of […]

Washington Redskins veteran running back Adrian Peterson has a lot of experience in the NFL with which he can impart on younger players. San Francisco 49ers rusher Jerick McKinnon, a former teammate of Peterson’s with the Minnesota Vikings who hasn’t played a down yet for the NFC West club due to a recurring knee injury, […]

One of new Tampa Bay Buccaneers star quarterback Tom Brady’s first introductions to his unfamiliar Florida setting was an accidental breaking and entering of a Tampa resident’s home (during lockdown) while attempting to visit new offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich’s house. Now Brady’s former gunslinging rival in the AFC, retired signal-caller Peyton Manning, is taking time […]

The past week saw major developments with both the NBA and NCAA, as the amateur sports league announced reforms to allow compensation to student-athletes for use of name and likeness while the G-League — the NBA’s minor league system — welcomed elite once-NCAA-bound recruits to the professional ranks. Former San Francisco 49ers, now Michigan Wolverines, […]

The NFL is returning to Christmas Day. Per Jeff Duncan of The Athletic, the New Orleans Saints will host the Minnesota Vikings at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Dec. 25. The inclusion of a game on Christmas Day will likely rival the NBA’s traditional dominance of the day in the sports lexicon, with the holiday falling […]

NFL stars Tom Brady, the new quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and his old rival gunslinger Peyton Manning are set to battle on the golf course in a COVID-19 fundraising effort with a little help from golf’s stars Tiger Woods and southpaw Phil Mickelson. According to Pro Football Talk, the foursome will tee off […]

Dozens of esteemed former NFL colleagues and legends like current Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians and ex-Dolphins star quarterback Dan Marino came out to mourn and honor recently passed Hall of Fame coach Don Shula this week. Now it’s time for Shula to pay the compliment with a little post-mortem dig at New […]

Challenging a pass interference call will have existed in the NFL for just one season, after the league announced that it would not be bringing back the additional replay review for the 2020 year. “We’re not going to vote on, because nobody is putting forward, the OPI/DPI review again,” Rich McKay, the Competition Committee Chairman, […]

The Baltimore Ravens may have found a keeper in Ohio State running back J.K. Dobbins, their second-round selection in the 2020 NFL Draft last month. The potential steal of the second round, and a 2,000-yard rusher in his junior season with the Buckeyes, is boldly predicted to be a “three-down back” by Baltimore’s general manager, […]

New Carolina Panthers offensive tackle Russell Okung, a one-time candidate for the NFLPA’s presidency, had his complaint with the players’ union thrown out by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed Russell Okung’s charge against the NFL Players Association, according to a […]

Rate, review, and subscribe to Establish the Pass on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify. Apple Podcasts link: Episode 69 of the Establish the Pass Podcast Spotify Podcasts link: Episode 69 of the Establish the Pass Podcast Establish the Pass Podcast Episode 69 – Blake Lovell and Dillon Reagan continue their series on the one burning […]