NFL to revisit challenge rule
ESPN
NFL director of football operations Ray Anderson said Friday that the rule will be immediately reexamined. What's more, change could come this year, which is unusual because the NFL traditionally resists doing anything during the season. The Lions defensive lineman kicked Texans QB Matt Schaub in the groin during the the Thanksgiving Day game between [...]
Read MoreNFL to revisit challenge rule
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The first — and most obvious — is that he played poorly in his first NFL start last week against the Redskins. That was a big reason the Eagles lost, and his play will also be a big reason why the Eagles win or lose this one. But the Eagles are So, here we are, [...]
Read MoreNFL to revisit challenge rule
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Niners going with Kaepernick?: San Francisco 49ers safety Donte Whitner told a radio show Friday that Colin Kaepernick will be the team's starter Sunday against the New Orleans Saints as the Niners wait for Alex Smith to be The Detroit Lions were penalized for illegally challenging a call that replays showed to be clearly wrong. [...]
Read MoreNFL to Examine Replay Rule From Lions-Texans Game
ABC News
2012 – In recent years the NFL has gone to extreme measures to protect offensive skill players. The same, however, can't be said for defensive players, and those guys have spoken out about the hypocrisy. But it looks like maybe — just maybe — the NFL The Detroit Lions were penalized for illegally challenging a [...]
Read MoreNFL: Patriots revel in festive mood after crushing hapless Jets
Chicago Trib
Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue has been asked to consider a suggestion that suspended coach Gregg Williams have his reinstatement hearing conducted in December rather than February, according to league sources, while the NFL continues its Football is no longer just for the guys, and the NFL is encouraging its female fans to show their [...]
Read MoreOld-school NFL voices appreciate Greg Schiano's approach
Yahoo! Sport
Last week Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, cast his team's season opener in terms of an MMO quest. He's done the same thing this week so we'll hold him to it and chart his FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – This is what happens when you're the NFL's [...]
Read MoreOld-school NFL voices appreciate Greg Schiano's approach
Yahoo! Sport
There was a great hue and cry after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seemed to lose the NFL's "code book" at the end of their 41-34 loss to the New York Giants. Instead of allowing Giants quarterback Eli Manning to take a knee and run out the clock after Bucs The NFL's replacement officials are not [...]
Read MoreNFL Week 2: Replacement ref taken off New Orleans-Carolina game because …
New York Dai
From the blog Shutdown Corner: Through the current lockout of its game officials, the NFL has been emphatic all along that its replacement officials have passed all appropriate background checks. One would assume that the NFL Blogs on NFL.com is the only official NFL blog destination for the latest NFL news, NFL fantasy football news, [...]
Read MoreHeated exchange between NFL coaches
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Chris Mortensen reported this one and it is truly amazing. Brian Stropolo is an NFL replacement side judge, for now, who was scheduled to officiate the New Orleans Saints-Carolina Panthers game this afternoon. San Francisco » The San Francisco 49ers stymied 2011 NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers in Week 1, then record-setting Matthew Stafford in Week [...]
Read MoreNFL pulls replacement ref from game
ESPN
Griffin will be a great quarterback in the NFL, but it was just one game against a porous defense. Week 2 will be a more difficult challenge for Griffin and the Redskins offense as they travel to St. Louis, a place that hasn't treated them well over The Browns have started 17 quarterbacks since returning [...]
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