Weather also might be a factor in favor of the Eagles. Temperatures are expected to be in the 20s at kickoff, and Atlanta hasn’t won a game outside with temperatures below 40 degrees in nine years.
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This weekend, we have two live ’dogs in the NFL playoffs. The Saints are getting 5 points at the Vikings, and the No. 1-seeded Eagles are catching a field goal against the defending NFC champion Falcons.
We should have majored in math or economics. If we had, this column might have been about us winning half a million dollars in the Westgate SuperContest Gold or $168,000 as the back-to-back winner of the Golden Nugget’s Friday Football Showdown.
The Fritz Pollard Alliance successfully petitioned the NFL. An investigation into the Raiders’ hiring of Jon Gruden has begun.
Jon Gruden surely felt relief Tuesday when media festivities ended. It was time to begin.
Review-Journal sports betting columnist Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart and CG Technology sports book vice president Matt Holt preview the NFL divisional playoffs.
Board members cruised through a lengthy agenda, but had little to show for it in the end, except that everything still appears to be on track for completion of a final stadium development agreement in February.
The total completions by Blake Bortles is 18½ and total TD passes and interceptions by Bortles is two.
The company line Tuesday painted a harmonious bond between the team’s new head coach and its general manager, and perhaps such a rapport will exist between men cut from the same Lambeau Field cloth.
For the third straight year and fourth time in five seasons, a “home” game on the Raiders’ regular-season calendar will take place internationally.
The Fritz Pollard Alliance called Wednesday for the NFL to investigate whether the Oakland Raiders violated the “Rooney Rule” when they hired Jon Gruden as coach.
New Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey has added former Green Bay executives Eliot Wolf and Alonzo Highsmith to his revamped front office.
Bryan Salmond, Ed Graney and Michael Gehlken discuss the Raiders’ introduction of Jon Gruden as their new head coach, including the unique atmosphere and how Gruden will work with Derek Carr.
Eliot Wolf, whose father Ron Wolf spent more than two decades as a Raiders scout and executive, is scheduled to interview this week for a senior position in the Raiders’ personnel department, sources said Tuesday.
Jon Gruden on Tuesday not only received a record contract of 10 years for $100 million, but also inherited the best and most promising quarterback of his career as a head coach.
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