MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — For the first time since Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has been under coach Mike McDaniel, the question of whether he will soon be benched is legitimately in the public sphere.

An NFL.com report over the weekend indicated that, if Tagovailoa continues to play poorly in this 2-7 season in which he has thrown a...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Antonio Brown once assaulted a Gatorade cooler when he wasn’t getting enough passes thrown his way from Ben Roethlisberger. George Pickens threw even more temper tantrums when he wasn’t getting fed enough.

The Steelers do not currently have any diva receivers on their roster and they kept it that way when they did not acquire...Read more

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Dan Campbell is a coach who never stops fighting.

Naturally, he respects others who do the same.

So he sympathizes with Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn, who's drawing ample criticism this week after star quarterback Jayden Daniels was hurt in the final minutes of a blowout loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Defensive end Jonathan Greenard sees that “dog” in quarterback J.J. McCarthy.

Left tackle Christian Darrisaw called it “swagger.”

Right tackle Brian O’Neill joked that McCarthy was “crashing out” in the postgame locker room celebration, when after the Vikings’ 27-24 win over the Detroit Lions, McCarthy yelled, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Rams are no longer kicking the can down the road when it comes to their kicking problems.

On Wednesday, the Rams signed kicker Harrison Mevis to the practice squad to compete with second-year pro Joshua Karty. The move came a day after the team signed veteran long-snapper Jake McQuaide to compete with Alex Ward. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Ryan Poles was mostly an onlooker Tuesday as some seismic deals highlighted NFL trade-deadline day.

The Chicago Bears general manager has been at the apex of major in-season and offseason deals, but Poles made a more modest move this time, trading a sixth-round draft pick to the Cleveland Browns for defensive end Joe Tryon-Shoyinka ...Read more

NFL WEEK 10 THURSDAY PICK

RAIDERS (2-6) at BRONCOS (7-2)

Line: DEN by 9 1/2.

Cote’s pick: DEN, 24-17.

TV: 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Prime Video.

NFL Week 10 kicks off Thursday night with what seems a mismatch at a fast glance, although division games like this one from the AFC West tend to tighten a bit. Broad view: Denver has won nine straight...Read more

MIAMI — Bill Parcells was the smartest and most accomplished leader the Miami Dolphins organization has had since the franchise forced Don Shula into retirement so they could land Jimmy Johnson.

And he was a complete disaster.

Two of Parcells’ first moves upon taking over as Miami’s vice president of football operations was to run off ...Read more

The NFL trade deadline is one of the great circuses of America’s preeminent entertainment product. It’s a day built on a foundation of fantasy, desperation, delusion and immediate gratification.

And on Tuesday, the San Francisco 49ers skipped participating in it.

The collective online crash-out from the Faithful and the misinformed was ...Read more

Tom Brady has revealed that his dog Junie is a clone of his late pet Lua, who died in 2023.

The former superstar quarterback-turned-sports commentator shared the news on Tuesday about his new pitbull mix being a clone of Lua, who was adopted in 2014 by Brady and his then-wife, Gisele Bündchen. Lua passed away a year after the couple’s ...Read more

Each week I’ll list the best widely available free agents for fantasy football — I define “widely available” as being owned in around half of all ESPN or Yahoo leagues — and some guys who are probably better off in the free-agent pool than collecting dust on your roster.

Follow me on X (formerly known as Twitter) @UTEddieBrown if you ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Raiders traded veteran wide receiver Jakobi Meyers to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed.

The club will get a fourth-round and sixth-round pick for Meyers.

Meyers, who will turn 29 on Sunday, and the Raiders have been at an impasse on a new contract since March, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Hours after trading Sauce Gardner, the New York Jets also moved on from Quinnen Williams.

The Jets traded Williams to the Dallas Cowboys for a 2026 second-round, a 2027 first-round draft pick and defensive tackle Mazi Smith.

In 2019, the Jets drafted Williams third overall out of Alabama. During his time with the Green and White, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Jets were expected to be active during Tuesday’s trade deadline.

But Gang Green shockingly traded one of its franchise players.

The Jets are sending cornerback Sauce Gardner to the Colts for their 2026 and 2027 first-round picks and wide receiver Adonai Mitchell, according to a source. NFL Network was the first to report the...Read more

SEATTLE — With just over three hours to go before the NFL trade deadline Tuesday, the Seahawks added to their already electric offense by obtaining speedy veteran Rashid Shaheed from the New Orleans Saints for fourth- and fifth-round picks in 2026, the team announced.

That turned out to be the only move the team made, however, as the 1 p.m. ...Read more

DETROIT — They’re certainly not friends.

But they are well-acquainted. And one of the things Dan Campbell talked about as his Detroit Lions team prepared to face the division-rival Minnesota Vikings on Sunday was all the ways that familiarity could lead to contempt.

Or lament.

The more times you face an opponent, the harder it is to keep ...Read more

Well, that didn’t take long, did it?

Chris Grier had barely cleaned out his office, and work has begun cleaning up the larger mess.

Philadelphia gets Jaelan Phillips, one of the good guys, in its quest for another Super Bowl. The Miami Dolphins get a third-round pick in their quest to make chicken salad from this failed season.

And so ...Read more

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — When it reigns …

With their thrilling Game 7 victory in Toronto on Saturday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers delivered two rings in two seasons and I know you, L.A., I know you want more. I know you want to pour it on.

Guess what? So do the Rams, who walked off the SoFi Stadium field Sunday to Randy Newman’s “I Love L...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers defense was impressive Sunday, as it dominated the high-powered Indianapolis Colts offense. That, in large part, is why they won 27-20 in a game most people had them pegged to lose.

The defense forced six turnovers, had five sacks, rendered Jonathan Taylor irrelevant and made Daniel Jones of the Colts look...Read more