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New ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro Is Ready To Roll Over For The NFL
After five months in charge at ESPN, company president Jimmy Pitaro got up in front of a bunch of reporters on Friday and revealed his big new vision for the network. Based on Piatro’s comments, ESPN will stride boldly into the future by sticking to sports and playing lapdog for the NFL....

The Bills Are Upset Over Another Hard Jarvis Landry Block
A strong block from Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry in Friday’s preseason game against the Bills has some Buffalo players calling him out for his history of aggressive, damaging plays—especially against their team. ...

Patrick Mahomes Announced Himself With A Bomb
Two competing imperatives are in play here. The first is to avoid paying attention to preseason NFL games. They mean nothing, no result and no performance can be used to predict or extrapolate anything of value (and that some results and some performances do forerun regular-season success just prove...

Another Joint Practice, Another Huge Brawl
Folks, we’ve got another joint practice brawl, this time between the Colts and Ravens, at Colts training camp Saturday afternoon. The brawl appears to have started after Colts linebacker Antonio Morrison leveled Albert McClellan in a special teams drill, and McClellan jumped up ready to make war:...

Josh Gordon Returns From Unexplained Leave Of Absence
Josh Gordon’s unexplained leave of absence from the start of Browns training camp—something Gordon described as “part of my overall health and treatment plan” when it was announced back in July—is now apparently over. Gordon announced Saturday that he’s rejoining the team:...

Turns Out Corey Coleman Asked For A Trade From The Browns
Former 2016 first-round pick Corey Coleman was traded away for a conditional seventh-round pick two weeks ago, making him one of nine Browns first-rounders since 2011 to have been jettisoned for cents on the dollar. ...

Tyrod Taylor Has Been Letting People Mispronounce His Name This Whole Time
Tyrod Taylor is about to begin his eighth season in the NFL, his fourth as a full-time starting quarterback, and his first with the Cleveland Browns (the poor bastard). All this time, his first name has been pronounced incorrectly, apparently....

Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Los Angeles Chargers<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. But many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....

Josh Norman Has The Right Idea But The Wrong Solution
Washington cornerback Josh Norman has a proposed fix for the NFL’s salary system: a cap on how much money quarterbacks can earn. “I would address the quarterback situation,” Norman told The Ringer’s Kevin Clark, “because they get gosh darn too much money.”...

There's No Bad Idea Like A Sports Bad Idea<em></em>
It is a harsh truth, but an undeniable one: If it weren’t for bad ideas, we would not have anything to talk about on the Deadcast. In point of fact, if it were not for bad ideas the Deadcast itself would not even exist. But while our world is currently much worse off for all the bad ideas that curre...

Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Baltimore Ravens<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Baltimore Ravens. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Baltimore Ravens. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

This Is The Longest <i>Madden</i> Glitch I've Ever Seen And It Keeps Getting Stranger
By this point we all know the deal with the Madden series, and really any sports game that has annual editions. Games of any kind should not be forced to come out every year, because that’s not long enough for programmers and developers to build a good, working game. That much is a truism. But becau...

Rape Case Dropped Against Broncos' Adam Gotsis
The Fulton County (Georgia) District Attorney released a statement today saying that his office has decided to drop the rape case against Denver Broncos defensive end Adam Gotsis, who was charged back in March, because “the evidence presented does not warrant any further action.”...

How Will Jalen Ramsey Ever Recover From These Burns?
Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey did us all the favor of telling GQ exactly which NFL quarterbacks are bad trash and which are actually good. Ramsey’s takes were entertaining and refreshing on their own, but they have also provided us with another level of entertainment: each maligned quarterback bei...

Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Arizona Cardinals<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Arizona Cardinals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Arizona Cardinals. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

I Sincerely Cannot Understand What Happens In This <i>Madden</i> Glitch
It’s Madden glitch season! God bless it. The exact same game, every single year, yet somehow always with horrifying and wonderful new misfires....

Jarvis Landry Whips Ball Into Teammate's Face, Starts Fight
The highlight of the preseason so far has been new Browns receiver Jarvis Landry laying into his fellow receivers for being weak little babies who don’t practice enough. Landry’s intensity does not seem to have quieted down since then, judging by this fight he started with cornerback Terrance Mitche...

Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Green Bay Packers<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

Let's Check In On Christian Hackenberg
The Eagles brought in Christian Hackenberg to see if there’s any there there for the 2016 second-round pick, who hasn’t played a regular-season NFL snap and is now on his third team. Today was his first day of full-team practices, and ......

Terrelle Pryor Is A Little Jumpy Around His Old Friends
After a disappointing season with Washington last year, current Jets wide receiver Terrelle Pryor is back practicing with his old teammates during a joint practice in Richmond, Va. They don’t seem particularly happy to see each other. ...