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It's The Coaching Carousel: Our top picks for the 4 NFL teams that need new top guys
An inevitable truth of every NFL offseason is the coaching carousel. Coaches are relieved of their duties after failed seasons – this year is no different. Before this week, there were seven head coaching positions available. Two have been filled: the Jaguars and the Jets have found their new coache...
One thing is clear: The Doug Pederson era is over in Philadelphia
Yes, he’s the only coach in Eagles history to win a Super Bowl. And the statue of him and Nick Foles calling the “Philly Special” will remain outside Lincoln Financial Field. But Foles is gone, and Doug Pederson must follow him out the door....
The final NFL Powerless Rankings - and what these teams should do in the draft
For the final time this season, Deadspin highlights the teams stinking up the joint every single week....
Pederson and Eagles should lose all respect after Sunday Night Football tank job
If you’re still confused about what you watched last night on NBC, don’t be....
Saints will need to fight for NFC bye slot without Kamara, who has coronavirus
The Saints come into the final day of the NFL regular season with an outside shot at the top seed in the NFC and the bye next week that comes with it. It would take a win over the Panthers, the Packers losing in Chicago, and the Seahawks beating the 49ers in Arizona to create a three-way tie at 12-4...
Would anyone like to win the NFC East?
When you see a car wreck on the side of the road, you look. You may not like that you look, but you do it anyway....
Remembering 'Bowl Durham' & Pearl Harbor: Last time Rose Bowl was held outside Pasadena
Back in March, the NCAA Tournament was just days away from tipping off when COVID-19 took hold in America and turned 2020 upside down, taking with it, among other things, college basketball’s championship....
Jalen Hurts breaks out, Falcons fold like two-ply tissue, and Chiefs look like 8th graders playing peewee
The end of the NFL season is right around the corner, which means that things are starting to get tight and the fight for playoff spots is intensifying....
Carson Wentz pouts as Jalen Hurts shines
If Carson Wentz remains the Eagles backup, he’ll want out of Philadelphia. That’s according to an ESPN report released today. ...
Deadspin Fixes The Phillies: A blueprint Dave Dombrowski will never follow
In some ways, anything like this is folly when a team has already hired Dave Dombrowski as President of Baseball. The Phillies clearly aren’t going to wait around for Theo Epstein to finish his year with a Eurorail pass as he takes up poetry or dyes his hair purple or whatever means of self-discover...
No surprise, Jalen Hurts is the answer to the Eagles’ Carson Wentz problem
I thought y’all said this whole team was trash?...
I can’t wait for Josh McDaniels to coach the Patriots
Most of the season, the focus has been on Bill Belichick and Tom Brady recovering from their breakup in different places. Brady moved away, tried to start his whole life over (while still keeping his 6-foot-5 tight-end Teddy Bear for security), make a clean break, that whole thing. Bill is still try...
With Phillies on verge of hiring Dave Dombrowski as president, MLB recycles its old trash better than anyone
Dave Dombrowski is what is still wrong with Major League Baseball....
The Flyers have been relegated, but Philly fans prolly still won't shut up about 'em
A wide swath of soccer fans have been clamoring for a promotion/relegation system for MLS. Hell, even a small slice of fans of other sports with the loosest grip on reality, especially with the rash of tank-jobs in MLB or the NBA, have said promotion/relegation would put a halt to that phenomenon, a...
The Hall of Fame missed its chance to honor Dick Allen, who died today at 78
Editor’s note: This story was originally published about an hour before we learned that Dick Allen had died at age 78 at his home in Wampum, Pa. Changes have been made throughout to reflect that....
I told ya’ll so! Jalen Hurts should be the Eagles starter
Remember when I wrote that Jalen Hurts should have been starting in Philly a few weeks ago?...
The long, strange path of Brandon Graham, quietly one of the best players in Eagles history
It wasn’t quite Eagles fans booing Donovan McNabb at the podium for the crime of not being Rickey Williams at the 1999 draft, but no one was happy with the Eagles’ first selection in the 2010 Draft, either....
Don’t let the lucky 2018 Super Bowl fool you, this is who the Eagles really are
The Eagles are a prime example of what happens when your organization is rooted in dysfunction....