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I know just the coach for Auburn

The writing is on the wall for Bryan Harsin at Auburn, to the point where Paul Finebaum is openly speculating about Hugh Freeze coming in from Liberty — after five years of SEC exile — to take the Tigers job....

by Jesse Spector|

|Tue Feb 08 2022

The Bengals are in the Super Bowl, but don’t expect them to pick up a check in L.A.

The Cincinnati Bengals have overcome quite a bit of adversity to get to Super Bowl LVI. They had to claw their way to an AFC North championship after some bad regular-season losses, including the infamous 400-yard Mike White game against the New York Jets, followed by getting smoked by Cleveland Bro...

by Stephen Knox|

|Tue Feb 08 2022

From bad to worse: 15 years ago the NFL had 2 African-American coaches in the Super Bowl, now they barely have that in the entire league

To fully understand just how bad the NFL is at hiring African-American and Black coaches, a history lesson is needed....

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Mon Feb 07 2022

The lower 28

There are 28 NFL teams not playing this weekend, which means there are 28 teams trying to figure out how to get to where they want to go: the Super Bowl. Some, naturally, have better ideas about it than others....

by Jesse Spector|

|Fri Jan 28 2022

The Steelers and Mike Tomlin may be done this year, but they aren’t going anywhere

Before the Steelers got run out of Kansas City like everyone predicted (including their quarterback), Pittsburgh was up 7-0 five minutes into the second quarter. I thought that maybe they had a chance because all this team has done with a problematic corpse or Mason Rudolph playing QB over the past ...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Tue Jan 18 2022

Please, please, please let’s all commit to no more Ben Roethlisberger than absolutely necessary

The word cloud was way too much....

by Stephen Knox|

|Mon Aug 21 2023

Big Ben gives least inspiring pump-up speech imaginable before matchup with Chiefs

The Pittsburgh Steelers are not going to win the Super Bowl....

by Jon Hoefling|

|Thu Jan 13 2022

Week 18 Takeaways: This one day in the NFL in which every second truly mattered

That’s all folks. The sad moment of the year when Scott Hanson signs off and the final RedZone touchdown montage plays. You’re momentarily hypnotized by the best catches, throws, and runs of the day, and then one moment the Miami Dolphins are in a dogpile in the end zone, and the next Nicki Minaj’s ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Mon Jan 10 2022

Mike Tomlin is proof that NFL owners’ unwillingness to hire more Black coaches is a stupid and willful decision

If Mike Tomlin were white, he’d be on the Mount Rushmore of NFL coaches and it wouldn’t be debatable....

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Wed Jan 05 2022

Stop blaming Vontaze Burfict for Antonio Brown's idiocy

In case you haven’t heard, Antonio Brown did something never before seen in an NFL game this past Sunday. In the middle of a pivotal game against the New York Jets, Brown took off his pads, threw his undershirt and gloves into the stands, and promptly ran across the field bare-chested giving the fan...

by Jon Hoefling|

|Tue Jan 04 2022

IDIOT OF THE YEAR #1: Jon Gruden, the face of a rotten NFL

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR festivities! Nos. 50 through 11 are available for your enjoyment here. And our top 10:...

by Thomas Laforgia|

|Fri Dec 31 2021