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Todd Bowles’ Job With Bucs Could Be on the Line Thursday NightThe Buccaneers are 0-4 and turning to rookie Jalon Daniels again. Could another loss put Todd Bowles’ job in serious jeopardy?...

Shilo Sanders fined by NFL for thrown punchFormer Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Shilo Sanders has been fined $4,669 by the NFL for throwing a punch, multiple outlets reported Saturday.,Sanders found notoriety following the blow delivered to tight end Zach Davidson in the Buccaneers' preseason contest with the Buffalo Bills on Aug. 23. Sanders ...

Buccaneers cut rookie free agent safety Shilo SandersOne day after being ejected from an NFL exhibition game for punching an opponent, rookie free agent safety Shilo Sanders was cut on Sunday by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.,The Buccaneers, like all NFL teams, must reduce their rosters to 53 players by Tuesday afternoon in preparation for Week 1 play on S...

Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles, GM Jason Licht sign extensions

Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles and general manager Jason Licht signed contract extensions, the team announced Thursday.,Terms of the contracts were not disclosed, but multiple reports pegged Bowles' deal at a total of four seasons through 2028. He had one year remaining on his original ...

It’s been a positive hiring cycle for Black head coaches in the NFL, but . . .

All of life’s wins should be celebrated, but parades are meant for special occasions. And despite how progressive this hiring cycle for Black head coaches in the NFL has been, anyone who has already poured the champagne is an idiot....

Raiders remove interim tag, hire Antonio Pierce as head coach

The Las Vegas Raiders are finalizing a deal to make Antonio Pierce their full-time head coach....

The NFL buying ESPN is the final frontier in the effort to kill sports journalism

Last week, my colleague Sean Beckwith wrote about the NFL possibly buying a stake in ESPN, and the potential for the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports to become nothing more than the PR arm of the most popular league in America (at least, more than it already is). Yesterday, over at The Nat...

All the remaining NFL playoff teams, ranked

Anything can happen in the playoffs, and I mean anything. In just the wild-card round alone, we saw:...

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The NFL’s Black coaches are turning Wild-Card Weekend into a diversity showcase

There’s one storyline the NFL hasn’t highlighted heading into the postseason, and that’s probably for legal reasons. At least, I can’t imagine the league’s attorneys would advise them to showcase its entire roster of Black head coaches making the playoffs, considering Brian Flores’ lawsuit is still ...

by Sean Beckwith|The NFL

|01/11/2024

Baker Mayfield is doing his best Tom Brady (at 45) impression

A season ago, the Philadelphia Eagles eased into the playoffs, and the No. 1 seed, behind Jalen Hurts, a great defense, and a favorable schedule. Their out-of-division matchups were the NFC North, and the AFC South; a combo almost guaranteed to net solid returns for really any organization. I say th...

by Sean Beckwith|Baker Mayfield

|10/03/2023

Mel Tucker was the highest-paid Black coach in college football history — he blew it because he’s a creep

Two years ago, Mel Tucker blazed a trail for Black head coaches. One day ago, Mel Tucker set them back....

by Carron J. Phillips|Tucker

|09/11/2023

Baker Mayfield’s whiteness keeps getting him NFL starting QB jobs

Baker Mayfield didn’t do anything wrong. The crime that keeps getting committed is done by the owners, general managers, and coaches who keep giving him endless opportunities. If Mayfield can keep being named a starter in the NFL, then Nathan Peterman will always have a shot at being on a team’s pay...

by Carron J. Phillips|Baker Mayfield

|08/23/2023

Trask and Mayfield for the Bucs could be this generation’s Jackson and Germaine for Ohio State

The names Stanley Jackson and Joe Germaine mean nothing to many of you football fans out there. For those who fall into that category, you all missed out on a glorious time in the sport when Ohio State was a national championship contender and started two quarterbacks. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may n...

by Stephen Knox|John Cooper

|08/08/2023

Every Black football coach should be rooting for Reggie Barlow in the XFL Championship Game

When Fritz Pollard became the NFL’s first Black coach in 1921 people of that time viewed it as progress. Later this month, Reggie Barlow could be the first coach, of any race, to win the XFL Championship in the league’s inaugural year in its new iteration when Barlow’s D.C Defenders take on the Arli...

by Carron J. Phillips|XFL

|05/02/2023

Brian Flores’ lawsuit wasn’t mentioned during Roger Goodell’s Super Bowl press conference — that’s a problem

Every year at the Super Bowl, journalists get a chance to ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell the questions that need to be answered on live television as the world watches. This year, the inquiries and subject matters ranged from two Black quarterbacks making history, Damar Hamlin, officiating, and ...

by Carron J. Phillips|Brian Flores

|02/08/2023

Not adding up: There are 2 Black QBs in the Super Bowl, but only 2 Black head coaches in the NFL

Marlin Briscoe is smiling in heaven. Doug Williams probably has a huge grin on his face. The first Black starting quarterback in NFL history — Briscoe — and the first Black quarterback to start and win Super Bowl MVP — Williams — are the giants whose shoulders Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Phila...

by Carron J. Phillips|the NFL

|01/30/2023

Ed Reed, Bethune-Cookman split — no more celebrity football coaches at HBCUs [Updated]

In less than a month as the new head football coach at Bethune-Cookman University — a Historically Black College & University (HBCU) — Ed Reed has already unsurprisingly proven why he never should have been hired. Over the weekend, the College and Pro Football Hall of Famer took to social media to r...

by Carron J. Phillips|football

|01/19/2023

Every team in the NFL playoffs, ranked

Aaron Rodgers couldn’t beat the Detroit Lions. Who’d have thought I’d be uttering that statement at the beginning of the season? And with that loss, the NFL playoffs are set. Throughout the regular season, we laughed, cried, held our heads in shock, and Tom Brady endured his first losing season as a...

by Jon Hoefling|the NFL

|01/09/2023

Coaching HBCU football is a stepping stone for Deion Sanders, but a brick wall for his peers

The spotlight Deion Sanders has brought to historically black college football programs has been unparalleled. Interest is at an all-time high and Sanders has championed multiplying exposure for the talent at HBCU programs. Sanders was specifically referring to the players, but the same sentiments c...

by DJ Dunson|football

|10/21/2022

Steelers-Bucs epitomized why Todd Bowles’ ‘stop making a big deal’ comments were so dangerous

Todd Bowles has forgotten where he came from — and who he is. Hopefully, Sunday’s loss from Mike Tomin (and Brian Flores) helped him remember. ...

by Carron J. Phillips|Todd Bowles

|10/17/2022

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