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Google is reportedly the latest company to make a bid for NFL's Sunday Ticket starting in 2023, according to Tripp Mickle, Kevin Draper and Benjamin Mullin of the New York Times (h/t Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk) If a deal is completed, NFL games would be streamed on YouTube, which is owned by Google. Apple, Amazon and Disney are among the other companies bidding for the NFL rights, which are owned by DirecTV through the 2022 season. "A number of companies are in strong position to potentially land Sunday Ticket, but we still have a ways to go in...

For two years, Dak Prescott gambled on himself. And for two years, the Dallas Cowboys sat across the table and bet against their starting quarterback and the mushrooming pay scale that surrounded him. On Monday, the impasse was broken. Or if we’re searching for a more accurate descriptor, Prescott smashed it. The 27-year-old QB achieved a four-year, $160 million deal that essentially makes him the highest paid player in NFL history (based on his contract value at signing) and sets Prescott in the running to achieve a gargantuan windfall over the course of his career that could ultimately make him...

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Brady is headed back to the Super Bowl, this time without Coach Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. He prevailed over Aaron Rodgers in a duel of legendary quarterbacks, and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Rodgers's Green Bay Packers, 31-26, in Sunday's NFC championship game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

No team in the Super Bowl era -- including the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady Patriots -- has ever won three straight championships, but that didn't stop Colts owner Jim Irsay from setting back-to-back-to-back championships as his team's goal moving forward. At the NFL league meetings last week, Irsay couldn't help but give his team an incredibly ambitious goal that they will almost certainly fall well short of -- and that's not a criticism of the Colts, a very good football team with a bright future. It's the reality of football. Winning one Super Bowl is hard enough. Winning three in a...

The longtime [Green Bay] Packers pass rusher is headed to play for the Los Angeles Rams, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per a source informed of the situation on Tuesday. Now 32, Matthews is still a weapon in the rush, but has slowed as evidenced by his 3.5 sacks in 16 starts in 2018. But he'll get a fresh start in a familiar place with a chance to help the reigning NFC champions get back to the Super Bowl.

For the third straight year, the New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl. After beating the Kansas City Chiefs, 37-31, in overtime in the AFC Championship game Sunday, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have the Patriots in position to win their second Super Bowl in three years and third in five years. The 2019 Super Bowl is also a rematch of the title game from the 2001-2002 season, when the Patriots beat the then-St. Louis Rams, 20-17. The AFC champion Patriots and the NFC champion Rams will face off in Super Bowl LIII on February 3 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium...

Source: #Vikings OC John DeFilippo has been fired.

NFL LIVE THREAD Week 14 THURSDAY, DEC 6, 2018 (All Times Eastern) Jacksonville at Tennessee 8:20 pm NFLN/FOX/Amazon Prime Nissan Stadium SUNDAY, DEC 9, 2018 Atlanta at Green Bay 1:00 pm FOX Lambeau Field Baltimore at Kansas City 1:00 pm CBS Arrowhead Stadium Carolina at Cleveland 1:00 pm FOX FirstEnergy Stadium Indianapolis at Houston 1:00 pm CBS NRG Stadium New England at Miami 1:00 pm CBS Hard Rock Stadium New Orleans at Tampa Bay 1:00 pm FOX Raymond James Stadium N.Y. Giants at Washington 1:00 pm FOX FedEx Field N.Y. Jets at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS New Era Field Cincinnati...