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@CBSSports
,
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NFL: Calvin Ridley has been suspended for at least a year.
NFL gambling partners in like 3 hours: You can now BET on the exact date that Calvin Ridley will be reinstated
I think Rob Gronkowski just crashed my bachelor party in disguise. Not sure if he's going to retire, but said he could be playing for the "69ers" next season. I love my job. I love Gronk.
#Patriots
During Spygate investigation, NFL found that Patriots had excuses ready in case an advance scout got caught filming another team. One of those excuses: Tell them you need the footage for a team show.
#Patriots
XFL has only been on for 60 minutes & we've already had:
โข An F-bomb on national television
โข A sad kicker interviewed on the sideline after he missed a field goal
โข A blocked punt for a TD
โข A bizarre kickoff idea that the NFL should steal
#XFL2020
Browns in October: We have no idea how to file paperwork for a trade.
Browns in March: K. I think we figured it out. Let's break the NFL record for most trades in a day.
#Browns
I'm not sure I can watch Kyle Shanahan in another Super Bowl. Too painful
โข SB LI (Falcons OC): Blew a 28-3 lead (Largest blown lead in SB history)
โข SB 54: Blew a 10-point lead in 4th quarter (2nd-largest blown lead)
โข SB 58: Blew a 10-point lead (2nd-largest blown lead)
Joe Flacco threw for 212 yards in the FOURTH QUARTER alone.
How impressive is that?
โข That's the most by any Browns QB in any quarter since at least 1991.
โข Most by any player in the fourth quarter in any game this season
#Browns
Good news for Bears: They got Justin Fields!
Bad news: Being the 4th QB taken in a draft has been the kiss of death recently.
Fourth QB in last 15 drafts: Love, Lock, Rosen, Kizer, Hackenberg, Mannion, Carr, Barkley, Weeden, Ponder, McCoy, P. White, Henne, Beck, K. Clemens.
If this is not pass interference, I don't know what pass interference is. Wasn't called interference on the field, but Bill O'Brien is challenging. Defender is literally hanging on DeAndre Hopkins before the ball arrives
#Texans
#Ravens
Bengals 31-year playoff losing streak could now come full circle: The streak started against the Raiders in January 1991 and now the Bengals will be playing the Raiders in the postseason for the first time since the streak started.
#Raiders
#Bengals
Terrell Owens had a pretty solid ending to his Hall of Fame speech, says his induction was for everyone who's ever been bullied, misunderstood or overlooked. Nearly entire crowd was standing by the time he was done.
#TerrellOwens
#PFHOF18
#Cowboys
#Eagles
@terrellowens
With the Bengals win over the Bills, Zac Taylor now has the second-highest postseason winning percentage in NFL history for anyone who's coached at least five playoff games.
1. Vince Lombardi: 9-1 (.900)
2. Zac Taylor: 5-1 (.833)
#Bengals
Here's the problem with the NFL's proposal:
โข Bills may get to avoid Arrowhead
โข Chiefs have easier track to 1-seed
โข Ravens could host a playoff game
โข Bengals essentially get nothing.
Can't have new rules for 4 teams and only 1 is hosed over
Very important XFL note: The record for longest field goal in the history of the Seahawks' stadium doesn't belong to an NFL kicker, it belongs to the XFL's John Parker Romo (
@Romo_HKA
), who drilled a 57-yarder for the
@XFLBrahmas
over the weekend.
It looks like the NFL is going to try and take over Christmas this year: The league is planning a December 25 tripleheader for the first time ever.
Wonder how Santa feels about this
#Christmas
#SantaClaus
#NFLSchedule
My wife and I decided to spice up our quarantine by adding a baby! This is little miss Annabelle Breech. She's our first kid & she drinks milk at a faster rate than I drink beer. She has also vowed to never let her parents sleep again, but she's adorable, so we're fine with that.
Calvin Ridley got caught because he placed a legal mobile bet in Florida with Hard Rock. They notified Genius Sports, who oversees betting integrity for the NFL. Ridley placed 3, 5 and 8 game parlay bets that did include the Falcons, per source.
11-26: Brandon Staley gets asked if his message is still reaching the team.
"Yea, otherwise youโd get blown out of the stadium in one of these games. Youโd get blown out of the stadium & that hasnโt happened."
12-14: Chargers get blown out of the stadium
Sam Hubbard re-wrote the NFL record book with one play. That 98-yard score was:
โข Longest fumble return TD in NFL playoff history
โข Longest TD in Bengals playoff history
โข Longest go-ahead TD in 4th quarter in playoff history
โข T-4th-longest defensive TD in playoff history
Here's why you had to bench Eli Manning: The Browns went 0-16 in 2017 and STILL HAVE HAD A BETTER RECORD than the Giants over the past two years.
#Browns
#Giants
Since 2017:
Browns: 8-25-1
Giants: 8-26
My biggest takeaway from NFL Honors is that Kelly Clarkson was way better than I thought she would be and that she should go on tour with Kirk Cousins
#NFLHonors
I hope there's eventually a "30 for 30" on this parade and I hope it includes 700 different angles of drunk Tom Brady throwing the Lombardi Trophy
#Buccaneers
WHAT DOES CARSON PALMER KNOW
#Bengals
2011 NFL offseason:
Marvin Lewis contract expires
48 hours of awkwardness
Lewis gets new deal
Carson Palmer retires
2018 NFL offseason
Marvin Lewis contract expires
48 hours of awkwardness
Lewis gets new deal
Carson Palmer retires
Attendants were here to hold umbrellas for players and Russell Wilson was like, "Nah, I'll get it," which is how you get this adorable photo of
@DangeRussWilson
and
@ciara
#NFLHonors
Classic Jake Browning fourth quarter/OT magic.
Jake Browning had as many passing yards in the fourth quarter (140) as he did in the first three quarters combined (140).
And then he tacked on 44 more with this wild play in OT.
#Bengals
#Vikings
Just ran into Rams owner Stan Kroenke at Starbucks. He was very upbeat about the future of his team and highly complimentary of the Patriots defensive game plan in the Super Bowl.
#Rams
#Patriots
#SuperBowl
With that win by the Bengals:
โข Joe Burrow now has the most playoff wins by any QB in franchise history (4).
โข The Bengals have won a playoff game in back-to-back seasons for the first time in franchise history.
Another reason the Broncos' decision was crazy: Historically, Seattle isn't an easy place to kick.
No kicker has ever made a field goal of even 57 yards at Lumen Field. Since it opened in 2002, kickers are 0-for-6 all-time on attempts 57 or longer.
There have only been 2 field goals of 64 yards or longer in NFL history and Nathaniel Hackett still decided to attempt this kick instead of letting Russell Wilson try to convert a 4th-and-5. Wilson going to trade himself somewhere else before week's end
John Harbaugh and Mike Vrabel talking about who would win a fight between John Harbaugh and Mike Vrabel.
It turns out Twitter isn't the only place where people talk about who would win a fight between different NFL coaches
#Titans
#Ravens
(via
@NFLFilms
)
I know that no one on the
@lions
can say it, so I will... that is a terrible missed call, on hands to the face and bad break for our D that is playing so hard.
#replayhelpneeded
Tom Brady led his team to a conference title game in 14 of his 21 healthy seasons (66.7% of the time).
Brady's career completion percentage was 64.2%.
He literally was more likely to lead his team to a conference title game than to complete a pass. Insane
#Patriots
#Buccaneers
With that Evan McPherson field goal, one of the craziest stats in the NFL still stands: In franchise history, the Bengals have NEVER scored an offensive touchdown in overtime.
#Bengals
Man, this is sad to hear. I basically grew up in the Bengals locker room because Sam Wyche encouraged players to bring their kids around. He'd let us attend the Saturday walk-thru before Sunday home games, which I'm guessing wouldn't fly today...
#Bengals
The irony of the Lions' 12-men on the field penalty is that they literally had a guy counting everyone to make sure that didn't happen
#Lions
#Packers
#MNF
With Russell Wilson in Denver, the top five quarterbacks in the NFC are now:
1. Aaron Rodgers
2. Matthew Stafford
3. Dak Prescott
4. Kyler Murray
5. Matt Cousins (Matt Ryan and Kirk Cousins are the same person)
Raiders would have gotten the ball at the 40 if Peyton Barber's foot had been touching the sideline before he touched the football. Foot being in bounds by 10 inches cost his team 38 yards of field position
#Bengals
#Raiders
Dude pooping at Mike Vrabel's house, Belichick letting his dog make picks, Kliff Kingsbury living in a house where they're definitely going to film the Parasite sequel, Jerry Jones making picks from Dr. Evil's lair. I think I agree with this
#NFLDraft2020
The last thing I expected to see at an NFL game this week: Brett Favre eating chips while wearing a t-shirt with Tom Brady's face as the Buccaneers logo
Early winners of the draft so far:
Ravens
Jets
The producer who kindly asked Ed Marinaro to stop babbling and announce the Vikings draft pick. NFL needs to let her announce the next pick.
#NFLDraft
If the Browns are going to tweet out amazing victory videos like this, then I'm probably going to have to secretly root for them to win every week for the rest of the season
#Browns
#Jets
#MNF
Um, Hollywood Brown not even done with his first NFL quarter and he already has two catches for 130 yards and two touchdowns. Also, Lamar Jackson's accuracy doesn't appear to be an issue anymore
#Ravens
#Dolphins
The
@CBSSports
mock draft special is live and I got to make the first pick. Thought about throwing a wrench into things by taking a kicker, but didn't want to get fired as Bengals GM during my first day on the job.
#Bengals
#MockDraft
Here is the list of No. 1 overall picks who have made it to a conference title game during the first three seasons of their career:
1972 Terry Bradshaw
2014 Andrew Luck
2018 Jared Goff
2021 Joe Burrow
2022 Joe Burrow
Joe Burrow is 40% of the list
#Bengals
Dwayne Haskins now the sixth QB 1st-round pick over past decade who didn't make it to the 3rd-year with the team that drafted them. Browns & Broncos usually have a monopoly on this stuff
2010: Tebow (DEN)
2012: Weeden (CLE)
2014: Manziel (CLE)
2016: Lynch (DEN)
2018: Rosen (ARI)
I'm drinking at my bachelor party, so roll with this as you will... but Gronk was in the booth next to me at a bar, told a Patriots fan he WASN'T retiring. My dad (all-time leading scorer for Bengals) talked to him. Told him I was media, said TBD on retirement
I have now watched this quadruple doink by the Rice kicker 400 times over the past hour and there's no way this should be possible. I'm 71% sure we're going to have to rewrite our laws of physics because of this kick
#Rice
#Quadrupledoink
The NFL's Week 1 schedule is officially out, mark your calendars now.
Some highlights:
Cowboys at Buccaneers (Thursday opener)
Bears at Rams (Sunday night)
Ravens at Raiders (Monday night)
#NFLSchedule
#Cowboys
#Raiders
#Buccaneers
Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce in a dead heat for largest podium crowd with 100 minutes to go until the start of Super Bowl Opening Night in Las Vegas
#SuperBowl
โฏโฏโฏ
#ChiefsKingdom
โฏโฏโฏ
#vegas
There have only been 2 field goals of 64 yards or longer in NFL history and Nathaniel Hackett still decided to attempt this kick instead of letting Russell Wilson try to convert a 4th-and-5. Wilson going to trade himself somewhere else before week's end
Tom Brady TD pass to Scotty Miller means TB12 is now Tampa Bay's all-time leader in postseason TD passes. In related news, Brady is in his 1st postseason with the
#Buccaneers
.
Leaders
Tom Brady: 6
Brad Johnson: 5
Doug Williams: 2
Garcia, King, Dilfer: 1
The Deshaun Watson fumble was weird. Refs didn't announce whether or not it was being reviewed. Then, Texans should have only been able to take clock down to 1:01 before next play, but took it down to 50 seconds. Colts probably wondering where those 11 seconds went
#Colts
#Texans