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Category: National Football League
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Former N.F.L. Player Sergio Brown Missing After His Mother Is Found Dead
The police in Maywood, a Chicago suburb, have been looking for Mr. Brown, 35, since Saturday.
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Cowboys Force Jets, Zach Wilson Into Costly Turnovers
In the first game since Aaron Rodgers’s injury, the Jets had four giveaways, including three interceptions thrown by Wilson, under pressure from the Cowboys’ stellar defense.
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Aaron Rodgers Is Out for the Jets Season With a Torn Achilles’ Tendon
An M.R.I. confirmed the team’s worst fears after the four-time league M.V.P. was carted to the locker room after an injury in the opening minutes of the first regular season game.
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N.F.L. Reporter Files Racial Discrimination Claim Against the League After Dismissal
Jim Trotter said his contract with the NFL Network was not renewed after he challenged Commissioner Roger Goodell and other executives on pro football’s commitment to diversity.
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Jets’ Aaron Rodgers Leaves Monday Night Football With Injury
Rodgers, the star quarterback acquired in an off-season trade as the team hoped to right a beleaguered offense, took a sack on the Jets’ first offensive series and will not return tonight.
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Aaron Rodgers’s Favorite Receiver Is Also the Jets’ Messenger
Randall Cobb spent a decade catching Rodgers’s passes in Green Bay. He’s using that experience to teach young Jets receivers about their new quarterback’s tendencies.
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11 Things You Forgot About the 2023 N.F.L. Season
After a busy off-season, Damar Hamlin is back, Odell Beckham Jr. is a Raven, Sean Payton leads the Broncos, and 10 players are out because of gambling violations.
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Lions Dare Their Way to a Win Over Short-Handed Chiefs
Detroit benefited from a fake punt and dropped passes from Kansas City’s wide receivers to beat Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs to open the N.F.L. season.
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How the N.F.L. Used Supercomputers to Solve Its TV Schedule Problems
The N.F.L. leaned into optimizing its 2023 schedule for TV (and streaming), turning to high-powered computers rather than football tradition to create matchups.
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Gil Brandt, 91, Dies; Helped Make the Cowboys ‘America’s Team’
As talent evaluator for nearly 30 years, he built Dallas into an N.F.L. powerhouse through the use of computer technology and other innovations.
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Alex Smith’s Recovery Didn’t Prepare Him for Daughter’s Cancer Fight
Alex Smith returned to play pro football after a horrific leg injury nearly killed him. Nothing about his recovery prepared him for the helplessness of watching his daughter battle a brain tumor.