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Bryce Young‘s rookie campaign has been fraught with struggles, and as his counterpart in Houston, C.J. Stroud, enjoys early success, it only makes the situation in Carolina look worse. This reality led to the firing of Frank Reich last week. The responsibility for Carolina’s failures in 2023 weren’t solely Reich’s to bear, of course, but …

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San Francisco’s defense appears to be peaking for the stretch run.  The 49ers’ first-ranked scoring unit again showed out on Thursday night, overcoming a third-quarter offensive lull by holding steady in its domination over the Seattle Seahawks to help deliver a 31-13 victory. “The way the defense played tonight was unbelievable,” head coach Kyle Shanahan …

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Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks and Rhett Lewis are back with a new episode of Move the Sticks. To start off the show, the guys preview the three Thanksgiving Day NFL games, the Packers at Lions (1:05), Commanders at Cowboys (3:26) and 49ers at Seahawks (6:37). For the rest of the show, the trio focus on …

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Mac Jones stood at the podium Wednesday, a place where the starting quarterback typically speaks about the upcoming game. Jones didn’t say, however, if he would be starting Sunday for the New England Patriots in their game at the New York Giants. Since Jones was benched at the end of the Patriots’ 10-6 loss to …

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Miami’s scoring machine will be down one dynamic running back on Black Friday. Rookie De’Von Achane is not expected to play for the Dolphins’ game against the New York Jets due to a nagging knee injury, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported Friday morning on Good Morning Football, per sources.  Achane just returned from an …

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Dak Prescott didn’t need Thursday’s game to end in order to enjoy a helping of turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Following his fourth touchdown pass of the night — a 34-yarder to KaVontae Turpin in the fourth quarter — Prescott and his Cowboys teammates huddled around the Salvation Army kettle near the end zone and pulled …

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DaRon Bland used the Cowboys’ annual Thanksgiving Day game to write himself into the history books. The Cowboys cornerback set the NFL single-season record on Thursday with his fifth pick-six of the year, intercepting Commanders quarterback Sam Howell and evading multiple would-be tacklers on a 63-yard return to pay dirt. “To have the fans, the …

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DENVER (AP) — Harald Hasselbach, a defensive lineman for the Denver Broncos during the team’s back-to-back Super Bowl championships in the late 1990s, has died at age 56. The Broncos announced Hasselbach’s death on Thursday, citing family. Hasselbach’s family said he died at home in the Denver area after a six-month fight with cancer. Hasselbach …

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