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Backup quarterbacks pressed into duty due to injuries have won Super Bowls more often than you’d think. Jim Plunkett was a failed Heisman Trophy winner backing up Dan Pastorini in 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and had thrown one pass all season when Pastorini broke his leg in the Raiders’ fifth game. Plunkett took over and the Raiders won a Super Bowl a few months later. Jeff Hostetler had started two NFL games when the 1990 New York Giants needed him to replace an injured Phil Simms late in… Source link

Backup quarterbacks pressed into duty due to injuries have won Super Bowls more often than you’d think. Jim Plunkett was a failed Heisman Trophy winner backing up Dan Pastorini in 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and had thrown one pass all season when Pastorini broke his leg in the Raiders’ fifth game. Plunkett took over and the Raiders won a Super Bowl a few months later. Jeff Hostetler had started two NFL games when the 1990 New York Giants needed him to replace an injured Phil Simms late in… Source link

What we’ll remember from last postseason is the Buffalo Bills losing an intense overtime game at the Kansas City Chiefs. The complaints about not getting the ball after losing the OT coin toss. The defense’s failure in the final 13 seconds of regulation. What doesn’t get enough attention is how the Bills screwed up a prime opportunity to win a championship by giving away regular-season games. Buffalo lost six regular-season games. They were favored in five of them. In four of them, they were… Source link

Before the Super Bowl last season, Sean McVay made a telling comment about his future. NFL coaches, and everyone involved with the game really, often hold back their true feelings. McVay’s honest answer about his coaching future, and perhaps stepping away long before anyone expected, opened up a new storyline about his possible retirement before he even reached 40 years old. “I know I love football and I’m so invested in this thing and I’m in the moment right now,” McVay said. “But at some… Source link

The San Francisco 49ers have boasted one of the NFL’s top rushing units almost every year since Kyle Shanahan took over as head coach in 2017. Over the past four seasons, the 49ers ranked top-15 in rushing attempts and rushing yards, and they ranked top-seven in both categories in the two seasons San Francisco made deep postseason runs (2019 and 2021). And up until they traded for Christian McCaffrey, the 49ers had accomplished all of their rushing success with relatively unknown talent. The… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Mike Tomlin on Steelers: “Where we are today, not good” The Steelers are 1-4, and they’ve lost four in a row. On Sunday, they were blown off the field by the Bills, 38-3. After the loss, coach Mike Tomlin summarized the current state of the team. “No need to really sugarcoat it, man,” Tomlin told reporters. “We got handled today. We got handled by a [more] Source link

Rihanna is going to headline Super Bowl LVII. Rihanna and the NFL announced on Sunday afternoon that the singer will headline the halftime show at the Super Bowl, which will be played Feb. 12, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona. The halftime show will be the first under its new title sponsor Apple Music, who is replacing Pepsi at the game this season. Pepsi had been the show’s main sponsor since 2012. The show will be produced by DPS with Roc Nation. “Rihanna is a generational talent, a woman of… Source link

It made sense if you assumed the Cincinnati Bengals would just pick up where they left off. The Bengals have a fun set of young players that made a great postseason run. A play here or there, and they’d have been Super Bowl champions. When you have a quarterback like Joe Burrow, you’re not supposed to take a step back. It appears some warning signs were ignored. The Bengals are off to a rough start to this season. They’re the first team in the Super Bowl era to start 0-2 despite being favored… Source link

The NFL season is finally here. The Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills kick it off Thursday night at SoFi Stadium in perhaps the best opening-night game we have ever seen. It’s a great setting: the reigning Super Bowl champs trying to turn back the team that is favored to win it all this season. That is the beginning of a glorious 18-week march to the postseason. The season ends next Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, with Super Bowl LVII. Our Yahoo Sports NFL team made our… Source link

A 25-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for posing as Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady in order to buy and then sell New England Patriots Super Bowl rings. Scott V. Spina Jr., of Roseland, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February to one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He first bought a Super Bowl LI ring in 2017 from a former Patriots player with a bad check and then flipped it to a “broker… Source link