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Getty Images Who says no one takes the final preseason game seriously? The Raiders are so committed to making it like the regular season, that they’re playing with a regular season amount of players tonight against the Seahawks. Via the count of Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle...

Getty Images NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says interest from outside the United States in hosting NFL games is growing. Four games are scheduled to be played in London and one in Mexico City for the second straight year — the Mexico City game was scrubbed last year due to poor field...

Getty Images Ben Roethlisberger is sorry for publicly calling out teammates. Unless he isn’t. Roethlisberger’s recent mea culpa to Michele Tafoya of NBC carried with it a caveat that makes it seem like Ben isn’t really sorry at all. “I wish I wouldn’t have done it,” Roethlisberger said...

Getty Images Raiders coach Jon Gruden has raved during Hard Knocks about quarterbacks like Nathan Peterman and Kyler Murray. Gruden hasn’t said much about his current starting quarterback, Derek Carr. On Tuesday, Gruden said plenty about his expectations for Carr in 2019. Specifically, Gruden...

Getty Images Antonio Brown replaced barbs directed toward the Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger with frostbitten feet and helmet grievances this summer, but he’s back to playing the hits now that the latter two fronts have quieted down. During an interview with Michele Tafoya for the Sunday...

Getty Images A month ago, Jon Gruden said Nathan Peterman was “growing” on him. The Raiders’ third-stringer continues to grow on his coach apparently. Peterman will get plenty of work in Thursday’s preseason game against the Seahawks. But judging by Gruden’s answer to in innocuous question...

With the Andrew Luck retirement dominating the NFL discussion for the past three days, it may be easy to forget that a new episode of Hard Knocks airs every Tuesday night. It does, with the fourth episode of the 2019 season debuting tonight. Now that the Antonio Brown helmet fiasco has ended...

Getty Images It took almost until the start of the regular season for Corey Liuget to find a new home, but the former Los Angeles Chargers defensive tackle says he’s ready to rock for the Oakland Raiders. According to Scott Bair of NBC Sports Bay Area, Liuget has been working diligently in Las...

Getty Images The Raiders won’t be carrying running back Doug Martin on the roster for the regular season. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that Martin has been released. Martin led the Raiders in rushing yards last season, but appeared set to move on without him until Isaiah Crowell tore...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown has lost again. And he has won. Again. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the “neutral, independent arbitrator” has found that Brown must find a new helmet model, and that he can not wear the Schutt AiR Advantage. It’s the second time...

Getty Images Defensive lineman Corey Liuget spent the last five months as a free agent, but his long wait to find a team for the 2019 season has come to an end. The Raiders announced on Sunday that Liuget has signed with the team. There’s no word on the terms of the deal. The team also...

When it comes to the resolution of disputes like the Antonio Brown helmet kerfuffle, the NFL lately has been careful to push to the media the terms “neutral” and “independent” when describing the arbitrator who makes the decision. So how neutral and independent are the arbitrators who resolve...

The NFL’s effort to take its game internationally has worked in London, but other sites have proved a bigger challenge. The Seahawks and Patriots cancelled a preseason game in Beijing in 2007, and the Rams-Chiefs regular-season game was moved from Mexico City back to L.A. last November because...

And now we play the waiting game. Again. Antonio Brown Helmet Grievance 2.0 went to Antonio Brown Helmet Grievance Hearing 2.0 on Friday. It’s already over, per multiple reports. A decision is expected next week. Brown’s first helmet grievance went to a hearing two weeks ago. Three days...

Getty Images Thursday night’s Canadian conversion rate playing surface in Winnipeg on Thursday night ranks among the strangest over field conditions ever seen in a preseason game. But there have been far stranger field conditions in games that count. On Friday, Chris Simms and I drafted the...

Getty Images The Packers were expected to play their starters in tonight’s preseason game in Winnipeg. They now are reconsidering because of a patch of turf in the south end zone. “We are still in the process of determining what to do,” Packers CEO/President Mark Murphy told Josh Moser of Fox...

The Packers announced they will sit 33 players tonight, including Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams. The team didn’t say why, but the reason is obvious. The Packers were expected to play their starters, but that was before the field conditions in Winnipeg became an issue. A patch of temporary...

Green Bay Packers linebacker Rashan Gary left the sidelines on the back of a cart Thursday night in Winnipeg. However, Gary says there’s no need for alarm. “I’m well, thank you for your prayers and concern!” he said on a posting to his instagram account. Gary left the game against the Oakland...

Raiders coach Jon Gruden did not agree with the decision to play Thursday night’s game against the Packers on a makeshift 80-yard field after the NFL’s attempt to convert a larger Canadian Football League field into a regulation American field hit a snag. Although the Packers insisted that the...

No, Aaron, this is not clickbait. But, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was willing to say what his head coach was not last night after their Canadian adventure, the latest in a string of embarrassments for the NFL when they work in non-NFL buildings at home and abroad. With the team playing...