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Getty Images Before the Vikings and Ravens completed a trade sending kicker Kaare Vedvik to Minnesota on Sunday, there was a report that four teams had reached out to Baltimore about trading for Vedvik. The report didn’t specify which teams had picked up the phone, but two of them seemed like...

Joe Namath wants for Sam Darnold what he delivered the Jets to end the 1968 season. “Win a championship,” Namath said Monday at the team’s practice, via Bob Glauber of Newsday. But is the Hall of Famer willing to guarantee a Jets’ Super Bowl title this season? “Expectations and hopes [are]...

Getty Images The Jets are banking on Trumaine Johnson bouncing back after a mediocre 2018 season and that effort may be complicated by an injury. Johnson left Sunday’s Jets practice early after injuring his hamstring while making an interception during a drill. Head coach Adam Gase didn’t have...

Getty Images The Jets thought they might need a new kicker after Chandler Catanzaro missed two extra points in the preseason opener. Now they know they do. Catanzaro has retired, the Jets announced this morning. That’s a surprising decision, but apparently the 28-year-old Catanzarro just...

Getty Images Jets head coach Adam Gase said last week that the team had no timeline for safety Marcus Maye to come off the physically unable to perform list and that he hadn’t received “any indication” that Maye would practice this week. Things apparently took a turn for the better over the...

Getty Images There was trade chatter around Ravens kicker Kaare Vedvik last summer before he suffered injuries in an assault that kept him off the field for the rest of the season. With Vedvik again kicking well and Justin Tucker still on hand in Baltimore, chatter is picking up about a...

Getty Images Kicker Blair Walsh, a solid performer for four seasons until missing a chip shot that would have vaulted the Vikings past the Seahawks in the 2015 playoffs, will be getting another chance to show what he can do. Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reports that Walsh will...

Jets coach Adam Gase became the first coach to win a pass interference challenge. Gase threw his red challenge flag on an incomplete pass on third-and-eight with 8:56 remaining in the third quarter. Gase asked for a review of Giants defensive back Corey Ballentine;s contact against Jets...

Getty Images Jets head coach Adam Gase broke some new ground on Thursday night. Gase became the first coach to successfully challenge a non-call of pass interference in the second half of the team’s preseason opener against the Giants. A Davis Webb pass to wide receiver Tim White fell...

Getty Images Receiver Antonio Brown and running back Le'Veon Bell (who caught plenty of passes) are gone. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger wants them also to be forgotten. Whether that happens depends on the performance of the players who will take their place. “I’m really excited about what we...

Getty Images Le'Veon Bell is not expected to play in the Jets’ preseason opener on Thursday night, which will leave the process of building chemistry with his offensive linemen to the practice field for the time being. When Bell signed, there was discussion about how his patient running style...

Getty Images The first pass of Sam Darnold‘s rookie season was picked off by Lions safety Quandre Diggs and returned for a touchdown. Darnold’s first pass of this year’s preseason almost turned out the same way. Darnold tried to hit wide receiver Quincy Enunwa, but Giants safety Jabrill...

Fans who showed up to tonight’s Jets-Giants game didn’t get much football before they were told to leave their seats. With 1:23 remaining in the first quarter, lightning was seen in the area and the game was delayed. “Attention please: Severe weather is imminent,” a message on the scoreboard...

Getty Images In four seasons with the Packers, Ty Montgomery never really found his place. He spent time at both running back and wide receiver and at times looked like he was ready to break out as a playmaker, but his tenure in Green Bay is best remembered for a game-ending fumble on a kickoff...

An anonymous quote given to four different publications didn’t work. An on-the-record statement with more holes than his team’s roster didn’t work, either. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross finds himself on the receiving end of extensive criticism from Dolphins players, Dolphins fans, and customers...

Getty Images Patriots quarterback Tom Brady received good wishes from many people when he turned 42 years old on August 3, but none came from one of the quarterbacks chasing him in the AFC East. Sam Darnold was asked to take part in a video with other NFL players wishing Brady happy returns...

On Tuesday, Jets coach Adam Gase wasn’t ready to commit, one way or the other, to Le'Veon Bell‘s status for Thursday night’s preseason opener. Unsurprisingly, the star running back won’t play against the Giants, Brian Costello of the New York Post reports. Bell will take part in pregame warmups...

Plenty of players and coaches are weighing in this time of year on the relative unimportance of the preseason. But Jets coach Adam Gase is willing to bravely stand against the tide, and defend the sanctity of the four-game exhibition season. Via Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, Gase...

Getty Images Jets safety Marcus Maye returned from last year’s shoulder injury to do individual drills during organized team activities this offseason, but he hasn’t been able to pick up where left off in training camp. Maye was placed on the physically unable to perform list to open camp and...

Getty Images The Giants will open the preseason on Thursday night with their annual summer tussle with the Jets. Among the memorable moments from past exhibition outings between the teams was when Eli Manning wound up bloodied after hitting his head on Jets safety Jim Leonhard after a hit by...