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Getty Images The Rams hope to make a splash in their new home to start the 2020 NFL season, and then spend a full week out east. SoFi Stadium, where the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers will begin playing this year, will open on Sunday Night Football in Week One with the Rams taking...

Getty Images When the schedule is released on Thursday night, the specific configuration of 256 regular-season games will be scoured for clues regarding contingency plans that the league surely has formulated, given the pandemic. Some will be obvious. Some may not be. A sense has been...

Getty Images Bills owner Kim Pegula talked to the Buffalo News about the next steps for the opening of the sports, and emphasized that it must be done slowly. The videoconference took place before Roger Goodell’s memo discouraging league personnel from talking on their own about how the...

Getty Images The notion that the NFL might front-load the schedule with nothing but interconference games — to make it easier to cancel them if need be — appears to be debunked. A number of early reports about tonight’s schedule reveal show division games in Week One and early in the season...

Getty Images Jets head coach Adam Gase said recently that he wants to lighten the load on Le'Veon Bell this season and the team has found a running back to do that. Agent Drew Rosenhaus told PFT that the Jets are signing Frank Gore to a one-year contract. In addition to providing an...

Getty Images Teams have until 11:59:59 p.m. ET to decide on fifth-year options for the first-round picks from 2017. Some teams already publicly have committed. Based on media reports, others have made their decisions, too. Running back Christian McCaffrey, the eighth overall choice in 2017, is...

Getty Images The Bills had a long playoff drought before hiring head coach Sean McDermott and McDermott has put it to an end by leading the team to the postseason in two of his three years in Buffalo. McDermott hasn’t led the team to a playoff victory yet, although they were on track to...

Getty Images At the Scouting Combine, Simms and I asked Vikings G.M. Rick Spielman, who famously said in 2013 that the Vikings “have no intent to trade Percy Harvin,” to look into the camera and say that the Vikings have no intent to trade Stefon Diggs. Said Spielman, “Stefon Diggs is a...

Getty Images The Bills have a budding franchise quarterback in Josh Allen. That didn’t stop them from taking a fifth-round flier on Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm. G.M. Brandon Beane explained this week during a visit to #PFTPM the rationale behind the Fromm selection. “He wasn’t in our...

Getty Images Bills head coach Sean McDermott said that the team’s motto this offseason is “find a way” because he doesn’t want the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic to provide an excuse for the team to stop getting better in the coming months. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be...

Getty Images Our post-draft series of G.M. and coach interviews continued on Thursday, and one of the videoconference conversations connected West Virginia to Minnesota. Vikings G.M. Rick Spielman gave #PFTPM 20 minutes or so to discuss the team’s 15-pick draft, along with the trade that sent...

Getty Images Bills G.M. Brandon Beane didn’t have a first-round pick last week, and he didn’t want to get one. Appearing on Thursday’s #PFTPM podcast, Beane explained the steps he took to ensure that he wouldn’t be tempted to make a deal in order to get back into round one, after trading the...

Getty Images The Titans signed a pair of free agents on Wednesday and they continued making additions to their roster on Thursday. The team announced that they have signed running back Senorise Perry. They did not disclose any terms of the deal. Perry is unlikely to provide much of a boost to...

Getty Images Josh Norman earned his only Pro Bowl in 2015 with Carolina and Sean McDermott as his defensive coordinator. It earned Norman a megadeal with Washington in 2016 after the Panthers rescinded the franchise tender. Things didn’t work out so well in Washington as he was benched and...

Getty Images Former Panthers players have been popular additions to the roster in Buffalo and another one joined the team on Wednesday. The Bills announced that they have signed defensive end Bryan Cox Jr. It’s a one-year deal for Cox. Cox signed with the Panthers as an undrafted free agent...

Getty Images The Chiefs capped the 2019 season with their first Super Bowl win in 50 years. The oddsmakers think they won’t have to wait nearly that long for another. Kansas City remains the betting favorite to win Super Bowl LV in Tampa, with their odds (according to the William Hill...

Getty Images Saints coach Sean Payton said over the weekend that the NFL has only 10 or 11 relevant teams at any given time. If he’s right (and he is), the challenge becomes identifying the 10 or 11 relevant teams. It’s easy to peg six or seven of them. It’s harder to identify the last few, at...

Getty Images There currently are no sporting events, but bets can be placed on the sporting events to come. And a major wager has been placed on an unlikely team to win Super Bowl LV. According to the William Hill Sportsbook, someone bet $10,000 on the Colts, at 45/1 odds. If the Colts win the...

Getty Images When the Lions selected Kentucky guard Logan Stenberg in the fourth round of the draft, they were getting him just in time. That’s because the Bills had been trying to trade up in the fourth round, apparently to take Stenberg themselves. Although the Bills haven’t specifically...

Getty Images The Bills announced the addition of linebacker Mike Bell to their roster Monday. Bell was a 2019 draft eligible player from Fresno State who had a tryout with the Bills following last year’s draft. He played primarily in the secondary at Fresno State, earning second-team...