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Getty Images Reche Caldwell and Etric Pruitt are pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a case involving a dozen former NFL players, according to Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader. Caldwell pleaded guilty last Thursday while Pruitt was scheduled to enter...

Getty Images 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has acknowledged he’s learned plenty of things about football since his days with the Falcons, when his team blew a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl against the Patriots. But he also learned something about the character of Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Via...

Getty Images The number of Super Bowl prop bets is limited only by the creativity of those devising them. For Super Bowl LIV, the folks at PointsBet have plucked a fairly low piece of low-hanging fruit in crafting a prop wager that calls back to Super Bowl LI. Via David Purdum of ESPN.com, the...

Getty Images Those empty seats at the Falcons’ still-new stadium may have less to do with people not choosing to buy them and more to do with people not being able to buy them. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, customers have defaulted on $32 million in personal seat licenses at...

Getty Images The Eagles are talking to a former defensive coordinator to replace a position coach who just became a coordinator himself. According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com, the Eagles have interviewed Marquand Manuel for their vacant defensive backs coach job, and a deal could come...

Getty Images Falcons General Manager Thomas Dimitroff said this week that things are “trudging along” in regard to questions about a new contract for tight end Austin Hooper. The trudging apparently hasn’t reached the point of any offer being made to the tight end. That was the word from...

Getty Images The Falcons thought they were fixing their kicking problems when they brought back veteran Matt Bryant before the start of the regular season. He wasn’t the answer, but they might have eventually found one in Younghoe Koo. Now, they want to bring him back, and make him prove it...

Getty Images The Giants have hired Jerome Henderson as their defensive backs coach, Field Yates of ESPN reports. The Falcons dismissed Henderson after the season. He had served as Atlanta’s secondary coach/defensive passing game coordinator. Henderson spent four seasons with the Falcons after...

Getty Images The Falcons have a number of issues to address this offseason, but one of their priorities is trying to re-sign tight end Austin Hooper. And at the moment, things aren’t moving very quickly. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Falcons General Manager...

Getty Images Falcons General Manager Thomas Dimitroff didn’t have much of an update about where things stand in contract talks with tight end Austin Hooper and the outlook for another impending free agent isn’t much clearer. Defensive end Vic Beasley led the team with eight sacks during the...

Getty Images Kyle Shanahan returns to the Super Bowl for the first time in three years, and he already has been asked about what happened the last time he was there. Shanahan, then the offensive coordinator of the Falcons, had a 28-3 lead over the Patriots in the third quarter. The Patriots...

Getty Images The Packers had a couple of players pull out of the Pro Bowl in the wake of their NFC title game loss to the 49ers, but they’ll wind up with a net gain because three players have been added to the roster. Wide receiver Davante Adams, defensive tackle Kenny Clark and linebacker...

Getty Images Falcons tight end Austin Hooper is headed to his second Pro Bowl. Hooper told Vaughn McClure of ESPN that he is replacing George Kittle. Kittle, of course, won’t play in the all-star game as he is going to the Super Bowl. Hooper, 25, was the second alternate. He joins teammates...

Getty Images The Falcons have been proactive signing a number of their own young players in recent years, and are working on another one. According to Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com, the Falcons have started “preliminary talks” with linebacker De'Vondre Campbell. The 26-year-old is set to become...

Getty Images In most cases, a planned uniform redesign happens with months if not years of advance notice to the public. This dynamic allows fans to purchase jerseys based on the to-be-discontinued uniform with full and fair knowledge that, very soon, the purchase will be made obsolete. The...

Getty Images Add Falcons defensive end Takk McKinley to the list of players who will spend some portion of this offseason recovering from surgical procedures. McKinley posted a picture of himself in a hospital bed after having what he termed a successful operation. His left shoulder was...

Getty Images The Falcons stuck with head coach Dan Quinn after missing the playoffs in 2019, but they will have a new look in 2020. Falcons owner Arthur Blank announced on Tuesday that they will have new uniforms next season. The new threads are set to be unveiled in April. “Time and again...

Getty Images The Falcons have taken Ra’Shede Hageman off the roster, again. According to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Falcons released Hageman and tight end Alex Gray from their injured reserve list. Hageman was a former second-round pick, who started for them...

Getty Images Yesterday was a crushing loss for the Texans, but at least they can comfort themselves with their future, and how they can use the 26th pick in the 2020 NFL Draft to make a good team better. Oh wait, they already traded that one to the Dolphins. Sorry guys, that was probably too...

Getty Images The Falcons announced Saturday they have hired Tosh Lupoi as the defensive line coach and run game coordinator, focusing on defensive ends. “We are happy to have Tosh join our coaching staff,” Falcons head coach Dan Quinn said in a statement. “We look forward to what he brings to...