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Getty Images Tight end Jared Cook wants better things in the second half of his first season with the Saints and he’ll be able to kick off the effort to get them without concern about an ankle injury. Cook missed the team’s last two games because of the injury, but he was a full participant in...

Getty Images Week 10 of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the 49ers and it continues with 11 more games on Sunday, which means that the 22 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The notion of Deion Sanders as a head coach of a major football program may seem ridiculous on the surface to outsiders. But it’s not ridiculous to Deion Sanders. Sanders first expressed interest in being a head coach in the NFL. Sixteen years ago. In 2003, Deion went public with...

Getty Images Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan missed a start for the first time since 2009 when a sprained ankle kept him from playing against the Seahawks in Week Eight, but he’s ready to kick off a new consecutive start streak against the Saints this Sunday. Ryan had time off to recover during...

Getty Images The first eight games of the 2019 season were a disaster for the Falcons. They lost seven times in those eight games, which left playoff hopes by the wayside and made discussion about head coach Dan Quinn’s job security a frequent event around the team. Given all of that, it’s...

Getty Images The Saints got quarterback Drew Brees back in the lineup before their bye week, but their offense didn’t have all hands on deck against the Cardinals in Week Eight. Running back Alvin Kamara and tight end Jared Cook were both out of the lineup with ankle injuries for that game...

The Falcons are 1-7, so it can’t really get much worse. But they got some good news Wednesday, with a pair of key players returning to the practice field. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, quarterback Matt Ryan and cornerback Desmond Trufant were returning to...

Getty Images The Falcons haven’t made the big changes some might have expected over the bye week, so they continued to tinker. The team announced that they were promoting wide receiver Brandon Powell to the active roster. Powell spent 2018 with the Lions, and has been on the Falcons practice...

Getty Images We’re just past the midway point of the NFL season, and there’s some real competition at the top. But also at the bottom, where the race for the first pick int he 2020 NFL Draft got a little more complicated last weekend. If the season ended today, the winless Bengals (0-8) would...

Getty Images The ship in Atlanta may not be sinking (yet), but it’s time to rearrange the deck chairs. The Falcons announced that former Buccaneers head coach Raheem Morris was moving from working with the team’s wide receivers to the secondary. Morris carries the assistant head coach title...

Getty Images The Falcons didn’t change head coaches during their bye weeks, but they did sign a new kicker and shuffle the responsibilities of a few assistant coaches. They’ve also brought in a new punter. The team waived Kasey Redfern last week and announced on Monday that they’ve signed...

Getty Images The Falcons have an extra day of practice this week as they come off their bye, so they gave Matt Ryan an extra day off. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Falcons quarterback was held out again Monday, after he missed their last game with a right...

Getty Images The Falcons are struggling this year, in part, because some of their top players aren’t performing up to expectations. That doesn’t mean they want to get rid of them. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Lions called the Falcons to see if running back Devonta Freeman was...

Getty Images The Atlanta Falcons have decided they need to overhaul both of kicking specialists before they play another football game. In addition to releasing veteran kicker Matt Bryant on Tuesday after a pair of missed field goals against Seattle, the Falcons waived punter Kasey Redfern as...

Getty Images When the Falcons released kicker Matt Bryant early in the offseason, they left the door open for his return in the future and then brought him back to the team just before the start of the regular season. Bryant hasn’t performed as well as he did in the past, however, and now the...

Trent Williams stayed put. Jamal Adams stayed put. Chris Harris stayed put. Le'Veon Bell stayed put. Janoris Jenkins stayed put. A.J. Green stayed put. Patrick Peterson stayed put. O.J. Howard stayed put. Everyone, in fact, except Aqib Talib stayed put Tuesday. The NFL’s trade deadline closed...

Getty Images Matt Bryant‘s return engagement with the Falcons hasn’t been nearly as successful as his initial 10-year run with the team. Bryant was released early in the offseason for cap reasons, but returned just before the start of the regular season when the Falcons found their other...

Getty Images Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan missed his first game in a decade on Sunday, but that will be the only one he misses. Coach Dan Quinn said today that the Falcons, who are on their bye this week, expect Ryan to play next week against the Saints. Quinn added that Ryan would probably...

Getty Images The Falcons are not expected to fire Dan Quinn during the season, but it appears the coach’s days are numbered in Atlanta. The Falcons are 1-7 and in the cellar of the NFC South. Owner Arthur Blank held an impromptu media session after Sunday’s loss to the Falcons. Blank said he...

Getty Images The Falcons promoted Danny Etling from the practice squad to serve as their backup quarterback against the Seahawks on Sunday, but they don’t think they’ll have a need for his services in their next game. Matt Ryan is expected to start in Week 10 when the team returns from a bye...