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Getty Images We won’t know all 12 playoff teams by the time that Week 16 comes to an end, but we could have 11 of the spots filled by the close of business on Monday. Eight teams have already booked berths and the Texans, Cowboys and Vikings can join them. The Texans will clinch both a playoff...

Getty Images As Sunday Splash! reports go, it was more of a mangled tree stump dumped into the shallow end of a wading pool. And, after Sunday’s game between the Browns and the Cardinals, it quite possibly sets the table for the very outcome against which it was pushing back. “[A]s of right...

Getty Images The Ravens tied the Pro Bowl record with 12 players selected to the original list. Tight end Mark Andrews, long snapper Morgan Cox, cornerback Marlon Humphrey, running back Mark Ingram, quarterback Lamar Jackson, outside linebacker Matt Judon, cornerback Marcus Peters, fullback...

Getty Images Before the Ravens beat the Jets last Thursday, there was a report indicating that the Ravens would likely rest quarterback Lamar Jackson in Week 17 if they had locked up the top playoff seed in the AFC. Last Thursday’s win means that they can accomplish that task by beating the...

Getty Images After Sunday’s loss to the Cardinals, Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens was asked about his job security and responded by saying that he doesn’t “care about my future as Browns coach.” That response came up during Monday’s press conference and Kitchens took that as a chance to...

Getty Images Browns running back Kareem Hunt was not happy with the effort he saw from some of his teammates in Sunday’s loss tot he Cardinals. Hunt said today that not everyone was giving 110 percent for the entire game, and that by the time the Browns were giving the kind of effort they...

Getty Images The Seahawks won’t have wide receiver Josh Gordon in the lineup the next two weeks or in the postseason. The NFL announced on Monday that Gordon has been suspended indefinitely. The suspension stems from violations of both the substance abuse and performance-enhancing drug...

Getty Images The Browns got pasted by the Cardinals in Arizona on Sunday to fall to 6-8 in a season that’s been a disappointment across the board. Among the disappointing developments has been how Freddie Kitchens has done in his first season as the team’s head coach. The team’s losing record...

Getty Images The NFL’s leading rusher is likely to miss the playoffs this season. Browns running back Nick Chubb currently leads the NFL with 1,408 rushing yards, and the Browns are 6-8 and almost certain to miss the playoffs. Only two running backs have a realistic chance of catching Chubb...

Getty Images It’s been a lost decade for football in Cleveland. With Sunday’s loss dropping the Browns to 6-8 this season, they’re now guaranteed not to have a winning record this season. That means they’ll be the only NFL team not to have a single winning season from 2010 to 2019. The...

Getty Images Forget about the Browns making the playoffs. In case there was any doubt, Cleveland is not a playoff team, with today’s 38-24 loss to the Cardinals cementing the Browns’ status as perhaps this season’s most disappointing team. For all their offseason hype, the Browns are now 6-8...

Getty Images The Browns got blown out by the Cardinals on Sunday and the loss means that there’s no chance of finishing the year with a winning record. That wasn’t the way anyone in the organization hoped things would play out this season and emotions boiled over in the fourth quarter. Wide...

Getty Images Freddie Kitchens downplayed his sideline exchange with receiver Jarvis Landry in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss to the Cardinals. The Browns coach didn’t explain what precipitated the disagreement, though. Landry did. “I just went and asked for the ball,’’ Landry said, via...

Getty Images Receiver Odell Beckham has a groin injury. The Browns are all but eliminated from playoff contention with a 1 percent chance of extending their season. Beckham, though, has no plans of sitting out the final two games. “It’s a decision we’ll find out when the time comes, but as...

Getty Images Black Monday is only two weeks away. In recent years Black Monday basically has become Black Sunday, because plenty of coaches get fired not the day after the season ends but the day that it’s all over. So for which coaches will it be over when the season’s over? Two (Jay Gruden...

Getty Images Cut by the Cardinals on Friday, veteran linebacker Terrell Suggs has leaked the notion that, if anyone other than the Ravens claims him on waivers, he may not show up. And that may operate as an engraved invitation to claim him on waivers. As players, fans, and media begin to...

Getty Images The Browns are willing to let linebacker Joe Schobert leave in free agency, having made little effort to extend his contract, Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports. Schobert, who made the Pro Bowl in 2017, saw only cursory interest from the Browns about an extension months ago...

Getty Images Week 15 of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Ravens and it continues with 14 more games on Sunday, which means that the 28 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 Remember last year, when the Ravens first introduced the Lamar Jackson offense and the narrative became that, by the second time a defense sees him, the defense will know how to stop him? This year, that narrative has become, No one knows how to stop him. After Thursday night’s...

Getty Images The Ravens have taken the NFL by storm this year, led by the uncanny skills of quarterback Lamar Jackson. As the NFL draws up its plans for 2020, the Ravens and Jackson will surely be in the center of the league’s radar screen. The Ravens undoubtedly will get the maximum number of...