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    Don Shula’s coaching career spanned from George Halas to Bill Belichick

    Getty Images George Halas coached in the NFL’s first season in 1920. Bill Belichick is coaching in 2020. Don Shula coached against both of them. Shula, who died on Monday at the age of 90, had a coaching career that spanned decades, and saw him coach against many of the other great coaches in...
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    Patriots expect to lose college scouting director

    Getty Images Patriots college scouting director Monti Ossenfort has been in demand before, but it appears he’ll be on the move soon. According to Albert Breer of SI.com, Ossenfort’s contract with the Patriots is expiring, and he’s expected to find a new employer in the coming weeks. Ossenfort...
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    The Patriots are the betting favorites to land Andy Dalton

    Getty Images Reporters covering the Patriots generally don’t believe the team will sign free-agent quarterback Andy Dalton. Gamblers currently do. FanDuel has made the Patriots a -105 favorite to land Dalton, meaning that a $105 bet wins $100. The Jaguars are at +150, the Steelers are at...
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    Could Cowboys rescind Dak Prescott’s franchise tag?

    Getty Images Presumably, Andy Dalton becomes the backup to Dak Prescott in Dallas. But with Prescott not yet accepting a franchise tender with a value in excess of $31 million, it’s reasonable to ask the question posed in the headline of this item: Would the Cowboys rescind Dak’s tender? Until...
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    Devin McCourty: Virtual meetings have been good for getting used to life without Tom Brady

    Getty Images Safety Devin McCourty is heading into his 11th season with the Patriots, so he spent a lot of time in the same locker room as Tom Brady since entering the NFL. Brady won’t be in the locker room whenever McCourty and the rest of the Patriots are back at the team’s facility...
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    Jarrett Stidham’s college coach confident he’s up to the task in New England

    Getty Images As we get deeper into the offseason and the Patriots continue to stand pat at quarterback, it looks increasingly likely that Jarrett Stidham will be tasked with succeeding Tom Brady. Stidham’s college coach thinks he’s ready. Auburn coach Gus Malzahn says Stidham knows what it...
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    Yet another Sunday PFT mailbag

    Getty Images It’s a new tradition in these parts, one that keeps me a little less bored than I’d otherwise be on the slowest news day of the week. Hopefully, it keeps you a little less bored, too. Plenty of questions were submitted via Twitter. The best 10 are answered below. And we’ll do it...
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    Tom Brady’s passing yardage over/under set at 4,099.5

    Tom Brady will throw for right around the same passing yards this year in Tampa Bay as he threw for last year in New England, at least if the betting odds are in the right range. The odds at Caesars Sportsbook have Brady’s passing yards over/under at 4,099.5, and he’s at equal -110 odds to go...
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    Marvin Lewis on Andy Dalton: “Wherever he ends up, he’ll be an asset”

    Getty Images In each of the first five years of Andy Dalton‘s career, the Bengals made the playoffs. His coach for those five seasons, and three after that, was Marvin Lewis. Lewis spoke to PFT by phone on Friday regarding Dalton, who was cut by the Bengals on Thursday. “Wherever he ends up,”...
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    NFL has no comment on Gronk playbook remark

    Getty Images Officially, the NFL isn’t saying whether it will be investigating whether the Buccaneers violated the tampering rules in connection with tight end Rob Gronkowski’s claim that he had the team’s playbook weeks before being traded to Tampa Bay by New England. Unofficially, the league...
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    Will the Patriots make a play for Andy Dalton?

    Getty Images Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton is available. Few starting jobs are. For one team, however, questions have lingered regarding the guy at the top of the depth chart. In New England, Jarrett Stidham is the guy. And reports from March indicated that the Patriots weren’t interested in...
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    Tom Brady auction item draws $800,000 for COVID-19 relief efforts

    Getty Images Tom Brady made a generous offer for a charity auction, resulting in a very large donation to feeding people who lost their livelihoods in the coronavirus pandemic. Brady offered up four tickets to his first home game with the Buccaneers, his jersey and shoes from the game, and an...
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    Gronkowski boasts that he had Buccaneers playbook while still under contract with Patriots

    Getty Images Some within the league think that the Buccaneers took a swashbuckler’s approach to landing quarterback Tom Brady, ignoring rarely-applied tampering rules in order to ensure that they got their man. And it worked; no one has seriously questioned whether the Bucs had premature...
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    Guz Malzahn on Cam Newton: “He’s got something to prove”

    Getty Images Amazingly, 2015 NFL MVP Cam Newton continues to be available. Someone who has coached Newton won’t be amazed by the way he plays once he’s back in the NFL. “I’ve seen that look before,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn told Mike Tirico on NBCSN’s Lunch Talk Live. “He’s got something to...
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    Gronkowski: I was “joking around” about Buccaneers’ playbook

    Getty Images Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski’s ongoing media career and resurrected football career won’t always mesh. On Saturday night, Gronk said during a media event that he’s had the Buccaneers’ playbook for four weeks, predating the trade that sent him from New England last week. On...
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    James Develin wants to “give back” to football in a new capacity

    Getty Images A neck injury has forced Patriots fullback James Develin to retire from the game at 31. In Tuesday comments to the media, he made it clear that he intends to find a way to give back to the game. Asked whether he’d consider taking a job with the Patriots, Develin said, “I’m...
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    Chiefs remains the favorites to win the Super Bowl

    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...
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    Which are the 10 or 11 relevant teams?

    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...
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    Ryan Tannehill was unfazed by Tom Brady talk early in offseason

    Getty Images Ryan Tannehill heard the Tom Brady-to-Nashville rumors. How could he not? But the Titans quarterback kept a let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may attitude that has served him well in his seven-year career. It helped him handle his many injuries in Miami. It helped him last season when...
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    NFL: Tom Brady’s meeting with Byron Leftwich wasn’t a violation

    Getty Images The NFL has spoken. Even if plenty of teams won’t be buying it. After repeated requests for comment from PFT regarding last week’s news that Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady wandered into the wrong house while trying to meet with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich, the league...
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