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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Source: Aaron Rodgers wants a new contract
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was sending a message to the team with his post-game comments after Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers in the NFC Championship. The message likely had multiple tentacles. Here’s one. Per a league source, Rodgers wants a new contract. Rodgers should want a new contract. He makes $33.5 million per year. He’s [more]
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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Packers’ intentional penalty could have triggered an unusual rule
At the two-minute warning of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, the Buccaneers had the lead and the ball, with second-and-1. The Packers made a smart decision: They intentionally jumped offside, figuring it’s easier to stop a team from picking up a first down and running the clock on first-and-10 than on second-and-1. Because it was a [more]
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Reuters
Mets offer Trevor Bauer massive deal: report
The New York Mets are willing to make free agent pitcher Trevor Bauer one of baseball’s highest-paid players, USA Today reported. The annual average salary in the team’s offer to the National League Cy Young winner in 2020 would be near what the New York Yankees pay right-hander Gerrit Cole, but the deal would be shorter in length, the report said. The Yankees signed Cole to a nine-year, $324 million deal in free agency on Dec. 11, 2019.
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Husker Online
Nebraska quarterback Luke McCaffrey enters the transfer portal
Nebraska quarterback Luke McCaffrey has officially entered the NCAA transfer portal. The redshirt freshman from Colorado entered the portal on Tuesday, one day after spring semester classes began at UNL. McCaffrey will remain on full scholarship and stipend this semester since the academic term has already begun.
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The Associated Press
Ravens GM DeCosta initiates roster overhaul with key cuts
Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta has already started making some of the tough decisions he believes can help Baltimore negotiate the leap from playoff qualifier to Super Bowl champion. After releasing running back Mark Ingram and quarterback Robert Griffin III last week, DeCosta announced Monday that the Ravens won’t re-sign All-Pro long snapper Morgan Cox. The 34-year-old Cox was the initial component of a highly successful placekicking unit that includes holder Sam Koch and second-team All-Pro Justin Tucker, the most accurate field-goal kicker in NFL history.
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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
NFL reviewed a non-reviewable ruling on Josh Allen incompletion
Just before halftime of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, Bills quarterback Josh Allen took the snap, rolled to his right, and threw the ball away an instant before stepping out of bounds at the 9-yard line. The officials mistakenly ruled him out of bounds. And then the NFL officiating department made a much bigger mistake. The [more]
