The opponents for all 2013 regular-season games have been determined and a complete list of each team’s home and away matchups was issued Monday by the NFL.
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2013 opponents determined (Pro Football Weekly)
When NFL coaching jobs open, the names Jon Gruden, Bill Cowher and Tony Dungy immediately surface as potential candidates.
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Who might fill the NFL coaching openings (The Associated Press)
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears fired coach Lovie Smith on Monday after the team missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons.
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Bears fire coach Lovie Smith after 9 seasons (The Associated Press)
Most games come down to a handful of key plays. Playoff games are no different. And because the tension is ramped up even further, teams often play more conservatively and will settle for field goals.
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Ranking the playoff placekickers (Pro Football Weekly)
Sunday night’s game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins was the highest-rated NFL regular-season primetime game ever on NBC, and the highest-rated on any network in 15 years, according to overnight data released by the Nielsen Company on Monday.
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Cowboys-Redskins game sets new ratings mark for NBC (The SportsXchange)
The 2012 season in the AFC West ended the way it began — the Broncos and Chargers won, and the Chiefs and Raiders lost. Denver is the top seed in the AFC, but as a whole, the AFC West was arguably the worst division in football, with the Chiefs earning the No. 1 pick in April’s draft, and the Raiders having the third pick.
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AFC West Spin cycle: Broncos get top seed, Chiefs get top pick (Pro Football Weekly)
For the third time in a regular season, the Manning brothers will face off in 2013. The New York Giants will face Peyton Manning and the Denver Bron…
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Eli will face Peyton in ‘13
Projecting out the NFL playoffs, numberFire finds that the Denver Broncos are the most likely team to emerge as Super Bowl champions.
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ESPN Insider’s NFL Playoffs Predictor – Denver Broncos will be Super Bowl champions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have fired coach Romeo Crennel after a 2-14 season marked by blowout losses, fan rebellion and a murder-suicide involving one of his players.
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Chiefs fire Crennel, make no move on GM Pioli (The Associated Press)
This year’s surprise firing in the NFL is Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith. The Bears failed to make the playoffs in 2012, and in five of the last six seasons. That’s why Smith, who made the Super Bowl at the end of the 2006 season and the NFC Championship game at the end of the 2010 campaign, will be looking for work elsewhere. NFL com’s Ian Rapoport was the first to report the news. Smith, who has an 80-63 regular season mark with the team since 2004, and a 6-3 record in the postseason, has just three losing records in his tenure with the organization — 5-11 in his first season, and two 7-9 seasons. General manager Phil Emery, hired in January of 2012, was told by Bears ownership that he would have Smith as his head coach this season, but that things could change. “Lovie has said there’s pressure every year to win. That’s just a fact of life in the NFL,” team chairman George McCaskey said in July . “We told Phil when he came in that Lovie had to be the coach in 2012. He accepted that condition. We also told him that he would have the freedom to make a change if he thought it was necessary after 2012.” The move is questionable at best, in our opinion.
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Lovie Smith has been fired as Chicago Bears head coach (Shutdown Corner)