Niners, Saints Kick Off Round 2 With Toughest Matchup
Maybe this isn't the most attractive game of the weekend, but it's the best. The San Francisco 49ers are one of the season's feel-good stories.
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Maybe this isn't the most attractive game of the weekend, but it's the best. The San Francisco 49ers are one of the season's feel-good stories.
Divisional Playoffs – Welcome to the Pro Football Pick'em Show, where Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts break down the top games of the week and give their predictions on which teams will come out on top.
This time last year, Victor Cruz was anything but a household name. Now? Consider the Tri-State on Cruz control.
Four years into his tenure as the Packers' starter, Aaron Rodgers has established himself as an elite quarterback, a Super Bowl MVP who can make all the throws, dodge pressure with his feet and generally light up scoreboards.
Being better at home isn't special. Home field advantage is tangible in the NFL – the home team won 56.6 percent of games this season. It just usually doesn't manifest itself quite so much as it did for these two teams, and specifically these two quarterbacks.
Alex Smith has started to shed his draft-bust label and turned around his career under coach Jim Harbaugh, leading the 49ers (13-3) to the playoffs for the first time in nine years.
The Oakland Raiders have long been impulsive with coaches: when in doubt, fire away. Owner Al Davis is gone, but some say new GM Reggie McKenzie's quick-trigger ousting of head coach Hue Jackson feels familiar.
New Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie on Tuesday continued the football team's tradition of firing its head coaches by dismissing Hue Jackson after Jackson had held the job for only one year.
Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis said it's imperative his team get a new stadium and he has had discussions with groups in Los Angeles about returning the franchise to Southern California.
From Nick Saban and Steve Spurrier to Dennis Erickson, winning college coaches have long failed to translate their success to the next level.
We will find out Saturday when the defensively superior San Francisco 49ers welcome the high-octane New Orleans Saints to Candlestick Park for an NFC divisional playoff battle.
From Tebow to Manning, the gridiron was where the action was...or was it? Wild Card Weekend not only provided great matchups, but these hot cheerleaders too...
Can you smell it, that 2007 aroma of ultimate success?
Tim Tebow is actually a living, breathing, funky-throwing Rorschach test. What you see in him probably tells us more about you than it does about him.
The Oakland Raiders have landed their new personnel man, who faces the daunting task of helping fill the void left by late owner Al Davis.
