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After five seasons with Mike McCarthy at the helm, the Dallas Cowboys are on the hunt for a new head coach. The next head coach will be tasked with succeeding where so many of his predecessors have failed. The Cowboys last won a Super Bowl after the 1995 season under Barry Switzer, who coached the

Ben Johnson was the Detroit Lions’ offensive coordinator the past three seasons. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Ben Johnson has been on the list of just about every NFL team that had a head-coaching vacancy recently. Finally, Johnson is making his move. The Chicago Bears are finalizing a deal to hire Johnson as their next

The conference championship games are set in the NFL. In the AFC, the Chiefs are back on the doorstep of the Super Bowl for the seventh-straight season and taking on the Bills in what’s become one of the preeminent rivalries in the NFL this decade. In the NFC, the Eagles are looking to get back

Jamison Hensley, ESPN Staff WriterJan 20, 2025, 12:26 AM ET Close Jamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018,

The Buffalo Bills have had some playoff heartbreaks. They were due for a break. The Baltimore Ravens scored a touchdown with 1:33 to go and had a 2-point conversion set up perfectly for the tie. But tight end Mark Andrews had a stunning drop on a pass that hit him in the hands, it fell

The Los Angeles Rams were one of the surprises of wild-card weekend, comfortably beating the 14-win Minnesota Vikings in Arizona, after the game had to be moved due to the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles. The victory earned the Rams a cross-country trip to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, fresh off their wild-card win over

John Keim Close John Keim ESPN Staff Writer John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has authored/co-authored four books. You can also listen to

The Detroit Lions were breathing a sigh of relief after winning in Week 18 to get the first-round bye, and after the Los Angeles Rams’ emphatic win over the Vikings, head coach Dan Campbell and crew are not just happy for the extra rest. Avoiding an early bump in the road is usually beneficial, and

Inevitable is a word that’s been thrown around about the Kansas City Chiefs throughout this season, as they try to march toward an historic third straight Super Bowl title. They opened 13-0, and their only two losses in the regular season were at Buffalo and at the Broncos in Week 18 with the 1-seed locked

Open Extended Reactions The divisional playoff round for the 2024 NFL season has four great matchups, and we have you covered with what you need to know. On Saturday, Patrick Mahomes‘ Chiefs take on C.J. Stroud and the Texans to get things started. Then the Commanders’ Jayden Daniels tries to stay hot against the Lions.

With a series of heavy-duty matchups in the NFL Divisional Round of the playoffs, a few teams will be shorthanded on the injury front. The Baltimore Ravens are set to take on the Buffalo Bills in a high-stakes divisional matchup — and they might be doing it without their star receiver. Pro Bowl wide receiver

With a series of heavy-duty matchups in the NFL Divisional Round of the playoffs, a few teams will be shorthanded on the injury front. The Baltimore Ravens are set to take on the Buffalo Bills in a high-stakes divisional matchup — and they will likely be doing it without their star receiver. Pro Bowl wide

Bill Barnwell, ESPN Staff WriterJan 16, 2025, 06:20 AM ET Close Bill Barnwell is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. He analyzes football on and off the field like no one else on the planet, writing about in-season X’s and O’s, offseason transactions and so much more. He is the host of the Bill Barnwell

Plenty of people will tell you the best weekend of football all year, from a quality and stakes perspective game-to-game, is the NFL’s divisional round. Now, it’s here. On Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET, the Kansas City Chiefs will formally open their postseason quest to win an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl title against the

ASHBURN, Va. — As the Washington Commanders celebrated their first playoff win in nearly 20 years late Sunday night in Tampa, Florida, Magic Johnson embraced the owner, the star receiver and the moment. Johnson, wearing a black Commanders hoodie and a thousand-watt smile, listed the multiple reasons the franchise had gotten to this point. With

For the second time since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, a conference welcomes back the same four teams from to the divisional round of the playoffs as the year before. The matchups are different than a year ago. The Houston Texans took on the Baltimore Ravens last season, and will face the Kansas City Chiefs this

Elizabeth Merrill Close Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Senior Writer Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. Stephen Holder Close Stephen Holder ESPN Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in

This embedded content is not available in your region. In this episode of Football 301, hosts Nate Tice and Matt Harmon dive into the aftermath of Wild Card Weekend, offering every team that took an L in the Wild Card round both a full postmortem and a potential offseason plan. They begin by revisiting the