With Washington’s win tonight, every NFC team other than the Dallas Cowboys now will have played in a conference championship game going back to the 1996 season.
The Cowboys last NFC title game appearance was 1995.
A huge welcome back: Hall-of-Fame WR Randy Moss is returning to ESPN’s NFL Countdown, Sunday, 10 am et, live from New Orleans.
Breaking: Bryce Underwood, ESPN’s No. 1 overall recruit in the Class of 2025, is flipping his commitment to the Michigan Wolverines, he told school officials today.
It’s a big day for @umichfootball, HC Sherrone Moore and @champcircleuofm as they land the highest-rated recruit in school history.
Change in Chicago: Shane Waldron is out as the Bears offensive coordinator, per sources.
Cowboys are hiring offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach, Jerrry Jones tells ESPN.
“Brian Schottenheimer is known as a career assistant,” Jones said. “He ain’t Brian no more. He is now known as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.”
More change in New York: Jets now have fired GM Joe Douglas, sources tell ESPN.
Last month, head coach Robert Saleh. Now, Douglas.
It’s a complete reboot for the Jets.
With a loss today at Miami, the Jets now have been eliminated from the playoffs for the 14th consecutive season, extending the longest active drought across the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and the WNBA.
Divisional Round:
Saturday:
🏈4:30 ET: Texans at Chiefs
🏈8:00 ET: Commanders at Lions
Sunday:
🏈3:00 ET: Vikings/Rams at Eagles
🏈6:30 ET: Ravens at Bills
ESPN Source: The Dallas Cowboys denied permission to the Chicago Bears to interview their head coach Mike McCarthy.
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A reverse: Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen is in Jacksonville, meeting with the Jaguars one day after agreeing to stay in Tampa on a deal that would have made him the NFL’s highest-paid coordinator.
Sources: The New York Giants are expected to replace Daniel Jones with Tommy DeVito as their new starting quarterback.
More years in Minnesota: Vikings and head coach Kevin O’Connell have reached agreement on a multi-year contract extension, per sources. He was scheduled to be entering the last year of his contract, but no longer.
Bears were 4-2, moments away from 5-2, and then, the Hail Mary.
Since then, the Bears have lost 10 straight, including last night’s lowest-scoring NFL game of the season.
At 4-12, they close out their season next week at Green Bay.
Jameis Winston is a national treasure.
Jacksonville’s 46-point loss today at Detroit was the worst loss in franchise history, surpassing the 44-point loss the Jaguars suffered to the Lions in December 1995.
Matt Eberflus held a press conference to discuss the state of the Bears earlier this morning….then got fired before noon.
The Eagles win over the Chiefs is the first Super Bowl rematch where the coach who won the initial meeting did not win the rematch.
Kyle Shanahan said Christian McCaffrey suffered a potentially season-ending PCL injury.
Black Friday: For the first time in the 100-plus year history of the franchise, the Chicago Bears have made an in-season head-coaching change, firing Matt Eberflus.
Eagles now lead the NFC East by 1.5 games over Washington and have started 8-2 or better in three straight seasons for the first time in franchise history.
Saints now have announced their agreement with their new head coach Kellen Moore.
Bears are working to finalize a deal to make former Lions WR coach Antwaan Randle El their new assistant head coach/wr coach, per source. Randle El is following Ben Johnson to Chicago.