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Ray Ratto
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Defector
25 Feb
Russell Wilson issued the politest trade demand ever, in that it wasn’t a demand or even much of a request. What he did do, though, is even more jaw-loosening. He (well, his agent, Mark Rodgers) gave the Seattle Seahawks a list of teams he would...
Chicago Bears
... ly served in that capacity for them. Yet here we are, with Russ thinking the Bears are not only a choice, but a good one. This isn’t a call to come home, becau ...
Dallas Cowboys
... attle but, if a trade were considered, the only teams he would go to are the Cowboys, Saints, Raiders and Bears, his agent Mark Rodgers said to ESPN.— Adam Schef ...
New Orleans Saints
... , if a trade were considered, the only teams he would go to are the Cowboys, Saints, Raiders and Bears, his agent Mark Rodgers said to ESPN.— Adam Schefter (@Ad ...
Las Vegas Raiders
... rade were considered, the only teams he would go to are the Cowboys, Saints, Raiders and Bears, his agent Mark Rodgers said to ESPN.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefte ...
Seattle Seahawks
... forward-facing long snapper. Either that, or he is so disenchanted with the Seahawks that he is telling them, “I’d rather go THERE than stay here, and they don’t ...
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Kalyn Kahler
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Defector
25 Feb
It’s the last week of February, so in a normal year your Twitter feed would be littered with trivial updates on the hand sizes and 40 times and leadership styles of hundreds of NFL prospects in matching neon compression gear. But this is the year...
Buffalo Bills
Denver Broncos
... ns after teams realize they can function without it. Last year, the Rams and Broncos both sent limited staffs to Indianapolis. After all the other clubs are this ...
Los Angeles Rams
... hat happens after teams realize they can function without it. Last year, the Rams and Broncos both sent limited staffs to Indianapolis. After all the other cl ...
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David Roth
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Defector
22 Feb
“Love it, love it, love it,” Erika Nardini said. This was in 2014, and she had just been handed a drawing of “a bear wearing zebra-print pants and a shirt covered in ones and zeros” by an elfin 44-year-old Australian man known professionally as...
Houston Texans
... correct than with Easterby in Houston. In April of 2019, Easterby joined the Texans “because he knew the late Bob McNair from South Carolina, and believed the M ...
Kansas City Chiefs
... trated Easterby did this job at South Carolina, and then for the Kansas City Chiefs, and then with Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots until 2018. His s ...
New England Patriots
... er 17 months on the job; the team sought an interview with Nick Caserio, the Patriots executive they’d later hire as GM in January, a request that was denied by t ...
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Samer Kalaf
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Defector
19 Feb
It must be rough to be ol’ Jerry Jones. All he has to show for in life is billions of dollars, ownership of a pro football team, unofficial control of a pro football league, and one measly megayacht. It seemed like nothing would ever go his way...
Dallas Cowboys
... ana. Someone can always benefit in a crisis, and this time it was the Dallas Cowboys owner, who recently played hardball with his quarterback over one year of a ...
Houston Texans
... seemed like nothing would ever go his way until this week, when millions of Texans lost power, gas, and water because of a neglected energy grid unable to hand ...
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Ray Ratto
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Defector
18 Feb
Carson Wentz is now a Colt, and with it the end of a chapter we will call, When The Quarterbacks Ran Dry. Through the courtesy of ESPN’s estimable Field Yates (don’t be put off by the Lego-on-crank Twitter avatar; he pays attention), Wentz’s...
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Samer Kalaf
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Defector
15 Feb
NFL centers and twin brothers Maurkice and Mike Pouncey simultaneously announced their retirements on Friday. Good riddance. The announcement came courtesy of Maurkice’s former NFL teammate Ramon Foster, a goon in his own right: Maurkice and Mike...
Los Angeles Chargers
... eason to be glad he’s gone. As for Mike, who last played for the Los Angeles Chargers, he was most notable for his involvement in the Dolphins’ bullying scandal i ...
Miami Dolphins
... for the Los Angeles Chargers, he was most notable for his involvement in the Dolphins’ bullying scandal in 2013. The Wells Report named him, along with offensive ...
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
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Defector
14 Feb
Chris Doyle has resigned as the Jacksonville Jaguars’ director of sports performance after one day on the job, a tenure that will be remembered for not really anything except inviting scrutiny and revealing the NFL’s racial justice messaging to be...
Jacksonville Jaguars
... described him in public statements as a racist bully. Late Friday night, the Jaguars announced Doyle’s resignation in a statement from head coach Urban Meyer, wh ...
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Tom Ley
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Defector
12 Feb
The Houston Texans have finally decided to allow their alienated franchise cornerstone player, the man who gave them multiple great seasons while earning the universal love of the entire city, to find a new team. No, not that alienated franchise...
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
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Defector
11 Feb
The Jacksonville Jaguars announced the team’s full coaching staff today. Making the hires was new head coach Urban Meyer, whom the Jaguars recently coaxed out of a stress– and scandal-induced retirement with a big pile of cash, promises to upgrade...
Jacksonville Jaguars
... ected in the NFL Draft from 2005-2019 pic.twitter.com/CgHotjGgDK— #DUUUVAL (@Jaguars) February 11, 2021 You’ll notice some fine bullet points here: a 21-year ten ...
Minnesota Vikings
... em involving Doyle. “Coach Doyle is the problem in that building,” Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Jaleel Johnson replied, going on to recall that Doyle “woul ...
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Drew Magary
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Defector
11 Feb
What if what made us doesn’t know it made us? What if it doesn’t know who we are? What if it doesn’t know what IT is?
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Diana Moskovitz
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Defector
11 Feb
On Wednesday, Alleah Taylor, the ex-girlfriend of former Seattle Seahawks lineman Chad Wheeler, spoke to Jericka Duncan on CBS This Morning about the night she says Wheeler attacked her. This story has been reported through police reports and...
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Patrick Redford
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Defector
10 Feb
The Bucs are having themselves a little Super Bowl parade today that’s taken the form of, what else, a boat regatta through central Tampa. Super Bowl MVP and new boat owner Tom Brady was the star of the show, and he even made time to throw a...
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Samer Kalaf
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Defector
10 Feb
Jamey Rootes, the Houston Texans president who last year published a 146-page book on business success and promoted it in an email after the team fell to 2-7, resigned today in what seemed like an indication that he had lost a power struggle to a...
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Nate Crudster
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Defector
8 Feb
We here at Defector usually prefer to let our work speak for itself, but given the intensity of the backlash that the Crud Meter has received, I now find it appropriate, as the architect of the Crud Meter, to push back on some of that criticism and...
