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Las Vegas Raiders still looking for more quarterbacks

“You don’t want to put a Band-Aid on the [quarterback] position. That’s old, man, that’s old … we’ve seen that enough in this organization.” — Las Vegas Raiders coach Antonio Pierce HENDERSON, Nev. — So, if Pierce is to be taken at his word — and why shouldn’t he be? — the Raiders are not […]

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Raiders release Jimmy Garoppolo, Hunter Renfrow, two others

HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders released quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and former Pro Bowl slot receiver Hunter Renfrow on Wednesday, the first day of the NFL’s new league year. The moves save the Raiders more than $19 million in salary cap space under the new front office of general manager Tom Telesco and coach […]

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Fantasy football 2024 free agency: Where key players might land

The 2023 NFL season is behind us, and 2024 offseason activities are already underway. Free agency, which will include players who were waived or released, is one of the first big sessions on the calendar. For the purposes of this column, I’ll be taking a look at the top free agents at the key fantasy […]

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Sources: Raiders’ Jimmy Garoppolo gets 2-game ban for violation

More Teams. More Games. Jeff Darlington and Mina Kimes discuss Jimmy Garoppolo‘s suspension and the Raiders’ future at QB. (1:25) Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is being suspended two games for violating the NFL’s performance enhancing substances policy, league sources told ESPN. The policy violation is said to be related to Garoppolo using a […]

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Raiders considering several avenues for quarterback upgrade

More Teams. More Games. Raiders coach Antonio Pierce joins “The Pat McAfee Show” and shares his revamped mindset for players. (1:39) HENDERSON, Nev. — Antonio Pierce wants a quarterback. Yes, we all heard the Las Vegas Raiders coach call then-rookie Aidan O’Connell his “BFF” after he promoted him and benched veteran Jimmy Garoppolo. And the […]

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Manziel needs alter ego to succeed

You can call it swag. Or charisma. Or you can just refer to it as Manziel’s “it” factor. Anyone who ever watched him play at Texas A&M knows what it is. That’s where he won the Heisman Trophy as a redshirt freshman and became college football’s most exciting — and, perhaps, notorious — player. That’s […]

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Why NFL QB draft choices fall short

Things have gone wrong. Tune in to First Take to see Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith debate the hottest topics in sports every Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN2. Embrace Debate In each case I wound up publicly pilloried as a madman, a football fool, a quarterback hack who is daft […]

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Three things the Raiders need to address this offseason

More Teams. More Games. Ice Cube tells Pat McAfee why Antonio Pierce needs to be the next Raiders head coach. (1:15) HENDERSON, Nev. — On its surface, the Las Vegas Raiders’ 5-4 finish under interim coach Antonio Pierce doesn’t seem all that impressive. But it’s how the Raiders got there, and what it looked like […]

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Patriots timeline: From six Super Bowls to Bill Belichick’s exit

More Teams. More Games. Adam Schefter explains why the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick decided to mutually part ways rather than looking to trade the coach to another team. (1:12) FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When the New England Patriots shocked the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 20, 2019 — prevailing […]

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Shades of Brady: Pats’ Stidham 7th QB selected

Stidham, the 133rd overall selection, was the seventh quarterback picked overall, following Kyler Murray (first overall, Cardinals), Daniel Jones (sixth, Giants), Dwayne Haskins (15th, Redskins), Drew Lock (42nd, Broncos), Will Grier (100th, Panthers) and Ryan Finley (104th, Bengals). That’s similar to Brady, the 199th overall pick of the 2000 draft who saw six quarterbacks — […]

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