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Getty Images The price tag for moving the Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles keeps growing. Via the Associated Press, a tentative settlement has been reached in a class action filed on behalf of Missouri residents who purchased Rams tickets and merchandise from April 21, 2010 through January...

Jim Hardy, a member of the 1952 Detroit Lions NFL Championship team, died Friday of natural causes at the age of 96. According to the Associated Press, Hardy, the MVP of the 1945 Rose Bowl for USC, passed away at home in La Quinta, Calif. He was the oldest living football player for both USC...

Getty Images One of the dangers of having a talented and top-heavy roster is that it forces young players into contributing roles to balance the books. So when those young players get hurt, things can get weird. According to Lindsey Thiry of ESPN.com, Rams linebacker Micah Kiser will have...

Getty Images Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had jokes. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett was slightly more serious in his assessment of the ability of rookie running back Tony Pollard to handle the job in the absence of Ezekiel Elliott. “I thought he did a good job running the football,” Garrett told...

Getty Images If you’re concerned about the manner in which replay review for pass interference calls and non-calls will affect the NFL’s 100th season, there’s a chance you’re not nearly concerned enough. Last night’s Cowboys-Rams game included in the final four minutes of clock time a pass...

Getty Images Jason Witten caught one pass for 10 yards in Saturday’s preseason game against the Rams in Hawaii. One was enough. “It felt really good,” Witten said in halftime quotes from the team. “I was very anxious to get out there and play. It is just the next step in the comeback.” Witten...

Getty Images Sean McVay isn’t a big believer in playing his starters in the preseason. Rams quarterback Jared Goff played no snaps in the 2018 preseason. It appears that’s the plan for him again this preseason. Goff did not play in the preseason opener last week and won’t play this week...

Getty Images Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is feeling pretty good about his team’s offense in 2019. And for good reason. But other offenses should be pretty good this year, too. Simms and I looked at six of them via Thursday’s PFT Live draft. The results were a bit surprising. Which is a nice...

Getty Images Good news, NFL: Commissioner Roger Goodell won’t have to testify in September. Bad news, NFL: Goodell may still have to testify. Via the Associated Press, the Louisiana Supreme Court has stayed the lawsuit arising from the Rams-Saints NFC Championship game while it considers...

Getty Images The next couple of weeks will see teams making decisions about which players will wind up on their 53-man rosters for the first week of the regular season and we’ll likely see trades as teams with good depth at one position hook up for deals with those lacking the same strength in...

Getty Images Todd Gurley apparently won’t be getting lei’d. Coach Sean McVay told reporters on Tuesday that the Rams most likely won’t be taking their star tailback to Hawaii for a Saturday preseason game against the Cowboys. “That’s something that I would say, more likely than not, but we’re...

Getty Images As Jets cornerback Trumaine Johnson tries to justify the team’s decision to give him a big contract in 2018, he’ll be unable to do so for the foreseeable future. Via Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, coach Adam Gase told reporters on Monday that Johnson is “week to week” with a hamstring...

Jared Goff won’t play in the Rams’ preseason opener Saturday. Blake Bortles will. Bortles has two more years and 35 more starts than Goff, but Goff is the starting quarterback and Bortles now is his backup. If things go as planned for the Rams this season, the only action Bortles will see is in...

Getty Images It’s not quite gambling, but it wouldn’t be happening if legalized sports gambling weren’t sweeping the nation. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that the Rams will become the second NFL team to implement a gambling-style game. Free of charge (and thus not gambling)...

Getty Images With Commissioner Roger Goodell ordered to testify in the lawsuit arising from the Rams-Saints NFC Championship debacle, the NFL is throwing a Hail Mary. And the Saints are trying to tip the ball in the league’s direction. David Hammer of WWL-TV reports that the NFL has filed an...

An anonymous quote given to four different publications didn’t work. An on-the-record statement with more holes than his team’s roster didn’t work, either. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross finds himself on the receiving end of extensive criticism from Dolphins players, Dolphins fans, and customers...

Getty Images The NFL hopes to secure a dismissal of the Rams-Saints NFC Championship lawsuit because (duh) it wants to win and (more importantly) it wants to shield Commissioner Roger Goodell and multiple game officials from answering tough questions under oath. The NFL, as a fallback...

Getty Images Frivolous lawsuits make strange bedfellows. The Saints and the NFL have had a rocky relationship to say the least in recent years, starting with the bounty scandal and continuing with the badly-blown call at the end of regulation in the NFC Championship loss to the Rams. On the...

Getty Images Training camp goes up a notch for the Raiders on Wednesday, but the team’s biggest free-agency arrival won’t be there for it. As noted by Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, receiver Antonio Brown remains absent as the Raiders welcome the Rams for two days of joint...

The plaza and main entrance of the new Los Angeles football stadium has a naming rights sponsor. Via Scott Soshnick of Bloomberg, American Airlines will pay $90 million over 10 years to sponsor a 2.5-acre space that will serve as the main entrance to the $5 billion home of the Rams and...