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Getty Images Tom Brady and Peyton Manning recently reunited, more than three years after Manning won the last installment of their rivalry. Since then, we’ve been waiting for another rivalry of that type to emerge. It hasn’t. And perhaps it never will. The planets lined up perfectly for Brady...

The former police officer who was captured on video choking and slamming former NFL player Desmond Marrow has rejected a plea deal which would have resulted in probation. According to Christian Boone of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, former Henry County police officer David Rose decided at...

Getty Images The XFL has been holding combine-style workouts in the eight cities that will host teams when the league launches next year and they were in Tampa over the weekend for the seventh round. Former NFL players turned out for the first six tryouts and there were more recognizable names...

Getty Images Emory University Goizueta School of Business professor Mike Lewis sought to use statistical analysis to determine the NFL’s “best” fans. The study used the hard-core, religiously devoted fan as well as the casual fan, so those at the top of the list have more of the latter and...

Getty Images Former Texans assistant coach Jim Bernhardt has died, the team announced Friday. Bernhardt served as special assistant to the head coach and director of player development on Bill O’Brien’s staff at Penn State. He followed O’Brien to Houston in 2014 as director of football...

When the Texans were getting started on offseason work this year, head coach Bill O’Brien said that he thought it would be big for quarterback Deshaun Watson to have a “full offseason” with the team. Watson joined the program in progress as a rookie in 2017 and was coming off a torn ACL last...

Getty Images Jack Easterby has generated plenty of goodwill during his short stint as an NFL executive. In New England, he recently has generated plenty of ill will. Greg Bedard of BostonSportsJournal.com reports, via MassLive.com, that the Patriots are “livid” with the guy who arrived in New...

Getty Images The Texans have their top four defensive linemen back from last season, but they lost a little depth when Christian Covington signed with the Cowboys as a free agent. Defensive line coach Anthony Weaver knows who is looking to as a replacement for Covington. 2017 fourth-round pick...

Getty Images If/when the Falcons give receiver Julio Jones a new contract, Jones can be expected to earn it right away. Caesers Entertainment has set the odds for the NFL’s receiving yardage leader, and Jones is the favorite at 4/1. Next come Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins and Browns receiver...

Getty Images Over the past couple of days, we’ve heard from plenty of people (including Ben Volin himself) regarding Volin’s report that Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio wants out of New England. Volin, in response to fan and media reaction to the claim that Caserio is ready...

Getty Images Philadelphia’s decision to open only one training-camp practice to fans is looking more and more ill-advised as other teams announce their own training-camp schedules. The Packers have announced their camp dates, which will include 13 open practices. Two of those sessions will...

Getty Images Aaron Colvin had something of a forgettable first season in Houston. An ankle injury limited him to only 10 games in the regular season, and he ended up being a healthy scratch for the postseason game. The nickel corner played 317 defensive snaps and 26 on defense after signing a...

Getty Images The Patriots enforced a clause in Nick Caserio’s contract to keep him from interviewing (and presumably getting) the Texans General Manager job. They may have a bigger problem on their hands. According to Ben Volin of the Boston Globe, the top non-Bill Belichick personnel man...

Getty Images Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio has apparently crossed the Rubicon in Foxboro. So when will he make his formal exit from an organization with which he has spent a generation? His contract runs through the 2020 draft. After that, he’s free to leave. It makes...

Getty Images Cornerback Bradley Roby passed on a longer-term offer from the Steelers in order to sign a one-year deal with the Texans this offseason and said he views it as “a prove-it deal” that will hopefully lead to better offers on the open market next year. If that’s going to happen, Roby...

Getty Images Of the many bizarre twists and turns the Texans have taken over the past eight days, perhaps the most bizarre is this: The team won’t have a General Manager in 2019. So, basically, Brian Gaine was fired (and will be paid), and no one will take his place. The end result raises...

Getty Images The Texans’ General Manager’s office will remain vacant. After trying and failing to lure Nick Caserio from New England, the Texans have decided not to hire anyone at all, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Instead, head coach Bill O’Brien will team up with Executive Vice President of...

Getty Images The Texans and Patriots are friends again. Or at least friendly. After Texans CEO Cal McNair released a statement saying his team was done pursuing Nick Caserio, Patriots owner Robert Kraft responded in kind. “The Houston Texans and the New England Patriots have always had a...

Getty Images In explaining that they would withdraw from the pursuit of Patriots director of play personnel Nick Caserio, the Texans made vague reference to certain contractual terms that tipped the scales. The terms, as it turns out, slammed the door. John McClain of the Houston Chronicle...

Getty Images By all accounts, the Texans wanted Nick Caserio and Nick Caserio wanted the Texans. Now that the Texans have agreed to abandon their pursuit of Caserio, the question becomes whether he wants to stay with the Patriots. Contractually, he has no choice. But if he decided that he...