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Greetings and welcome to your Thursday edition of the breakfast links, where we work to keep you abreast of what folks around the league are writing about our division's teams. I hope you enjoy. Washington Redskins DeAngelo Hall says the plan a...

Death, taxes and Mike Shanahan taking a running back in the late rounds of the NFL draft. These are things you can take to the bank, and with the first of their two fifth-round picks Saturday (No. 154 overall), Shanahan and the Washington Redskins se...

Former NFL defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth has finished the community service he was required to do as a result of a plea deal in a case in which he was accused of touching a waitress' breast at a Washington, D.C., hotel.

The New England Patriots enter April's NFL draft tied for the fewest picks in the league with five. Three trades for veteran players Aqib Talib, Chad Johnson and Albert Haynesworth have all cost the Patriots selections in this year's draft. With t...

It's no secret that New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick loves stockpiling draft picks. But 2013 is one of those rare years where the reigning AFC East champions will be short on currency. The Patriots made several recent trades involving dra...

Here are the most interesting stories Friday in the AFC East: After trading for cornerback Aqib Talib, the New England Patriots are without a draft choice in the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds in 2013. Morning take: New England traded those pi...

Rick Shortt from Virginia Beach writes: Again I say, let's quit jumping on the Texan bandwagon. It will not be long before they crash out at the bottom again. How long did it take them to get this far? GO COLTS. Paul Kuharsky: I'm not on a bandwag...

In this week's Trenches, Ephraim and I start by wrapping up the discussion about the replacement referees before getting to actual ... well, OK, it took us a bit to get to actual football. Along with talk about his disastrous game against John Abraha...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers went to great extremes this offseason to build up their depth at defensive tackle so they don't face a situation like last season, when they became so desperate they had to bring in Albert Haynesworth. It doesn't look like...

TAMPA, Fla. &#151 Since the arrival of coach Greg Schiano, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been guarded with the media. But there's one burning topic that's so obvious &#151 and critical to the team's future &#151 that it can't be kept secr...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- A new month and a new locale for the NFC East blog, which drove Tuesday night through Gettysburg and Harrisburg and goodness-knows-how-many other burgs to arrive here. I will be checking out the training camp of the dynastically-min...

LX from Chuco, Texas, writes: You are soooooo defensive about the Texans' org and especially about the lunch-money-victim coaches (Kubes and Phillips). You wrote that "General manager Rick Smith and coach Gary Kubiak crafted and fielded a team that m...

Adam Schefter dives into his mailbag to answer questions on the Cowboys' outlook in 2012, the Browns' future at quarterback and other hot topics around the NFL.

Blog | Conversation | June 11, 2012

Anyone who watched former Pro Bowl receiver Chad Ochocinco over the past year with the New England Patriots saw this coming. Ochocinco was released by the Patriots, the team announced Thursday afternoon. While people may try to point the finger or...

The appeal of NFL-imposed cap reductions to the Washington Redskins ($36 million) and Dallas Cowboys ($10 million) has ended. Arbitrator Stephen Burbank dismissed their claims today -- for reasons described below -- and the teams have raised the whi...

Jason Garrett constructs Cowboys in own image with high-motor overachievers.