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Is a large-scale over-reaction every time an NFL player or coach uses the word kill in discussing intentions in a violent game really the method we want America to take to address player safety? Here's a newsflash: Word choice isn't going to fix a...

Ahmad Bradshaw seems worth a $250,000 signing bonus. He's an injury risk for sure, having missed six games over the last two years. He's had multiple surgeries on his feet, including one to replace a screw in his right foot in January. But he's to...

Tennessee Titans senior defensive assistant Gregg Williams is working closely with Tennessee's defensive coordinator Jerry Gray. But come game day, Williams doesn't want the defense to be about either coach. He wants it to be about the players.

Playing one game a year for four years in London is a fine plan for the Jacksonville Jaguars, a plan that starts this year on Oct. 27 against the San Francisco 49ers. The Jags are a young team facing a fresh start under new ownership, a new genera...

A look at a player from each team who fans, and perhaps the franchise, might be expecting too much from. Emphasis on might. Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey Safety LaRon Landry missed 15 games between 2010 and 2011 with a tr...

Vick Ballard finished his rookie season with 12 consecutive starts at running back, 211 carries, 814 yards and a highlight reel diving, corkscrew touchdown to win an overtime game in Tennessee. In his second year, he's in line to continue as the l...

Maurice Jones-Drew thinks the media is blowing Justin Blackmon's four-game suspension out of proportion. In making such a claim I believe he's doing a disservice to Blackmon. A four-game suspension under the league's policy against substance ab...

Justin Blackmon spoke to the Jacksonville media Monday and addressed the violation of the league's substance-abuse policy that resulted in his four-game suspension. He said a lot of the right things, just as he's said after alcohol-related issues ...

Another player from the AFC South has switched teams in the division. The Titans have signed former Jaguars running back Jalen Parmele, who took eight carries 45 yards in a game against Tennessee last season. He takes the place of Jamie Harper,...

A review of the best member of the 2012 Houston Texans who's still unsigned: Shaun Cody, defensive tackle Over the past four years, Cody started 57 of a possible 64 regular-season games. In Wade Phillips' 3-4, he worked as the nose tackle in...

Adam Schefter just tweeted that Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Justin Blackmon is being suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season. He violated the league's substance abuse policy. The Jaguars are not particularly deep anywhere. Black...

The Colts traded outside linebacker Jerry Hughes to Buffalo for Kelvin Sheppard, who started 15 games last season as the middle linebacker in Buffalo's 4-3 defense. Indianapolis sees him as an inside guy in their system. So they now look four deep...

Antonio Johnson worked hard to be a 3-4 nose tackle for the Colts last year and started 13 games. But if the Colts are healthy they've now got four, much bigger options for the spot in their second year of the 3-4 front. Fifth-round pick Montor...

Reading the coverage ... Houston Texans DeAndre Hopkins gives the Texans someone who can take some off the plate of Andre Johnson, says Dale Robertson of the Houston Chronicle. The bigger the game, the better Hopkins played at Clemson, said ...

Erik Walden may be the Colts' starting strongside linebacker. But the free-agent addition is far better against the run than as a pass-rusher, and Indianapolis rated as thin in the pass-rushing department after Robert Mathis. Bjoern Werner, ...

With some time to digest the schedule, I thought I'd make an initial run through the whole season. If I had to tell my bosses in Bristol where I want to be every week of the season, this is the list I'd send now. Things are fluid, of course. Re...