By Neil Reynolds Jacksonville head coach Doug Marrone has put the Jaguars on notice that they must start winning more games in 2017. For the past couple of years, the Jags have been adding significant talent to their roster, but positive results have not been forthcoming. Last season, Jacksonville went a miserable 3-13 and saw head coach Gus Bradley get …
By Neil Reynolds As he prepares for his first season with the New Orleans Saints, future Hall of Fame rusher Adrian Peterson admits he has a point to prove. The 11th-year running back, who rushed for just 72 yards in 2016 in his final campaign as a Viking, told The Reynolds Report: “I always carry a chip on my shoulder. It …
By Neil Reynolds Quarterback Joe Flacco is eyeing a quicker-than-expected return from his preseason back injury, giving the Baltimore Ravens hope that he will be available on the opening weekend of the 2017 campaign, if not even sooner. Flacco suffered a disc injury in his back and the original media speculation suggested he could miss up to six weeks, putting …
By Neil Reynolds Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman would like to be in a position where a difficult decision needs to be made at quarterback by the end of the 2017 season. Spielman would like to have options with regards to current starter Sam Bradford and former number one Teddy Bridgewater, who is battling back from a career-threatening knee …
By Neil Reynolds I’m off to the United States this week and will be attempting to visit the eight London-bound teams in eight straight days, weather and travel schedules permitting! My visit on behalf of Sky Sports and NFL UK will see me rack up an approximate 16,780 air miles on 11 flights. Just hook me up with a coffee-filled …
By Neil Reynolds NFL players tend to adopt a ‘one game at a time’ mantra when it comes to their business, but Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs admits one contest in particular is setting his pulse racing as the 2017 season approaches. And that showdown will see the Vikings take on their former teammate and locker-room leader in running back …
By Neil Reynolds Offensive lineman Joel Bitonio is anticipating a fierce camp quarterback battle in Cleveland as the Browns aim to finally find a long-term answer under centre. The franchise has been through an NFL-high 26 starting quarterbacks since they returned to the league in 1999 and played six signal-callers in a testing 1-15 campaign in 2016. The fight for the starting job will …
Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowl safety Tyrann Mathieu is stressing that his team will fight even harder in 2017 after head coach Bruce Arians suffered an offseason cancer scare. Two-time NFL Coach of the Year Arians, 64, coached the final month of the 2016 campaign while battling a small spot of cancer found on his kidney known as renal cell carcinoma. …
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry is full of confidence as his team prepares for the new NFL season – and that means getting set to take down the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. Landry told The Reynolds Report: “We are at a point where we understand that we cannot get to where we want to go without getting through …
Former NFL offensive lineman Ross Tucker has told me that a London franchise “is inevitable”. The host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, who played for Washington , Dallas , Buffalo , New England and Cleveland during his NFL career, is leaning towards the UK having a team of its own in the coming years. Tucker told the Reynolds Report: “I …
London will have its own NFL team within the next five or six years. That is the view of esteemed American NFL journalist Peter King, who told me in the Gridiron Annual Bookazine that a London franchise was “inevitable” because so many influential owners such as Dallas’ Jerry Jones and New England’s Robert Kraft are behind the plan. The long-time Sports Illustrated …
The Kansas City Chiefs head to London this week ailing at 2-5, even after their victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. And yet there’s hope in the form of Justin Houston, a beastly defender so good that he’s evoking memories of the great Derrick Thomas. In Issue XVII of Gridiron, we give you a rare insight into a man …
We’re calling it the Gridiron International Issue. We’ve travelled far and wide to bring you these 64 pages, from Odessa, Texas all the way to New York. The international theme, though, begins on these shores as we offer up some cracking features on the two teams heading across the pond for the opening International Series game. The first of those takes us to …
Who will be the defining figures of the 2015? That’s the question we attempt to answer in the Gridiron Bumper Season Preview. Our panel of experts – including the Sky Sports’ delightful duo of Neil Reynolds and Jeff Reinebold – have chosen their figures of fascination, and they’ve been put together over 31 stunningly-designed pages. Our list, though, is one with …
