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The Shanahans and 21 other fathers and sons who became coaches/managers

Mike and Kyle Shanahan are one of a number of father-son tandems to have coached or managed.

Mike and Kyle Shanahan are a father-son combo that has done well in coaching, for sure. There are many sons that have followed their dad’s careers.

Eddie, Scott and Sean Sutton

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The Suttons have held many jobs in college basketball. Eddie was the head coach of Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, and University of San Francisco. He has taken two schools (Arkansas and Oklahoma State) to the Final Four, and was the first coach to lead four schools to the NCAA tournament. Sean Sutton was a head coach of Oklahoma State University and Scott Sutton coached Oral Roberts University,

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Teddy Bridgewater fires back at Rex Ryan, moves on from 2019 with epic highlight reel

New Orleans Saints backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater put the 2019 season behind him with an epic highlight reel chronicling his top plays

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We’re on to 2020. That’s the message New Orleans Saints quarterback Teddy Bridgewater shared on Wednesday, along with an impressive cut-up of his best plays during the five-game stretch he started last season. The Saints were in a tight spot and had to lean hard on the backup, and he responded well by going undefeated in his time as the starting quarterback.

Not everyone was in on his chances to succeed. Bridgewater took a shot at former New York Jets and Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan in the same video, including a brief clip of Ryan appearing in an ESPN segment and emphatically writing him off.

When asked whether Bridgewater or Taysom Hill should step up during Drew Brees’ absence with a hand injury, Ryan said, “It better not be Bridgewater but I think it will be, and if it is, they’re not gonna win. I don’t like Teddy Bridgewater and I don’t think he can play.” The clown emoji edited onto Ryan’s face after that ill-advised hot take is just icing on the cake.

You can see Bridgewater’s new highlight tape where it’s embedded below, or at this link. Hopefully this isn’t his way of saying goodbye. His contract expires in March, but if the Saints are smart, they’ll find a way to renew it.

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The biggest upsets in NFL divisional round history

Touchdown Wire revisits the biggest upsets in NFL divisional round playoff history.

If you go strictly by record and homefield advantage, San Francisco, Baltimore, Kansas City and Green Bay should be the winners of this weekend’s playoff games. But there is no such thing as a given in the postseason. Especially in the divisional round.

History has shown that upsets – including some very big ones – often take place in the divisional round. That’s why it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if Minnesota, Tennessee, Houston or Seattle pulls off an upset this week.

Divisional round upsets have taken place before and they’ll take place again. Let’s take a look at the nine biggest upsets in divisional round history:

1985: Patriots 27, Raiders 20

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This was a historic season for the Patriots. They became the first team in history to make it to the Super Bowl by winning three straight road games. The victory in Los Angeles was especially big because the Raiders had gone 12-4 and appeared to be one of the league’s dominant teams. The Patriots also won at Miami the following week, but got crushed in the Super Bowl by the Chicago Bears.

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On This Date: Giants, Victor Cruz crush Jets’ spirit on Christmas Eve

In one of the most magical Christmas moments in New York Giants, Victor Cruz crushed the New York Jets’ soul on this date in history.

Eight years ago to the day, wide receiver Victor Cruz gifted the New York Giants with a franchise-altering 99-yard touchdown against their cross-town rivals, the New York Jets.

On Christmas Eve in 2011, the Giants were 7-7 and their playoff lives were on the line. On the opposing sideline, the Rex Ryan-led Jets were coming off their second consecutive AFC championship game appearance and, sitting at 8-6, were battling to get back into the NFL Playoffs.

For one team and their fans, it was going to be a very merry Christmas. For the other team and their fans, it would be coal in their stockings and booze in their eggnog.

Late in the second quarter, the Jets were leading 7-3 and had the Giants pinned at the one-yard line. With another stop, it felt like the Jets would have a chance to bury the Giants once and for all.

Instead, wide receiver Victor Cruz would deliver a Christmas miracle like Santa Claus himself.

On a third-and-10, quarterback Eli Manning connected with Cruz around the 11-yard line. With a quick juke, Cruz escaped a tackle and then took off. The MetLife Stadium crowd erupted, Cruz broke out the salsa and the Giants would ultimately be propelled to a 29-14 victory.

It was a Christmas miracle that helped fuel the Giants en route to a Super Bowl XLVI victory over the New England Patriots. And to this day, it still eats away at Ryan.

“There’s no question it sticks with you,” Ryan told Newsday in 2015. “It was Christmas Eve, we were in complete control, third-and-10, and they hit the 99-yard touchdown pass.

“If you could point to a play that turned not just the game around, but maybe the season around, it was that play. The Giants came out a totally different team, and they carried it through. It changed their fortune, and it certainly changed ours with that play and that loss.”

The Giants delivered a small Christmas gift to their fans this season, defeating the Washington Redskins, 41-35 in overtime, but the game had far less consequence and it pales in comparison to that year, that play and that moment.

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Former Jets WR Brandon Marshall calls out Darrelle Revis, Sheldon Richardson for roles in 2015 collapse

Former Jets WR Brandon Marshall accuses Darrelle Revis, Sheldon Richardson of stealing money during infamous 2015 collapse in Buffalo.

The Jets 2019 season finale ends in Buffalo, the same place where Brandon Marshall’s playoff hopes died four years ago.

Marshall, one of the better wide receivers of his generation, played with seven teams from 2006-18 and never appeared in the playoffs. Prior to the 2015 season, Marshall was traded to the Jets as a new regime sought its No. 1 wide receiver. He finished the season with 109 receptions on 174 targets for 1,502 yards and14 touchdowns.

Marshall’s best chance at postseason play came in his first season with Gang Green. The Jets stood at 10-5 after beating the New England Patriots in a walk-off overtime thriller the week before. All that was needed was a win over the Bills in Week 17 and New York would be in the playoffs.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.

The Jets lost to Buffalo and missed the postseason. Marshall felt like he was robbed of a career first and he’s still angered about the events that transpired in the Jets’ Week 17 collapse in Buffalo. Never one to hold back, Marshall took shots at former teammates over the most important game of his career.

“Being brutally honest … you had guys like Darrelle Revis, who just was stealing from us and didn’t show up, didn’t get off the bus, and I was disappointed,” Marshall said on the latest episode of the New York Post’s “Gang’s All Here” podcast.

“But that’s Darrelle Revis, that’s Sheldon Richardson … the big guys that we were counting on, they didn’t show up … being brutally honest. That whole year on that defensive side, man … if those guys were who we thought they were, we probably would have went on to just crush the playoffs.”

The Jets had a simple task. Win and they clinched a Wild Card berth. Unfortunately for Marshall, the team crumbled under pressure. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three backbreaking interceptions as Rex Ryan got the last laugh in the Bills 22-17 Week 17 upset. Marshall caught eight passes for 126 yards and a score in the game, but it wasn’t enough.

Revis reunited with the team who drafted him when he signed a lucrative contract upwards of $16 million per year in March of 2015. He proved to be a shell of his former self and no longer posed as shutdown threat that he did when he first donned the green and white.

In that Week 17 game, Revis was tasked with covering Sammy Watkins, who wound up catching 11 passes for 136 yards in winning fashion. In the trenches, Richardson six total tackles and two TFLs.

Marshall and Richardson have a long-standing feud that boiled over in the Jets locker room following a 24-3 loss to the Chiefs during the 2016 season, in which Fitzpatrick threw six interceptions.

Since then, Marshall has decided to take the high-road in what he described as a “one-sided feud.” However, he could no longer bite his tongue regarding postseason play. Marshall’s 13-year career never went beyond the first week of January.

In his eyes, he has some former teammates to blame for that.

Rex Ryan: Daniel Jones is much better than Sam Darnold

Rex Ryan believes that New York Giants rookie QB Daniel Jones is much better than New York Jets QB Sam Darnold.

As the New York Giants continue to disappoint their fans, the same old debate rages: did general manager Dave Gettleman make a mistake by selecting Saquon Barkley in the 2018 NFL Draft as opposed to Sam Darnold, only to be stuck with Daniel Jones in 2019?

Some certainly believe that to be the case (even some select authors at Giants Wire), but former Jets head coach Rex Ryan is not among them.

During a segment on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Monday, Ryan was asked which of the two quarterbacks was better and he didn’t even hesitate.

“He is better. Daniel Jones is better,” Ryan said. “I think (Darnold) is a heck of a player, he’s got to get better. And Daniel Jones, the same way.”

This isn’t the first time Ryan has made the argument that Jones has more of an upside than Darnold, saying just a few short weeks ago that DJ is more fundamentally sound that his Gang Green counterpart.

“The reason I’m saying it is because his fundamentals are much better,” Ryan said, via SNY. “I love Sam Darnold, don’t get me wrong. I still think he’s going to be a tremendous player. But I think this guy right here, this guy’s got competitive greatness in him and I think he’s going to be a superstar.”

Darnold has been either hot or cold during his young career thus far, which is something that could be said for Jones as well.

The bottom line is that both New York teams have landed on some very talented young quarterbacks, but the eye test concludes (at least in this writer’s opinion) that Jones has a leg up on Darnold.

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