C mon Tom!
Day 1 of the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs is in the books, with the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills advancing to the Conference Championship Games, and the Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Ravens having their seasons come to a close.
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On Sunday, the NFL playoff schedule looks like this:
Browns at Chiefs, CBS, 3:05 p.m.
Buccaneers at Saints, FOX, 6:40 p.m.
Of note is that the Eagles have reported interest in three assistant coaches in those two matchups. They are:
In Brandon Staley's one season as the defensive coordinator in LA, the Rams' defense was the strength of the team. They were ranked No. 1 in the league both in points and yards allowed, they were 10th in takeaways, and they were 4th in DVOA.
Dennis Allen, Saints DC
Allen has been a coach in the NFL since 2002, and if you ll recall, the Eagles interviewed him for their vacant defensive coordinator job in 2011, but he accepted a job in Denver. The Eagles ended up promoting Juan Castillo instead. Allen was the Broncos DC for one year, before landing a head coaching job with the Raiders. In Oakland, Allen posted a 8-28 record, before he was fired early in the 2014 season.
Allen has since settled in as the Saints defensive coordinator, where his defenses have finished in the top quarter of the league in DVOA in each of the last four seasons.
It didn't take much time, following the reported (and later confirmed) firing of Eagles head coach Doug Pederson for sportswriters and fans alike to ask the obvious question: does this mean Carson Wentz is definitely staying now?