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Former New York Giants safety could play key role for Bucs in Super Bowl 2021

"I guess Tom was that missing piece," Adams said. "Just needed that missing piece to go all the way."
Whitehead left the NFC Championship Game victory against the Green Bay Packers after forcing two fumbles. The Bucs' other starting safety, Antoine Winfield Jr., missed that game with an ankle injury. Both have been limited at practice this week.
With Mike Edwards starting in Winfield's place, Adams filled in admirably when Whitehead was injured in Green Bay. Even if Whitehead puts a harness on his injured shoulder and suits up for the Super Bowl as expected, it's possible he won't last four quarters.

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Ex-Jets coach Todd Bowles goes from green to greener pastures with Bucs

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Todd Bowles is a trend-buster, a former New York Jets coach thriving in his first post-Jets job. He's the defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, preparing for Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes & Co. in Super Bowl LV. His three Jets predecessors flopped in their rebound gigs, winding up in the same place.
Working as TV analysts.
After getting sacked by the Jets, Rex Ryan, Eric Mangini and Herm Edwards went a combined 40-71 with the Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and Kansas City Chiefs, respectively. Edwards, who technically was "traded" to the Chiefs, is the only one still coaching. He left ESPN to become the football coach at Arizona State, where he just finished his third season.

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Patriots, Kraft family flying 76 health care workers to Super Bowl 2021

The Patriots are providing workers from all six New England states "a well-deserved break" with an all-expenses paid trip to Sunday's game.

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Two walks, one HBP and a 99.00 ERA: Patrick Mahomes on his only college pitching appearance

He might be the NFL's best quarterback, but Patrick Mahomes as a Texas Tech relief pitcher didn't last long.

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Coordinator Leslie Frazier, Buffalo Bills defense delivering when it counts

Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier interviewed for the Houston Texans head-coaching vacancy on Sunday, and ESPN Bills reporter Marcel Louis-Jacques had a suggestion on how he might have approached it.
Indeed, the Bills' 17-3 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in the divisional round of the 2020 NFL playoffs was a Frazier-directed masterpiece, with credit, of course, going to the players who executed it in such a high-stakes situation.
The second-seeded Bills will need more of the same in Sunday's AFC Championship Game against the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium (6:40 p.m. ET, CBS).
Super Bowl LV: Chiefs vs. Buccaneers

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Dan Campbell may not be popular Lions choice -- time will tell if he's the right one

Lions believe Dan Campbell's leadership qualities could help them finally start a winning tradition in Detroit.

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NFL playoffs: Can Josh Allen, Bills solve Ravens' blitz and slow Lamar Jackson?

Matchup rating: 94.3 |
: BUF -2.5 (50)
What to watch for: The Ravens blitzed their opponents more frequently than any other NFL team this season at 41% of opponent dropbacks -- but Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen is ready for it. He faced more blitzes than any other quarterback during the regular season. And he did damage against them. Facing a blitz, he led the NFL in passing touchdowns with 17 (and had two more last week in the wild-card round), was second in QBR (93.4) and finished fourth in yards per dropback at 7.4.
-- Marcel Louis-Jacques
Bold prediction: The Ravens' Lamar Jackson will become the first quarterback to rush for 100 yards in consecutive playoff games. He produced just the sixth 100-yard rushing game by a quarterback in the playoffs in last weekend's wild-card round when he ran for 136 at Tennessee. The Bills haven't allowed a quarterback to gain more than 61 yards rushing over the past two seasons, containing Kyler Murray, Cam Newton and even Jackson -- who was held to 40 rushing yards in Buffalo 13 months ago.

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Kliff Kingsbury gave Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes, Browns' Baker Mayfield a chance

It may be an AFC divisional game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns to most, but Sunday's game (3:05 p.m. ET, CBS) is unofficially the Kliff Kingsbury Bowl.
Kingsbury, now head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, coached both starting quarterbacks -- Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes and Cleveland's Baker Mayfield -- in consecutive seasons as head coach at Texas Tech.
When the two former Red Raiders square off for a chance to play in the AFC Championship Game, Kingsbury will sit back and relish the moment.
"It's kind of like being a big brother, I guess," Kingsbury said. "I just sit back as a fan now and try to enjoy the success those guys are having. Just to be around those guys, have a small part in anything that they've been able to become as a quarterback, I take a lot of pride in that and those guys know that."

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Ghostbuster Baker Mayfield exorcising playoff demons, giving Browns confidence

BEREA, Ohio -- While on the road recruiting seven years ago, Bob Stoops kept hearing the same strange rumor -- that Baker Mayfield, then a freshman at Texas Tech, was transferring to Oklahoma.
"I'm like, well, he hadn't called me, I hadn't heard from him," Stoops recalled. "And then I asked my coaches, any of you guys heard from Baker Mayfield? I hear he's coming to OU. And no one had heard. I said, 'Well, we'll see when we get back from break if he's here.'"
Sure enough, Mayfield showed up to Norman from Lubbock, unannounced and uninvited. He then proceeded to do what he has always done -- first, he won over his teammates, then he led them to wins on the field.

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The good (cold) and bad (Aaron Donald) for Packers against Rams

He pointed to the Washington Football Team as the prime example.
Washington bowed out of the postseason, but the Packers have to face perhaps the best remaining defensive front in the NFC in the Los Angeles Rams.
"You need a powerful run game and an elite D-line to beat Aaron," the scout said at the time.
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Enter two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald.
Here's a look at the reasons the sixth-seeded Rams (who went 10-6 and beat the Seahawks in the wild-card round) are a good matchup and a bad matchup for the top-seeded Packers (13-3) in Saturday's NFC divisional playoff game (4:35 p.m. ET, FOX) at Lambeau Field.

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