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A Falcon once more, Matt Ryan now has to build a winner instead of passing his way to victories. It's a new challenge for a former player who was once at the top of his profession and finds himself back there, this time with a fresh set of questions. Can he build a winning Falcons team? Will he overcome his lack of experience through smart hires and savvy management? Who is he going to hire?

"He embodies what we're all about," McDermott said. "... For him to then come back into the game, and then for it to turn out to be what it was is remarkable. Remarkable toughness, remarkable commitment to the team."

Their team had just pulled off a nail-biting, walk-off 19-16 win over the Chicago Bears to end their 2025 season. But the two men addressed reporters not with tears of joy, but instead mourning a season that began with the highest of expectations and ended, at 9-8, with Detroit failing to reach the postseason for the first time since 2022.

FRISCO, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys cornerback DaRon Bland had surgery on his left foot on Tuesday and is expected to be ready at some point in the offseason program with the focus on making sure he is 100% for the start of training camp in July, a source told ESPN. Bland said last week he would have his second surgery in as many years on his foot. The surgery was performed by Dr. David Porter, a consultant for the Indianapolis Colts.

To help clear up public misconceptions, Woloschak explained that electromagnetic radiation has two general types, one with very high energy and the other with low energy. Human sources of the strong type, called 'ionizing' radiation, include nuclear reactors and weapons. This kind of radiation can indeed break DNA and cause cancer, such as people experienced following the atomic bombings in World War II.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) -- San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan announced Tuesday that the team is opening up linebacker Fred Warner's practice window in hopes he can make a comeback for the playoffs. Warner dislocated his ankle in Week 6 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and wasn't expected to come back this season. The team hopes Warner will be well enough to play in the NFC Championship if the 49ers were to make it to that game.

"The urgency of that matters to me because we've got free agents and I don't want to go into free agency with that hanging over our head," Bisciotti said. "And I made that clear to Lamar and I think he was very appreciative of my stance and hopefully willing to work with Eric [DeCosta, Ravens general manager] and not get this thing dragged out into April like the last time. It's very hard for him to build a roster when that thing is not settled."

With the football world's sudden fixation on Mike Tomlin's future or lack of same in Pittsburgh raising the question of why coaching longevity is suddenly a bad thing, we have completely forgotten the more obvious reason for caring about the Steelers-the end of Aaron Rodgers' career. Which is fair enough: Tomlin's annual flirtation with unemployment is familiar by now, but Rodgers' career has been ending, gratingly and in public, for just as long. What's one more indignity?

In Monday's game between the Texans and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Christian caught eight passes for 144 yards and a touchdown. The Texans won 30-6 to advance to the divisional round of the playoffs, where they'll face the New England Patriots in Foxborough, MA on Sunday. In praising his efforts, however, Smith mistakenly referred to him as the conservative commentator who was assassinated in Utah just a few months earlier.