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a day ago
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NFL sets dates, times for Falcons 2025 preseason schedule
On Thursday, the NFL announced the official dates and times for the 2025 preseason. The Atlanta Falcons' three-game preseason schedule begins at home against the Detroit Lions on August 8. This Friday night exhibition kicks off at 7 p.m. ET. The Falcons will host Calvin Ridley and the Tennessee Titans in Week 2 of the preseason. The game starts at 7 p.m. ET on August 15. This is the second time the team will face Ridley (assuming he plays) since trading him to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Advertisement After that, the team will head to Dallas for a Friday night matchup against the Cowboys. Atlanta's preseason finale begins at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, August 22 inside AT&T Stadium. Check out the team's three-game preseason schedule below. Falcons 2025 preseason schedule Detroit Lions: Friday, 8/8, 7 p.m. ET Tennessee Titans: Friday, 8/15, 7 p.m. ET At Dallas Cowboys: Friday, 8/22, 8 p.m. ET Check out the full 2025 NFL preseason schedule below, as shared by NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Falcons 2025 regular season schedule Week 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Week 2: At Minnesota Vikings (SNF) Week 3: At Carolina Panthers Week 4: Washington Commanders Week 5: BYE WEEK Week 6: Buffalo Bills (MNF) Week 7: At San Francisco 49ers (SNF) Week 8: Miami Dolphins Week 9: At New England Patriots Week 10: At Indianapolis Colts (Germany) Week 11: Carolina Panthers Week 12: At New Orleans Saints Week 13: At New York Jets Week 14: Seattle Seahawks Week 15: At Tampa Bay Buccaneers (TNF) Week 16: At Arizona Cardinals Week 17: Los Angeles Rams (MNF) Week 18: New Orleans Saints Around Falcons Wire This article originally appeared on Falcons Wire: Falcons 2025 preseason schedule: Dates, times for all three games
USA Today
5 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
NFL sets dates, times for Falcons 2025 preseason schedule
NFL sets dates, times for Falcons 2025 preseason schedule Falcons 2025 NFL preseason schedule: Dates, times set for all three games On Thursday, the NFL announced the official dates and times for the 2025 preseason. The Atlanta Falcons' three-game preseason schedule begins at home against the Detroit Lions on August 8. This Friday night exhibition kicks off at 7 p.m. ET. The Falcons will host Calvin Ridley and the Tennessee Titans in Week 2 of the preseason. The game starts at 7 p.m. ET on August 15. This is the second time the team will face Ridley (assuming he plays) since trading him to the Jacksonville Jaguars. After that, the team will head to Dallas for a Friday night matchup against the Cowboys. Atlanta's preseason finale begins at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, August 22 inside AT&T Stadium. Check out the team's three-game preseason schedule below. Falcons 2025 preseason schedule Detroit Lions: Friday, 8/8, 7 p.m. ET Friday, 8/8, 7 p.m. ET Tennessee Titans: Friday, 8/15, 7 p.m. ET Friday, 8/15, 7 p.m. ET At Dallas Cowboys: Friday, 8/22, 8 p.m. ET Check out the full 2025 NFL preseason schedule below, as shared by NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Falcons 2025 regular season schedule Week 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay Buccaneers Week 2: At Minnesota Vikings (SNF) At Minnesota Vikings (SNF) Week 3: At Carolina Panthers At Carolina Panthers Week 4: Washington Commanders Washington Commanders Week 5: BYE WEEK BYE WEEK Week 6: Buffalo Bills (MNF) Buffalo Bills (MNF) Week 7: At San Francisco 49ers (SNF) At San Francisco 49ers (SNF) Week 8: Miami Dolphins Miami Dolphins Week 9: At New England Patriots At New England Patriots Week 10: At Indianapolis Colts (Germany) At Indianapolis Colts (Germany) Week 11: Carolina Panthers Carolina Panthers Week 12: At New Orleans Saints At New Orleans Saints Week 13: At New York Jets At New York Jets Week 14: Seattle Seahawks Seattle Seahawks Week 15: At Tampa Bay Buccaneers (TNF) At Tampa Bay Buccaneers (TNF) Week 16: At Arizona Cardinals At Arizona Cardinals Week 17: Los Angeles Rams (MNF) Los Angeles Rams (MNF) Week 18: New Orleans Saints Around Falcons Wire
Reuters
16-04-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Cam Ward panders to Titans' fanbase while playing Fortnite
April 16 - Former Miami quarterback Cam Ward is the presumptive top overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft next week. Now, the Tennessee Titans hold that pick, and Ward appeared to be pandering to the team's fanbase with several tongue-in-cheek responses while participating in a Fortnite session Tuesday night. On one clip from the YouTube livestream, Ward was asked for his thoughts on some of the top players in the league by position. "My top four running backs in the league right now? I would say Tony Pollard (and Tyjae) Spears," Ward said of the Titans running backs. Apparently Philadelphia Eagles star Saquon Barkley, ye of 2,005 rushing yards last season, couldn't crack Ward's list. Ward also offered his thoughts on the NFL's top wide receivers. He named current Titans wideouts Calvin Ridley and Treylon Burks to go along with superstars Ja'Marr Chase (Cincinnati Bengals) and Justin Jefferson (Minnesota Vikings). Ward also appeared to curry favor with the fanbase by referencing current Eagles wideout A.J. Brown, who was a former Titan. "AJ Brown's a dawg, but he's not Calvin Ridley," Ward said. Ward, who is listed at 6-foot-2 and 223 pounds, threw an NCAA-record 158 touchdown passes. He had a total of 18,184 yards in five seasons at three different schools. He started his career at FCS program Incarnate Word (2020-21), transferred to Washington State (2022-23), then headed to Miami (2024). --Field Level Media Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab
USA Today
11-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
PFF projects Tennessee Titans' remaining, future needs
PFF projects Tennessee Titans' remaining, future needs The 2025 NFL draft is less than two weeks away and the Tennessee Titans are working through their pre-draft evaluations and processes. They've attended the NFL Combine and various Pro Days, they've hosted players for Top 30 visits and pre-draft visits, and they hosted a local Pro Day earlier this week. They will continue to evaluate players and finalize their ideal players to draft before April 24. As the draft draws nearer, Pro Football Focus took a look at the state of all 32 NFL teams. The Titans have several needs, both immediate and future. -Remaining Starter Needs: QB, WR, LB-Remaining Depth/Future Needs: EDGE, CBThe Titans's approach to their quarterback position was one of the driving dominos for lead-up to the 2025 NFL Draft. With Tennessee hardly budging and expressing minimal interest in veterans, it appears close to finalized that the team will select one (likely Cam Ward) with the first-overall pick. With that new quarterback in tow, the team will need another receiver next to Calvin Ridley after finishing 24th in team PFF receiving grade. At linebacker, only Cody Barton reached even 120 defensive snaps a season ago, as the Titans have lost all of Jack Gibbens, Jerome Baker and Luke Gifford. The Titans ranked 28th in team PFF pass-rushing grade in 2024, and that was before moving on from Harold Landry III — making drafting a high-upside edge defender a priority. A similar attitude should follow at cornerback with Chidobe Awuzie no longer in Nashville. The Titans have requisite starters at the position (L'Jarius Sneed, Darrell Baker Jr., Jarvis Brownlee Jr. and Roger McCreary), but none turned in a 63.0 PFF coverage grade last year. The remaining starting need at quarterback will be answered with their first pick, and they have seven additional picks to work out their remaining needs. Despite it looking and feeling like the Titans aren't doing much to improve, Mike Borgonzi and Chad Brinker might actually be onto something. But that only holds true if the players they draft in two weeks turn out to be what they need. Even with all of the pre-draft evaluations and meetings, sometimes in life things just happen. Ask J.J. McCarthy, who was set to be the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings last year until he tore his ACL during preseason. Even if the Titans draft well, players have to stay healthy and perform the way teams anticipate they will play. If that doesn't happen, the team is more likely to fail than succeed and we're back here again next year. Still, despite the negative feelings surrounding the Titans, on paper, it doesn't look as bad as it feels. And, after the draft, that vibe will change again. Whether it's for the better or worse will depend on how the team drafts.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Business
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Why Tennessee Titans' front office has studied 3 recent NFL turnarounds for inspiration
Let's play a quick game of compare and contrast. A year ago, the Tennessee Titans gave $168.4 million worth of contracts to wide receiver Calvin Ridley and cornerback L'Jarius Sneed. Ridley was solid, putting up 1,000 yards in the first year of his four-year deal. Sneed, who also signed on a four-year deal, ended up playing five games as a lingering injury sidelined him from October through January. The Washington Commanders, meanwhile, used $177.4 million to sign 26 players. Nineteen inked one-year deals. No one signed for longer than three seasons. Those 26 players combined to start 167 games for the Commanders. Per Pro Football Reference's "Approximate Value" metric, Washington's 26 free agent signings were worth a little bit more than the Titans' 16 best players, free agent or otherwise, combined. The Commanders improved by eight wins and won a playoff game for the first time since 2005. The Titans got three wins worse, finishing with the worst record in the NFL. Now... which strategy do you think the Titans are trying to recreate for 2025? MOCK DRAFT: 2025 NFL mock draft: Tennessee Titans pick becomes clearer following NFL combine "Of course they got the quarterback (Jayden Daniels) that really transformed the organization," Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker told The Tennessean. "...But they went after volume and quantity. And I don't know that they spent more than $10 million (per year) on one particular player. It's just interesting when you start studying the strategies of these teams that have kind of climbed out of a situation like ours." Brinker and Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi have spent this offseason talking about their "core values." The Titans' team-building philosophies in the Brinker-Borgonzi era will be rooted in patience, selectiveness and the much-ballyhooed "draft and develop" mantra. Brinker and Borgonzi believe the best teams are built with these principles, and they won't be shaken from that opinion easily. But there's a difference between having beliefs and ignoring what's right in front of your face. Brinker told The Tennessean that he's spent a chunk of this offseason not only studying the Commanders' turnaround, but also the turnarounds in Buffalo and Detroit. That means looking into the controversial-at-the-time measures taken by Buffalo GM Brandon Beane, who traded away big-name players like Sammy Watkins, Ronald Darby and Marcell Dareus to build up draft capital. And it means considering the blockbuster move Detroit GM Brad Holmes made in his first month on the job: trading away superstar QB Matthew Stafford for a huge haul. The Titans don't have a Stafford-type asset to dangle in front of contenders. And they don't have the nearly $100 million in salary cap space the Commanders did when they rebuilt their roster last spring. What they do have is an awareness that giving small contracts to veteran players at non-premium positions is an effective way to plug holes. And they didn't have to study the Commanders to know that. "A lot of people look at free agency and they try to fill their top needs," Brinker said. "And then the draft is to build their future. I do think there are certain positions that you can get good value out of. Sometimes it's not always the flashy and exciting position, but you're getting tremendous value out of it. I think if you look at last year, we got really good value out of Sebastian Joseph-Day. He was a starter for us on the defensive line and played really well. We got really good value out of that. Tony Pollard played really well for us last year and was one of our best players on offense. That wasn't a premium dollar amount." MORE FROM BRINKER: Chad Brinker talks trade offers Tennessee Titans are receiving for No. 1 NFL draft pick Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at nsuss@ Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Titans take huge lesson from Commanders rebuild, and it's not Jayden Daniels related
