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big updates over on Football Sheets today!
- NFL free agents and extension candidates LIVE
- all-star measurements LIVE
- updates to 10+ databases!

never been a better time to subscribe with combine and pro day results coming up the next 2 months 👀

Covered Tucker/O'Leary and WMU up close this season and Tucker is spot on: mitten-football.ghost.io/chris-oleary...

asked Western Michigan EDGE Nadame Tucker at the Senior Bowl about what the Chargers can expect from new defensive coordinator Chris O'Leary, who coordinated Tucker at WMU this season:

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

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Shrine Bowl Winners: Kaden Wetjen, Devon Marshall and Brent Austin Shine James Foster attended Shrine Bowl practices this week and meticulously combed through practice film to produce a list of his biggest winners from the all-star week.

After three days of practices, @noflagsfilm.bsky.social identified the five biggest winners from Shrine Bowl practices www.wideleft.football/p/shrine-bow...

he is the offensive coordinator at Northwestern

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20 candidates to replace Greg Roman as Chargers' OC in 2026 Here are 20 potential candidates for the Chargers' open job, which should be one of the best coordinator openings of the year.

Greg Roman is OUT. I have 20 names on my board for the Chargers to consider as their new offensive coordinator, with a heavy slant towards pass game coordinators who could unlock this offense:

EVEN BETTER

had to. will be interesting to see how Jim Harbaugh approaches this. the Harbaugh tree is pretty thin on the offensive side so it's pretty likely they'll have to go to the extended family, if not outside entirely. candidates coming soon on Chargers Wire

Wide Left Awards: MVP, All-Pro Teams, Coach of the Year and More Wide Left team came together to vote on the Most Valuable Player, Players of the Year, Rookies of the Year, Most Improved Player, Comeback Player of the Year, Coaches of the Year and our All-Pro Teams

Wide Left's crew — me, @katson.bsky.social, @devinjackson.bsky.social, @dantecollinelli.bsky.social, @friesfootball.bsky.social, @noflagsfilm.bsky.social and @lukebraunnfl.bsky.social — voted for end-of year awards

MVP, POYs, ROYs, HCOY and our All-Pro teams

www.wideleft.football/p/wide-left-...

Herbert didn't play well either but he had to be nails to get LA into the bracket. not worried about him unless the offensive staff/personnel/philosophy stay the same. Allen/Gadsden/McConkey/QJ/Harris should be a dream quick game corps. insanely frustrating and has been since the Dolphins game

the playoffs expose very small flaws. Chargers offense had huge ones. no quick game, no pressure plan, OTs decimated, drop the run game if it doesn't work in 1Q. been like that all year

the Chargers are (likely) going to give Greg Roman and Mike Devlin the injury excuse and bring them back for a third season.

it's going to end the same way.

there is not a path forward with this offensive staff. they are not capable of rising to the occasion

Milton Williams puts Bradley Bozeman on the ground and then drives Justin Herbert six feet under to end the Chargers season. fitting

what's important to remember about this game is that the Chargers are unwilling to provide you happiness

Keenan Allen drop, things are going well

we have once again entered the "the Chargers defense refuses to let their opponent into the end zone but the offense has approximately 60 bullet holes in its feet so the Chargers are losing 9-3" zone

I swear to god if the Chargers don't re-sign Teair Tart I'm protesting outside the Bolt

2 Patriots turnovers have turned into 0 Chargers points. will be one of the big stories of the night if LA can't get this one done

former Washington players that received NFL All-Pro votes:
Ravens RT Roger Rosengarten (2)
Buccaneers DT Vita Vea (1)
Chiefs CB Trent McDuffie (1)
Cardinals S Budda Baker (2)
Steelers ST Carson Bruener (12, 4 first-team votes)

Washington prepares for chaos as Demond Williams Jr. saga continues The Washington Huskies refuse to put Demond Williams Jr.'s name into the transfer portal despite his intention to depart the university.

collated last night and this morning's reporting on the Demond Williams Jr. situation, including some of my own tidbits from conversations with sources and compliance personnel. this is going to keep getting messier for everyone involved:

2025 has been really good to me despite it starting with me getting clocked by a Kyle McCord pass. engineered a great year at Wide Left, started covering basketball, moved the spreadsheets over to Football Sheets, hit 3k(!) of you. always grateful for the opportunity!

there is a lot about the Chargers game that is maddening (why is Ladd McConkey only getting 2 targets, how come the entire team plays like that in the first quarter so often) but that's the most maddening aspect to me. why did you do that!

I cannot fathom what compelled the Chargers to start Bobby Hart over Austin Deculus this week given that Hart had not played LT in three years and Deculus has mostly been slightly above catastrophic

hey man I know I'm a Philip Rivers homer but he's fuckin dealing

that was Philip's first free play touchdown EVER???????

5 takeaways from Chargers’ win over Cowboys in Week 16 The victory was the Chargers' fourth consecutive win, improving their record to 11-4.

takeaways from the Chargers' 7th win in 8 games. Justin Herbert and Omarion Hampton played great games thanks in no small part to a good(!) game from the OL. defense stepped up huge in the second half. starting to feel like LA could *maybe* make a run