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The week opened as each of these NFL teams fired their head coaches...except for:
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Atlanta
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Chicago
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Washington
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New York Jets
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During his team's bye week, this playoff quarterback retooled his contract to give the team quite a chunk of change to spend during the offseason:
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Peyton Manning
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Aaron Rodgers
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Russell Wilson
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Tom Brady
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As the playoffs got themselves going, this offensive defensive player was able to escape a suspension after he went a-stompin' on a quarterback's leg the week before:
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Ndamukong Suh
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Aqib Talib
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James Harrison
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Terrell Suggs
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"Any time you can limit a team to less than 100 yards it is a good feeling," Carolina's Luke Kuechly. So he and his Panthers teammates must have felt pretty darned good, as the Arizona Cardinals managed only this many yards on Saturday:
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97
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78
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53
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88
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This one-time college football great knows the pain of offensive inefficiency, as they managed an anemic 59 yards in their 31-7 bowl game loss:
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Texas
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Florida
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Auburn
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USC
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Much, much more exciting was the Armed Forces Bowl, which saw this team complete a wild comeback - including successfully recovering two straight on-sides kicks - to beat Pitt:
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Notre Dame
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Oklahoma State
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Penn State
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Houston
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Meanwhile, these two bowls served as the sites for the semifinals in the College Football Playoffs:
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Orange and Rose
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Sugar and Rose
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Orange and Fiesta
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Sugar and Cotton
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Use your words, children, not your fists: This team booted an assistant who threw an punch at an opposing player during a game:
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Texas A&M
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Miami
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Florida State
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Maryland
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In News for the Association, this basketball star, who you may have heard of, will be riding the pine for the next two weeks as he tries to heal a bad back:
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Blake Griffin
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John Wall
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Stephen Curry
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LeBron James
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And finally, this team successfully defended its outdoor home ice, netting a power play goal in the final seconds to win the NHL's New Years Day Winter Classic:
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Washington
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Colorado
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Vancouver
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Detroit
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