NFL news, injury updates: The heat is on Doug Pederson in Jacksonville, 49ers' Nick Bosa dealing with new injury

NFL news, injury updates: The heat is on Doug Pederson in Jacksonville, 49ers’ Nick Bosa dealing with new injury

Posted by Admin November 18, 2024 Football

A Super Bowl-winning head coach could be on his way out the door, and the injury bug continuing to bite one the the NFL’s most talented rosters headline the news and notes coming out of Week 11 Sunday in the NFL. While the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers inched closer to solidifying their spots in the AFC playoff picture, the Jacksonville Jaguars moved closer to the top pick in the 2025 NFL Draft after a 52-6 beatdown at the hands of the Detroit Lions. Doug Pederson led the Jaguars to middling 9-8 records in each of the past two seasons, even making the playoffs and winning a game in 2022, but an awful start to the year could mean his job is in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Nick Bosa left the 49ers’ heartbreaking loss to the Seahawks, and it wasn’t a re-aggravation of a hip injury that had him on the injury report heading into Week 11.

Doug Pederson on the hot seat in Jacksonville

Things aren’t great when you lose a game by 46 points and you’ve got the worst record in the NFL. Doug Pederson’s tenure on Florida’s First Coast has turned sour after a first season that included an AFC South title and designs on shepherding Trevor Lawrence into becoming one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL. Well, at 2-9 and with the Jags having a Week 12 bye, now could be the time to make a change, according to Yahoo Sports’ senior NFL writer Frank Schwab.

“On Saturday, someone leaked to NFL Media that with the Jaguars’ bye week coming up, big changes could be made including firing Pederson. That’s an underhanded way of finding out that keeping your job might depend on winning at Detroit, but at least Pederson knew the stakes. And like just about everything else since that Super Bowl win with the Eagles, Pederson fell short.”

Pederson, who led the Eagles to a Super Bowl championship is just 42-50-1 as a head coach since with that lone 2022 playoff appearance. Stay tuned in Jacksonville.

Nick Bosa dealing with oblique injury

Just as Christian McCaffrey has returned to the lineup, the snake-bitten 2024 49ers are dealing with another injury to another major star. After Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks, head coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed the oblique injury was a new one, but didn’t offer more on what that would mean for the star pass rusher. Bosa has seven sacks this season, and has posted double-digit sack totals each of the past three years. The 5-5 49ers are tied with the Rams and Seahawks, a game back of the 6-4 Cardinals in the NFC West.

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Mon, November 18, 2024 at 3:31 PM GMT+1

Giants vs. Cowboys on Thanksgiving will be battle of the backups

No one wanted it, but 10 days from now it will happen.

The Cowboys and Giants will face off on Thanksgiving Day.

In an alternate universe, it’s a marquee game between two divisional rivals that everyone has been waiting for.

In this universe, it’s a matchup between two bad, struggling teams and their backup quarterbacks. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!

No Flex Zone: Thanksgiving Day is expected to be Cooper Rush vs. Tommy DeVito

— Jonathan Jones (@jjones9) November 18, 2024
Mon, November 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM GMT+1

Giants benching QB Daniel Jones

The NFL week has started with a bang as the Giants are reportedly moving starting quarterback Daniel Jones to the bench. They’re not replacing him with their $5 million backup QB Drew Lock, but with third-stringer Tommy DeVito. Head coach Brian Daboll reportedly feels more comfortable with DeVito since the two worked well together in 2023 when DeVito started in place of the injured Jones.

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Sources: The #Giants are benching QB Daniel Jones, officially moving on from their starter.

Out of the bye week, with the team 2-8, Jones now heads to the bench in what the team has said would be a football decision. pic.twitter.com/NaiVruk6sq

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 18, 2024