Super Bowl, NFL coaching live updates: Chiefs, Eagles headed to New Orleans; Cowboys hire Matt Eberflus as DC

Pete Carroll is now in charge of the Las Vegas Raiders, but he'll be keeping the last regime's defensive coordinator. Josina Anderson reports the team is working on a deal to bring back DC Patrick Graham, whose unit ranked 15th in the NFL in total defense last year and 25th in points allowed.

Steve Wilks is back in the game.

The longtime defensive assistant and former Arizona Cardinals head coach struck a deal to become the next defensive coordinator with the New York Jets on Wednesday afternoon. Wilks, who took last year off from coaching, will now join Aaron Glenn’s staff.

Bill Belichick is over the Lombardi Trophy.

Instead, the longtime New England Patriots head coach wants it renamed to honor the quarterback with whom he won six trophies.

Belichick, now the head coach at North Carolina, proposed the idea of renaming the iconic Super Bowl trophy after Tom Brady on the “Let’s Go!” podcast this week. Brady won seven Super Bowl rings throughout his career, six of which were with Belichick in New England.

“Maybe they should name it the Brady trophy,” Belichick said. “He won seven of them.”

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If a deal is made, an announcement cannot come until after Super Bowl LIX.

Find out here why non-white jerseys don't fare very well according to Super Bowl history.

Kliff Kingsbury has reportedly decided to not pursue an NFL head coaching job for next season. The Commanders offensive coordinator did not accept any interview requests during this hiring cycle and had Washington reached the Super Bowl he would not have been able to interview until after the season ended.

Following the Commanders' loss to the Eagles in the NFC championship game, Kingsbury became eligible for interviews.

The Saints, who had requested to speak to Kingsbury earlier this month, are the only NFL team without a head coach.

"I didn't get into this to be a head coach again," Kingsbury told ESPN last month. "It's not about money. It never has been about money. So, that won't move me at all. It's just I want to do the best job we can here for those guys and then kind of go from there."

Chuck Pagano is returning to the Ravens.

The former Ravens assistant and Colts head coach is joining John Harbaugh's staff as Baltimore's senior secondary coach. Pagano was previously on Baltimore's staff as secondary coach and defensive coordinator under Harbaugh from 2008-11.

He was then the head coach of the Colts for six seasons from 2012-17. After that, Pagano served as defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears in 2019 and 2020. He's been out of the NFL since.

The Ravens announced the news Tuesday night.

The former Dallas Cowboys coach is sitting this season out. Mike McCarthy has decided to focus on next season's hiring cycle, according to the NFL Network, and will not pursue the New Orleans Saints job after all. McCarthy was due to interview with the team later this week.

McCarthy split with the Cowboys late in the coaching cycle this month, and the Saints are the last team in the league still needing a coach.

The last time the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl they wore white. Hoping for a similar outcome in Super Bowl LIX, the defending back-to-back champions will sport the same jerseys while their opponents go with green.

As the designated "home" team, the Eagles had first choice at jersey color and went with green. That opened the door for the Chiefs to go back to wearing white, like they did in Super Bowl LVII in Arizona two years ago.While the Chiefs have won the last two Super Bowls wearing both of their colors — red and white — history favors teams that don white.

Out of the previous 58 Super Bowls, 37 teams wearing white have gone on to win the game — a success rate of 64% compared to 36% for non-white jerseys (21 winning teams). Most recently, 16 of the last 20 champions wore white, with one of those four losers being the San Francisco 49ers last year against the red-wearing Chiefs.

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The Saints have the lone head coach opening remaining in the NFL and have scheduled a second interview with Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore for the position. Team officials flew to Philadelphia to meet Moore on Monday night, according to NewOrleans.Football's Nick Underhill.

New Orleans still plans to interview Mike McCarthy a second time this week, Underhill reports. But it appears the team has zeroed in on its top two candidates for the job.

Pete Carroll was introduced as the Raiders' new head coach on Monday, along with new general manager John Spytek. Both of them emphasized competition and character as they try to implement a new culture.

Carroll also had former player Marshawn Lynch in the audience yelling "RAIDERS!" to show he was fired up for the coach's new opportunity and a new era in Las Vegas.

During an "incredibly valuable" year off, Carroll said he learned from his son — offensive coordinator at the University of Washington — along with former assistants Dan Quinn and Dave Canales, the head coaches of the Commanders and Panthers, respectively.

Carroll also reminded reporters that when he last spent a year away from football, he returned to USC and went on to win nearly 100 games and a national championship.

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Offensive coordinator Todd Monken is finalizing a contract extension with the Ravens, reports ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. Terms of the deal have not been announced.

Baltimore led the NFL in total offense this season, averaging 424.9 yards per game. The Ravens also had the league's top rushing attack, getting nearly 3,200 yards on the ground and averaging 187.6 yards. Additionally, they averaged the third-most points in the NFL with 30.5.

Quarterback Lamar Jackson threw for a career-high 4,172 yards and 41 TDs, while rushing for 915 yards and four scores. Running back Derrick Henry rushed for 1,921 yards, the second-highest total of his nine NFL seasons, with 16 TDs.

Monken attracted interest for head coaching openings around the league, interviewing with the Bears and getting requests from the Saints and Jaguars.

As the AFC championship game reached its conclusion, that started the two-week window to talk about Super Bowl LIX.

The Super Bowl is the most watched and also the most dissected game of the sports calendar. A week before the teams get to New Orleans, let's take a look at the storylines we'll be hearing a lot about before kickoff on Feb. 9:

The greatness of Saquon Barkley

Barkley has been unbelievable all season. He escaped the misery that is the Giants franchise and in his first season with the Eagles, Barkley turned in one of the greatest seasons a running back has ever had. Barkley went over 2,000 yards in the regular season but sat in Week 18 with a shot to break the single-season rushing record. That looks smart now that the Eagles are in the Super Bowl.

The NFL's new villains

When teams win too much, fans start to hate them. It happened to the New England Patriots a decade ago. It's happening to the Chiefs now.

The Chiefs' only crime is they keep winning, but that has been enough to turn NFL fans against them. Their dynasty started off as a fun, feel-good story, between the likable Andy Reid finally winning a Super Bowl and a dynamic new quarterback star in Patrick Mahomes. That's long gone, replaced by feelings of jealousy and bitterness among fans of any one of the other 31 teams.

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