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Jets interview Bills OC Brian Daboll for head coaching job

( AP ) - The New York Jets' viewed Kansas City offensive son. Buffalo had the NFL's
quickly growing list of coordinator Eric Bieniemy, second-ranked overall of-
head coaching candidates former Cincinnati coach fense, behind only Kansas
got a little longer Sunday. Marvin Lewis, San Francisco City.
defensive coordinator Robert
Buffalo offensive coordina- Saleh and Carolina offensive The Bills beat Indianapolis
tor Brian Daboll interviewed coordinator Joe Brady. 27-24 on Saturday, with Al-
with the team a day after he len throwing two touchdown
helped Josh Allen lead the The Jets are also expected passes and running for an-
Bills to their first playoff vic- to interview Indianapolis other score to lead Buffalo to
tory since December 1995. defensive coordinator Matt its first postseason win in a
Eberflus — whose Colts lost quarter century.
The 45-year-old Daboll has 27-24 to Daboll's Bills — and
become a popular name former cornerback and cur- Daboll, who interviewed for
among clubs looking for a rent New Orleans defensive the Browns' vacancy last year,
new coach. He met with the backs coach Aaron Glenn. began his coaching career in turning to the Patriots as the
Jets remotely and was ex- 1997 as a volunteer assistant He joined former Patriots tight ends coach.
pected to interview with the Daboll has earned respect at William & Mary before assistant Eric Mangini's staff
Los Angeles Chargers later around the league for his joining Nick Saban's staff at with the Jets in 2007, working Daboll rejoined Saban, this
Sunday. work, in particular, with Al- Michigan State for two years as the quarterbacks coach for time at Alabama, in 2017
len the past three seasons. as a graduate assistant. His two seasons. Daboll then had as the offensive coordina-
Daboll is the fifth known The Bills quarterback has first NFL gig came in 2000 as stints as an offensive coordi- tor and quarterbacks coach
candidate to speak with the developed from a big-armed a defensive assistant for New nator with Cleveland (2009- while helping the Crimson
Jets, who fired Adam Gase but raw rookie first-round England and Bill Belichick, 10), again under Mangini, Tide win the national cham-
after two seasons last Sun- pick in 2018 to garnering who promoted him to wide as well as Miami (2011) and pionship with then-freshman
day. New York has also inter- MVP consideration this sea- receivers coach in 2002. Kansas City (2012) before re- quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

Lamar winless no more, leads Ravens to 20-13 win over Titans

down and beat the Tennessee lost by the franchise in either who missed two key plays
Titans 20-13 Sunday in their the regular season or playoffs following an 8-yard carry
AFC wild-card game. when trailing by 10 or more. early in the fourth quarter af-
Baltimore also held Tennes- They will play either top- ter losing a shoe.
see to its fewest points all seeded Kansas City or Buf- Baltimore also slowed a Ten-
season. falo in a divisional game set nessee offense that tied for
The Titans (11-6) had the up by how Baltimore stopped fourth averaging 30.7 points
ball and a chance to tie when Henry for the first time in a game and had more offen-
Marcus Peters intercepted three games. sive yards per game during
Ryan Tannehill’s pass in- The All-Pro ran all over the the season than any team but
tended for Kalif Raymond Ravens with 328 yards rush- Kansas City. The Ravens fin-
with 1:50 left. After the turn- ing combined in the past two ished with a 401-209 yards
over, the Ravens came onto meetings. With both Calais edge in total offense.
the field and started waving Campbell and Brandon Wil-
good-bye to the Titans — liams back on the Baltimore This may be the best win I’ve
drawing a taunting penalty D-line, Henry had his worst ever been associated with ...,”
they didn’t mind at all. performance this season with said Baltimore coach John
18 carries for 40 yards. Harbaugh, who won a Super
“We finished finally,” Jackson “Our defense was tired of Bowl eight years ago and now
said. “We finally finished.” hearing the noise,” Jackson has eight road playoff vic-
Tannehill thought Raymond said. “And they did what they tories, surpassing the career
was bumped by Peters. were supposed to do.” mark of Hall of Famer Tom
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) rick Henry, and the Ra- “It definitely looked like Landry and Tom Coughlin.
— Lamar Jackson finally vens look playoff tough. it could’ve been a flag and Henry credited the Ravens “It was a very strong effort.
has his first postseason probably should’ve been, but with being the better team. Our tackling was strong, all
victory — and on the road, Jackson ran for 136 yards and it wasn’t thrown so here we “This definitely is going to the outside backers. That
no less. Combine that a 48-yard touchdown while are,” Tannehill said. sting probably in my mind kind of physicality. We were
with Baltimore smother- throwing for 179 more as the The Ravens (12-5) snapped for the rest of this year until able to hit him with multiple
ing 2,000-yard rusher Der- Ravens rallied from 10 points a string of 21 straight games we suit back up,” said Henry, helmets and take him back.”

Owusu, Miller lead No. 12 Maryland women to rout of Purdue

(AP) — Ashley Owusu had 19 11 points apiece and Faith Masonius the lead at 35.
points and nine assists, Diamond grabbed 10 rebounds for Maryland
Miller added 16 points and eight (9-1, 5-0 Big Ten Conference). Maryland was without prized fresh-
assists and No. 12 Maryland man Angel Reese, who has a broken
coasted to an 83-46 win over Pur- Kayana Traylor topped Purdue (5-4, bone in her right ankle, but Alaysia
due on Sunday. 2-3) with 12 points. Styles, a transfer from California,
played 20 minutes and scored six
The Terrapins shot 52% through Maryland opened the first period points with four rebounds. Styles, a
three quarters while holding the with six consecutive points and 6-foot-3 senior, played one minute in
Boilermakers to 34% for the game, closed it with eight straight for a 16-6 her Maryland debut in the last game.
forcing 17 turnovers and building a lead. The lead stretched to 43-22 at The Terrapins are scheduled to play
51-35 rebounding advantage. the half. A 17-0 run that included at Minnesota on Thursday. Purdue
three 3-pointers from Benzan down is home against No. 19 Indiana on
Katie Benzan and Chloe Bibby scored the stretch of the third quarter had Thursday.