Tom Petty was right. (Tom Petty's always right.) The waiting is the hardest part.

I've been a part of these head-coaching waits when I was on the outside looking in (Little Anthony was right, too) as a Jets beatwriter from 1994-2006. But as a beatwriter, to be more accurate, the waiting wasn't the only hard part.

The other equally difficult element of an NFL head-coaching search is going to slee… More

One of the great things about the NFL is that it brings the holidays to its fans not just one day a year but several. There's the national holiday known as the Super Bowl, the morning of every team's opening day and the draft.

And there is Friday morning, when fans will see if Pigskin Santa left an unrestricted free agent under each team's tree.

Of course, the free agency signing period extends … More