When Raheem Morris took the podium for his end-of-season news conference Monday, he stressed he will take the next month to evaluate his first season as a head coach and the Tampa Bay Bucs.

The Browns ended their season 5-11, but on a four-game winning streak. Is that hot finish enough for first-year coach Eric Mangini to keep his job under team president Mike Holmgren? He seems to believe so.

Twenty teams aren’t going to the playoffs and now can concentrate on personnel changes, including who they might take in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft.

The Bengals were blown out in their regular-season finale by the Jets and, in the process, also might have lost WR Chad Ochocinco.

Redskins executive vice president/general manager Bruce Allen announced early Monday that Jim Zorn has been dismissed and will not return as the franchise’s coach in 2010.

A brief look around the league at a few of the notable injuries in Week 17.

The NFL playoff picture is set, as the New York Jets became the 12th and final playoff team to qualify Sunday night with a 37-0 win over the Bengals to clinch the AFC’s second wild-card spot.

The NFL announced the schedule for Wild Card weekend, which kicks off Saturday with the Bengals hosting either the Jets or Texans, followed by an Eagles-Cowboys rematch in Dallas.

Week 17 featured quite a few individual milestones and several single-season records, including some big numbers for NFL QBs.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones gave several votes of confidence to coach Wade Phillips after Dallas clinched the NFC East title Sunday, but has yet to pick up the option for the fourth year on Phillips’ contract, suggesting the coach has to prove something in the playoffs to retain his job.

Patriots WR Julian Edelman could be a fantasy sleeper in the NFL Playoff Challenge.

Championship coaches and players do not flinch at the thought of failure or injury. They don’t play the “what if” game, either. That’s what separates them from others. To play or not play his starters was never a dilemma for Patriots coach Bill Belichick.

The latest reports on the severity Wes Welker’s knee injury don’t appear positive for the New England Patriots.

As some expected, the Cincinnati Bengals will rest some of their starters in Sunday night’s season finale against the New York Jets.

While some may have found it odd that Patriots star QB Tom Brady played almost all of Sunday’s game against the Texans — save for the drives at the end of each half — the strategy was in fact arranged well before the game.