■ Chiefs: Herm Edwards, the head coach for Kansas City during the worst two-year span in team history, was fired yesterday.
Edwards goes out with a three-year regular-season record of 15-33 and with one year remaining on a four-year, $12 million contract. As coach of the New York Jets in 2001-05, he had a regular-season mark of 39-41 and was 2-3 in the playoffs.
Edwards had been waiting to learn his fate since Carl Peterson, the team president and general manager, abruptly resigned on Dec. 15. When Scott Pioli was introduced as Peterson's successor on Jan. 13, he was noncommittal and said only that he intended to speak with Edwards.
■ Lions: Detroit has turned to an ex-St. Louis Rams coach to try to turn around its offense.
Coach Jim Schwartz yesterday hired Scott Linehan as his offensive coordinator. The Rams fired Linehan as head coach after the team opened the 2008-09 season 0-4.
Linehan became the Rams' coach in 2006. Before that, he spent four years as an offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings.
Linehan held assistant coaching jobs at the college level for 13 years, with stints at Louisville, Washington, Idaho and UNLV.
Schwartz took the Lions' top coaching job after Rod Marinelli's firing for leading Detroit to the NFL's first 0-16 season.
It was Schwartz's second major staff hire. On Wednesday, he brought in veteran assistant Gunther Cunningham as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach.
■ Cardinals: Running back J.J. Arrington sat out practice for the second day in a row yesterday but said "I'll be fine" when Arizona plays the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1.
Arrington injured his right knee late in the first half of Arizona's 32-25 victory over Philadelphia in the NFC championship game. He was the only player to miss yesterday's workout.
Defensive ends Travis LaBoy (biceps) and Antonio Smith (knee) were limited. Punter Ben Graham also was limited with a left groin injury.
■ Giants: Coach Tom Coughlin picked Jack Bicknell Jr., one of his former Boston College players, as his assistant offensive-line coach.
The appointment was announced yesterday.
Bicknell was head coach at Louisiana Tech for eight years before coming to Boston College, where he served as assistant head coach and offensive-line coach for the past two seasons. Coughlin also succeeded Bicknell's father as coach of the Big East school in 1991.
The younger Bicknell was an offensive lineman with Boston College when Coughlin served as the school's quarterback coach. He succeeds Dave DeGuglielmo, who left the Giants last week to become offensive-line coach of the Miami Dolphins.
Jim Herrmann was hired Thursday as the team's linebackers coach.
Also, receiver Taye Biddle is recovering from gunshot wounds to his hand and leg after being shot while visiting family in his hometown.
Decatur, Ala., police said in a statement on Thursday that Biddle was shot outside a residence and was treated and released from a hospital. Police said there was no evidence Biddle caused or provoked the shooting.
Biddle, 25, grew up in Decatur and played college football at the University of Mississippi.
■ Broncos: Coach Josh McDaniels hired Clancy Barone, the San Diego Chargers' tight-ends coach, yesterday to do the same job in Denver.
Barone, 45, spent two years with the Chargers. Previously, he was assistant offensive-line coach and then tight-ends coach with the Atlanta Falcons.
In his two years under Barone in San Diego, tight end Antonio Gates caught 135 passes for 1,688 yards and 17 touchdowns.
In Atlanta, Barone coached Alge Crumpler, a Pro Bowl tight end.
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