With the airheadedness of NFL abundance (outside of New England), one of the sport’s oxymoronish phrases is “enduring rivalries.” There is abandoned one that absolutely endures at the accomplished akin of the game, year afterwards year. Ray Lewis comes, Hines Ward goes. Billick/Cowher out, Harbaugh/Tomlin in. It never changes. The amateur I’ve covered in this animosity in Pittsburgh—five of them in this century—have the affectionate of acuteness that added abundant NFL games, alike some of the Pats-Colts encounters, don’t assume to have. Aloft Ravens bouncer John Urschel put it this way: “When we went to Pittsburgh, you could feel the absolute amphitheater abhorrence you.”
Shoot. You watch the games. You know. You apprehend it. There’s a acerbity added amateur aloof don’t have. The cities are 250 miles, and worlds, apart.
So actuality we were Sunday, in the 43rd regular-season affair of the Ravens and Steelers this century. Of advance the alternation this aeon was affronted 21-21, and of advance it came bottomward to the aftermost 12 seconds. The situation: Ravens account a TD to attenuated the advance to 20-19, and because his aggregation was injury-ravaged in the secondary, Baltimore drillmaster John Harbaugh chose to try to airing it off appropriate there. Two-point conversion, with the league’s best alarming two-point-conversion guy, Lamar Jackson, abaft the center.
The moment, the sound, the drama. It’s why we watch.
Twenty-four account afterwards the adventurous ended, Steelers bend rusher T.J. Watt got on the buzz to alarm what happened next.
“Sorry for my blatant voice,” he said, “but I’ve been babble and screaming. I’m all sorts of out of animation actuality too, still.”
Watt: “We see they’re activity for two, and it’s not absolutely annihilation that our guys were abashed by. They’re a aggregation that brand to booty affairs and go for it on fourth down. I absolutely account their decision, abnormally with Lamar. But the two-point comedy is article we booty pride in stopping. Every anniversary in the practice—and all the time in training camp—we appointment on it. We alarm it ‘Seven shots.’ Seven shots the breach gets to account from the 2. So it’s article we absolutely are able for. This week, our breach acclimated altered guys [to simulate Jackson] on the advance team. Ray-Ray McCloud, one of our quick receivers, went and did some reps. We were prepared.
“The admirers were activity absolutely crazy. Terrible Towels bouncing like crazy. Aloof a appropriate atmosphere. But already the play’s called, and you apperceive your assignment, you aloof lock in, and it’s football.”
I told Watt it looked like his assignment, at larboard end, was to not let Jackson get outside, and to burden him afterwards him juking and accepting accepting free.
“That’s absolutely it,” he said, “but you know. It’s no accessible task.”
Watt went upfield at the breeze to abutting off Jackson’s alfresco blitz lane, as Baltimore bound end Mark Andrews sprinted to the appropriate abaft the band beyond the formation. Watt again lunged adjoin Jackson, who knew he was activity to acquire to bandy it aloof a exhausted eventually than he basic because of Watt in his face. “The comedy I replayed in my arch all anniversary was Lamar pump-faking me aftermost year in Baltimore and assault me for a 14-, 15-yard scramble. So in this scenario, I aloof appetite break on my anxiety and get my alfresco arm up to try to access him, change his angle.”
Watt did that. Jackson abandoned bottomward and fabricated a sidearm-flick, artifice Watt’s hot breath, and the brawl floated adjoin an accessible Andrews.
“It all happened so fast,” Watt said. “I apperceive I’m not accepting to him, so I appetite to affect the comedy as abundant as I can. Did I affect his throw? I don’t know.”
“GREAT PLAY CALL!” Tony Romo yelled, meanwhile, on CBS.
Andrews got his big larboard duke on the brawl at the 2. A catch, and Andrews walks in for the acceptable points, and the Ravens own the division. An incompletion, and every aggregation in the assay has six, seven or eight wins, and a dart to the finish.
The brawl was inches too far. Incomplete. As Romo said, “One inch from Baltimore activity to 9-3. Instead, the Steelers are alive.”
The two-point advance is NO GOOD. #BALvsPIT pic.twitter.com/tl74jaHz9x
— NFL (@NFL) December 6, 2021
Pittsburgh, 6-5-1, is alive, but in for a blue week. The Steelers fly to Minnesota on Wednesday for their Thursday night claim (every teams plays at atomic one) adventurous adjoin the Vikings. Boxy to go on the alley in a actual abbreviate anniversary afterwards the semi-annual battle with the Ravens. Nothing’s accessible for the Steelers this year, and the alley to the playoffs won’t be either.
Game of the anniversary tonight, Pats at Bills, on a algid and airy night in western New York. Until then, some things for you to consider.
There won’t be abundant hand-wringing about the mistakes, at atomic this morning. Detroit won a football adventurous 29-27 over the Vikings on the aftermost comedy of the game, an 11-yard touchdown canyon from afraid Jared Goff to amateur Amon-Ra St. Brown with zeroes on the clock. It was the aboriginal win of Campbell’s apprenticeship career. “It abandoned took 12 weeks, huh? No, 13!” he said from his coach’s appointment at Ford Acreage post-game.
But a few things happened on the way to 1-10-1 that showed the aggregation is still arena for him and wants him to succeed. The Lions acquaint a video of the post-game anniversary in the locker room. Aftermost year, it was bright the players did not like Matt Patricia. This year, on this day, it seems bright they do like Campbell, with the whooping and hollering and bath aback the players gave him the adventurous ball.
Go central the #Lions locker allowance afterwards the team’s affecting improvement win!#OnePride pic.twitter.com/iM5exQ4Ypq
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) December 6, 2021
I anticipation it was cogent that, aback Goff was adorable for addition to hug afterwards throwing the acceptable TD pass, he begin Campbell, who has been boxy on him—and appropriately so. Goff has been actual all-a-quiver aback advancing over to be the beneficiary to Matthew Stafford. But Campbell hugged Goff hard. It was a air-conditioned moment.
“What’d you say to Goff appropriate then?” I said.
“I said, ‘That’s the way to bandy it aback we bare it, m—–f—–!’ ” Campbell said.
I laughed and Campbell said: “That is absolutely what I said.”
“He had a brace of asperous throws,” Campbell said. “For him to appear aback on that aftermost drive and advance us bottomward the acreage and do what he did, it says a lot. He bare it. We bare it, added importantly.”
Goff will charge a lot added drives like the 14-play, 75-yard TD drive with no timeouts there to ensure his approaching in Detroit. It’s no abiding affair he will. But Sunday was a acceptable day for the win, and for the association the Lions represent. Forty-five account arctic of the amphitheater is Oxford, Mich., area four Oxford Aerial accepting were murdered and seven others blood-soaked in a academy cutting the Lions remembered Sunday. Campbell gave the academy a adventurous brawl from the win and paid accolade to the asleep and blood-soaked at his post-game columnist conference. And assurance Jalen Elliott, who wears the aforementioned number—42—that the murdered Oxford football brilliant Tate Myre wore, paid account to Myre himself. He wore his own Lions jersey pregame with “MYRE” replacing ‘ELLIOTT” on his aback nameplate.
“I basic to pay accolade to the ancestors and pay admiration to the community, with the ancestors watching, hopefully,” said Elliott, who is from Richmond, Va., and went to Notre Dame. “I didn’t appetite to draw absorption to myself. This was not abandoned for Oxford, not abandoned for Michigan, but for families beyond the country. I acquire three siblings. One is 16 and in aerial academy now. My parents are both in education, in academy systems. I appetite to abutment schools. Hopefully we can appear calm and booty a footfall in the appropriate direction.”
What Bruce Arians told me aback the Bucs active the afflicted Brown 13-plus months ago has been on my apperception the accomplished few days. “If he screws up one time, he’s gone,” Arians told me in November 2020. Let’s see. By my count, Brown has busted up three times aback those words were spoken.
1. Brown acclimated a affected vaccine agenda to affirm that he’d been vaccinated. That’s a federal offense.
2. Brown spent altered weeks—as abundant as four months—around his aggregation assuming to be vaccinated. Amid those he would be abreast about every day are the 69-year-old Arians, who had prostate blight in 2007 and has had bark cancer; and abhorrent abettor Tom Moore, who is 83. Greg Auman of The Athletic apprehend Arians’ post-Super Bowl book “A Assay in the Sun,” and begin a access that quoted Arians cogent his players: “If any of you accomplish me or Tom Moore sick, I acquire a gun and I will shoot you in the kneecaps.” Arians and Moore can’t be blessed that Brown anesthetized himself off as vaxxed—and brainstorm the acerbity of their families.
3. Brown’s arrangement to use the affected agenda began “unraveling,” according to a adventure in the Bank Artery Journal acquaint Sunday by Louise Radnofsky and Andrew Beaton, aback the alliance apparent the agenda declared to appearance a vaccine issued 90 account abroad from Tampa. The cardboard said Brown told lath he went to a far-away vax centermost because he didn’t appetite to be recognized, and because he didn’t appetite to be about teammates. Again the lath apparent two added teammates had cards with the aforementioned vax abstracts from the aforementioned vax armpit on the aforementioned day. With so abundant at stake—his application with the Super Bowl champions and his acquaintance Tom Brady—Brown anticipation he could get abroad with this. And maybe he will.
The Bucs say they’ll acquire annihilation to say till Brown’s abeyance is up and he is acceptable to acknowledgment Dec. 26 adjoin Carolina. What charge be activity through the minds of Arians and GM Jason Licht? At times, Brown has seemed Brady’s admired receiver, and the Bucs, 9-3 with bristles amateur to go, acquire a accepted adventitious to echo as champs. Ability they delay till Brown is acceptable and see area their receiver accumulation is then—see if they absolutely charge Brown? Ability they anticipate the media agitation will die bottomward over the abutting two weeks, and they’ll be able to bend Brown aback into the aggregation with an I-am-truly-sorry columnist appointment by Brown aback he’s acceptable to play? We’ll apprentice a lot about the Bucs, and their ethos, in the abutting brace of weeks.
I get that Joe Judge acceptable survives the Giants’ post-season adjournment that starts with GM Dave Gettleman. I can’t absolutely altercate with that. But I begin myself watching genitalia of Judge’s 28th game, by which time there should be some acquaintance with the system, alike amid the backups, and apprehensive why lots of that is lacking. Backward in the third assay at Miami on Sunday, the Giants had the brawl and this happened, in succession:
That cannot appear in an NFL game. And it happened in Judge’s 28th. It’s beauteous that it would appear beneath a common fundamentals-preacher like Judge.
Per Tankathon aboriginal this morning, Philadelphia’s activity to acquire a lot of aboriginal abstract basic to absorb abutting April. The Eagles are projected to aces 12th, 13th and 17th abutting April in the aboriginal round, acceptance acutely that will change decidedly by approved season’s end Jan. 9. The Eagles acquire Miami’s one and their own one, and acquire all but clinched accepting Indy’s one. Carson Wentz, traded to the Colts aftermost offseason, had to comedy 75 percent of the Colts snaps this year, or 70 percent if the Colts accomplish the playoffs, to about-face a 2022 second-round aces from Indy to a first-rounder. On Sunday, Wentz played 62 snaps adjoin Houston, and with four amateur left, he ability acquire already able for the 75 percent. Per Jimmy Kempski’s fun Wentz breeze calculation tracker in Philly Voice, Wentz, based on the Colts’ boilerplate snaps per adventurous on offense, needs to comedy about 854 snaps this year to get to 75 percent. Wentz, afterwards Sunday, has played 854.
Barring article absolutely weird, the Eagles now will acquire their own first-round pick, and those from the Dolphins and Colts, and all could be in the top 20 of the round. In all, the Eagles will acquire nine picks in the aboriginal bristles rounds: three in the first, distinct picks in the second, third and fourth rounds, and three in the fifth. With quarterbacks not projected to be super-high in annular one, the Eagles would acceptable be able to sit or activity hardly to abstract one … or amalgamation three adorable picks to get a Deshaun Watson or to hunt a Russell Wilson.
Dolphins. Miami’s aback interesting. Following seven losses with bristles wins … surrendering 11 credibility a adventurous in the bristles wins … Tua Tagovailoa accepting added adequate and advantageous by the week, commutual 78 percent in the five-game streak. Annihilation cast the about-face at 1-7? That’s what I asked bound end Mike Gesicki afterwards the 20-9 win over the Giants. “Wish I could accord you some abstruse story, but we aloof backward with the process,” he said. “If you could sit in our aggregation affair tomorrow morning, you’d see drillmaster [Brian] Flores would be the exact aforementioned as he was the day afterwards we absent our seventh in a row. He doesn’t back-bite people, alarm you out. He’s consistent. Addition affair that hasn’t afflicted is Tua. He’s been the aforementioned through it all.” Aback we accomplished talking, Gesicki apologized for not adage abundant of anything. But I knew what he was adage was what was accident central the team. It’s a Flores production, and the drillmaster abstruse in New England that highs and lows don’t win. Consistency does.
Vikings. At 30-29-1 aback 2018, Minnesota is accepting addition black season. I admiration aback the Wilfs will alpha to get abrupt with Mike Zimmer, in year eight now. This year, the Vikings followed the aiguille of assault Blooming Bay with losses at San Francisco and Detroit. I’ve got to anticipate Minnesota needs to ambit Chicago over the abutting ages for the agents to feel acceptable about its future.
Ravens. Baltimore’s 3-3 aback backward October and activity the furnishings of so abounding huge injuries. Now addition is looming, with brilliant cornerback Marlon Humphrey accepted to be absent for cogent time with a acquire or chest injury; he’ll be MRI’d today. It’s accessible to accusation Lamar Jackson (seven TDs, eight picks in the 3-3 Ravens run), but his aegis was bad Sunday and as accepted this year, Jackson himself was best of the run game. The result: Jackson took a career-high seven sacks. Baltimore at Cleveland abutting Sunday is a actual big adventurous for both teams.
Bill Keenist, a acquaintance of abundance in the backward seventies at Ohio University, got a job as a PR abettor with the Lions in 1985. In 1987, he went adorable for a abode to buy a home. Active through the camp Americana babyish boondocks of Oxford, Mich. (pop.: 3,346), aloof arctic of the team’s Silverdome offices, he was won over by a middle-aged man cutting an Oxford Aerial Academy football anorak walking through town. My affectionate of town, Keenist thought. That’s area he and his wife aloft their three children—including son Billy, the quarterback of the aerial academy aggregation in 2004-05, arena for the man who wore that anorak walking through town, drillmaster Bud Rowley. That’s area Keenist, the aloft communications VP with the Lions, lives today, 34 years afterwards authoritative Oxford the ancestors home.
“I was on the Oxford academy lath for seven years,” Keenist, 63, said from Oxford on Saturday night. “I can’t brainstorm the kids’ academy years actuality any bigger anywhere abroad in the country. The teachers, the coaches, the administrators, the parents—everybody cares for the kids in that academy system.”
Keenist remembered aback Oxford’s football aggregation exhausted the arresting accompaniment champs on the aperture Friday night in 2011, and afterwards the game, best of the 11,000 admirers in the stands went bottomward on the acreage to hug the players, hug themselves, hug the moment. One of the Keenist boys was the abettor drillmaster of the varsity team, and added was the JV coach, and Keenist that day looked about to booty a brainy account he’ll never forget—grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, townies, brothers and sisters of players, toddlers. The accomplished boondocks was there. And no one would leave.
“I hadn’t apparent annihilation like that actuality until aftermost night,” Keenist said, aggravating not to cry. “The vigil. The absolute capital artery of town, packed. Reminded me of that night in 2011, in a sad, adverse way.”
On Tuesday, badge said an Oxford sophomore, Ethan Crumbley, attempt and dead four accepting in an Oxford Aerial alley and blood-soaked seven others afore actuality arrested. Keenist is accompany with the abecedary who was shot—he helped advertise her babe on Ohio University. Addition abecedary who was already a Lions PR intern was in a classroom aloof anxiety from the shooter.
Keenist was on the Oxford Academy Lath from 2007 to 2014, and he said all schools in the commune had upgrades in aegis systems and access security, and added communication admiral in every school. Aloof like so abounding added academy systems in the country, now this Norman Rockwell Aerial Academy wonders if it will acquire to install metal detectors. Lord. What a country. A 15-year-old boy gets a semi-automatic pistol for Christmas. What could go wrong?
This association will not lay down. The added day, as organs were actuality harvested from one of the victims, Jason Shilling, for transplantation in beggared ailing people, hundreds of townspeople aggregate in blackout to pay their respects alfresco the hospital, to appearance the Shilling ancestors they care. The ancestors coiled from an amid footbridge; outside, townspeople wept. A bounded pizzeria, Ailing Pizza, fabricated chargeless pizza for anyone who would accord money to the families of the dead; as of Saturday, they’d aloft $11,000. Oxford Bank set up a canonizing armamentarium for the victims. Several GoFundMe accounts totaled added than $400,000 as of Saturday. The University of Michigan commissioned a application anniversary the four victims and placed it on its uniforms for the Big Ten championship adventurous Saturday night.
The football drillmaster at Oxford is bounded hero Zach Line, who starred at the academy and went on to comedy roles for the Vikings and Saints for seven seasons. (He bent three of Drew Brees’ 571 touchdowns.) Band beneath animadversion over the weekend. He was activity through a aching time—one of the victims was the brilliant of his team, all-district active back/linebacker Tate Myre (pronounced “mirror”). Myre was acceptable at atomic a Mid-American Conference-caliber player. He proudly acquaint a account of himself on amusing media from one of his recruiting trips to the University of Toledo in November.
Jalen Elliott & Kirk Cousins accustomed the victims of the Oxford Aerial Academy shooting, including collapsed hero Tate Myre who wore cardinal 42. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/nYE8AQt8Mg
— NFL (@NFL) December 5, 2021
The weekend internet was abounding of abecedarian video of Tate, cutting cardinal 42, authoritative plays all over the acreage for Oxford. America was reminded of Myre on Saturday night, with the adventurous “42” on the Michigan compatible patches in the Big Ten championship game. “Tate embodied the best of aerial academy football and the adventurous of football,” Keenist said. “The selflessness, the teamwork, the leadership.”
Just afore midnight Saturday, Keenist got a argument from his son Chris, afterwards the aural Michigan achievement over Iowa.
“Dad,” Chris Keenist wrote. “Michigan denticulate 42 points! 42!!!”
Ben Roethlisberger, quarterback, Pittsburgh. Array of a arresting adventurous for Roethlisberger for three quarters, abnormally aback Diontae Johnson, who hasn’t had the dropsies this year, let a TD waft through his easily aloof afore halftime. But abaft 10-3 entering the fourth, Roethlisberger did what acclaimed quarterbacks do: He went TD-field goal-TD on three beeline drives, with two touchdowns to Johnson, to advance the Steelers to a 20-19 season-resuscitating win at Heinz Field. If that was Big Ben’s final Ravens adventurous at home, he went out in style, commutual 21 of 31 for 236 yards and the two clamp scores.
Gardner Minshew, quarterback, Philadelphia. Minshew’s one absurd story. Hasn’t played the accomplished year, and he was affected into activity at the Jets on Sunday because of an abate abrasion to Jalen Hurts. He strafed the Jets early, commutual 11 of 11 with two TD passes to Dallas Goedert. For the day, he completed 80 percent of his throws, and, amazingly, concluded anniversary of his aboriginal eight drives with either touchdowns or acreage goals. “There’s annihilation like this feeling,” Minshew said.
T.J. Watt, bend rusher, Pittsburgh. Stated his case rather eloquently for Arresting Amateur of the Year with 3.5 sacks, three QB pressures and one affected bollix in the 20-19 win over arch-rival Baltimore. His bigger play, as I wrote above, was hasty Lamar Jackson on the game-deciding two-point about-face try by the Ravens in the final seconds. Now that was a archetypal animosity win, and Watt, advancing off his Covid-19 case, played one of the best amateur of his career.
Carlos Dunlap, bend rusher, Seattle. Dunlap has been active all season, on and off the bank for abridgement of assembly afterwards Seattle brought him back, cerebration he could be a key sack guy. Aboriginal in the third assay of a adventurous Seattle had to acquire (it ability be too backward for the Seahawks, but who knows in this awe-inspiring season), San Francisco led 23-21. With Jimmy Garoppolo set up to bandy about his own ambition line, Dunlap access through the band and cornered Jimmy G for a safety. Now 23-all. Then, on fourth-and-goal from the Seattle 3-yard band with 22 abnormal larboard and the ‘Hawks absorption (feebly) a 30-23 lead, Dunlap rushed from Garoppolo’s appropriate and got an arm up to block the abeyant game-tying pass. Crucial day for what had been a crumbling amateur so far this year.
Travis Homer, punt-team upback, Seattle. It was one of the best beauteous touchdowns of the season. Afterwards a arresting game-opening possession, Seattle lined up to punt from its own 27-yard line. Homer took a abbreviate breeze from long-snapper Tyler Ott and ran about larboard end accomplished a lot of abashed 49ers. The 73-yard touchdown was absolutely what the corrupt Seahawks needed.
FAKE PUNT ➡️ FRONT FLIP
TRAVIS HOMER TO THE 🏠pic.twitter.com/X6ijwAcsUL
— PFF (@PFF) December 5, 2021
Jake Elliott, kicker, Philadelphia. Denticulate the aftermost 13 credibility of a 33-18 win the Eagles badly bare at the Meadowlands afterwards aftermost week’s beating adjoin the Giants. In fact, Elliott denticulate the abandoned credibility of the adventurous in the aftermost 31 minutes, abutting on acreage goals of 31, 32, 43 and 46 yards on an odd day in New Jersey.
Dave Logan, Broncos radio voice/Denver Cherry Creek Aerial Academy arch coach. Logan won his 10th Colorado accompaniment aerial academy football championship Saturday at Empower Field, with Cherry Creek shutting out top-seed Valor Christian 21-0. Logan has won those 10 titles at four altered schools, and it’s believed that no aerial academy football drillmaster has anytime won accompaniment titles with four altered schools. The win Saturday was the 303rd of his apprenticeship life. Logan flew to Kansas City to do the Broncos’ Sunday night game.
A Cincinnati-roots copy of Goats of the Week
Andy Dalton, quarterback, Chicago. The fifth four-interception adventurous in his 150-game career was the ugliest, because those four turnovers led to 24 of the Cardinals’ 33 points. Dalton’s interceptions accustomed Arizona to alpha drives at the Chicago 28, 15, 28 and 12-yard lines.
Joe Mixon, active back, Cincinnati. The Bengals had fought aback to 24-22 adjoin the Chargers by aboriginal in the fourth quarter, and they were driving, at the Chargers’ 34-yard line. Mixon took it from Joe Burrow and appeared to acquire agitation accepting a acceptable grip. He fumbled, and cornerback Tevaughn Campbell of the Chargers best up this camp allowance from heaven and ran 61 yards for the game-changing touchdown.
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“God works in abstruse ways.”
—Michigan arresting end Aidan Hutchinson on Saturday night afterwards the team’s 42-3 win over Iowa in the Big Ten appellation adventurous … 42 actuality the cardinal of the Tate Myre, the Oxford (Mich.) Aerial Academy apprentice and football amateur who was murdered at the aerial academy Tuesday. The Wolverines wore compatible patches anniversary the four Oxford victims Saturday night.
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“THEY’VE DONE IT! THREE ZEROES ON THE CLOCK! THIS GAME IS OVER! IT’S OVER! THREE ZEROES ON THE CLOCK! JARED GOFF TO AMON-RA ST. BROWN! HIS FIRST CAREER TOUCHDOWN, AND HOW BIG IS THAT! MY GOODNESS!!! HAVE A DAY BOYS, HAVE A DAY!”
—Lions annual articulation Dan Miller, calling the end of Detroit’s walk-off win over Minnesota, acceptable the Leos wouldn’t accomplishment the 2021 assay winless.
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“Kittle wishes he was Gronkowski.”
—Sign at the amphitheater in Seattle—a assurance George Kittle absolutely autographed afore the game.
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“As I told Coach, ‘Whoever took you out, Jon, that was a paid assassin.’ That was one of the best hit jobs I’ve anytime been around.”
—Las Vegas Raiders radio articulation Brent Musburger, on the “JT the Brick Show,” with his assessment about the emails that alike that affected Jon Gruden to abandon as drillmaster beforehand this season.
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“Aidan Hutchinson! He’ll cycle up on ya, folks, and let ya aroma his cologne!”
—FOX’s Gus Johnson, on the Iowa-Michigan adventurous Saturday night.
I don’t apperceive what this means, but it’s Johnson-esque.
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“The greatest of life’s blessings cannot be counted in balloter votes.”
—Veteran, war hero and longtime baby-kisser Bob Dole, who died Sunday at 98, in a 2012 op-ed in the Washington Post.
Dole would acquire known.
You don’t alike acquire to watch the amateur carefully this year to apprehension that coaches are address the arch-conservative appearance on fourth downs to go for it more, and to go for it in their own area abundant added than the past. One of the leaders is amateur Chargers drillmaster Brandon Staley, 39, who’s been an anarchistic play-caller and architect aback demography over in L.A. Through 12 weeks of the season, one of the leaders in the space, EdjSports (a accessory of Champion Gaming, https://championgaming.com/), had Staley in aboriginal abode in its Abhorrent Play-Calling Metric, additionally alleged the Critical Alarm Index, which analyzes apprenticeship decisions on fourth downs.
Through 12 weeks, the Chargers were 12 of 20 on fourth-down conversions, a win amount of 60 percent.
I anticipation the best way to appearance how the adventurous is alteration would be to booty one of the Chargers’ fourth-down calls that commonly would acquire been an automated punt, and appearance why Staley fabricated the accommodation he did, and how EdjSports co-founder and Champion Gaming arch addition administrator Frank Frigo analyzed all of Staley’s options on the play, by agriculture the ambit into a affairs and active it bags of times.
The Chargers played Cleveland in Anniversary 5. With 10:34 larboard in the third quarter, Cleveland led 27-13, and L.A. had a fourth-and-two at its own 24-yard line.
Staley: “We went into the assay with advancing modeling, and our clay for this bearings was ‘go’ all the way.” He said the Chargers’ analytics aggregation of Aditya Krishnan and Alex Stearns and abhorrent assistant/game administration Dan Shamash helped actualize the advancing cardinal stance. Also: The Browns had aloof apprenticed 75 yards in bristles plays to account and booty a 14-point lead, and Staley basic defenders to get a blow and accumulate their thoughts on how to stop the Browns.
Frigo: “Because the Chargers already had a low anticipation of acceptable there, they’re apparently accepting abundant added on the success of activity for it and authoritative it than they would be accident by activity for it and failing. Plus, on an open-field fourth-and-two, the affairs are bigger than they’d be on the ambition line.”
Frigo laid out these contingencies on the comedy for me Saturday:
Staley: “We admired our plan for that exact situation. They were in a dime defense. We had a run-pass advantage alleged because we acquainted we could booty advantage of their run anatomy and still acquire the canyon aspect if they pressured or presented a boxy run look.”
Justin Herbert took the breeze and confused left, with the brawl in Austin Ekeler’s gut. Herbert never pulled the brawl out. Ekeler ran for nine yards. Aboriginal down. By accepting nine yards there and continuing the drive, the Chargers at that moment added their win affairs to 15.7 percent.
Frigo: “So the Chargers, by allotment to go for it and accepting nine, aloft their win anticipation by 5.6 percent, from 10.1 percent to 15.7 percent. If they’d gone for it and failed, they’d acquire bargain their win anticipation by 3.6 percent, to 6.5 percent.”
Think of it this way: That Chargers drive was their sixth of the game. They ability acquire bristles the blow of the game. In adjustment to acquire a adventitious to win, they’d acquire to account two added touchdowns than the Browns would the blow of the game—odds that didn’t attending great. Smarter to booty a accident than to accord the brawl aback to a aggregation currently shredding your D.
Frigo: “The byword I use is ‘postponement of regret.’ A drillmaster who punts there ability feel bigger for a few minutes, but he won’t feel bigger about it at the end of the game.”
The Chargers went on to account on that drive, and this was the crazy final: Chargers 47, Browns 42. That was the adventurous with the 26-point L.A. fourth quarter. Seems aberrant to say a fourth-down alarm in the third assay ability acquire affronted the tide, but it absolutely was a big alarm in a big improvement win. It was a alarm the EdjSports analytics accurate authoritative every time.
Staley: “What I’ve abstruse and appear to acquire and embrace is, I don’t affliction how we lose, or the eyes of it. Actuality ‘conservative’ aloof preserves stats and lets you feel that you’re afterpiece than you absolutely are. My mindset is to do aggregate we can to win the adventurous on our terms, not addition else’s. And if it doesn’t happen, I’m acceptable with that.”
Postscript: The top and bottom-rated coaches in the alliance through 12 weeks in the EdjSports Arch Drillmaster Rankings say article about the acceptation of coaches in the game. The rankings admeasurement every apprenticeship accommodation through a alternation of metrics including fourth-down calls and play-calling choices (judged pre-snap, not afterwards the result). Actuality are the rankings and account of the parameters.
Top five1. Staley2. Matt LaFleur3. Kliff Kingsbury4. Sean McDermott5. Frank Reich
Bottom five28. Pete Carroll29. Dan Campbell30. Joe Judge31. Robert Saleh32. Mike Tomlin
Team annal through 12 weeks of the top bristles coaches: 37-20. Bottom five: 15-38-2.
The band of demarcation, I think, with coaches, began actively in 2017, aback Doug Pederson started activity gutsy. His risk-accepting appearance resulted in activity 17-for-26 on fourth downs, and accepting two specialists in analytics in his ear, occasionally, during games. Not coincidentally, Frigo and his EdjSports aggregation were accouterment statistical assay to the Eagles in 2017. The Eagles’ owner, Jeffrey Lurie, pushed the accepting of avant-garde data. “What we begin is there’s been so abounding decisions over time that are too bourgeois for the allowance of maximizing your adventitious to win,” Lurie said in 2017. “We’ve lived with television commentators and reporters and whatever for 20, 30, 40 years, who consistently affectionate of adopted what I would alarm a actual bourgeois access to those decisions.”
“On fourth downs now,” Frigo said, “the analytics anarchy is the difference. Everyone had been anchored by accepted wisdom, like, ‘In your territory, never go for it on fourth down.’ Now they apperceive abounding of those calls are mathematically condonable decisions.”
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Tide Receiver U.
Number of advanced receivers best in the top 15 of the drafts amid 2011 and 2021:
From Alabama: 6.
From Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Florida State, Oregon, Oklahoma, Miami, Texas, Texas Tech and Penn Accompaniment combined: 0.
Might be seven appear April 2022, with the ascent fortunes of Alabama inferior receiver Jameson Williams.
The six, by the way: Julio Jones, Amari Cooper, Henry Ruggs, Jerry Jeudy, Jaylen Waddle, DeVonta Smith.
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Adrian Peterson denticulate his 126th NFL touchdown Sunday. Jim Brown, the greatest active aback of all time, additionally denticulate 126 NFL touchdowns. They are affronted for 10th on the best list.
Adrian Peterson’s age aback he denticulate his 126th TD: 36 years, 259 canicule old.
Jim Brown’s age aback he denticulate his 126th TD: 29 years, 305 canicule old.
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Before Sunday, the aftermost time Jared Goff won a football adventurous for a drillmaster not alleged Sean McVay was six years ago: Dec. 29, 2015, in the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, on a Tuesday afternoon. The Sonny Dykes-coached Cal Bears exhausted Air Force.
In the 72 months aback then, Goff’s teams are 1-17-1 in non-McVay amateur (coached by Jeff Fisher, Dan Campbell).
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Love that aegis from the Vikings. Accumulate aggregate in advanced of you in the endzone, alike if you accord up a game-losing touchdown. Don’t get exhausted deep.
— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) December 5, 2021
Kevin Clark covers the NFL for The Ringer, and said appropriate there what bodies who apperceive annihilation about football were adage watching the bendable D on the aftermost breeze of the Lions’ win over Minnesota.
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Mosley said opponents do not account the #Jets, which he says is “well deserved.” He said Fletcher Cox was bedlam at Saleh during the adventurous and the Eagles showed no account by not afraid easily at the bread toss. #Jets pic.twitter.com/CqonWzqk9V
— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) December 5, 2021
Cimini covers the Jets for ESPN.com.
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Joey Bosa was austere of a concussion, but Brandon Staley said he absitively to accumulate Bosa out of the adventurous because of his blow history. “As continued as I’m the arch drillmaster here,” Staley said, “I’m activity to be authoritative decisions like that in the best absorption of our players.”
— Daniel Popper (@danielrpopper) December 5, 2021
Popper covers the Chargers for The Athletic.
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a player’s coach@Marcus_Freeman1 | #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/pf9E1OygA8
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) December 3, 2021
The cheep shows how the Notre Dame players begin out about the new coach: Marcus Freeman.
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The best acute allotment of video from Jake Dickert’s columnist appointment had annihilation to do with the presser.
His babe Rylee is 10 years old, and I accept Pullman is the 7th abode she’s lived.
You can acquaint how abundant this moment agency to her. Teared up watching this. pic.twitter.com/Wkh2cOPXNF
— Brenna Greene (@BrennaGreene_) December 3, 2021
Greene, sports administrator at KREM-TV in Spokane, Wash., with a arena afterwards the columnist appointment introducing the new drillmaster of Washington State, Jake Dickert. Rylee Dickert blanket the show.
Reach me at [email protected], or on Cheep @peter_king.
Good question. From Sheldon Ort, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario: “I’m analytical about your booty on the three players abeyant for appointment a affected anesthetic certificate. By accepting the three-game abeyance it appears the players are acceptance answerability to a federal crime. If yes again why has the NFL not penalized them added severely?”
Thanks, Sheldon. A lot of bodies admiration the aforementioned thing. I anticipate the big point to apprehend actuality is the abeyance was levied with collective acceding by the NFL and the players union. Usually the players activity aggregate NFL tries to do aback adorning players. My accomplished assumption is that aback the abutment and the alliance agreed to the three-game bans, there was an compassionate the players would not appeal, and an compassionate that the NFL would not added attempts to abutment federal accuse adjoin the players. Now, if the admiral appetite to columnist accuse adjoin the players, that’s the government’s decision.
He wants to apperceive how I do my job. From Jeff Alves, of Florida: “I’m apprehensive how you go about communicable the activity on adventurous day. With several amateur accident at the aforementioned time on a archetypal Sunday, how do you watch them all and, added importantly, assay what you are seeing? In absolute time? I’m envisioning a bank of screens in your examination allowance anniversary acquainted into a altered game. Perhaps too grandiose? Aback you do watch a game, do you do it with the complete on?”
Thanks for writing, Jeff. By about 10 a.m. ET Sunday, I book about 50 percent of the cavalcade to my editor, Dom Bonvissuto, abundant of it accounting on Saturday—the mail, 5 or 6 of the Things I Think, best amateur of abutting week, maybe an account absolute of the Sunday games, like the Oxford area this week. Then, the aftermost 5,000 words or so of the cavalcade will be based on Sunday’s games. I appointment in my Brooklyn apartment, in a additional allowance I’ve affronted into an office, with a 24-inch LG TV on the desk, a additional awning I bung into my laptop, again Sunday Ticket on DirecTV on my laptop. Using aftermost anniversary as an example:
• 1 p.m. ET window: The TV has Scott Hanson’s Red Zone approach (I watch Andrew Siciliano aback there’s a command achievement adventurous I appetite to put on TV), with the complete on, to adviser all seven aboriginal games. On my added awning is Tampa-Indy. On my laptop, I either alpha autograph some actuality (maybe a amateur of the week) or alternating affairs up a adventurous that gets hot. Mac Jones adjoin the Titans, for instance, is one I had on for maybe bisected the game. Entering the day, I was cerebration of accomplishing a baronial of the best teams entering December. As the amateur got late, I knew New England and Tampa Bay would be in my top teams, so I abiding to allege to stars of the day (Leonard Fournette, Matthew Judon) about their canicule and their teams. I rarely watch a adventurous so carefully that I’m acquainted the play-by-play; aloof not applied aback aggravating to see all the games.
• 4 p.m. window: In amid speaking to Fournette and again Judon, I put Rams-Packers on the TV and Siciliano’s Red Zone on the additional screen, and I alpha abstraction out allotment of the column. At halftime I do a quick hit with Sky Sports in London via VideoMix on my laptop. I eat banquet (pizza aftermost week) while watching additional behindhand of backward amateur on Red Zone.
I absitively if I could get Matt LaFleur afterwards the Packers’ achievement I would advance the cavalcade with my top 10 teams entering December, and use LaFleur (Packers, 1), Judon (Patriots, 3) and Fournette (Bucs, 6) to personalize the top 10. I alpha autograph and mostly abstain the Sunday night game. If I acquire to pay absorption to it, Dom, my editor, will active me in the additional half; otherwise, it’s white babble in my autograph background. Abounding of you address to me on Mondays, affronted that I’ve not paid absorption to your team. It’s aloof absurd to try to address 5,000 cogent words in about six or seven hours aback aggravating to pay absorption to 12 or 13 football games. So there you go, Jeff.
FMIA, Campus Edition? From Lee Wright, of Saginaw, Mich.: “Since your FMIA cavalcade is such a must-read afterwards anniversary weekend by me and so abounding others, do you anticipate a academy adaptation would appointment as able-bodied and be so able-bodied accustomed by the academy football admiring population? Seems the time is appropriate for a academy adaptation of FMIA.”
Pete Thamel does a acceptable job with array of brief college-football assay at Yahoo Sports. Here’s a sample. That absolute cavalcade was acquaint at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, alike beforehand by an hour or two from the time best of my Monday columns are posted. So I’d say there is one. I adulation columns like Thamel’s.
Noise, noise, noise. From Darryl Gonzalez, of Orchard Park, N.Y.: “Please accumulate autograph about how NFL games, during non-playing time, acquire either music, announcements or complete furnishings activity incessantly. Sometimes alike afterwards a comedy starts (although for aloof a additional or two). It is abundant to drive one batty. Please, aloof a few abnormal of silence! (Yes, I apperceive this makes me complete like a crotchety old man.)”
I am one too. Aloof apperceive the NBA is worse. Tried to accept to the end of a Nets adventurous on the radio the added day actuality in New York, and affronted it off. Could about apprehend the broadcasters over the connected piped-in babble during play.
1. I anticipate the bigger assignment from the Sunday night game—other than conceivably that the Kansas City aegis has now appear abounding amphitheater and will be a force to be reckoned with—is that we’ve accomplished that time in the six-year post-Peyton Manning Era in Denver that cries out/demands for yet addition above advance in a quarterback. Denver is non-competitive with the arch aggregation in the division. The 22-9 accident to KC at Arrowhead on Sunday night agency the Broncos, post-Manning, are 0-11 adjoin Kansas City by an boilerplate accident allowance of about two touchdowns per game. The options adverse Denver GM George Paton appear March:
• Barter for Aaron Rodgers (his best whether he wants to be dealt, and no assurance if he does) or Deshaun Watson (risky and costly) or Russell Wilson (no assurance Seattle will barter him) … or do article unexpected. If Miami deals for Watson, Tua Tagovailoa ability be out there—though he’s arena added and added like an acknowledgment in Miami. Jimmy Garoppolo ability be out there, but he’s blah his rep to the point area I agnosticism anyone looks at him as a no-doubt acknowledgment for the abutting bristles years. The best option, I think, is Rodgers, but it’s still so blurred that he’ll alike be available. Alike if he can be had, he’s 38, and Denver would about acquire to backstop Rodgers with a abiding guy in the ’23 or ’24 draft.
• Abstract one. Looks like an capricious bazaar this year, but Paton may abatement in adulation with a activity mid-round guy like Malik Willis or Kenny Pickett in the winter.
• Do article alfresco the box. Blow abroad a aggregation not adorable to barter its starter—Matt Ryan or Derek Carr, for example—or barter beneath for a Jalen Hurts if Philadelphia decides to abstract the abutting big thing, again cast your breach about the arm and legs of Hurts.
It’s accessible to say about any of those things, Not gonna happen. Fine. But the another is the cachet quo, and that looks disastrous.
2. I anticipate Ben Roethlisberger is right, it’s time to airing away. Adam Schefter appear Saturday that Roethlisberger is cogent accompany he’s acceptable to retire afterwards the season. I admired his activity and his improvement Sunday adjoin Baltimore. But some guys are 44 activity on 34 (Tom Brady), and some are 38 activity on 33 (Rodgers). Roethlisberger is 39 and looks every bit of it. Aback Dec. 1, 2020, no quarterback in the alliance has added turnover-worthy plays (interception, abandoned interception or bollix in the pocket) than Roethlisberger’s 30, per PFF, and I apparently didn’t acquire to acquaint you that; you can see it. The Steelers—now, there’s a aggregation that should move heaven and apple to try to accord for Rodgers and argue him the Steelers accord him the best adventitious to win in his aureate NFL seasons.
3. I anticipate the best achievement on a accident aggregation Sunday was David Montgomery’s, in Chicago’s accident to Arizona. He is such an absorbing agent central and outside, and so abundant of his aptitude is active with the corrupt Bears attack.
4. I anticipate Tony Pollard is bigger than Ezekiel Elliott. There. I said it.
5. I anticipate that may be partially because Elliott’s banged up. But Pollard’s aloof added dangerous, has been so for some time, and Elliott (zero 70-yard hasty amateur in the aftermost seven games) has chock-full actuality the unstoppable horse the Cowboys grew to await on three and four years ago. Aback aperture day 2020: Elliott, 4.18 yards per rush; Pollard, 4.99. Afterwards Pollard’s 58-yard TD dart in New Orleans backward in the third assay gave Dallas a 20-10 lead, the Cowboys bare to be about whittling bottomward the clock, but the abutting four drives totalled 6 minutes, 29 seconds, and Elliott totalled bristles carries for 21 yards. Aloof not acceptable enough.
6. I anticipate lots of things bother me about Brian Kelly’s move from Notre Dame to LSU, but best of my antipathy boils bottomward to honor. What academy drillmaster bolts from a job:
• While actuality beneath arrangement for amid $2.7 actor and $4 actor a year.
• While his aggregation is in altercation to comedy for the civic championship.
• Afterwards architecture a ancestors ambiance with his players, emphasizing he’ll be there for them and they charge to await on anniversary added to get to the ultimate ambition of a championship.
• While his agents is out recruiting, accepting no abstraction Kelly is negotiating with LSU and signing with LSU.
A amenable developed doesn’t do this. A amenable developed says to LSU, “Hope you can delay till afterwards my season, and again I’d like to booty the job. But not till then.” How can any LSU recruit, or any LSU recruit’s parents, assurance a chat Brian Kelly says? He’s not abandoned in actuality in it for himself in the apprenticeship business. But Kelly walking abroad with Notre Dame still on the bend of arena for aggregate it formed for … It’s aloof wrong, and no one can argue me he’s justified.
7. I anticipate this is what happens on accident teams: The Jets acquire afflicted kickers seven times in the aftermost 23 games, due to a abiding beam injury, performance, achievement and added performance, aback mid-October 2020. From Sam Ficken (2020 adventurous 6) to CFL acceptation Diego Castillo (games 7-9) to Ficken (game 10) to Castillo (games 11-13) to Ficken (games 14-15) to Hunt McLaughlin (game 16) to Matt Ammendola (2021 amateur 1-11) to Alex Kessman (game 12). Kessman fabricated his NFL admission Sunday adjoin the Eagles. He was advanced larboard afterwards the Jets’ aboriginal touchdown. He was advanced larboard afterwards the Jets’ additional touchdown. Afterwards the third touchdown, drillmaster Robert Saleh alleged for the Jets to go for two. They failed. The Jets trailed at halftime 24-18. Of course, it should acquire been 24-21. The Jets had a article once. For seven years until actuality accustomed to airing in aboriginal 2017, Nick Folk was an efficient, low-maintenance kicker. Over the aftermost seasons—of course, for the arch-rival Patriots—Folk has fabricated 92 percent of his acreage goals while the Jets abide to afflict over the position four years later.
8. I anticipate no amount what the number, I’d booty the over on cardinal of times Kyler Murray has affronted play-action into a sprint-out to the appropriate this year. And every time—I’m cogent you, anytime accursed time—the aegis avalanche for it and Murray has aurora on the appropriate side. Crazy. Why do D-coordinators acquire such a adamantine time banishment their left-side defenders to break home for the alarming Murray?
9. I anticipate there is no MVP with bristles weeks to play. There’s aloof a ample field.
10. I anticipate these are my added thoughts of the week:
a. TV Adventure That We Charge This Week: The abundant cheat Steve Hartman of CBS Account on acceptable things accident at a accepted abundance in Vermont.
b. Hartman’s so great. At a time aback belief assuming us at our best are beat by those assuming us at our worst, he comes up with adorning belief like this.
c. These townies in Norwich, Vt., not abandoned adored the store—they accord the money they were due in bacon to the owner’s admired charities!
d. Absorbing Climate Adventure of the Week: Cara Buckley of the New York Times, with photos by Karsten Moran, with a alluring adventure about one brace in abounding Continued Island, acreage of abundant lawns, with an environmentally affable property. It’s air-conditioned how lawn-lovers and this brace coexist.
e. So abundant about how basic plants and growths and copse and flowers are to wildlife and birds and insects. Acceptable to anticipate about. Writes Buckley:
WADING RIVER, N.Y. — If Bill Jacobs were a petty man, or a beneath religious one, he ability attending through the bracken of flowers, bushes and brambles that band his home and see enemies all around. For to the North, and to the South, and to the West and East and all credibility in between, amplitude acreage and acreage of lawns. Lawns that are mowed and edges akin with aggressive precision. Lawns area leaves are abandoned with roaring machines and that are oftentimes abolished with pesticides. Lawns that are anxiously manicured by landscapers like Justin Camp, Mr. Jacobs’s acquaintance abutting door, who maintains his own pristine blanket of green.
“It takes a appropriate affectionate of actuality to do article like that,” Mr. Camp said, comatose to abounding wilds of his neighbor’s yard. “I mow lawns for a living, so it’s not my thing.”
Mr. Jacobs and his wife, Lynn Jacobs, don’t acquire a backyard to allege of, not counting the application of grass out aback over which Mr. Jacobs runs his old chiral mower every now and then. Their abode is about visible, blocked by a anarchism of flora that access with colors — periwinkles, buttery yellows, whites, abysmal oranges, scarlets — from aboriginal bounce through backward fall. They abound altered milkweeds, asters, elderberry, abundance mint, joe-pye weed, goldenrods, white snakeroot and ironweed. Best are built-in to the region, and about all serve the college purpose of accouterment habitats and aliment to brief birds and butterflies, moths, beetles, flies and bees.
f. To anniversary his own. Bill and Lynn Jacobs are accomplishing article absolutely important.
g. Apprenticeship Adventure of the Week: Janet Shamlian of CBS Account on how schools about the country are arresting with agents shortages.
h. “Staff shortages” is putting it mildly. Some 30,000 accessible academy agents in September abandoned abdicate their jobs.
i. Accept to Gel Ortiz, at Barnum Elementary Academy in Denver, “I am principal, abettor principal, teacher, para-professional. I awning classes, lunch/recess duty. I do aggregate that needs to be done.”
j. Shamlian begin a academy arch who does the vacuuming at a academy in Las Vegas.
k. What a breakdown in apparently the best important affair we can do for our kids—educate them.
l. Radio Adventure of the Week: Quil Lawrence of Civic Accessible Radio on the ballsy and ultimately bent activity of a Blooming Beret who died too young. Reported Lawrence:
Retired Appropriate Forces Maj. Ian Fishback accelerating abreast the top of his West Point class, deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan, becoming a Ph.D. in aesthetics from the University of Michigan and was alleged one of Time magazine’s best affecting bodies in 2005 for alarming the blare on ache by the U.S. military.
He died broke, about abandoned and antibacterial with abundant antipsychotic drugs in an developed advance affliction centermost abreast Kalamazoo, Mich., on Nov. 19 at age 42, as his accompany and ancestors accolade to acquisition him brainy bloom care.
“He was Captain America,” says Marc Garlasco, a aloft Aegis Department official who was at Human Rights Watch aback Fishback accomplished out in 2005. “It’s aloof adamantine for me to appreciate that this is how the activity of Captain America would end, in brainy affliction while actuality forcibly antibacterial in some facility. It’s a absolute damning, anathema account on 20 years of war and how we amusement the veterans of this country.”
m. We’ve got to do bigger for the bodies who accident their lives for us. We aloof acquire to.
n. Amazon Fallout of the Week: Alexa Juliana Ard of the Washington Post on a accomplished lot of Alexas who are alteration their names because Alexa the articulation abettor is authoritative it a little awful for absolute Alexas to feel acceptable about their name.
o. This is why I adulation newspapers, abnormally those that appointment to ascertain absorbing belief like his one.
p. “Someone absitively it was funny at appointment to aloof alarm me Siri,” said Alexa Smith, administrator of above ability for the NAACP acknowledged aegis fund. Wrote Alexa Juliana Ard:
Nearly 130,000 bodies in the United States acquire the name Alexa. It acquired acceptance afterwards accompanist Billy Joel and archetypal Christie Brinkley alleged their babe Alexa in 1985. In 2015, more than 6,000 babyish girls in the United States were alleged Alexa, according to a Washington Post assay of Social Aegis Administration data. Afterwards Amazon chose Alexa as the deathwatch chat of its articulation service, the name’s acceptance plummeted. In 2020, abandoned about 1,300 babies were accustomed the name.
In basic classes, business affairs and at auditions, Alexas said they acquire been instructed to abstain adage their name or arbitrarily assigned new names. One Alexa said the affliction and jokes escalated to animal harassment.
For me, this was awful personal. My mother alleged me Alexa afterwards falling in adulation with the name continued afore I was built-in in 1994. I’ve additionally accomplished afflictive encounters afterwards Amazon fabricated the name a deathwatch word, including actuality accustomed commands as if I were the bot. About two years ago, I started introducing myself alfresco of appointment and ancestors by my average name, Juliana, because it connects me to the Mexican American ancillary of my family. My grandfathering died in 2018. His sister’s name was Julia, so in some agency it feels like a allotment of him.
… I interviewed three sets of parents of Alexas who accurately afflicted their daughters’ names. At atomic 10 added Alexas, accouchement and adults, started activity by nicknames or their average names.
q. All of you who wrote to acquaint me Tillamook is not on the outskirts of Portland but rather 71 afar away, thanks. And sorry. It’s anchored in the cavalcade from aftermost week.
r. The aftermost four episodes of “On the Media” on NPR: What pigeons can acquaint us about the Omicron variant; a altered Hanukkah story; how cassette tapes afflicted the world; a attending aback at the activated blur “The Incredibles.” At a time aback there are media belief in huge numbers all over the account scene, I admiration if the administration at NPR anytime ask “On the Media” people: Anticipate one of these weeks you ability do a adventure on the media?
s. I don’t beggarly to be snarky. But I accept to accessible radio a lot, and it’s great, and that bothers me.
t. Acceptable for the Bearcats. Congrats, Kevin Youkilis.
u. Michigan over Georgia, Alabama over Cincinnati. It’d be nice to see an intersectional civic championship game.
v. RIP, Bob Dole, a abundant American. Here’s how great: In 1942, Dole registered to accompany the Army. He was beatific to the European advanced as a additional lieutenant, and in 1945, while aggravating to accomplishment an Army radio man, Dole was hit by altered circuit from a German attack. He absent a kidney, suffered close and back damage, bankrupt his appropriate acquire and was briefly paralyzed, yet alternate to America and had a acclaimed career in politics. Not a bad résumé: two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, Congressional Gold Medal. He abiding a lot of accent into 98 years.
Buffalo 19, New England 15. Let’s about-face to the weather. Game-time temperature in Orchard Park should be about 26, with 20 mph apprehension and a 30 percent adventitious of article falling from the sky. The Bills apperceive the Patriots bigger than anyone but Brian Flores and the Dolphins, and they’ll acquire to acquisition a way to accumulate the assorted weapons of the Patriots D from disturbing Josh Allen. I don’t acquire a abundant feel for this game. On balance, I accord New England a barb of an bend because of the aegis and the ability of Mac Jones. I aloof anticipate in affecting amateur like this, home agency something.
San Francisco at Cincinnati, Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS. There are added amateur this anniversary with added covering names, and added covering teams. But this game—assuming Deebo Samuel plays, which is not a lock as I address this—is the best acute to me. Two ascent teams with a agglomeration of new stars (Deebo, Elijah Mitchell adjoin Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase).
Buffalo at Tampa Bay, Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET CBS. Awe-inspiring TV slate here, putting the best two amateur of the weekend head-to-head in the late-afternoon window. I apprehend decidedly bigger quarterbacking than the aftermost affair amid these teams at the charlatan ship. In 2013, E.J. Manuel and Mike Glennon completed a accumulated 47 percent of their throws in a 27-6 Bucs win.
L.A. Rams at Arizona, Monday, 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN. These are the amateur you were alien to win, Matthew Stafford.
Las Vegas at Kansas City, Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, CBS. Not a distinct bear on the Raiders slate in the final bristles weeks—at KC, at Cleveland, Denver, at Indy, Chargers. Every foe with at atomic six wins.
Byes this week: Indianapolis, Miami, New England, Philadelphia. No added byes activity forward. The aftermost four regular-season weeks will acquire 16 amateur apiece.
Washington. Six seed.Denver, meanwhile, a 12 seed.Both teams 6 and 6.
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