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Denver Broncos Regular Season Game 14

Hawk Valley Regular Season Week 15 December 18, 2022

Denver Broncos vs Cardinals

Quick Review

Jerry Jeudy had a career day against the Chiefs.

The Broncos lost to the Chiefs 34-28. The score is a bit misleading, but the Broncos played their best game of the season. The Chiefs were up 27-0 when Mahomes made two mistakes in the final two minutes of the half that the Broncos capitalized on. Both of those Bronco touchdowns in the first half followed a Mahomes interception.

Russell Wilson has 12 toilets in his house and 11 touchdown passes this season, so for those of you that follow the toilet ratio, there’s still a chance for Russell to finish the season with more touchdown passes than toilets. Unfortunately for Russell, he won’t get that chance against the Cardinals, the Broncos have decided to keep him out since he suffered a concussion in the last game.

A longer review

This game took place on December 11 at 2:05 PM MST. The temperature at the start of the game was 54 degrees.

The Chiefs started their drive from the 25 yard line. On first down, Patrick Mahomes #15 hit JuJu Smith-Schuster #9 in the right side flat for a 12 yard gain. He was wide open. Mahomes then dumped the ball off to Isiah Pacheco #10 on the left side for a 17 yard gain. From the 46 yard line, Pacheco took the Mahomes hand off and ran to the left for six yards. On second and four, Mahomes found Noah Gray #83 for a seventeen yard gain. He broke through an arm tackle by Damarri Mathis #27. With 12:50 left in the quarter, Orlando Brown #57 was flagged for a false start. On first and fifteen, Mahomes completed a sweep to the right pass to Jerick McKinnon #1 for no gain. On second down, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third and fifteen, Mahomes connected with Smith-Schuster for a twelve yard gain. With eleven minutes left in the first quarter, Harrison Butker #7 kicked a 35 yard field goal.

The Denver Broncos first drive of the day started from the 25 yard line. On first down Russell Wilson #3 rolled to the right, stepped out of a sack and then threw a pass that hit Trent McDuffie #21 in the facemask. IN-COM-PLETE. On second down, Mike Boone #26 ran up the middle for a one yard gain. On third down, Russell connected with Kendall Hinton #9 while he was crossing from left to right for a ten yard gain. On first down, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 9:24 left in he quarter, Russell threw another IN-COM-PLETE pass. On third and ten, Russell connected with Hinton on the right side for an eleven yard gain. On first down, Latavius Murray #28 ran up the middle for four yards. On second down, Russell faked a hand off to Murray, rolled to the right and then came back to Murray in the left flat for a gain of two yards. With 7:30 left in the quarter, Murray ran to the left for five yards. On first down, Russell faked a hand off just before being sacked by Juan Thornhill #22 for a loss of eight yards. With 6:07 left, on second and eighteen, Russell stepped up in the pocket and completed a pass to Boone for a gain of seven yards. When I first saw this play, it looked like Russell fumbled the ball forward. On third down, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth down, with 5:18 left in the first quarter, Corliss Waitman #17 punted.

The Chiefs second drive of the day started from the twenty yard line. Pacheco ran to the right for nine yards on first down. On second and one, Mahomes connected with a wide open Travis Kelce #87 in the middle of the field for a gain of thirty-seven yards. On first down, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Mahomes found Skyy Moore #24 in the left flat for a seven yard gain. On third and three, Mahomes tossed another IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 2:57 left in the quarter, Butker kicked a 45 yard field goal.

From the 25 yard line, Russell was sacked for a nine yard loss by Michael Danna #51. Luke Wattenberg #60 was beat on that play. On second and nineteen, the Broncos called a wide receiver screen to the left and Jerry Jeudy #10 gained three yards. On third and sixteen, Russell scrambled to the right for eleven yards. With 70 seconds left in the quarter, Waitman punted on fourth down.

From the 22 yard line, with 57 seconds left, Mahomes found Kelce over the middle for a gain of fourteen yards. With 32 seconds left, the Chiefs ran a tight end screen on the right side for Kelce and he gained eight yards. That play ended the first quarter.

After one quarter in Denver, the score was Kansas City 6, Denver 0.

When play resumed, Pacheco was stuffed for no gain. With 14:28 left in the half, on third and two, Mahomes rolled to the right and then flipped the ball to McKinnon and he carried it 56 yards to the house. Touchdown Kansas City.

The Broncos first drive of the second quarter started from the 29 yard line. On first down, after a short delay, Murray ran over the right side for five yards. On second down, Boone was stuffed for no gain. On third and five, with 12:50 left, Russell was sacked for an eight yard loss by Chris Jones #95. Waitman punted on fourth down.

On first down from the 24 yard line, Pacheco ran to the left for five yards. On second down, the Chiefs ran the same play but gained seven yards this time. With 11 minutes left in the half, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. Dre’Mont #93 was injured on the play. On second down, Mahomes completed a pass to Smith-Schuster on the left side, but he fumbled. The Chiefs challenged the call and lost. On third down, Mahomes connected with McKinnon, who ran behind blockers to pick up 24 yards. With 10 minutes left, Pacheco ran up the middle for four yards. On second and six, Pacheco ran over the right side, breaking tackles he gained ten yards. Jonathon Cooper #53 was injured on the play, but he would return later. With nine minutes left, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass on first down. On second down, Pacheco ran up the middle for five yards. With 8:10 left, Mahomes found Smith-Schuster camping out by the first down marker on the right side for an eleven yard gain. With 7:30 left, from the Denver ten yard line, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Mahomes completed a ten yard pass to McKinnon for a Kansas City touchdown.

From the Denver 23 yard line, with 7:16 left, Russell rolled to the right and then completed a pass to Eric Saubert #82 for a two yard gain. On second down, Russell danced around in the backfield a bit before connecting with Boone for a twenty yard gain. On first down, Russell found Eric Tomlinson #87 over the middle for a gain of seven yards. On second and three, Boone ran up the middle for one yard. Boone was injured on the play. On third and two, Murray was stuffed for no gain. On fourth and two, with 4:45 left in the half, Russell threw a pick 6 to Willie Gay #50. Gay returned the ball 47 yards for the touchdown.

Denver got the ball back with 4:32 left in the half. From the twenty-five yard line, Russell’s pass was almost intercepted again, but the ball hit the ground instead. IN-COM-PLETE. On second down, Russell dumped the ball off to Murray for a one yard gain. On third down, Russell ran around in the backfield before he threw another IN-COM-PLETE pass. Waitman punted on fourth down with 3:45 left in the half.

On first down from the 31 yard line, Pacheco ran to the right for three yards. On second down, with 3 minutes left, Mahomes was intercepted by Josey Jewell #47.

On first down, Russell rolled to the right and then found Hinton for a three yard gain over the right side. On second down, Russell connected with Jeudy for a gain of seventeen yards over the middle. That play took us down to the two minute warning.

When play resumed, Marlon Mack #37 ran to the right for four yards. On second and six, with 1:38 left in the half, Russell found Jeudy in the left side of the end zone for a Bronco touchdown.

The Chiefs started this drive off from the 25 yard line. On first down Mahomes found Smith-Schuster for a six yard gain over the left side. Denver called a timeout with 90 seconds left in the half. On second and four, Mahomes was sacked/tripped for a three yard loss. Jones got credit for the sack. Denver called a timeout with 85 seconds left. On third down, Mahomes connected with Smith-Schuster for a gain of twenty yards. With 77 seconds left, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 70 seconds left, Mahomes threw another IN-COM-PLETE pass. The play was reviewed and the ruling was changed from an IN-COM-PLETE pass to an interception by Surtain #2.

The Broncos took over at their 40 yard line. With 66 seconds left, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 62 seconds left, Russell found Greg Dulcich #80 on the left side for a nine yard gain. With 57 seconds left, Russell scrambled to the left for thirteen yards. With 52 seconds left, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. With 48 seconds left, Russell scrambled to the right for nineteen yards. With 26 seconds left, Russell connected with Hinton for a 14 yard gain over the left side. Denver called a timeout with 14 seconds left. When play resumed, Russell connected with Jeudy on the right side for a gain of five yards and a Bronco touchdown.

Mahomes knelt at the 25 yard line to end the half.

At 3:43 pm halftime arrived and the score was Kansas City 27, Denver 14.

Denver got the ball to start the third quarter and the drive started from the 25 yard line. On first down, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Bailey was flagged for a false start. On second and fifteen, Russell found Jeudy on the left side for a fourteen yard gain. On third down, Murray ran up the middle for four yards. On first down, Russell was sacked by George Karlaftis #56 for a four yard loss. On second and four, with 13:16 left in the quarter, the Broncos ran a screen to the right side and Russell connected with Mack #37 on a 66 yard touchdown pass.

The Chief’s first drive of the second half started from the 25 yard line. On first down, Pacheco ran up the middle for five yards. On second down, Mahomes dumped the ball off to Pacheco for a one yard gain. On third down, Mahomes was sacked by Cooper for a seven yard loss. On fourth down, Tommy Townsend #5 punted.

Murray ran to the left for three yards on first down. From the 23 yard line, on second down, Russell completed a pass to Mack for a four yard loss. On third down, Russell connected with Dulcich for a ten yard gain. Waitmen punted with 9:10 left in the third quarter.

On first down, Mahomes found Smith-Schuster for a seven yard gain over the right side. On second down, Pacheco ran to the right for two yards. With 7:51 left, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth down, Townsend punted.

Russell connected with Jeudy on the left side for a four yard gain. On second down, Murray ran up the middle for eight yards. On first down, Russell was sacked by Dariusa Harris #47 for a fourteen yard loss. On second down, Russell faced a Kansas City jailbreak and was sacked both Frank Clark #55 and Karlaftis for a six yard loss. On third and thirty, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. Waitman punted with 5:15 left in the third quarter. There was a flag on the return, Chris Lammons #29 was flagged for holding.

The Chiefs stated this drive from the 28 yard line. On first down, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, Mahomes found Kelce over the middle for a twelve yard gain. After a fake block, McKinnon caught a pass from Mahomes for seven yards. On second and three, Mahomes connected with a wide open Gray for a gain of twenty-five yards. With three minutes left, Mahomes threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second down, after a slight delay, Mahomes found McKinnon over on the right side for a gain of nineteen yards. On first down, McKinnon ran to the right for four yards. On second and five, from the Denver five yard line, Baron Browning #56 was flagged for a neutral zone infraction. On the second, second down, Mahomes hit Smith-Schuster for a two yard loss. On third and five, with 50 seconds left in the third, Mahomes connected with Smith-Schuster over the middle in the back of the end zone for a Kansas City touchdown.

On first down, Mack ran up the middle for five yards. On second down, Russell found Jalen Virgil #15 for a nine yard gain. That play ended the third quarter.

After three quarters in Denver, at 4:33 pm, the score was Kansas City 34, Denver 21.

On first down, Russell’s pass was tipped by Karlaftis. IN-COM-PLETE. On second down, Mack ran up the middle for six yards. On third and four, Russell rolled to the right and then threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth and four, Russell threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass but there was a flag on the play. McDuffie was flagged for pass interference. The Broncos gained 40 yards. On first down from the Kansas City 15 yard line, Netane Muti #52 was flagged for holding. On first and 20, the Broncos ran a screen play to the left and Murray caught the ball for a four yard loss. On second and 24, Russell started to scramble but then threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. There was a flag on the play, Cameron Fleming #73 was flagged for holding. On second and 34, Russell threw the ball to Dulcich who tipped the ball back to himself to catch it. Dulcich gained 23 yards. On third and 11, Russell scrambled to the right for a fourteen yard gain. Russell suffered a concussion on the play and would not return. He has cleared the concussion protocol, but will sit out the Cardinal game on December 18th. With 12:02 left in the game, Brett Rypien entered the game. From the Kansas City two yard line, Brett threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. On second and goal, with 11:41 left in the game, Mike Purcell #98 ran up the middle, but there was a flag on the play. Tomlinson was flagged for a false start. On second and goal, Brett completed a pass to Hinton for no gain. On third down, Brett threw another IN-COM-PLETE pass. On fourth and goal, with 10:54 left in the game, Brett found Jeudy over the middle in the back of the end zone for a Bronco touchdown. The camera found Russell on the sidelines and there was a large bump on the right side of his head.

The Chiefs drive started from the 25 yard line. On first down, Mahomes found Smith-Schuster for a four yard gain over the left side. On second down, Mahomes connected with Pacheco for a five yard gain over the left side. Kansas City called a timeout with 9:24 left in the game. On third down, Michael Burton #45 was stuffed for no gain. On fourth down, Townsend punted.

On first down, Rypien completed a pass to Jeudy for a five yard gain. On second down, Brett fumbled the snap, recovered the ball and lost five yards. On third down, Brett threw an IN-COM-PLETE pass. Waitman punted on fourth down.

On first down, Mahomes connected with Gray for a three yard gain. On second down, McKinnon gained three yards running up the middle. On third down, with 6:10 left, Mahomes pass was intercepted by Jewell.

On first down, from the Denver 46 yard line, Brett connected with Tomlinson for a four yard gain. On second down, Murray ran up the middle for three yards. On third and three, with 4:40 left in the game, Brett’s pass that resembled a chip shot was intercepted by L’Jarius Sneed #38. Frank Clark #55 was flagged for a personal foul on the play.

The Chiefs took over with 4:22 left in the game and successfully ran out the clock.

The game ended at 5:16 pm. The final score: Chiefs 34, Denver 28. The game lasted three hours and eleven minutes.

Roster moves

Bronco players that that are out: QB Russell Wilson #3, WR Kendall Hinton #9, WR Courtland Sutton #14.

The Broncos that are questionable: NT D.J. Jones 97, LG Dalton Risner #66, ILB Dakota Allen #59, TE Andrew Beck #83.

The Broncos have elevated RB Devine Ozigbo #36 and QB Jarrett Guarantano #11 from the practice squad.

The Broncos have signed RB Tyreik McAllister #39, ILB Olakunle Gatukasi #51 and OLB Wyatt Ray #52 to the practice squad.

The Broncos have released DL McTelvin Agim from the practice squad.

The Broncos have activated OLB Randy Gregory #5, OLB Billy Turner #57, WR Freddie Swain #86.

The Broncos have placed RB Mike Boone #26, SLB Jake Martin #54 and DE Dre'Mont Jones #93 on the injured reserve.

The Las Vegas Raiders signed G Netane Muti to their active roster.

Outlook

This is the last home game of the year for the Broncos. The last game of the season will be in Denver, but that game is in 2023. If the Broncos want to get to five wins on the season, this is their chance. The next two games are against teams in the same state as the Broncos (they both have losing records).

The Broncos are 2-4 at home this season. They average 15 points per game and allow 17 points per game at home. If only the defense could keep the other teams out of field goal range.

The Cardinals are 3-2 on the road this season. They average 23 points per game on the road while allowing their opponents to score 22 points per game.

It will be interesting to see if the Broncos have any momentum from their “moral” victory over the Chiefs.

Congratulations to Argentina for winning the World Cup today over France.

Game Time

Sunday, December 18 @ 2:05 PM MST

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Chiefs' Juan Thornhill Honoring 3 Slain UVA Football Players With Custom Cleats

Chiefs’ Juan Thornhill Honoring 3 Slain UVA Football Players With Custom Cleats

Chiefs defensive back Juan Thornhill will honor the lives of the three UVA football players who were tragically killed last weekend … by wearing custom tribute cleats during K.C.’s primetime matchup on Sunday night. Thornhill — who attended UVA… from TMZ.com https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/17/chiefs-juan-thornhill-honoring-three-slain-uva-football-players-custom-cleats/

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2019 NFL Draft: 3 Likely 2nd Round Options For The Cowboys

We are only a couple of weeks away from the start of the 2019 NFL Draft. It feels like it’s been a long journey to draft day, but for those in the talent evaluation field, it might not feel long enough.

Of course the Cowboys likely won’t have their pick of the board until the second round, when they come on the clock 58th overall. Based on their pre-draft visitors list they clearly have certain…

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Beside of the Paramount+ com, Juan Thornhill also paid tribute to Sweet Victory(via)

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Lee Konitz, jazz alto saxophonist who was a founding influence on the ‘cool school’ of the 1950s died aged 92

The music critic Gary Giddins once likened the alto saxophone playing of Lee Konitz, who has died aged 92 from complications of Covid-19, to the sound of someone “thinking out loud”. In the hothouse of an impulsive, spontaneous music, Konitz sounded like a jazz player from a different habitat entirely – a man immersed in contemplation more than impassioned tumult, a patient explorer of fine-tuned nuances.

Konitz played with a delicate intelligence and meticulous attention to detail, his phrasing impassively steady in its dynamics but bewitching in line. Yet he relished the risks of improvising. He loved long, curling melodies that kept their ultimate destinations hidden, he had a pure tone that eschewed dramatic embellishments, and he seemed to have all the time in the world. “Lee really likes playing with no music there at all,” the trumpeter Kenny Wheeler once told me. “He’ll say ‘You start this tune’ and you’ll say ‘What tune?’ and he’ll say ‘I don’t care, just start.’”

Born in Chicago, the youngest of three sons of immigrant parents – an Austrian father, who ran a laundry business, and a Russian mother, who encouraged his musical interests – Konitz became a founding influence on the 1950s “cool school”, which was, in part, an attempt to get out of the way of the almost unavoidable dominance of Charlie Parker on post-1940s jazz. For all his technical brilliance, Parker was a raw, earthy and impassioned player, and rarely far from the blues. As a child, Konitz studied the clarinet with a member of Chicago Symphony Orchestra and he had a classical player’s silvery purity of tone; he avoided both heart-on-sleeve vibrato and the staccato accents characterising bebop.

However, Konitz and Parker had a mutual admiration for the saxophone sound of Lester Young – much accelerated but still audible in Parker’s phrasing, tonally recognisable in Konitz’s poignant, stately and rather melancholy sound. Konitz switched from clarinet to saxophone in 1942, initially adopting the tenor instrument. He began playing professionally, and encountered Lennie Tristano, the blind, autocratic, musically visionary Chicago pianist who was probably the biggest single influence on the cool movement. Tristano valued an almost mathematically pristine melodic inventiveness over emotional colouration in music, and was obsessive in its pursuit. “He felt and communicated that music was a serious matter,” Konitz said. “It wasn’t a game, or a means of making a living, it was a life force.”

Tristano came close to anticipating free improvisation more than a decade before the notion took wider hold, and his impatience with the dictatorship of popular songs and their inexorable chord patterns – then the underpinnings of virtually all jazz – affected all his disciples. Konitz declared much later that a self-contained, standalone improvised solo with its own inner logic, rather than a string of variations on chords, was always his objective. His pursuit of this dream put pressures on his career that many musicians with less exacting standards were able to avoid.

Konitz switched from tenor to alto saxophone in the 1940s. He worked with the clarinettist Jerry Wald, and by 20 he was in Claude Thornhill’s dance band. This subtle outfit was widely admired for its slow-moving, atmospheric “clouds of sound” arrangements, and its use of what jazz hardliners sometimes dismissed as “front-parlour instruments” – bassoons, French horns, bass clarinets and flutes.

Regular Thornhill arrangers included the saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and the classically influenced pianist Gil Evans. Miles Davis was also drawn into an experimental composing circle that regularly met in Evans’s New York apartment. The result was a series of Thornhill-like pieces arranged for a nine-piece band showcasing Davis’s fragile-sounding trumpet. The 1949 and 1950 sessions became immortalised as the Birth of the Cool recordings, though they then made little impact. Davis was the figurehead, but the playing was ensemble-based and Konitz’s plaintive, breathy alto saxophone already stood out, particularly on such drifting tone-poems as Moon Dreams.

Konitz maintained the relationship with Tristano until 1951, before going his own way with the trombonist Tyree Glenn, and then with the popular, advanced-swing Stan Kenton orchestra. Konitz’s delicacy inevitably toughened in the tumult of the Kenton sound, and the orchestra’s power jolted him out of Tristano’s favourite long, pale, minimally inflected lines into more fragmented, bop-like figures. But the saxophonist really preferred small-group improvisation. He began to lead his own bands, frequently with the pianist Ronnie Ball and the bassist Peter Ind, and sometimes with the guitarist Billy Bauer and the brilliant West Coast tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh.

In 1961 Konitz recorded the album Motion with John Coltrane’s drummer Elvin Jones and the bassist Sonny Dallas. Jones’s intensity and Konitz’s whimsical delicacy unexpectedly turned out to be a perfect match. Konitz also struck up the first of what were to be many significant European connections, touring the continent with the Austrian saxophonist Hans Koller and the Swedish saxophone player Lars Gullin. He drifted between playing and teaching when his studious avoidance of the musically obvious reduced his bookings, but he resumed working with Tristano and Marsh for some live dates in 1964, and played with the equally dedicated and serious Jim Hall, the thinking fan’s guitarist.

Konitz loved the duo format’s opportunities for intimate improvised conversation. Indifferent to commercial niceties, he delivered five versions of Alone Together on the 1967 album The Lee Konitz Duets, first exploring it unaccompanied and then with a variety of other halves including the vibraphonist Karl Berger. The saxophonist Joe Henderson and the trombonist Marshall Brown also found much common ground with Konitz in this setting. Konitz developed the idea on 1970s recordings with the pianist-bassist Red Mitchell and the pianist Hal Galper – fascinating exercises in linear melodic suppleness with the gently unobtrusive Galper; more harmonically taxing and wider-ranging sax adventures against Mitchell’s unbending chord frameworks.

Despite his interest in new departures, Konitz never entirely embraced the experimental avant garde, or rejected the lyrical possibilities of conventional tonality. But he became interested in the music of the pianist Paul Bley and his wife, the composer Carla Bley, and in 1987 participated in surprising experiments in totally free and non jazz-based improvisation with the British guitarist Derek Bailey and others.

Konitz also taught extensively – face to face, and via posted tapes to students around the world. Teaching was his refuge, and he often apparently preferred it to performance. In 1974 Konitz, working with Mitchell and the alto saxophonist Jackie McLean in Denmark, recorded a brilliant standards album, Jazz à Juan, with the pianist Martial Solal, the bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and the drummer Daniel Humair. That year, too, Konitz released the captivating, unaccompanied Lone-Lee with its spare and logical improvising, and a fitfully free-funky exploration with Davis’s bass-drums team of Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.

In the 1980s, Konitz worked extensively with Solal and the pianist Michel Petrucciani, and made a fascinating album with a Swedish octet led by the pianist Lars Sjösten – in memory of the compositions of Gullin, some of which had originally been dedicated to Konitz from their collaborations in the 1950s. With the pianist Harold Danko, Konitz produced music of remarkable freshness, including the open, unpremeditated Wild As Springtime recorded in Glasgow in 1984. Sometimes performing as a duo, sometimes within quartets and quintets, the Konitz/Danko pairing was to become one of the most productive of Konitz’s musical relationships.

Still tirelessly revealing how much spontaneous material could be spun from the same tunes – Alone Together and George Russell’s Ezz-thetic were among his favourites – by the end of the 1980s Konitz was also broadening his options through the use of the soprano saxophone. His importance to European fans was confirmed in 1992 when he received the Danish Jazzpar prize. He spent the 1990s moving between conventional jazz, open-improvisation and cross-genre explorations, sometimes with chamber groups, string ensembles and full classical orchestras.

On a fine session in 1992 with players including the pianist Kenny Barron, Konitz confirmed how gracefully shapely yet completely free from romantic excess he could be on standards material. He worked with such comparably improv-devoted perfectionists as Paul Motian, Steve Swallow, John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson and Joey Baron late in that decade. In 2000 he showed how open to wider persuasions he remained when he joined the Axis String Quartet on a repertoire devoted to 20th-century French composers including Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

In 2002 Konitz headlined the London jazz festival, opening the show by inviting the audience to collectively hum a single note while he blew five absorbing minutes of typically airy, variously reluctant and impetuous alto sax variations over it. The early 21st century also heralded a prolific sequence of recordings – including Live at Birdland with the pianist Brad Mehldau and some structurally intricate genre-bending with the saxophonist Ohad Talmor’s unorthodox lineups.

Pianist Richie Beirach’s duet with Konitz - untypically playing the soprano instrument - on the impromptu Universal Lament was a casually exquisite highlight of Knowing Lee (2011), an album that also compellingly contrasted Konitz’s gauzy sax sound with Dave Liebman’s grittier one.

Konitz was co-founder of the leaderless quartet Enfants Terribles (with Baron, the guitarist Bill Frisell and the bassist Gary Peacock) and recorded the standards-morphing album Live at the Blue Note (2012), which included a mischievous fusion of Cole Porter’s What Is This Thing Called Love? and Subconscious-Lee, the famous Konitz original he had composed for the same chord sequence. First Meeting: Live in London Vol 1 (2013) captured Konitz’s improv set in 2010 with the pianist Dan Tepfer, bassist Michael Janisch and drummer Jeff Williams, and at 2015’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival, the old master both played and softly sang in company with an empathic younger pioneer, the trumpeter Dave Douglas. Late that year, the 88-year-old scattered some characteristically pungent sax propositions and a few quirky scat vocals into the path of Barron’s trio on Frescalalto (2017).

Cologne’s accomplished WDR Big Band also invited Konitz (a resident in the German city for some years) to record new arrangements of his and Tristano’s music, and in 2018 his performance with the Brandenburg State Orchestra of Prisma, Gunter Buhles’s concerto for alto saxophone and full orchestra, was released. In senior years as in youth, Konitz kept on confirming Wheeler’s view that he was never happier than when he didn’t know what was coming next.

Konitz was married twice; he is survived by two sons, Josh and Paul, and three daughters, Rebecca, Stephanie and Karen, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

• Lee Konitz, musician, born 13 October 1927; died 15 April 2020

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[ad_1] The Cleveland Browns have only reached the postseason twice since being brought back to life in 1999, but two of the franchise's latest free agent additions, three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Za'Darius Smith and two-time Super Bowl champion safety Juan Thornhill, insist speaking the goal of a Super Bowl out loud isn't too lofty. Smith has reached conference championship games multiple times with the Green Bay Packers, but never the big game. The 27-year-old Thornhill was a starter on the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl wins that concluded the 2019 and 2022 seasons. "I feel like it is, but my main goal right now is get a (Super Bowl) ring," Smith said, via the Akron Beacon Journal, when asked about being able to put up All-Pro-caliber numbers next to Browns two-time First Team All-Pro Myles Garrett. "That's something that I never have experienced. So that's the No. 1 goal is help this team win a Super Bowl. Well, first of all, win the [AFC] North, well, win the division, sorry, and then go on and play in the Super Bowl. ... Self goals is something that's going to come once you play part of the team, once you do your job basically." Smith, who was acquired in a trade in which only late-round raft picks were exchanged, is one of many reinforcements the Browns added to their roster this offseason. Thornhill is hoping to bring some of the championship mindset over from Kansas City to a hungry Cleveland roster after signing a three-year, $21 million deal in free agency. "I like to be the underdog a little bit going into the season," Thornhill said last week. "Not everyone thinking that you're going to be, like, the No. 1 team. Kansas City, everybody put them up there, No. 1, they think they're going to win every year. But me coming here, I feel like I can add something to the team and bring something to the team to get us to that top level, and I just will feel accomplished if we did that well." Smith has won five consecutive division titles -- the AFC North in his final year with the Ravens in 2018, three consecutive NFC North crowns with the Packers from 2019-2021, and an NFC North title in his one year with the Vikings in 2022 -- and he strongly believes winning that division title to start the playoffs at home is a critical component of postseason success. "'Cause that's where it starts," Smith said. "I feel like if you set goals, it got to start from there. If you don't win a division, it's really not a possibility of going to the Super Bowl. ... A lot of guys don't focus on that, they just talk about the Super Bowl, but the main goal is to win the division first, be on top and hopefully go the playoffs, get a bye and go from there."Cleveland winning the AFC North would be grounds for raucous celebration in Northeast Ohio as Smith's and Thornhill's total career number of eight division titles won are more than the Browns' five that have occurred since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger. In the minds, of Smith and Thornhill, history is just that, the past. "It's all good," Thornhill said. "Like I said, it's a new start. Whatever happened last year is last year. This is a new year and this is what we're working for -- to get to the Super Bowl this season." 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