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49ers’ Shanahan on Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors: ‘Nothing has changed’

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49ers’ Shanahan on Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors: ‘Nothing has changed’

SANTA CLARA — As trade rumors engulf Brandon Aiyuk’s idling status with the 49ers, coach Kyle Shanahan said Tuesday that “nothing has changed.” Defensive end Nick Bosa, a year removed from his own contract battle with the 49ers, called such negotiations “brutal,” but then expressed confidence “it will get done” between the 49ers and Aiyuk. The Pittsburgh Steelers re-emerged as a potential trade partner after talks stalled Monday night, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported after the 49ers’ 1 1/2-hour practice. Asked if he expects the situation to be resolved soon, Shanahan said: “No. You always want it to be, badly. This stuff takes time. Every day I hope it gets resolved. Hopefully it will get resolved sooner than later.” Aiyuk, as he has done throughout this camp, briefly watched practice from afar. General manager John Lynch observed all of it on the field and walked off afterward with coach Kyle Shanahan, who then headed for his regularly scheduled press conference. “I’m not going to get into specifics with offers or trades,” Shanahan added. “A lot (of news) was out yesterday but the situation we’re in with Brandon, nothing has changed.” The 49ers had agreed to trade proposals by two teams, the Cleveland Browns and the New England Patriots, as reported Monday night by NBC Sports Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco. Aiyuk presumably gets to have a say on whether any deal progresses, conceivably with the lucrative contract extension he has anxiously sought from the 49ers for six months — and counting. The 49ers have granted Aiyuk permission to speak with other teams, and although Shanahan said he spoke with him earlier in camp about his plight, any business talk runs between Lynch and Aiyuk’s agent. Could Aiyuk still secure a long-term deal with the 49ers? “There’s a scenario with everything, so I wouldn’t rule anything out,” Shanahan added. “Brandon is a great player, so it’s real hard when you lose a great player. We have to look into everything and understand the situation we’re in. It takes time.” Shanahan quipped that it would take only 2 1/2 days to bring a new receiver up to speed in the offense if one is acquired in return via trade. Then he noted that experience would play a factor. For example, the Cleveland Browns’ Amari Cooper might integrate quicker as he enters his 10th season. Ricky Pearsall, the 49ers’ first-round draft pick, was pulled out of Tuesday’s practice after aggravating a shoulder injury tracing to the spring, Shanahan added.  Other receivers injured this camp include Jacob Cowing (hamstring; returned Tuesday) and Danny Gray (shoulder). “Even though Brandon is dealing with that (contract) right now, he’s still around. He’s in the meeting rooms and very active,” wide receivers coach Leonard Hankerson said. “… He’s been good. He’s been active and awesome.” Deebo Samuel and Jauan Jennings have been the go-to targets, both of whom are on their second contracts, something Aiyuk is looking to sign either with the 49ers or elsewhere. Related Articles

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49ers’ tackles adapting without Trent Williams — and against Nick Bosa

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“As it got closer and closer (to the opener), it gets pretty dicey,” Bosa said. “But I definitely didn’t want to be traded. It’s a good place to be. I’m very thankful and grateful to be paid and here, because there are not many organizations as good as this one.” Aiyuk is slated to play this season on the fifth-year option of his rookie contract, with a $14.1 million salary that is at least half the market rate for a No. 1-caliber receiver. The 49ers offense has flourished in recent years and Aiyuk’s back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons illustrate what a reliable target he’s become for third-year quarterback Brock Purdy. When Bosa was asked if he won his contract staredown with the 49ers, he replied: “I’m not going to comment but they are tough.” McCAFFREY DINGED UP? Running back Christian McCaffrey, the NFL’s reigning rushing champion, has a calf strain that will keep him out of the preseason and out of practice the next few weeks. Hamstring strains have sidelined Elijah Mitchell and Isaac Guerendo, so to counter the backfield’s sudden attrition, Matt Breida re-signed and practiced Tuesday. Breida played for the 49ers from 2017-19.

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NFL WildCard Round Reaction

1. Jared Goff Lives!!!

Detroit Lions 24-23 Los Angeles Rams

I may have picked the Rams to win 27-24 in this one, but I'm actually glad to have been wrong here, and the Lions get to keep thier cinderella season going for another week of playoff ball.

First I gotta give props to the job that the Lions did to stop the run.

Among my predictions, was that the Rams would rely heavily on Kyren Williams, and instead he had a measley 13 carries for 61 yards.

Instead this was a duel to see who could throw the ball and both teams gave a healthy amount of opportunities to multiple pass catchers, and really relied on thier passing game, and as I said in my prediction, that if it came down to which roster has more talent at a given position, the Lions would win out.

Congratulations to the city of Detroit, for thier years of dedication, they fully deserve to bask in this for a little.

2. A Sobering End To A Somber Season

Philadelphia Eagles 9- 32 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

You know, I really thought that just for one game, the Eagles defensive co-ordinators and thier db's alike, would get it together for long enough to win just one playoff game, against an opponent they should be better than.

Alas, I really did not understand/account for just how much better Tampa's recievers are than the Eagles db's. My prediction of a low scoring 21-17 victory for the Birds, was but mere fodder to the NFL gods.

Tampa scored a touchdown via rookie reciever Trey Palmer to take a 25-9 lead, the game was over.

Sad how this season unfolded for the Eagles.

Jalen Hurts was valiant but playing from behind from s early in the game meant he was never going to get a chance to play his game and allow the Eagles to establish the run, instead he threw the ball 35 times for 250 yards.

It wasn't what many would have hoped for but the Eagles are back to the drawing board and in desparate need of someone who can fix that defense.

3. Frozen Tuna

Kansas City Chiefs 26-7 Miami Dolphins

Outside of how big of a lead the Chiefs were able to build, this game went pretty much the way I expected and Miami have to wear the hat of being the warm weather team that can't go on the road in the cold come January.

I expect Chris Broussard to bring out the break dancers come Monday night.

My score predictions was the Chiefs winning 21-17, so I am not to unhappy about my accuracy there.

What I will say, is that in the next round, unless the Steelers pull off the mother of all upsets, the Chiefs are actually going to have to play a team with healthy recievers, a real quarterback and in all likelihood have to go on the road.

Well done Kansas, but a tougher test awaits next weekend.

4. The Bills And The Balance

Buffalo Bills 31-17 Pittsburgh Steelers

This went pretty much how I expected, and I had the score almost exactly.

Originially, this game was meant to be played on Saturday, but due to weather conditions that literally looked like Sylvester Stallone's "Detox".

The Steelers offense was never going to give them a shot at competing against a Buffalo Bills team that seem to have perfected the art of balance at just the right time, and while James Cook's 78 yards on 18 carries doesn't jump out as a stat, it's a very necessary part of this Bills offense.

Josh Allen was great today, and he spread the ball around, threw to 7 different teammates, and even when the Steelers looked like they were mounting a comeback, the Bills offense killed that off with Khalil Shakir's touchdown.

All well and good, but next weekend, the Bills will be at home to Kansas City, and that will be the real litmus test for thier season.

5. Above The Clouds, CJ Stroud

Cleveland Browns 14-45 Houston Texans

This to me, is the biggest upset of the weekend and as good as the Browns were in the regular season, this will feel lie a big time let down because of how they lost, and my prediction of a 27-20 win for the Brown couldn't have been more off.

First off, I think a healthy chunk of blame should go to defenseive co-ordinator Jim Schwartz, he did not read the scouting report on CJ Stroud, gave the Texans wide recievers single high safety and man-coverage on key downs.

Then there was the absolutely aenimic performance by Browns qb Joe Flacco, and to be fair, long time NFL fans would have seen that coming, and that his rejuvination could not hold up forever.

But the biggest reason the Browns lost is because CJ Stroud is a legitimate NFL quarterback, point blank, end of story. This guy is showing a lot of signs of being next in that Mahomes/Rodgers tier, as far as his throwing ability.

CJ Stroud has arrived.

6. Aaron Who?

Dallas Cowboys 32-48 Green Bay Packers

While I am more upset about the Browns, this result is the one that would have lead the sports talk shows on Monday and what I first predicted would be a 34-27 win for the Cowboys, has turned out to be the most facrica and shambolic of all the weekend's results.

The Dallas Cowboys are a ship with no paddle. A rudderless vagabond wondering through the sands of time.

As far as the Packers are concerned, my only question is "Aaron who?".

Aaron Jones, that is. 3 touchdowns, 118 yards on 21 carries and the Packers rusher had himself a momentous day, at times making the Dallas Cowboys defense look undersized, as was pointed out by Richard Sherman on Undisputed.

However this will be remembered as Jordan Love's announcement on the national stage and 3 touchdowns, 272 yards on just 21 pass attempts, is the type of thing that represents a building block for the Packers future.

The Packers will go on to face the 9ers next week, but Dallas will provide the offseason's annual comedy.

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Steelers take a step closer to adding weapon with Hall of Fame blood

Steelers take a step closer to adding weapon with Hall of Fame blood The Pittsburgh Steelers still have a shot at making the playoffs heading into the final week of the 2022 NFL regular season. Ahead of their all-important game against the Cleveland Browns at home this coming Sunday, the Steelers worked out a couple of players Tuesday. One of them was guard Mike Panasiuk, and the other was tight end Thaddeus Moss. https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/1610425381206491136 Both names would hardly turn heads, but at least for Moss, his has a little buzz to it. After all, he is the son of Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss. Unlike his dad, however, Thaddeus Moss is having a difficult time finding residence in the NFL, but the Steelers could potentially give him another chance in the pros. That being said, he’s probably still a long shot to make it to the main roster of the Steelers, who currently own an 8-8 record and would need a win over the Browns on Sunday plus other dominoes to fall in their favor to get a ticket to the postseason and play beyond Week 18. Thaddeus Moss is perhaps best known, outside of being the son of Randy Moss, as a member of the LSU Tigers squad that won the national title in 2020. That team was loaded with talent and led by now-Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Moss even had two touchdowns in the 20202 National Championship Game against the Clemson Tigers. At the moment, the Steelers don’t have a pressing need to add a tight end. They still have Pat Freiermuth, who is second on the team with 732 receiving yards to go with two touchdowns. May be you like other products below, let's buy to cheerleading our Steelers: Pittsburgh Steelers Bomber Jacket graphic curve 3XL/, Pittsburgh Steelers Bomber Jacket graphic heart ECG line 4XL Personalize Customize/, Pittsburgh Steelers Bomber Jacket graphic heart ECG line 4XL Personalize/,

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Six Ohio State Players Selected in 2022 NFL Draft

Ohio State University has one of the most distinguished college football programs in the United States. The Buckeyes football team, founded in 1904, has won 40 conference titles and eight national championships, the most recent of which was in 2014. The school has also done a great job at preparing athletes to play in the National Football League (NFL). Fifty-two former Buckeyes were on NFL rosters at the beginning of the 2022 season, which was second to only the University of Alabama. Six Buckeyes were selected in the 2022 NFL Draft.

Wide receivers Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave headlined Ohio State's 2022 NFL Draft class, as they were selected back-to-back at 10th and 11th overall by the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints, respectively. Wilson was the first Ohio State receiver to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft since the Miami Dolphins took Ted Ginn seventh overall in 2007. His first-round selection marked seven consecutive years in which a Buckeyes player was drafted in the first round.

Named a first-team All-American by the Athletic and the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Wilson finished the 2021 season with 70 catches for 1,058 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns. He is tied for eighth all-time in career receiving yards (2,213) by an Ohio State player. He is also tied for eighth in program history with 143 career receptions and ranks seventh with 23 career touchdowns.

Olave, selected by the Saints one pick after Wilson, was the ninth Buckeyes receiver ever taken in the first round of the NFL Draft. A team captain in 2021, he finished his senior year with 65 catches for 936 yards and 13 touchdowns and was named first-time All-American by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). Olave holds the Ohio State record for most career touchdowns (35) and is third and fifth, respectively, in receptions (176) and receiving yards (2,711).

Offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere (Tennessee Titans), tight end Jeremy Ruckert (New York Jets), defensive end Tyreke Smith (Seattle Seahawks), and offensive lineman Thayer Munford (Las Vegas Raiders) were the other four Buckeyes selected in the 2022 NFL Draft. Petit-Frere, chosen 69th overall in the third round, is a 6-foot-5, 315-pound tackle who was considered among the best in college football at his position last season. He was named first-team All-American by CBS Sports and the FWAA.

Ruckert, also selected in the third round, is a 6-foot-5, 252-pound tight end who played 46 games for the Buckeyes from 2018 to 2021 and was included on the 2021 Mackey Award Watch List for the top tight ends in the country. Smith, a fifth-round selection, was a key member of the Buckeyes defense who won three Big Ten titles with the team. He concluded his Ohio State career with 55 tackles and seven sacks.

Munford, selected in the seventh round, earned four all-Big Ten Conference honors in his five-year career at Ohio State and was an AFCA first-team All-American in 2021. He was awarded the Ohio State Block “O” jersey for displaying unmatched character, toughness, and accountability in 2021.

Two other players on the Ohio State roster in 2021 signed free agent deals with NFL teams. Defensive tackle Garrett Haskell signed with the Titans, while running back Master Teague III signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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17 Things that Will Make You Smile After a Devastating Steelers Loss

Who wants to talk about the game yesterday? Didn't think so. Here's 17 things to make you happy in spite of what we won't talk about...

Let’s face it, there was nothing good about that Steeler game. The whole city wants to forget it ever happened. To lessen the sting of that Jags win, we put together a list of 17 things we hope make you smile. 1. Knowing you’re not a Browns fan. 2. Juju Smith-Schuster’s French bulldog Boujee. 3. 124 days until Kennywood’s opening day. 4. 235 days until the 2018 Steeler season begins. 5. The…

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the worst movie tie-ins in the history of wrestling

Wrestling is stupid, and will show its ass at the mere mention of cross-promotion, especially when it comes to movies, which is it's cooler older brother that can get away with a lot more. Hell, the 2nd ever SummerSlam's main event, in 1989, was Hulk Hogan facing the main villain, Tiny Lister as Zeus (RIP), from the film they were both in, No Holds Barred. So wrestling's always wanted a piece of that. So... - Army of the Dead Let's just get this one out of the way. Here's the thing; I thought the WrestleMania Backlash's card was fucking perfect...except for this weird business. WMB MIGHT've been the best show of the pandemic (hot take) were it not for making sure we sell Big Dave's big zombie heist movie. If they had just kept some of the guys in zombie makeup on the Thunderdome's webcam footage, that would have been borderline charming. But instead, the Miz (who was WWE champion 3 months ago, don't forget) and Damien Priest (who they're making WWE's pop-culture liaison so far on the main roster, for some reason) had to sell for zombies in a lumberjack match. If this was the first ever wrestling show you watched with a loved one who had never watched wrestling or hadn't since like, the end of the Attitude Era, would you for a second want them to stick around after Miz and Morrison get, for all intents and purposes, kayfabe killed and eaten, and then watch Damien Priest shoot the logo at the ceiling? My money's on "no." - Shaft Speaking of the Attitude Era, anytime someone tells you that wrestling was cooler in that 3-year time frame, point them to the June 15th of 2000 episode of SmackDown, where a storyline that ran throughout the show followed Patterson and Briscoe through New York City to find Crash Holly and his Hardcore Title. Now, I admit parts of this are kinda funny, like Briscoe just wanting to give up and find a "gen-yoo-WINE New York hot dawg!" That's fun! And who does Crash Holly run into but none other than Shaft, and his woman, the only one who understands this complicated man, John Shaft. So, we have real Samuel L. Jackson, playing fake John Shaft, talking to real/fictional Crash Holly, and man is it weird. Anyway, Shaft agrees to be Crash's bodyguard for the night, and he slaps around Patterson and Briscoe in a nightclub. After all, what better way to get across how cool and badass a character is than having him knock around the fucking Stooges? - The Wrestler Well, this is complicated. The Wrestler, starring ancient wooden lion Mickey Rourke, is a somber tale about an industry that, in its heyday, left people physically spent, washed-up and addicted to adrenaline at best, and dead at worst. It famously moved Roddy Piper to tears because he recognized what destruction and brokenness the industry once left in its wake. Which is why it's super-weird that WWE jumped at the chance to promote maybe the bleakest possible look at their world in 2009, and did so by having Chris Jericho smack the shit out of three old wrestlers at WrestleMania 25, including Roddy Piper. And then have Rourke jump into the ring, wearing his "do you want to take peyote in the desert?" starter kit and bring out his amateur boxing chops. Tonally, it's just really bleak. Like if the creator of Super Size Me screened the premiere at the world's biggest McDonald's. - Bride of Chucky Poor Rick Steiner. You didn't deserve this. You're the sane Steiner. They shouldn't have made you talk to the puppet. So, WCW was heading into Halloween Havoc 1998, and after years of stomping all over the WWF in the ratings, the wheels had come off, and dramatically. Like, all at once. Like the car in the Blues Brothers. To boost PPV buys, they spent a fortune bringing in the Ultimate Warrior to rekindle a feud with Hulk Hogan, mostly by hiding in his fucking mirror. And the Steiner Brothers, one of the best teams of the early 90s, had been feuding with one another since Scott turned on his at SuperBrawl. What was the best way to build hype around this match at Halloween Havoc? Why, to have Rick get into a war of words - and lose - to Chucky. Yes.

Serial killer doll voiced by Brad Dourif, and it's so sad. Chucky cusses Rick out while Rick challenges the fucking doll to a fight, which is promptly ignored (Chucky's video segment is pre-recorded, and you can tell because he starts talking about 3 times in 3 minutes while Rick's mid-promo and missing his cues to stop) and then is made fun of. And all the while, people were probably wondering "what's going on on Vince's show?" and the answer is...that was the episode of Raw where Austin fills Vince's Corvette with cement, which is slightly more badass than being teased by a puppet. - The Goods Here's the thing: Raw is, right now, a bad show. It is bad TV. It's been bad for a while now. And as bad as it is right now, it's still not as fuck-awful as it was in 2009, aka the Age of the Guest Hosts (which, in kayfabe, was given to us by Donald J. Trump, so blame that ambulatory Nazi scrotum for one more thing, he's certainly earned it). For those of you fortunate enough to not be watching what was objectively unwatchable at the time - and hell, I sure as shit wasn't checking in very often - from mid-2009 to around mid-2010, a celebrity would be the special guest host of Monday Night Raw, often to promote a TV show or movie, and it was nearly all horribly-written, cheesy wank. Imagine if every week was the week of the zombie attack at Backlash. That's what it was like. Bob Barker was funny. The Muppets were good. And THAT'S the end of the list. MacGruber coming out to blow up R-Truth made me want to fall on a knife. The A-Team coming out to beat up Virgil was fucking awful. Go straight to fucking HELL, the Three Stooges, Dennis Miller, the reverend Al Sharpton, the 2010 Pittsburgh Steelers, Don Johnson and Jon Heder, the poor entire cast of Hot Tub Time Machine...and then there's Piven. Jeremy Piven. He showed up with Ken Jeong to promote a movie no one remembers...called the Goods. He stunk up several segments, infamously called SummerSlam "the Summer Fest" and then got roughed up by John Cena. Wrestling's the worst. Stop watching. And many did. For a looooooong time. - Robocop 2 This one's infamous, so I'll keep it brief. Robocop 2 came out in 1990, and goddamn, I don't know how much money the producers threw at WCW, but it was enough for them to rebrand an entire PPV "Capitol Combat: the Return of Robocop" and marketed the entire thing around the fancy metallic gentleman. The branding really made it seem like Robert Cop was old friends with the promotion, and indeed, old friends with Sting. Makes sense; two big, heroic idiots running on BASIC. He had been feuding with the Four Horsemen, who locked him in a cage at ringside. Out comes Robocop, called completely straight by Jim Ross, who rips the cage door off his hinges, and then leaves. An accumulated 85 seconds of screen time. Totally worth being the centerpiece of this PPV! But a little context as to why WCW fans hated it so much: 1989, the year before, was regarded by WCW fans as one of the best in company history. The era that gave us stuff like Chi-Town Rumble and the still-very-much-lauded peak of the Steamboat/Flair feud. To go from that to Robocop was seen as a bit of a slap in the face, because WCW was always seen as the more traditional "wrasslin'" company and was never into cheesy pop-culture crossovers, which is why the last one...is all the funnier.

- Ready To Rumble First of all, those dumbasses at Turner had to give Michael Buffer - who they still had on retainer - around $350,000 just to use that title, because he owns the trademark to that phrase. Strike 127 million, capitalism, that a guy gets to own a phrase and gets paid an obscene amount when he or anyone else uses it. Secondly, I initially wasn't going to do movies where the promotion itself is producing the movie, or oh holy HELL would See No Evil and the infamous May 19 shit be on here. But unlike See No Evil, this had a hand in killing a decades-old wrestling promotion, so it feels weird to not include it. On April 7th, 2000, bad movie Ready To Rumble was released, a film about two hapless dorks trying to help Oilver Platt, aka the lawyer from the West Wing, become WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Two weeks later, to promote the movie, they made David Arquette, the lead actor in the movie, the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. He pinned Eric Bischoff, who wasn't the champion, of course, in a match where he was teamed with Diamond Dallas Page, his best pal and the company's top babyface at the time, but who is also one of the villains in the film to make it extra confusing for the mainstream casual audience the movie was made to attract. And, to be fair, Arquette didn't want to do it, NO ONE really wanted to do it, and it tanked viewership for WCW once and for all. At the very least, David took his payday from the wrestling appearances and the film and gave it to the families of Owen Hart, Brian Pillman and to Darren Drozdov, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in a wrestling match the previous year.

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2021 NFL Predictions

Man, as someone who occasionally spends too much time thinking about the NFL (football: the closest thing American sports have to a turn-based strategy game) and trying to predict how its season will go it occurs to me: why do all this work in my head and not write it up?  So, here goes nothing:

(Terminology note: “true talent” = estimate of how many games I would expect the team to win given average luck and schedule.  The categories are derived off the old 16-game schedule because that’s what I was drawing off of and I’ll need to see how the new schedule plays to calibrate the break points now: as it is, “Super Bowl contender”: true-talent 12-13 wins or better (in 16 games); “division contender”: 10-12 wins; “wild card contender": 7-10 wins, with 9-10 being “upper end” and 7-8 being “low end”; everyone below that is bad.)

- The AFC South got fucked by the scheduling gods (they drew the AFC East and NFC West, likely the two deepest divisions in the NFL), and I will be quite surprised if any team in it gets a wild card. (Let’s take an upper-case outcome and assume the second-place team in the division sweeps two terrible teams and splits with the division champ.  That’s five wins.  Assume the Jets are terrible too and that’s six.  And then... what?  Barring a Kliff implosion and/or the Rams rolling injuries to the stars on their stars-and-scrubs roster the worst team in the NFC West should be at least true-talent seven wins.  New England could be trash if Mac is bad or gets injured now that Hoyer is their best backup, but otherwise every non-Jets team in the AFC East is true-talent nine wins or better.  Cross-divisional?  Not likely unless the Colts implode due to injuries and Jacksonville does massively better than expected - they get the Bengals and Broncos, and the Falcons might also count depending on whether that team hits its fail states.  The AFC South would even have a hard time benefiting if both the Browns and Chargers implode, because the third place team last year is the one team basically guaranteed to be terrible in Houston.  A wild card isn’t impossible, but it needs a whole lot of dice rolls to go in a team’s favor either on the field or between games - which is by definition not likely.)

- The NFC North also gets an uphill climb to a wild card. They rolled the NFC West, the AFC North, and the new cross-conference against the AFC West, an absolutely brutal set.  Getting a wild card out of that probably needs at least 4-2 in the division (probably needs exactly one of CHI/MIN to implode, though sniping a game off Green Bay also works) and some good fortune either in games that should be close in true talent or in events elsewhere (the easy road involves at least two implosions in CLE/PIT/ARI).

- The AFC East probably gets a wild card.  They rolled the AFC South (likely 2-3 games where you’re heavily favored if you’re even a wild card contender) and the NFC South (admittedly not free, but NO and CAR are both probably winnable and while I’m high on the Falcons they have significant downside risk - there’s also the possibility that Father Time finally gets to the far side of his near-Brady experience), plus the Jets and the new cross-conference game against the NFC East.  Worlds where the AFC East doesn’t get a wild card probably involve both multiple implosions in the AFC North and West and at least one of Coach of the Year Robert Saleh and OROY Zach Wilson.

- The AFC West probably gets a wild card?  They rolled the other likely weak division in the NFC East, which goes a long way, and frankly there’s enough teams with implosion risk in the AFC North and West (CLE, DEN, maybe LAR, maybe PIT) that it’s probably going to happen to someone.

- The NFC East... they’re probably exporting a whole bunch of wins as well?  Not a guarantee, though, I could actually see them get a wild card if there’s enough implosions in either the NFC South or the AFC West.

- The AFC North might be the highest-variance division in football.  If they hit the high end they’re absolutely stacked, but there’s a real risk the Browns are fool’s gold (I think they were a true-talent 8-8 team last year that lucked into one of the easiest schedules in years, the question is how much they improved) and that Father Time gets The Older Rapist enough to knock the Steelers down to a true-talent 8 win team (have a hard time seeing them go further down with Mike Tomlin’s team-building, though admittedly they might underperform that given Tomlin’s occasional issues with not covering certain receivers and looking past bad teams on the road).  One thing’s for sure: I don’t think there’s enough wins for all of the AFC North, AFC West, and NFC North to get wild cars.

- The NFC South has one good team (barring Father Time finally getting Brady, one that should be decent (Payton isn’t a bad coach), and two that could be anywhere from wild-card contenders to outright collapses.  Note that with the Easts and Souths playing each other this year, there’s too many wins for both the NFC East and NFC South to whiff wild cards unless both divisions seriously export wins to the AFC (in which case the AFC North has an uphill climb and there’s a pretty good chance that the AFC East gets two wild cards and the other goes to the AFC West).

(Bonus under the cut: individual team thoughts!)

- Bills: Should be in the playoffs and are the division favorites, but slightly more downside than they’re getting credit for. The problems are twofold: what should have been the second most favorable schedule in the division (because the likely best teams in both the AFC North and NFC East did not finish first last year) is salted by the schedule gods taking away: they draw Pittsburgh in the season opener so are the single most likely team to face a full-strength The Older Rapist, and they draw Washington in September as well maximizing the chance that they get Fitzpatrick before he inevitably turns back into a pumpkin.  (Fitzpatrick playing out of his mind and beating the Bills mostly singlehandedly and getting Team fans’ hopes up before dashing them would be peak Fitzpatrick...)  More to the point, their early schedule is PIT, @MIA, WAS, HOU, @KC, @TEN; it’s not out of the question they start 2-4 or even 1-5 going into the bye if the stars really align against them, and at that point locker room morale becomes a factor.

- Dolphins: Wild card contender (true talent roughly 10 wins), could be more if Tua really develops or the Bills stumble. Good news: they dodge KC and instead get the Raiders in a quite winnable game, on top of the common AFC East schedule, and now they get the Giants (who I suspect are the worst team in the NFC East) as well. More good news: like, the worst Miami is doing against the Pats is a split, right?  Bad news: they face Baltimore.

- Patriots: With Cam gone and Hoyer (a second-tier backup at this point) the presumptive backup the Pats are suddenly one of the highest-variance teams in the league.  If Mac Jones is good immediately they’re a division contender, and if he’s even a competent game manager they’re another true-talent 10-win wild card contender given that run game and possibly that front seven as well. If he’s bad or gets injured, however, they now might very well wind up with a top 10 pick.  Which might actually be part of the point, on top of doing a vet a solid and avoiding any locker room issues?  In a weird sense Belichick is unconstrained by job security in a way no other NFL coach is; he doesn’t have unlimited job security... but he’s also nearly 70, and if the rebuild fails then by the time his seat would really be getting hot he’s probably considering retiring anyways.  So he’s playing with house money.  It’s not likely, but don’t be shocked if the Pats pull what Arizona did a few years back and draft a first-round QB two years in a row - it’s definitely an option if Mac is terrible.

- Jets: Not out of the question as a dark horse if Zach Wilson is good, I’ve been getting good vibes off of Saleh.  Problem is the combination of their division and injury issues; I’m not sure they have the roster to overcome that yet.

- Steelers: Basically covered above.  If Big Ben aka The Older Rapist is still above average they’re a wild card contender or even an outright division contender again; if Father Time gets him and they’re stuck with Mason Rudolph or Dwayne Haskins-level play at QB they probably still win a few games because Mike Tomlin is not a bad coach but they have an uphill climb.

- Baltimore: The one obvious division contender in the AFC North, given a very good quarterback and one of the five best coaches in the league.  Admittedly their OC is potentially a question mark, but they should get back to the playoffs.

- Cleveland: Actually hard to tell.  There’s two offsetting issues here.  First, as mentioned above their schedule was soft as fuck last year and that’s unlikely to still be the case. On the other hand, I think there’s a decent chance they take a step forward this year.  Ceiling is about where their record was last year barring a massive leap, floor is a 7-8 win team unless a bunch of other teams hit their upside at Cleveland’s expense.

- Bengals: Depends on how good and/or healthy Burrow is, but they probably finish last in the division regardless.  Low-end wild card contender if everything goes right?

- Titans: The one team in the AFC South that should actually be good.  Exactly how good depends on things like “did they overuse Derrick Henry last year?” and “is the defense any good at all?”, but the fail state here is a true-talent wild card contender in a likely soft division.

- Colts: Depends on two questions: can they get Wentz back to anything resembling 2018 form, and do they keep getting bit by the injury bug?  AFAICT the core roster is of the classic “quarterback away” type with good D and a decent running game (see also this year: Denver, Washington, possibly Carolina, Pats if Mac Jones doesn’t pan out).  The best case is that they can reclaim Wentz and the injury bug is done with them for the year, in which case they challenge TEN for the division.  Worst case Wentz is bad and/or injured and half their roster is on IR, in which case they get a top-10 pick and the AFC East and NFC West are even more likely to get wild cards than they were already.

- Texans: Obvious tire fire, and not just on the field at this point.  Problem is the tire fire includes both the new owner and his favorite exec, so they’re likely to remain a tire fire for a while...

- Jaguars: Probably depends on how good Trevor Lawrence is and how quickly, especially since I suspect Urban Meyer is at higher-than-usual risk of flaming out.  Best case they’re a true-talent 8 win team that might manage to take advantage of a soft-ish schedule to challenge for the seventh seed.  Otherwise look for them to export wins.

- Chiefs: Obvious Super Bowl contender is obvious, barring a Mahomes injury they’re the presumptive division favorite and near-locks for the playoffs.

- Raiders: I’m high on Carr (solid Tier 2 quarterback IMO, on par with someone like Tannehill and I’d take him over Kirk Cousins - and probably Baker Mayfield, too, though maybe not since Mayfield has less track record and thus higher upside).  I’m considerably less sold on Gruden, and have doubts about what he’s done to the roster.  Still should be a wild-card contender.

- Chargers: How much of last year’s late-season run was fool’s gold?  Not sure.  Could be all, could be none.  IIRC they replaced their head coach, so that hole is at least possibly filled.  Herbert is probably good, though I want another season of track record to be confident.  The real problem here is that they still seem to be connected to some Indian burial ground somewhere.  Upside is division contender, downside is 6 wins or so.

- Broncos: QB-away team in a bad division for it.  At least they get the NFC East, but I suspect they finish out of the playoffs again this year.

(Interlude: A general thing to note about the NFC is that due to two QB injuries and one QB retirement there is exactly one team that finished first place in their division last year that I expect to be the best true-talent team in their division this year.  Worse, due to the aforementioned injuries two teams I expect to be the best or at worst second-best in their divisions finished third and fourth in their divisions last year, respectively.  This is throwing a giant monkey wrench in the usual SOS-based scheduling balance.)

- Football Team: The Football Team has the kind of defense that’s a characteristic of the QB-away team.  There’s two differences between the Team and the usual suspect, however.  First, I’m not entirely sure how good their line and thus running game will be. Second, and more importantly, the usual QB-away team has a consistently mediocre medium-to-high floor, low-ceiling quarterback. The Football Team, by way of contrast, has Ryan Fitzpatrick, arguably the single highest-variance QB of the last two decades, a man who will absolutely win you games you should have lost… and lose you games you should have won.  Also, he’s in his upper 30s and thus at risk of Father Time coming for his NFL career.  So, the questions: how many games do you get Fitzmagic and how many do you get Fitztragic?  If the usual cycle applies, when exactly does he turn back into a pumpkin?  And is the division + the lower end of the NFC South soft enough that it doesn’t matter?

- Giants: Probably the worst team in their division, and my pick for the most likely second-worst team in the NFC.  I don’t like Daniel Jones, I don’t like most of the rest of the roster, and their coach is unimpressive.

- Cowboys: Remember those quarterback injuries I was talking about?  Right.  The ‘Boys are not without flaws – the defense is notoriously questionable (though by preseason reports they may actually have drafted a difference-maker of a linebacker this year) and Mike McCarthy may well be a downgrade compared to Jason Garrett.  But barring another injury (eyes Dak’s shoulder nervously) they have a QB (I’m a bit low on Dak relative to most people, but in this case “low” still means a Tier 2 quarterback roughly on par with Derek Carr), and they should have an offense.  Barring a Jalen Hurts breakout or Fitzpatrick rolling Fitzmagic for most of the year, with a healthy Dak this is at worst a wild-card contender in a weak division and thus the presumptive favorites for the division title.

- Eagles: Oof.  This team is hard to judge, mostly because AFAICT they’re a weird superposition of potentially very good and potentially complete trash (that’s also spelled “very high variance”).  The issues are twofold: they have a largely untested starting quarterback who was roughly average last year but might develop (the aforementioned Hurts), and they have quite a few very good but aging players on the roster.  Best case, Hurts plays like a Tier 2 or even Tier 1 quarterback, the rest of the roster holds, and they’re in contention for the division title and/or a wild card slot.  Worst case, Hurts is meh, the vets fall off or get injured… and then next year might be even worse because at that point you probably need a rebuilding year even if they hit this year’s draft picks.

- Packers: There’s risk here, mostly of the forms “simmering issues blow up the locker room” and “age and/or injury sap Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love is meh or worse”.  But Aaron Rodgers is one of the five best quarterbacks in the NFL until proven otherwise, and both the coach and the rest of the roster are at least decent, so barring those the Packers should be at worst a division contender with Super Bowl aspirations ala the Ravens.

- Chicago: Uh.  Hmm.  I like the Fields pick, gut says he’s a pretty solid bet at a Tier 2 quarterback of some description barring catastrophic injury.  IIRC the D is still good.  But I do not like that O-line, and I do not like that schedule, and I’m not a big fan of Coach Nagy either.  In the NFC East or AFC South the Bears would have at least a decent chance at the playoffs.  Here?  Not so much. It’s not impossible the Bears do well, but I think a top-10 draft pick is more likely.

- Vikings: Hmm.  By true talent the Vikings are probably a wild-card contender in the same vein as the mid-2010s Bengals.  That’s not quite a good comparison, because I’ve got Zimmer as probably a top-10 coach and those Bengals lacked that.  But the rest fits: solid if aging roster (ala the later Dalton Bengals years), overpaid mediocre QB.  Yeah, I’m low on Cousins; IMO he’s a high-floor, low-ceiling type that gets overrated by analytics, the second coming of Matt Schaub.  He’s a solid choice if you want to win 10-12 games (maybe 13 now) and have a shot at the conference championships, but I’ll be very surprised if he ever wins a Super Bowl as a starter. The problem for the Vikes is that they’re in the NFC North and therefore their schedule sucks balls.

- Lions: They’re rebuilding and their schedule is one of the roughest in the NFL.  They might surprise someone early before the lack of talent really shows, IIRC I’ve heard about that happening once before with a Dan Campbell team, but this team is playing for a top-5 draft pick and they’re probably going to get it.

- Saints: Actually really hard for me to tell, mostly because I can’t tell how good the non-QB parts of the roster are this year relative to last.  They’ve lost a HoF quarterback, and while Jameis has seasoning and a possible QB whisperer now I suspect his ceiling is still a high variance high ceiling, low floor type in the Fitzpatrick mold (absolute peak might be Eli mk. II).  Payton is one of the better coaches in the NFL but finished 8-8 with Brees for multiple years.  That said, the Saints’ roster last year was better than it was in those years, especially on defense.  Question: is that still the same this year?  Don’t know; the Saints took non-Brees losses, but I’m not sure how much.  Peak is a true-talent wild card team if Jameis is above average and the rest of the roster is good; fail state is probably 6-7 wins by true talent.

- Buccaneers: Let’s be real, this boils down to a single question, the same one we’ve all been asking for over half a decade now: “is this the year Father Time finally comes for Tom Brady?”.  At this point I’ll believe it when I see it.  And even if yes they’re probably still a playoff team, because the rest of the Buccs roster is still the best in the division and the schedule gods once again blessed Tom Brady’s team with a weak slate of foes – the entire rest of the NFC South has issues, they get the NFC East, and by finishing second-place in the division last year the Buccs get Chicago, the Rams, and now the Colts as their SOS-dependent opponents.  The AFC East with the probable exception of the Jets will be tough (but even there the Buccs luck out – they rolled New England early, and even without a possible Mac Jones adjustment period even if he’s good the first month for the Belichick-era Patriots has often been an adjustment period as the team figures out what’s working and what isn’t) and the Rams should be as well (here the schedule gods frown, the Buccs rolled the Rams early – a lot of the Rams’ downside is injury-related volatility, drawing them early minimizes the chance of this happening prior to this game), but even then the Buccs don’t look severely disfavored in any game and everything else looks very winnable and would even if Brady declines to 2015!Peyton.

- Panthers: I’m not going to lie, I actually rather like the Darnold gamble in a vacuum.  If you’re betting on anyone in the NFL to pull another Tannehill he’s the one, because I’ve gotten the same vibe off him that I got off Tannehill on the Dolphins: possible tier-2 QB held back by coaching (and the same coach, no less).  The problem is, I think he might be better off as a backup behind a mediocre starter for a little while to regain confidence the same way Tannehill was, and instead he’s getting thrown straight into the fire again.  (Also, Fields was available, and Mac Jones too though I’m not sure the Panthers would have been a good place for him to develop.)  The rest of the roster is another QB-away team with a likely very solid defense, Christian McCaffrey, and IIRC an O-line that is at least decent.

- Falcons: Possible sleeper team.  The Falcons have one major advantage that people keep forgetting about: barring a major breakout from one of Jameis and The Darnold, they have at worst the second-best QB in the division, potentially even the best if Father Time gets Brady but not Ryan.  And that’s not damning with faint praise; at his peak I had him as the best Tier 2 quarterback and roughly sixth-best in the NFL overall, that MVP year was not a fluke. He’s just been saddled with bad coaching and bad rosters and been unable to overcome that, which I can’t blame him for given all those 8-8 years for the Brees/Payton Saints in the mid-2010s.  Good news: Dan Quinn is gone, and the schedule this year is soft (49ers game aside).  As I noted above there’s probably a wild card sloshing around for the NFC South and NFC East, and I would not be surprised in the slightest if the Falcons got it.

- Seahawks: … We know the book on the Seahawks by now, right? Top-5 quarterback in the NFL (and of the three I would take over Russ on the field itself, two are old enough for Father Time to be a real concern and the last is testing exactly how bad off-field issues have to be to make a Tier 1 quarterback unemployable in the NFL), average roster otherwise, coach who is average at worst.  That’s been a true-talent division contender for the last half-decade, and barring injury or locker room issues blowing up I see no reason why that would change this year.

- Rams: High variance, for a very specific reason.  The roster, as constructed, is a wild-card contender, or possibly more if Stafford really goes off.  The problem is that due to spending first-round draft picks like candy and not getting enough out of the later rounds to make up for it, this is (as noted above) very much a stars-and-scrubs roster.  And the thing about a stars-and-scrubs roster is that it’s vulnerable in a way that a roster with more depth isn’t; if a star gets injured, your team is facing a massive drop-off in performance.

- Cardinals: Honestly, unless Kliff hits one of his downsides (can’t adjust now that defenses figured out last year’s offense and/or loses the locker room) then by true talent this is probably a low-end wild-card contender at worst (~8 wins).  The problem is, in the NFC West that makes you the worst true-talent team in the division…

- 49ers: So, let’s just point out the obvious: last year was a case study in just how badly a possible true-talent Super Bowl contender has to get injured in order to get a top-10 pick. Admittedly part of that is that Jimmy G. sure seems to merit the injury-prone label at this point, which is why the 49ers traded up for another QB, but the rest of it is just extremely bad luck and that’s unlikely to persist year-to-year.  This is probably the best team in the NFC West, which is saying something.  (Unfortunately for them, Shanahan is in the Reid/Tomlin bucket and his weaknesses as a game coach make an actual Superb Owl an uphill climb.)

Bonus: Thoughts on the new QB class!

Trevor Lawrence: There’s obvious sample size issues, but quarterback prospects that highly rated haven’t busted in at least 30-40 years (Luck, Peyton, and Elway were all stars).  He’s probably gonna be good.

Zach Wilson: Man, I was all ready to write The Other Wilson off as another LOLJets bust after the draft and then he played well in preseason and Saleh actually looks like the first competent coach the Jets have hired in a while (which may still not help him keep his job because the AFC East is now nuts).  We’ll see if that holds during the regular season; among other things he has the misfortune of playing Belichick in week 2.

Trey Lance: So far looks to be talented as fuck and also raw as fuck.  Shanahan seems to be pretty good at developing quarterbacks?

Justin Fields: I’ve gotten future Tier 2 quarterback vibes off him ever since he was drafted; the problem is he’s on the Bears, with questionable coaching and at least this year what looks like a terrible O-line as well.  Possible next Stafford here?

Mac Jones: People don’t understand the probability curve here – the risk with Mac isn’t the ceiling, it’s the very good but not great outcomes.  He got a first-round draft grade despite  physical limitations, and he’s almost certainly not just being carried by his school – possibly even the opposite given the talent argument and Bama QBs’ track records.  To me, that says he’s a one-tool player whose tool is the mental tool.  And of all the QB tools that is by far the most important.  So, the question: does that tool play in the NFL?  If no, he’s probably a third-tier quarterback at best.  If yes?  Well, in that case there’s a very real chance he’s a Hall of Famer.

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June 9, 2021

Looking at the Washington Football Team (WFT) defense at first glance, they look like the beast of the NFL; Built on destroying opposing offenses around the NFL. Last year they put up some great numbers and won the NFC East, but a deep dive reveals that they may be vastly overrated.

First, let’s look at how the WFT finished the 2020 NFL season. While taking the division crown at 7-9 is certainly cause for celebration amongst their fanbase, (on brand to be honest) last year should be looked at as the worst year for the division in its history; Marking the first time a division champion had finished below .500. It should also be noted that their division rivals were ravaged with injuries at key positions, particularly the offensive lines for the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles.

Looking at Washington’s 7 wins is very interesting to say the least. They beat the Cowboys (6-10) and Eagles (4-11) twice respectively, the Cincinnati Bengals (4-11), 49ers (6-10) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4). 7 total wins and only one vs an above .500 team; Echoing what was shouted at every Cowboys fan and Dak Prescott: “You beat up on bad teams”, “No quality wins”, “It’s easy to put up stats on bad teams”. The teams beaten by the WFT had a record of 32-46….. Combined. Yikes!

Now, let’s look at the quarterbacks this defense squared off against. This defense faced Ben Roethlisbeger (Big Ben), Carson Wentz (before his exile to the bench), his successor Jalen Hurts (a rookie), the “illustrious” Andy Dalton (twice), Joe Burrow (another rookie) and finally Nick Mullens. With all due respect to all on this list, the only quarterback you would argue is halfway potent is Big Ben. After that, the drop off is like skydiving. Pretty safe to say none of these quarterbacks would make you fear facing them on a Sunday evening.

I touched on it earlier, but we have to about the offensive line when discussing quarterbacks. It’s no secret how vital the offensive line is to the success of a football team and the impact it has on a roster as a whole. Of all the teams the WFT beat, only the Steelers had a stable offensive line comprised of their starters. All the rest were either patchwork jobs due to crippling injuries or just plain horrible lines which didn’t do their respective quarterback any favors.

In the 7 wins, this defense racked up 29 total sacks. Mind you, this is without incorporating quarterback pressures. That’s the positive picture. Here’s the negative: In their nine losses, The Washington Football Team amassed 18 sacks… That’s quite a drop off, but why?

Washington's losses came at the hands of these quarterbacks: Daniel Jones Twice (No seriously), Kyler Murray, Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, Jared Goff, Matt Stafford, Russell Wilson, and finally Teddy Bridgewater. Of this list I can tell you for sure there are at least five I know that will cause headaches for any defense and sure, collectively, it’s a good group but how were those teams as a whole?

The Seattle Seahawks (12-4), Los Angeles Rams (10-6), Arizona Cardinals (8-8), Detroit Lions (5-11), Carolina Panthers (5-11), New York Giants (6-10), Baltimore Ravens (11-5), and Cleveland Browns (11-5). Those are some pretty good records for most of them. Something these teams also have in common was having good or at least starting caliber players on the offensive line. Trust me: It makes a huge difference. I know there will be some that look at this and say “but the Seahawks line sucked.” That line did not surrender a sack to this “elite” defense.

Having this context clears up some of the misconceptions, while it’s also very evident that a defense led by a young stud in Chase Young will be a league-wide problem moving forward. Still, let’s pump the brakes on the “elite” label for now. Washington beat up on bad and injury depleted teams, especially the ones who were injured up front or had issues at quarterback. Aside from stopping Big Ben and their streak, they feasted on backup quarterbacks and rookies learning their way; Not very impressive when you put it in these terms.

One last nail to put in the coffin of this discussion: In wins which were against some pretty bad competition, the supposed elite Washington defense surrendered below 20 points in all of those games. However, versus the much better teams, with starting QBs, and formidable offensive line, Washington allowed 30 points 5 times…. 6 if you count the playoff game vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Lastly, Washington should enjoy the small growth of last year from the previous one, but it’s time to put the coronation ceremony on hold before crowning this defense as the best in the NFL or elite.

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A farm. A field. A canyon. A pool. Even a driveway. As NFL players wait for a return to normalcy before the 2020 regular season begins, they have had to get creative with how and where they train.

The ripple effects of these unprecedented times -- nationwide social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic and an unknown timetable for a vaccine --have altered the professional sports landscape, and the NFL is no exception.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell authorized the reopening of all team facilities this week, in accordance with state and local regulations, although coaches and players who are not undergoing rehabilitation are prohibited from entering team buildings. While a handful of clubs took advantage of this allowance, states such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Washington and California are still imposing heavier restrictions that affect a dozen team facilities.

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These inconsistent regulations have also changed the responsibilities of NFL strength trainers, who have spent time remotely assessing the workout needs of players, including their access to resources, as well as acting as liaisons for online equipment purchases. NFL teams were permitted to provide each player with up to $1,500 worth of workout equipment. Nevertheless, players have had to find inventive ways to stay in shape.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins uses his parents' driveway as his outdoor gym. New York Giants wide receiver Golden Tate mowed a track into a steep canyon near his home. Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver James Washington designed a training regimen on his Texas farm. New Orleans Saintslinebacker Demario Davis has his personal trainers living with him. Giants linebacker Blake Martinez became the beneficiary of a state-of-the-art gym. And Cleveland Browns punter Jamie Gillan grabbed some beers and built a "grubby" garage gym.

Even though players' locations, living situations and resources differ, there's a lesson shared by all: There are no excuses.

Big-money quarterback staying with parents

The playful jab is uttered without warning, hurled from the driver's side of a passing vehicle.

"Go Pack, go!"

And in that moment of lighthearted jest, Kirk Cousins can only ignore it. He knows the stop sign in front of the house makes him a sitting duck every morning.

Four times a week, starting promptly at 9 a.m., the Vikings quarterback gathers equipment from the garage and arranges it neatly on the long, curved pavement leading from his parents' house to the sidewalk. Resting on a wooden chair is his laptop, connected by videoconference to his longtime personal trainer, Chad Cook, who is 450 miles away in Atlanta. This is a glimpse into what constitutes the 2020 NFL offseason.

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"I like my privacy, so being out in the driveway, on display for the whole neighborhood to see is probably less than ideal. But desperate times call for desperate measures," Cousins said with a smile during a recent ESPN interview. "If it means a guy drives by in a truck and yells, 'Go Pack, go!' at me while we're working out, then so be it."

The manicured lawns of this Orlando, Florida, suburb serve as a backdrop to Cousins' regimen and his attempt at normalcy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

It's not a "home gym" by any means, Cousins concedes, but he insists he has everything he needs: a medicine ball, jump-rope, foam rollers, free weights and a football. And, the most essential tool of all: the laptop he uses to connect with Cook.

"[Every car will] see me doing my shuffles across the driveway, or my cariocas, or doing the jump-rope or different plank exercises, core work, medicine ball, lunges -- whatever it may be. And different people honk or wave, so it's kind of fun," said Cousins, who signed a two-year, $66 million extension with the Vikings in March.

Spotty Wi-Fi is a challenge when working out outdoors, but sheltering in place with his parents was by design: The nine-year veteran and his wife, Julie, now have plenty of reinforcements when it comes to taking care of their sons, Cooper, 2½, and Turner, 1.

"I kind of laugh when I talk about having two like I have 10," Cousins joked, "because compared to other guys in the league who have three, four, five, six kids, having two is not a big deal."

Dealing with this adversity has reaffirmed his commitment to his craft. It also taught him that the Public Broadcasting Service can be a football player's, as well as a father's, best friend: "'Daniel Tiger['s Neighborhood]' on PBS can be a lifesaver."

'Strict training mode' means living with trainers

The plan was to be in Nashville, Tennessee, for a month, but Demario Davis' offseason residence has become his permanent dwelling during the pandemic. His 7,500-square-foot house, purchased last offseason, is a saving grace of sorts, equipped with enough room for his wife, Tamela, and their four children under the age of 6.

And his two personal trainers.

Davis' trainers, Jose Tienda and Piankhi Gibson, typically work with him in two-to-three-week "strict training mode" spurts before heading back to their respective homes. They'll return to Nashville soon for another extended stay with Davis.

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As the 31-year-old enters his ninth NFL season -- and the final year of his contract -- he is determined not to lose ground to a youngster who might be aiming for his spot.

Mid-morning acupuncture and soft tissue work with Tienda give way to afternoon aqua training in a neighbor's pool with Gibson. Davis pauses for dinner and to help put the kids to bed. But before long, he's headed back for more body work. He crawls into bed around 12:30 or 1 a.m. on those rigorous training days.

With Louisiana still reeling from 35,316 confirmed COVID-19 cases (and 2,485 reported deaths) as of Thursday, Davis wasn't surprised Saints coach Sean Payton -- who was the first known NFL figure to test positive for the coronavirus -- announced there would not be virtual workouts, meetings or workout sessions at the team facility.

"The virtual offseason really wouldn't have fit the flow of how we operate down there," the veteran linebacker said of the Saints, who have one of the oldest rosters in the NFL. "We don't have a young team. ... He knew with our experience level, the strong leaders we have at each position, that we'd get it done as far as training."

While Davis is eager to play, he said he won't waste time guessing when the season will start.

"The pandemic don't know nothing about football season. The virus ain't just like, 'Oh, football season's coming, let me chill out,'" he said with a laugh. "So I'm going to train and stay in shape because that's just a philosophy of mine -- you stay ready at all times. But I think it's a discredit to people who are on the front lines working, and the people who are being affected by it, when we're just thinking about how fast we can get back to sports."

'Grubby little gym' becomes labor of love

The police officers approached without warning.

Jamie Gillan had been punting on a turf field almost an hour away from his Tremont, Ohio, residence, completely unaware of the state's shelter-in-place orders. With nonessential businesses closed, the Browns punter -- nicknamed "The Scottish Hammer" -- had used local fields to practice his kicking drills. That is, until he was no longer allowed.

"[The officers] were like, 'Yeah man, we want to let you punt. We love the Browns and everything, but it's just the rules,'" the Scotland-born special-teamer explained in his thick brogue.

Faced with the prospect of quarantining alone, Gillan chose to go be with family.

He made trips to the liquor store and the supermarket -- packing his truck with several bottles of bourbon for his father, "120 eggs and 16 racks of bacon" -- and then he and his German shepherd named Bear traveled seven hours to southern Maryland to stay with his parents and 19-year-old sister.

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The rural area around his parents' house affords him space to practice his booming kicks, and there's a "massive" field, owned by a friend, which Gillan uses, too. But the self-described "workout junkie" had to get creative with strength training. Soon his parents' garage became his gym.

Unable to buy equipment online because of limited inventory and "skyrocketing" prices, Gillan purchased old equipment from a local high school: barbells, bumper plates, 40-, 80- and 100-pound dumbbells and bands. He purchased rubber matting from a local tractor store.

He searched Facebook Marketplace for a squat rack, but he and his father, Colin, who is a former rugby player and member of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, came up with a better solution -- they would construct their own.

"We came back [from Lowe's], cracked open some beers and just started building it," Gillan said with a chuckle. Even with old, rusty weights, his "grubby little gym" was everything he needed.

Gillan said his resourcefulness was forged during four years playing at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, a historically black university. During offseasons when he and his teammates didn't have access to the gym, their surroundings became their workout room. They bench-pressed and squatted logs, they did dips and pullups on metal bars at local parks, and Gillan hopped fences to punt on neighboring fields when access to their football field was prohibited.

"One thing I notice about a lot of historically black colleges is they're very underfunded," Gillan said, stressing that he and other student-athletes had to be creative. "Maybe it got me prepared for this weird period."

State-of-the-art amenities ease the transition

Blake Martinez's father, Marc, had a master plan: purchase a plot of land 15 minutes from the family home in Tucson, Arizona, and build a facility for his son to train and live. It didn't take long for the idea to become Martinez's reality.

The linebacker thanks his father every day for his ingenuity, as well as his construction company.

The 18,000-square-foot facility -- conceptualized and built last year -- "has everything a football player would need," said Martinez, a 2016 fourth-round draft pick by the Green Bay Packers who signed a three-year, $30 million free-agent contract with the Giants in March.

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The warehouse-looking steel structure contains "a miniature version of a college weight room," a full-length basketball court, a 30-by-15-yard turf field and an outdoor sand volleyball court. It also doubles as a residence, with three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen on the second level for him, his wife, Kristy, and their young daughter.

"It kept getting better and better as it kept getting built," Martinez said. He works out for two hours in person with his longtime trainer, Glenn Howell, four times a week.

But familiarity with his new franchise is a luxury Martinez, 26, doesn't have.

With New York and New Jersey being one of the epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, Martinez doesn't know when he'll be able to travel to the facility or even meet members of the Giants organization for the first time.

"It's not like I've been on the team for a while and I know the guys already. So, it's been tough in that aspect, connecting with guys," he said.

Martinez said the pandemic has taught him "I literally have zero excuses not to show up the first day and make sure I'm 100 percent ready to go and help push all of the younger guys to that level if they haven't gotten there yet."

Making use of California canyons

Golden Tate's stunning San Diego views come at a price.

"I've just got to watch out for rattlesnakes," the Giants wide receiver said with a laugh.

When stay-at-home orders were issued in California in mid-March, Tate took advantage of his surroundings -- namely, the canyon his house is built on.

"It's not the best condition to be running in," admitted the 11-year NFL player, who mowed a 7-by-40-yard patch of grass on a steep incline. "But it'll suffice right now. It's better than doing nothing."

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Tate, a married father of two small kids, purchased PowerBlock dumbbells and a Jugs machine from which he catches about 100 balls a day. He bikes at home on his Peloton and uses mountain bike trails for his aerobic conditioning. But finding a flat surface for route running has been a challenge. So, too, is self-discipline.

"Over my career, I'm so used to having someone -- an instructor or the guys around me -- push me. And right now, I'm forced to push myself," said Tate, who turns 32 on Aug. 2.

The veteran receiver played through the 2011 NFL lockout, but he said the coronavirus pandemic is unlike anything he has experienced.

"I feel bad for the first-, second-, third- and fourth-round guys who are expected to come in and help the team right away, but they're not having the same opportunity to grow as a player, not getting those reps on the field," he said.

"The offseason is when you have the time to really focus on the fundamentals of the game, the bigger picture and the details of the game. And it looks like right now we're going to show up for camp -- if we show up for camp -- in the middle of the fire of trying to figure out who's going to make the team and trying to get ready for a season. That can be overwhelming."

Strengths trainers turned investigators

With their players scattered across the country, NFL strength and conditioning coaches feel more like part-time sleuths and office managers than in-person trainers.

"We kind of went more into equipment sales and trying to be a liaison to help guys get set up and make sure they're doing the right thing," said Justus Galac, now in his seventh year as the New York Jets' head strength and conditioning coach. "What we found was, guys in the Southern states and more into the Midwest had more access than our guys in the Northeast and West Coast."

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Strength trainers have been tasked with identifying what their players need from a performance standpoint to achieve their fitness goals, regardless of where they live and what resources they have access to. "Even though they might have access to a Steak 'n Shake parking lot or they might be in a third floor of an apartment," said Justin Lovett, the Los Angeles Rams' new head strength and conditioning coach.

Lovett was hired in the midst of California's coronavirus shutdown, but unlike during the 2011 lockout year, when he was on the Denver Broncos' staff, communication is permitted and has proved paramount. But there have been challenges.

"The biggest problem with the rookie class is they don't have the money that some of the older guys do," Galac said. "Not saying millions of dollars, but able to go buy equipment, pay for a trainer to take care of them, buying more food that you may normally not have to buy because the facility provides it. All those little things are adding up for these guys. And the rookies, they have no idea. And it's not their fault."

This time of year is crucial for strength staffs, not only for getting players in shape but also for getting new players up to speed with their programs. "And we've lost that," Galac said.

In fact, the Jets' weight room underwent a face-lift this offseason, complete with a new floor, turf accents and equipment. "And nobody's using it," Galac said. "It's sitting empty. The players haven't even seen it yet."

Finding space and serenity in the countryside

James Washington misses football. And, occasionally, his farm.

The 26-acre property the Steelers wide receiver purchased near his hometown of Abilene, Texas, made it easy for him to comply with social distancing rules. It also afforded him space to work out and keep in shape by way of chores. Washington, who was an agribusiness major with a concentration in farm and ranch management at Oklahoma State, finds the countryside calming. He enjoys the views of passing cars, wheat fields and cattle pastures during his eight- to 12-mile rides on his recently purchased bicycle.

His workout setup, which included an assortment of resistance bands sent by the Steelers and his high school dumbbells retrieved from his parents' house, was complete with the arrival of a Jugs machine, which he kept in the barn and carried to a flat area in one of the pastures.

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However, staving off boredom is a challenge whenever he's in Pittsburgh, a more crowded city with fewer options for keeping busy.

"When I was in Texas, I'd work out, do my virtual [team] meetings and then I'd have to find something to do cause I can't just sit in the house," Washington said last week, after he, JuJu Smith-Schuster and fellow receiver Ryan Switzer worked out in quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's home weight room. "Being on the farm really helped me a lot, because there was always something that could have been done."

Washington loves his farm so much his recent stay in Pittsburgh was short-lived. He returned to Texas on Wednesday to celebrate Memorial Day weekend with family and tend to his most recent purchase: cattle. The time away from the Steelers' facility has also given Washington time to think.

"It just doesn't feel right," he said. "Everybody feels like we should be at the facility, doing physical stuff, getting ready to go. ... Even if there's no fans, we still have to go out there and just go 110 percent, even if it would feel weird. Fans help make the game. It's really crazy to think about.

"Just being away from things, you really find out how much you miss the sport. It sucks. That's really what I figured out. That I love football." Source - ESPN

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February 2nd, 2020

Another winter, another money mark attempt to figure out winter football.

The NFL has wrapped up another successful season and now it's Vince McMahon's turn to try once more with a brand new football league. In 2019, the son of his friend Dick Ebersole tried with the AAF which fell apart before the season finale could even take place. Vince McMahon seems more prepared than Charlie Ebersole and his backers, especially when you consider that the XFL apparently has long term financial backing place to absorb what figures to be some money losing seasons. The XFL's rule set which features things like a revamped overtime, a double forward pass concept, a continuously running game clock and a variety of different special teams related rules designed to entice an improved pace of play. Is the XFL going to revolutionize the NFL? Probably not. Will it provide some concepts that inevitably get stolen? I'm going with a pretty solid "oh yeah absolutely." It's live sports and chances are if you're reading this you know that the SportsSoundoff is all about live sports and activities that are able to cosplay as sports (axe throwing and chainsaw-ing come to mind).

If you're looking for more football to take in then the XFL figures to give you that and with readily-ish available-ish games across FS1/2, Fox, ABC and ESPN/2 platforms. Long story short, games will be out there for ya if you want to spell some time between the NBA's second half kicking off and the start of baseball and college basketball's tournament run. With a neat and tidy eight teams across a variety of markets, I'd like to go team by team and detail why you should try your hardest to give each team the benefit of your time. Some teams figure to be easy and some teams figure to be impossible BUT I've got free time and I gotta do something, right?

The Dallas Desperados The most intriguing coaching staff in the entire league

Let's start from the obvious; if Bob Stoops truly wanted to, he could be coaching in the NCAA right now. This is a guy who left Oklahoma as an insanely successful well liked legacy coach who won a national title and 10 conference championships. Bob Stoops took Oklahoma football to a level not seen since the Barry Switzer run and is clearly one of the greatest coaching minds of his era. Health and perhaps a general all around malaise for football led to Stoops stepping down but when you look around the number of college teams divided by the number of quality of minds currently available for head coaching jobs, there's zero doubt Stoops could've been the guy at any school he wanted to over the past two years. Hell, I would NOT be surprised if Stoops would've been on the radar of NFL teams if he did an Urban Meyer-esque TV gig as opposed to just falling off the face of the Earth and living life in the shadows. Instead he re-emerges in the XFL as the GM and head coach of the Dallas Desperados. Stoops admittedly took this gig because of its proximity to his recruiting trails of the past and just general all around comfort with the area. Stoops was the prized announcement of the XFL, the first coach they revealed and put in the biggest football media market of the entire XFL league. Long story short? Bob Stoops was a rare coup for the XFL and he's being advertised and promoted as such. So much so in fact that when Stoops stopped appearing in XFL promotional material for a short spell, there were rumors that the XFL was going to lose the only drawing card it had with Stoops maybe making a move all the way up to the NFL for the Cowboys head coaching gig. The fact the XFL has Stoops gives it something the AAF never had; a familiar well liked face who isn't tired or old hat; the two knocks that basically hurt the AAF when Steve Spurrier was limping around on the sidelines for the Orlando Apollos.

The intrigue goes beyond JUST Bob Stoops as the Bob Stoops coaching staff is genuinely pretty ridiculous. If you love the Lincoln Riley and Mike Leach style offenses then you know of the name of Hal Mumme. Mumme is the father of most of the modern air raid offenses you see today, the likes of which that get mediocre-y college coaches like Kliff Kingsbury head coaching gigs in the NFL. Mumme is a bit of a college coaching legend with concepts that have bled into the highest levels of football. Stoops will be the offensive coordinator for Stoops' offense and with a few years away from the coaching circuit, I'm intrigued to see if Mumme has anything new left to offer. Defensively, Chris Woods and Jim Jeffcoat have long ties to Bob Stoops or Hal Mumme. The offense has a mastermind, the defense has a glut of former defensive coordinators and there's a damn good chance that Bob Stoops could turn a solid run in the XFL into a head coaching job elsewhere. Just keep an eye on the Desperados coaching staff as a potential breeding ground for coaches into the next level.

DC Defenders Name defensive talent = ???

It seems like the XFL is going to make it a lot harder for defenses to really play a meaningful part in the games with rules clearly designed to go for more of a high paced scoring first and foremost brand of play. That said, the DC Defenders do have some defensive talent to keep an eye on. They've got a name defensive line with guys like former Giants starter Jay Bromley, USC's Kenny Bigelow, Washington Huskie Elijah Qualls and a linebacking core with Arizona undersized legend Scooby Wright, former Atlanta Falcons player Jonathan Massaquoi and former Bills player and early retiree from football AJ Tarpley. In the secondary is where things really have "could play in the NFL potential" with former draft picks Jalen Myrick and Bradley Sylve and former starters Shamarko Thomas and Matt Elam at the safety spots. Most of the attention will be on former National Championship winner Cardale Jones at the QB spot with name weapons like Malachai Dupree and Rashad Ross but in truth, I'm curious to see if their defensive talents can find their way back into the NFL.

Houston Roughnecks Actual NFL name talent

Soooo yeah, let's take a second to talk about the Houston Roughnecks. There's a WEALTH of NFL level talent on here, if not in actual talent but in name value. We can start at the QB spot where the Roughnecks at the very least boast an interesting "What if?" scenario. Going into the 2016 NFL Draft, a lot of teams needed QBs and the draft boasted some really interesting ones. The top two were pretty much locked in (Carson Wentz and Jared Goff depending upon your preference) and Paxton Lynch seemed like a solid lock as the #3 QB. After that? Free for all! The likes of Cardale Jones, Dak Prescott, Jeff Driskel, Connor Cook, Nat Sudfield and Christian Hackenberg were all fighting for spots to try and eek themselves into that next tier. There was a belief of sorts that Cook was the leader in that clubhouse but concerns about his personality and how teammates viewed him at Michigan State dogged him all the way down to the 4th round. The Cowboys were going to take Cook (who they had as a late 2nd round pick on their draft board) but he got snagged up as the Raiders as a developmental QB behind Derek Carr. The Cowboys, not exactly heartbroken but not exactly thrilled, moved to taking Charles Tapper out of Oklahoma and then with their comp pick (thanks Eagles! Thanks DeMarco Murray!) picked Dak Prescott at the behest of their coaching staff, bucking scouts who had him behind Jeff Driskel. Dak Prescott will likely earn anywhere from 30 to 40 million next year and Cook is trying to carve out his path in the XFL after failed stints in Oakland, Cincinnati and Detroit. It's a fun "What If?" scenario to toss around while Cook can perhaps reset his career in the XFL.

Beyond Connor Cook? Houston boasts a kicker in Sergio Castillo who as an all star in 2019 and boasts an NFL quality leg potentially. Kickers come and go in the NFL and if Castillo is good then he probably has a chance to pop up somewhere. RB De'Angelo Henderson was a 7th round pick who has bounced around the NFL and figures to probably get similar looks as a 3rd round COP back somewhere if he's good in the league. Cam Phillips and Kahlil Lewis are former NFL camp bodies while Sammie Coates played in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers. SS Marqueston Huff played in the NFL for a variety of teams and has a pedigree as a former 4th round pick. DL Kony Ealy, Gabe Wright and Walter Palmore could probably fill out the back end of an NFL defensive line rotation right now. There's some actual NFL talent lurking in these waters, even if most of it is probably training camp filler variety. Those guys still have merit!

LA Wildcats The Josh Johnson Situation

So let's chit chat a spell about this. Josh Johnson is one of those guys that seems to pop up once a year on an NFL roster. He's been in the league since the dying days of the Gruden Era in Tampa Bay, a former fifth round pick who carved out a career as a somewhat competent-ish back up. He bounced around, played in the United Football League (consider THAT one) and seemed set to flame out. When the Redskins brought Josh Johnson in in 2018 after injuries to Alex Smith and Colt McCoy, Johnson stepped into the starting role and actually played pretty well! Not well enough to get brought back but well enough to earn another shot in the NFL as a back up for the Detroit Lions. Johnson was let go and continued his playing days by adding onto the XFL. I think Josh Johnson is the only dude to play in all three short term gimmick leagues (the UFL, AAF and XFL) but that's not where our story ends. Injuries to Jeff Driskel and Matt Stafford opened the door to play the NFL again when the Lions came calling. Surprisingly the XFL refused to follow the AAF's lead and kept Johnson to his XFL deal, forcing him to pass on a Lions opportunity. Josh Johnson basically has to be the best QB in the league to justify the XFL's decision to force him to stay in the league. Otherwise they'll probably be looked at unfavorably by future players for robbing a guy of an NFL opportunity. Also keep an eye on Nelson Spruce to be a big third down guy who racks up 1st downs.

New York Guardians ???

So I've looked over the roster a bunch, taken a gander at the coaching staff and honestly? I mean I don't have anything. This team on paper is pretty boring with no real flashy star name value and a head coach and offensive coordinator in Kevin Gilbride who had his best years some fifteen years ago if not longer. I suppose there may be some interest in seeing former AAF names like Jamar Summers and Luis Perez do stuff? This team is boring but boring teams can win games and boring games can win championships. Just don't expect the Guardians on paper to be something you'll feel compelled to go out of your way to see. In a way the Guardians match up pretty well with Vince McMahon's current WWE product; a severe lack of storylines and star power that compel and force you to go out of your way to tune in on a weekly basis.

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The Rams left St. Louis for LA in 2016 and to be entirely honest, I'm not sure if it worked out any well for the NFL. Surely the Rams bring in more money and notoriety in theory but it sure feels like the Rams have not exactly caught on with the locals in LA who are clearly baseball fans during the summer/fall and basketball fans every other time else. The Rams boast a tremendous team and watching a city like Kansas City enjoying its first Super Bowl win (in the great state of Missouri or Kansas or Kansourri) has me wondering how much more fun the NFL would be if the Greatest Show On Turf stayed in St. Louis as opposed to venturing out west and had kept up the tradition of having two teams playing in a rather "small" market. The fans of St. Louis will get to show how much they support football when the Battlehawks take flight (Ugh) in a few days. The Battlehawks have an intriguing roster with plenty of Mizzou names on it like WRs L'Damian Washington and former TE turned WR Markus Lucas. They also have swagmaster Marquette King trying to rebuild his NFL case after his falling out in Oakland. To add to the madness, the Battlehawks boast the most QBs on any of the 52 man rosters in the XFL and are led by Ole Miss QB legend Jordan Ta'amu who is coming off a failed stint in the NFL. I still really like Ta'amu and think he's got developmental upside for what it's worth but that's neither here nor there.

Seattle Dragons Holy shit Jim Zorn is still around?

The Redskins have a rather....interesting history in the modern era. Outside of a few brief periods of success from the likes of Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan, the Redskins head coaching history is rather no bueno. Among those bodies lost to the annals of history you have Jim Zorn. Zorn was a bit of a QB whisperer for the likes of Mike Holmgren and Dennis Erickson before surprising folks by making a massive leap from QB coach to head coach for the Washington Redskins in a stunning move. Zorn's move went...about as well as you'd expect. Jim Zorn became the latest victim of Redskins incompetence and then sort of just disappeared. He coached QBs for a bit after getting fired and then became the NFL equivalent of a ghost. Well Jim Zorn's back and back in Seattle where he led Matt Hasselbeck to some insane-o Seahawks records. The Dragons roster overall isn't exactly must see as it's mostly AAF leftovers with the occasional 2019 UDFA but at the very least seeing if Jim Zorn can wash off the Redskins stench some 10+ years later might be a bit of fun.

Tampa Bay Vipers A Florida all star team

The Vipers have the world's most name recognizable pseudo all star squad in the entire XFL. With former Bears head coach Marc Trestman at the helm, the Vipers boast a wide array of talents from various schools in the state of Florida. Miami Hurricanes WR Stacy Coley, Florida OL Martez Ivey and TE DeAndre Goolsby, South Florida QB legend Quinton Flowers will be trying his hand at RB as well as FSU RB Jacques Patrick and DB DeMarcus McFadden. That doesn't even begin to cover the number of Central Florida, South Florida and FAU players on this team as well. Also Aaron Murray is here and it seems like people are still going to try and make him into a thing after being a 4th round pick back in 2015.

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The Niners' four-week reign is over. San Francisco jacked the crown and scepter from the Patriots, who dominated our world for nine weeks. Now it's miles the Ravens who have staged a coup d'etat. Our advice to Baltimore? Assemble a moat. Resolve on alligators. Sharpen your swords. Masks the girls and young folks.

This fight is won ... nonetheless the battle will rage on into February.

NOTE: The earlier rankings referenced in the lineup below are from the Week 13 Energy Rankings.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 2

Welcome to the top, Ravens. To the top of the AFC standings, and the top of the Energy Rankings. (I will let John Harbaugh resolve what system extra to him.) All around the last two months, now we have watched the Ravens tumble nukes from above on groups that never had a possibility. On Sunday, we realized Baltimore can we assign a naked-knuckle dual carriageway fight when fundamental, too. The NFC-main 49ers have been worthy opponents, nonetheless the Ravens locked in on defense and acquired any other money second from Justin Tucker, the most effective kicker on Earth. The Ravens confirmed they would possibly be able to assign when Lamar Jackson isn't very at his most attention-grabbing, and their 10-2 file comprises victories over the Niners, Seahawks, Patriots, Texans and Rams (blended file of 45-10 towards non-Baltimore opponents). Right here's the suitable personnel in soccer -- now we will rep out if it would possibly per chance perhaps perhaps retain this inconceivable momentum to the Super Bowl.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 4

Changed into once there ever truly a doubt? We have almost a decade of proof telling us Russell Wilson will never lose a sport like that at CenturyLink Arena. With the stakes sky-high, the dwelling crowd roaring and millions of fans searching at on TV ... the Seahawks and their superstar quarterback always rep a technique. A 37-30 assign over the Vikings shifted the complexion of the NFC: The Seahawks, on the energy of their 10-2 file and head-to-head assign over the Niners, leap into the No. 2 seed in the NFC and depart into first space in the NFC West with a Week 17 rematch vs. San Francisco looming. The combo of Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny used to be shimmering towards Minnesota, the two backs combining to depart over 200 scrimmage yards with three touchdowns. Penny in the end appears to have chanced on his operate and it makes the Seattle offense that worthy extra complicated to end.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 5

The Saints didn't play their cleanest set up of soccer in November, nonetheless they carried out effectively adequate to develop their first foremost goal of the season. A 26-18 assign over the Falcons made the Saints the first personnel to clinch a playoff space. The NFC South champs now assign of residing their sights on the No. 1 overall seed in the NFC. Last Thursday night would possibly per chance well be remembered for the relentlessness of the entrance seven, which made Matt Ryan's life shadowy in a nine-sack assault. Cameron Jordan led the cost, ending with four sacks, along with the game-clinching takedown in the closing minute. Jordan is up to 13.5 sacks on the season -- 3.5 apprehensive of the personnel single-season file of 17, assign of residing by La'Roi Glover in 2000. Talking of the No. 1 seed, the Saints will put themselves on the within notice in the occasion that they would possibly be able to elevate out the 49ers on Sunday.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 3

We have watched the Patriots' offense scuffle for 2 months now. Given the group's unmatched notice file, many assumed the Invoice Belichick-led braintrust would in the end resolve it out. Right here's what the Patriots carry out. But Sunday night's loss to the Texans makes you seriously wonder. The Pats filled up the box obtain and made issues look for first rate with three dumb landing drives towards a coasting Houston defense, nonetheless a deeper look for tells a worthy various story. As Invoice Barnwell identified, Brady used to be 9-of-25 passing for 90 yards with an interception sooner than Sleek England went on its first landing pressure dumb in the third quarter. The old vogue QB ranks near the underside of the league in a bunch of passing categories since Week 4, which tells us that a) Brady is in decline, or b) the improvement round the legendary superstar is depraved. It would possibly per chance most likely per chance be both of those issues.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 7

Has Aaron Rodgers in the end chanced on a gradual second banana in the Packers' receiving neighborhood? Inexperienced Bay hoped either Marquez Valdes-Scantling or Geronimo Allison would develop the leap in 2019, nonetheless the steady breakout candidate would possibly per chance well be Allen Lazard, who caught 3 of 3 targets for 103 yards and a landing in a 31-13 assign over the Giants. Davante Adams (two touchdowns on Sunday) remains the sure-sever No. 1 option in Inexperienced Bay's attack, nonetheless Lazard in general is a big share for Rodgers, who appears to be gaining self belief in the undrafted second-year pro. Rodgers would possibly per chance perhaps per chance also use some extra lend a hand in the backfield, where Aaron Jones has gone cold in recent weeks. Inexperienced Bay's offense has been at its most attention-grabbing when Matt LaFleur has been ready to use Jones' capacity as a runner and a receiver. Do not be critically bowled over if the Packers develop that a priority this week towards the Redskins.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 9

Deshaun Watson saved it steady after the Texans' 28-22 assign over the Patriots on Sunday night: He truly desired to beat Tom Brady sooner than the legendary quarterback known because it a profession. Resolve on into consideration it any other goal accomplished for the young superstar. Watson used to be the better quarterback on Sunday, throwing three landing passes and catching any other(!) in a victory that retains Houston alone atop the AFC South and pumps up their probabilities of landing a serious-round bye advance January. Watson has now thrown 21 touchdowns towards correct three interceptions in eight profession top-time games -- he is the Anti-Cousins. Watson's efficiency used to be even extra impressive brooding about the opponent: Sleek England's defense entered Sunday having allowed correct four landing passes while piling up 20 interceptions. Watson's diving obtain on the Texans' expertly designed and carried out trick play felt like a statement to the defending Super Bowl champions and longtime Houston bullies. We're not apprehensive of you anymore.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 6

It used to be there for the Vikings. Minnesota ball, trailing by four, less than four minutes to play, three timeouts at their disposal. Kirk Cousins took the self-discipline taking a look to construct on a gradual night and exorcise some Monday night ghosts. However the Vikings went five-and-out and the offense never saw the self-discipline again in a 37-30 loss to the Seahawks. Cousins falls to 0-8 on the Monday Evening Soccer stage, nonetheless put this loss on a Vikings defense that bought carved up on the ground by Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny and thru the air by Russell Wilson. Cousins' job used to be made that worthy extra complicated when superstar working encourage Dalvin Cook dinner exited the game midway thru the third quarter with a clavicle harm. The Vikings are easy in very neutral appropriate space to narrate a playoff space, nonetheless they would possibly per chance even have to assign out to have any likelihood at the NFC North title.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 10

We peek you, Bills. We all peek you now. Sean McDermott's squad went to Dallas and laid a Thanksgiving whooping on the supposedly superior Cowboys, putting themselves on the procedure as a sound contender in the AFC. At 9-3, the Bills have a stranglehold on a wild-card space and remain within putting distance of the rarely invincible Patriots in the AFC East. There have been standout performances up and down the roster towards the Cowboys, nonetheless this sport in general is a flashpoint for Josh Allen, who played like a franchise quarterback in entrance of a big nationwide target audience. Allen led six consecutive scoring drives towards Dallas and dished out some punishment on a third-quarter landing walk that would possibly per chance perhaps per chance be the highlight of his young profession to this point. Now the Bills safe overtime to put together for their perfect self-discipline of the season: a dwelling sport towards the surging Ravens. Forget the Bills at your like threat.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 14

Issues didn't originate effectively for Duck Hodges and the Steelers. Pittsburgh had accumulated 9 yards of complete offense midway thru the second quarter because the visiting Browns constructed a 10-0 lead. But then Hodges warmed up, James Washington started making plays and Pittsburgh's defense -- always the catalyst for the length of this neutral return from 0-3 irrelevance -- did the rest in a 20-13 assign over the Browns. This victory needed to be the sweetest of the season for the Steelers, who exacted revenge on a Browns personnel that bullied them in additional ways than one correct two weeks earlier. In that Week 11 matchup, Mason Rudolph melted down towards an aggressive Browns defense. Hodges saved his cold (not having to face the suspended Myles Garrett for sure helped) and delivered on adequate downfield throws to retain Cleveland staunch and allow Pittsburgh to obtain administration of the game. Mike Tomlin deserves severe Coach of the 365 days consideration.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 15

Searching at the Rams on Sunday used to be like taking a outing in a time machine all the vogue encourage to the harmless days of ... last November. Aid then, Los Angeles used to be easy the envy of the league, thanks to a relentless offensive attack. We hadn't considered worthy of that this season, a minimal of not sooner than Jared Goff threw for additional than 400 yards in a minute extra than three quarters towards the Cardinals. Robert Woods had 13 catches for 172 yards and Todd Gurley chipped in with 115 yards from scrimmage and a obtain. It used to be a ideal safe-appropriate sport for the Rams after a humbling butt-whipping at the hands of the Ravens two Mondays previously. The worthy query: Changed into once this the model of a turnaround for the Rams ... or used to be it merely a mirage towards one among the league's have-nots? This week's top-time showdown towards the Seahawks will uncover us loads.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 11

We have reached rock bottom of the Jason Garrett generation. A 26-15 loss to the visiting Bills on Thanksgiving used to be sobering affirmation of a bright reality in Dallas: The Cowboys, with all their marquee abilities, are correct any other personnel, as mediocre as their 6-6 file says they are. After the loss, an emotional Jerry Jones spoke of "taking a look ahead at successful four or five straight and helping write a fable they are going to discuss about," nonetheless he sounded like an proprietor talking like a fan, blind optimism blotting out cold actuality. Jones says that Garrett's job is safe, nonetheless the stress is on the coach in a technique it's never been sooner than. Playing in a inclined NFC East, the Cowboys easy have the within notice to a division title and dwelling playoff sport. But nothing must easy be assumed at this point. Dallas is a unsuitable personnel, per chance fatally so.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 13

Issues have gone sideways in a flash for the Raiders. Aid-to-encourage losses have dropped Oakland to 6-6 and out of the bustle in the AFC West. The playoffs are easy a possibility by capacity of the wild-card route, nonetheless it's bright to safe too by a personnel that's been outscored 74-12 over the course of eight days. Derek Carr isn't very fond of the recognition that he can't assign in the cold, nonetheless performances like we saw at Arrowhead with a kickoff temperature of 36 levels Fahrenheit would possibly per chance perhaps also not carry out worthy to alter the fable. Carr threw two interceptions, along with the game-icing spend-six in the second quarter, and struggled to manufacture any spark with a large receiver neighborhood that blended for 8 yards receiving thru three quarters. Silver & Shadowy-linked pessimism is comprehensible, nonetheless issues will shift in a urge if Oakland knocks off the surging Titans at the Shadowy Hole. The Raiders have been a chance at dwelling all year.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 16

If the Colts are sitting at dwelling advance playoff time, this would possibly per chance perhaps per chance be the game that sticks with them basically the most. Leading the Titans 17-7 in the third quarter, Indy perceived to be in top space to solidify its playoff probabilities and deal a crushing setback to a division rival. But a marvelous crumple on particular groups led to a blocked self-discipline-goal strive and landing return for Tennessee. Minutes later, after any other key mistake -- this time a Jacoby Brissett interception -- the Titans have been encourage in the pause zone again. From 17-7 to 17-17 to 31-17 in a flash. Brissett wasn't almost intriguing adequate in the second half, nonetheless he is in a not easy space. Playing without Marlon Mack (hand), T.Y. Hilton (calf) and Eric Ebron (ankle), the Colts simply manufacture not have the firepower to assign groups away. They'll manufacture with three of four far from dwelling.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 21

"Numerous avid gamers made various plays, nonetheless this day used to be Mitch's day." These have been the phrases of Bears coach Matt Nagy, after Mitchell Trubisky threw for 338 yards and three touchdowns to beat the Lions on Thanksgiving. It used to be without considerations Trubisky's most attention-grabbing sport of the season, and it creates an air of optimism round the worthy-maligned inclined first-round spend because the season hits its dwelling stretch. Can Trubisky put himself in space to retain his starting job subsequent season with a gradual manufacture? His play has improved markedly in the previous two weeks, nonetheless Chicago has been arguably the league's most disappointing personnel, and Trubisky's regression has been a worthy the clarification why. The Bears manufacture with a assassin's row of opponents -- Cowboys, at Packers, Chiefs, at Vikings -- giving Trubisky both an myth self-discipline and a golden various to salvage his season.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 17

At a sure point, it's seemingly you'll per chance seemingly be who it's seemingly you'll per chance seemingly be. We have waited all season for the Browns to play to their abilities level. A 3-sport successful trudge teased that as a possibility, nonetheless then came any other insensible efficiency in a large space towards the Steelers. At 5-7, Cleveland's playoff hopes will not be entirely dashed, nonetheless what have we considered from this personnel that tells us it has something particular in retailer? Presumably that's a query a reporter would possibly per chance perhaps per chance have asked Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr., nonetheless those personnel leaders ducked out of the locker room without talking. Browns coach Freddie Kitchens did discuss after the game, left to resolution questions about the slow T-shirt he wore over the weekend that incited an already hyped Steelers personnel. The Browns correct seem messy, and it's a have to to wonder if ownership will specialize in it fundamental to search out somebody recent to effectively-kept this up.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 18

The Ron Rivera Look is on. The Panthers misplaced their fourth straight on Sunday, blowing a 14-0 lead in a loss to one among the worst groups in soccer. Panthers proprietor David Tepper let it be identified he would possibly per chance perhaps also not stand for mediocrity, nonetheless that's precisely what the Panthers symbolize because the season reaches its closing month. This all appears like very corrupt news for Rivera, who would possibly per chance perhaps want his Panthers to assign out to land a 10th season on the sideline. Even that would possibly per chance perhaps also not be adequate with a recent proprietor who appears thirsty to develop his very first label on the personnel he bought in 2018. "I'm not bowled over about my future," Rivera acknowledged after the game. "I'm bowled over about this soccer personnel. We have a sport coming up on Sunday." Right here's a acquainted script in a league that fires a quarter of its coaches every January.

UPDATE: Panthers proprietor David Tepper launched on Tuesday afternoon that Carolina has parted ways with Ron Rivera.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 20

An unthinkable loss for the Eagles, who had a 28-14 lead over the 2-9 Dolphins nonetheless couldn't close out a assign that would possibly per chance perhaps per chance have moved them staunch into a tie atop the NFC East. No matter a highly productive day from Carson Wentz and the struggling Eagles offense, a winnable sport swung on a chain of serious failures in the second half. Dropped passes, overthrown balls, penalties, corrupt sacks, omitted self-discipline objectives -- Philadelphia spread out a rep of ineptitude and dumped it in every single assign the self-discipline in Miami. Doug Pederson acknowledged on Monday that his personnel "self-destructed" while labeling the Eagles a "long shot" to develop the playoffs. That isn't very rather appropriate: Philly remains correct one sport in the encourage of Dallas in a inclined NFC East, nonetheless this is a bright personnel to be aware of in. Fix one self-discipline, and any other one pops up. Or not it's a dropping sport of whack-a-mole.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 23

The Jaguars are a toy ship sinking to the underside of one among the swimming swimming pools at their dwelling stadium. Jacksonville's dropping trudge reached four after a 28-11 setback towards the Buccaneers that left the dwelling crowd jeering and head coach Doug Marrone with out a various nonetheless to assign Sever Foles on the bench. The Jags' considerations have gone far beyond Foles in the previous three weeks, nonetheless Sunday used to be the first time the inclined Super Bowl MVP used to be a predominant reason the personnel struggled. Every of the first three Jacksonville possessions ended with a Foles turnover that used to be in the end grew to alter into staunch into a Tampa Bay landing. Gardner Minshew sparked the offense once he entered the game in the third quarter, and the rookie will remain in the lineup this week towards the Chargers. Minshew Mania have to walk wild in every single assign the NFL in the closing four weeks for Marrone to retain his job.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 24

Or not it's been an grotesque season in Atlanta, and the notice of Matt Ryan being ruthlessly stiff-armed to the turf for the length of a Saints interception return shimmering worthy sums up the recent speak of Falcons soccer. That used to be correct one chapter in a ebook of brutality on Thanksgiving night for Ryan, who used to be sacked nine cases in a 26-18 loss that allowed the hated Saints to celebrate a division title on enemy turf. Ryan played without Julio Jones, who used to be (wisely) held out of action with a bum shoulder. The Falcons would possibly per chance perhaps desire to originate thinking in the same model about their franchise quarterback, who have to not be taking a beating of this nature when the stakes are this low for the three-9 Falcons. Hiya, a minimal of Atlanta recovered encourage-to-encourage onside kicks on Thursday. You elevate the positives where yow will discover them in a misplaced season.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 30

The Dolphins would possibly per chance perhaps per chance be basically the most fun 3-9 personnel it's seemingly you'll ever notice. How would possibly per chance perhaps per chance you not safe pleasure from the vogue Miami went after the Eagles, battling encourage from a couple of deficits, calling trick plays, shock onside kicks -- the rest to develop up for the abilities disparity they face every Sunday? Or not it's a credit to first-year coach Brian Flores -- and the quarterback, too. Right here's a young Dolphins personnel taking part in with the spirit of Ryan Fitzpatrick, who competes his butt off every Sunday. Fitzpatrick made a chain of cash throws in wiping out a two-landing deficit in the second half, and he shunned the killer turnovers that have frightened him in the previous. It helps to have a man like DeVante Parker, who has broken out as a celeb playmaker in his fifth season. Parker is an example of why you manufacture not quit on abilities. The 2015 first-rounder has develop staunch into a participant this group can build round.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 22

Adam Gase, we have been led to be aware of, had fixed the Jets. Sam Darnold had locked into sync with the coach's sport thought, and Gregg Williams' defense used to be balling out. Then Sunday came about, and all the goodwill gathered for the length of a three-sport successful trudge used to be wiped away. The Jets have been no match for the Bengals, bullied by an 0-11 personnel in a 22-6 loss in Cincinnati. The Jets change into the first personnel in NFL historical previous to lose to 2 groups that started a season 0-7 or worse (they bought whipped by the 0-7 Dolphins last month). Right here's all a extremely shadowy reflection on Gase, who did not have his personnel ready in a sport with playoff ramifications (on the assorted hand faint they would possibly per chance even have been). Gase known as a shadowy sport, too: Le'Veon Bell executed with correct 10 carries towards the NFL's worst walk defense. Customarily it feels like this group is chemically addicted to embarrassment.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 26

Burn the tape! Execute the proof! By no system discuss of it again! These are all commands one would possibly per chance perhaps per chance imagine coming out of Cardinals headquarters after Sunday's embarrassing 34-7 loss to the Rams, a sport that featured almost nothing in the form of positives for the dwelling personnel. The defense gave up a season-high 549 yards, and the offense didn't unsuitable 100 yards except the fourth quarter. This used to be the fifth consecutive loss for Arizona, nonetheless all losses are not created equal, especially for a rebuilding personnel. Within the three defeats that preceded their Week 12 bye, the Cardinals hung not easy and seemed ready to hit their trudge in the encourage of rookie Kyler Murray. Week 13 represented a step encourage, and it rate a minimal of one participant his job. Starting up cornerback Tramaine Brock used to be launched on Monday. It would possibly per chance also not safe any easier for Murray this week, when the pink-sizzling Steelers raise their swarming defense to town.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 28

One day in the season -- let's clock it round dumb September -- the Lions misplaced any capacity to close out games. Detroit has misplaced eight of nine, nonetheless the free-descend wouldn't have been so pronounced had the Lions dealt with their industrial. We saw that again on Thanksgiving, when a 17-7 second-quarter lead grew to alter into a 24-20 loss to the Bears. On the least the Lions have a truly feel-correct story in David Blough, whose first profession completion used to be a 75-yard landing to Kenny Golladay. The third-string QB led the Lions to any other landing on their second possession and threw for 280 yards towards a top defense. We are going to peek extra of the undrafted rookie, too: The Lions moved Jeff Driskel to injured reserve on Saturday with a hamstring harm. With Driskel done and Matthew Stafford (encourage) in limbo, you Bloughhards available are in for a contend with.

Earlier inaccurate: No. 31

Giants fans sent a message to their personnel on Sunday, leaving thousands of empty seats at MetLife Stadium in Sunday's 31-13 loss to the Packers, Sleek York's eighth straight defeat. These are sad days for a personnel that stands as one among soccer's proudest and most decorated franchises. A shortage of incompatibility-makers on defense used to be evidently apparent towards the Packers, who scored 17 gains sooner than sending out their punter for the first time. Aaron Rodgers threw four landing passes without an interception because the Giants allowed an opponent to obtain a minimal of 30 gains for the seventh time in 12 games. Immense adjustments are on the horizon for Immense Blue, which would not have many foundational avid gamers beyond quarterback Daniel Jones and working encourage Saquon Barkley. Pat Shurmur hasn't been a winner in two seasons, nonetheless has he ever had a possibility?

Earlier inaccurate: No. 32

That dude can advance off the roof now. The Bengals delivered a complete effort on both aspects of the ball in a 22-6 assign over the Jets. Cincinnati isn't very going to be part of the 2008 Lions and 2017 Browns in NFL infamy. Phew. Andy Dalton returned from an unearned benching and equipped a sound spark, picking aside a Jets secondary that had been taking part in effectively in recent weeks. Dalton's closing numbers would look for even better if not for a pair of pause-zone drops in the first half. Whereas Dalton starred for the offense, Carlos Dunlap led the defense in a dominating day. The old vogue defensive pause executed with three of the Bengals' four sacks, and Cincinnati held Sleek York to correct 271 complete yards. The cherry on top of the day? The Redskins also won, keeping the Bengals on the within notice for the No. 1 overall spend.

Practice Dan Hanzus on Twitter @DanHanzus.

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The Antonio Brown Saga

The story throughout all of the preseason and training camp has not been the story of the un-drafted rookie defying the odds and making the game day 53 man roster. But instead it has been dominated by the absence of many high profile starters. Whether that because of players not showing up because of money and contract terms, or young superstar retiring in their prime. But the most peculiar of the off season stories has been of the Oakland Raiders star wide receiver Antonio Brown.

Antonio was disgruntled with his previous team and forced his way out of Pittsburgh via a trade to the Oakland Raiders. Oakland gave the Steelers a 3rd and 5th round pick for a 31 year old wide out, as well as making him one of the highest players in the league. He stated he wanted to go to a “winner” organization and had many suitors from a new home besides the Raiders including the New England Patriots. The marriage between the team and the player started out as many do in the Honeymoon stage and they were both boasting about being together on social media. 

Reports came out that Antonio Brown suffered frostbite on his feet from a cryogenic therapy mishap. Where he neglected to follow instructions on proper use of the therapy and caused him to miss portion of training camp. 

Once that was healed he was met with another setback refusing to play without a helmet that had been banned by the NFL and filed three grievances and lost and left training camp. He was fined for his absences from camp and missing team meetings that he took to Instagram to complain about the fines and how the Raiders were trying to paint him into the villain. 

While all of this was going on social media was set ablaze of people trying to find a reason for his actions and why his seemingly illogical actions sent him to giving up $29,000,000.00. The explanations ranged from him having CTE (the neurodegenerative disease that has been a hot button issue for former players) after a vicious hit from his now teammate Vonteze Burfict, Conspiracy of collusion between him and members of the patriots, to mental illness (similar to that had plagued former players like Brandon Marshall and Johnny Manziel). 

What I truly believe is the reasoning behind Antonio Brown's actions are he is selfish and justifiably that way. Everyone close to him have stated that his demeanor and attitude changed after taking the vicious from Burfict that was mentioned earlier. I believe that this was the first time he realized how delicate his career was in the NFL. 

After he was knocked out of the game by Burfict, the game did not stop, the team did not flounder, and the game rolled on. He figured out he was replaceable, exchangeable, not bigger than the game itself. As young stud athlete who had not been injured prior to that hit, it changed his perspective. From that point on he decided he was not going to be a team player but look out for his own legacy and his career. 

Unfortunately, his actions to getting what he wanted to play for a winner like New England has cheapened his legacy. He left large amounts of money to chase championships and made himself look foolish in the process. As of Monday he is a member of New England Patriots and only time will tell if his legacy will be remembered by his actions this summer or if he will be remembered as one of the best ever to play his position.

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