NFL - NEWS & NOTES

Bengals pull it off with a late FG...

 

But not for long

 

He did his job, the defense let him down..

 

There is no magic in losing

 

I think it's time to start discussing new head coaching options for the Cardinals.

If I ran the football operations in the desert, Eric Bienemy would have a contract in the mail to be signed for 2019.

I'll think about the rest and fill it in later but I would want to get out ahead of the Browns and Cowboys for his services.

 

Luck is loving his TEs. 3 TEs have scored.

 

I think Flipper Anderson just scored

 

The Cowboys hiring a coach is dependent on how their new Armani suit fits.

 

Surprised Mathews didn't get a roughing penalty

 

Those uniforms are incredible.

 

Fitzmagic is a real thing. How dare you?

 

Adam Thielen records eighth straight 100-yard game...

Adam Thielen's all-time great season continued on Sunday evening.

The Minnesota Vikings receiver recorded his eighth straight 100-yard receiving game in their 30-20 loss to the New Orleans Saints.

In doing so, Thielen tied former Detroit Lions great Calvin Johnson for most consecutive games with 100 yards receiving; Johnson accomplished it in 2012. Thielen is now the only player in NFL history to start a season with eight straight 100-yard receiving games.

Thielen finished with a near-season-low 103 yards on seven catches and a late touchdown. He leads the league in receiving with 925 yards. Thielen is on pace for 1,850 receiving yards, which would be third all-time. (NFL.com)

 

Its amazing what Houston has done...

 

From the 'Ye Ol' Fart' files...

Adrian Peterson: Oldest player with a 60-yard touchdown run since Jim Thorpe...

On Sunday against the Giants, Washington running back Adrian Peterson raced around the right end of the line and ran down the sideline for a 64-yard touchdown. It was the 33-year-old Peterson’s longest touchdown run since 2015, and it was the longest run a player his age has had in a very, very long time.

According to the NFL, the last time a player older than Peterson ran for a touchdown 60 yards or longer was in 1921. The player was Jim Thorpe, who was 34 years old when he ran for an 80-yard touchdown for the Cleveland Indians against the Columbus Panhandles.

Thorpe, born in 1887, won the gold medal in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympics, is a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, played six seasons of Major League Baseball and played some professional basketball before the NBA existed, and is generally recognized as one of the greatest athletes in human history. Peterson is in some pretty good company there.

Two other 33-year-olds have run for a touchdown longer than 60 yards: Former quarterback Steve Bono, who ran for a 76-yard touchdown in 1995, and former Steelers running back Rocky Bleier, who ran for a 70-yard touchdown in 1979. Bono and Bleier were both a couple months younger at the time of their long touchdown runs than Peterson is now.

Pederson has 127 carries for 587 yards and four touchdowns, and another nine catches for 151 yards and a touchdown, through seven games this season. He’s far exceeding what anyone could have expected at the age of 33. And doing things that haven’t been done since the days of leather helmets. (NBC's PFT)

 

***Breaking***



BROWNS FIRE HUE JACKSON...

The Hue Jackson era is over in Cleveland.

Jackson was fired today as head coach of the Browns, per multiple reports.

The news comes after yet another loss on Sunday, one that drops his career record to a stunningly bad 11-44-1 as a head coach overall, including 3-36-1 in Cleveland. The news also comes after reports surfaced that Jackson and offensive coordinator Todd Haley were not seeing eye to eye and might not be able to work together much longer.

There’s no immediate word on who the Browns will hire as their interim head coach. But whoever it is, he could hardly do a worse job than Jackson, who leaves after three wins in three years. (reported all over the place)