NFL - NEWS & NOTES

lol, shows how much know. I posted a couple days ago that they wouldnt fire anybody till after the season. Man, I was WRONG!

 

Panthers defensive passing game coordinator/secondary coach Steve Wilks will replace Rhule as the interim coach.

 

Phil Snow And Ed Foley got axed also by the Panthers.

 

Kevin Stefanski: It’s my responsibility to get defense fixed



The Browns made a trade to bolster their defense after Sunday’s loss to the Chargers, but the arrival of linebacker Deion Jones is unlikely to fix all that’s wrong in Cleveland.

After giving up 202 rushing yards to the Falcons in Week Four, the Browns were gashed for 238 more by the Chargers in Sunday’s 30-28 loss. Defensive end Myles Garrett said that the defenders need to “really take pride” in their jobs in order for the Browns to get the kind of results they want on that side of the ball.


On Monday, head coach Kevin Stefanski echoed the need for the team to turn things around but said that there needs to be less talk about what’s wrong and more action to correct it.

“It is my responsibility to get this fixed,” Stefanski said, via 92.3 The Fan. “I do know this, I’ve seen these players, these coaches, this group play winning football. We’ve got to go do it. Very easy for me to say it, us to say it . . . we’ve got to go do it.”

The Browns have lost their last two games by a total of five points, so they’re not getting blown out despite their inability to slow down opposing run games. That could mean minor improvements will bear fruit in the win column, but, as Stefanski said, making them is easier said than done.

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Got some CFL action on... which reminds me, Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian members!

 

One word analytics some chart showed that's the best way to score and so that's what they went with. Nevermind that you saw the greatest example of why you should run and not pass in a Superbowl coaches all think they are smarter than they are.

 

The coach had nothing to do with it - this is 100% on Rodgers. He has full control of / authority over that offense, especially whether or not to check to a run / pass. That's his call.

 

Thats my take... I sure liked what I seen tho.

 

I don't mind Rodgers going for the short passes if that's what he's most comfortable with given the defensive alignment he sees on the field. I just give credit to the Giants defense for getting it done.

 

Even better for Carolina... reports are now coming out that Baker Mayfield has a high ankle sprain (just like Sam Darnold) and will be out for several weeks.

 

Whatever happened to passes toward the corner of the end zone where either your guy catches it or nobody does?

 

Coach can call the time out and then from there tell Rodgers which direction the play needs to lean in

 

Found more details on the Deion Jones restructure. In September the team converted salary to bonus to free up immediate cap space, and they added three void years to the back of the contract to make it happen. I think the article that I saw was wrong about one part - they said the team converted $8.5 million in salary to $6.8 million in bonus. That can't be right based on the numbers listed for each year. They pushed $6.8 million of the cap hit to future years, with the other $1.7 million still counting this year.

That explains why I didn't see it this summer. It didn't happen until September.

But the strategy is baffling. They were already trying to shop him around before then. Converting that salary to bonus guarantees that the Falcons would be the team to take the cap hit no matter what. They gain very little by trading him away. The draft pick swap is a joke - a 2024 seventh moves up to a 2024 sixth. Cleveland gets him dirt cheap for this year, and if he doesn't perform well they can release him after the season with no cap consequences. Other than turning the page on another Dimitroff-era player, Atlanta didn't get jack out of this move. Truly would have made more sense to keep him for 2022 and try to trade him ahead of 2023 - releasing him in a post-June 1 move next spring if all else failed.

 

Kinda funny how the NFL is quickly cracking down on all YouTube and Twitter clips of Grady Jarrett and Tom Brady from Sunday's game. There were a bunch of clips going viral that showed Tom Brady kicking Jarrett on an earlier play and then trying to kick him on the sack with the phantom roughing the passer call. Other highlights from other games are still out there, but the league moved lightning fast to put the kibosh on game clips showing Tom Brady in a negative light...

If you do get to see a clip of the earlier one, Jarrett reacted, obviously not happy about being kicked. And the second one makes it even more infuriating that Boger flagged Jarrett for the bogus roughing the passer call while letting Brady get away with a personal foul on the same play.

 

Brady has always been one of the biggest dirtbags in the league. But when you're a white QB who wins a lot for a popular team, and make a lot of money / publicity for the league through outside ventures... you tend to get away with things. I genuinely hate that man. He'll probably react to this whole thing by paying for his own ad campaign calling himself "an underdog" and "treated unfairly" again.

 

Interesting that GM Scott Fitterer did NOT get the axe. Or at least not yet. Tepper might be waiting until the end of the season or at least the trade deadline to make that move.

Could be Fitterer saved his job by paying relatively low prices in the trades for Baker Mayfield and Matt Corral after the disastrous trade for Sam Darnold. But even after using three picks to get Darnold, two (including a third next year) for Corral and one (in 2024) for Mayfield, the rookie Corral is the only one of the bunch who will still be under contract next year. The Panthers might be using one or more draft picks on QBs all over again next spring.

In the meantime, Darnold and Corral are on IR and Mayfield might be about to join them with a high ankle sprain of his own. Until they sign someone, the only healthy QB left is P.J. Walker - who was signed out of the XFL largely because he was Matt Rhule's quarterback at Temple. And he's going to be RFA after this season, so they might not have him for next season either. (I'm pretty big on him as a QB prospect, so I'll be watching to see how things play out for him.)

 

Monday Night Football: Chiefs hold off Raiders 30-29 in thriller



The Chiefs rallied from an early 17-0 deficit, overcame a controversial roughing the passer penalty and held off the Raiders 30-29 on Monday Night Football.

It was the Chiefs’ fourth consecutive victory over the Raiders.


Kansas City moved to 4-1, and Las Vegas fell to 1-4.

The back-and-forth game was one of the most entertaining of the season as the teams combined for 746 yards. Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce scored a career-best four touchdowns, while Raiders running back Josh Jacobs ran for a career-high 154 yards and Raiders receiver Davante Adams caught touchdown passes of 58 and 48 yards.

The Chiefs took their first lead with 3:20 remaining in the third quarter on Kelce’s third touchdown and never relinquished it.

The Raiders had a chance to tie with 4:27 left in the fourth quarter after Derek Carr threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to Adams, who beat Bryan Cook and Jaylen Watson. Josh McDaniels, though, chose to go for two, and Jacobs was stopped just short of the goal line to keep the Chiefs in the lead, 30-29.

The Raiders stopped the Chiefs and forced a punt, getting the ball back with 2:29 left. Analytics said the Chiefs should have gone for it on fourth-and-three at the Las Vegas 46, but they won anyway.

The Raiders gained 39 yards before Adams caught what initially was ruled a 15-yard gain to the Kansas City 39. Replay overturned it with Adams failing to get his left foot down after securing the ball. That set up a fourth-and-one at the Las Vegas 46, and Carr’s pass fell incomplete after Adams and Hunter Renfrow collided.

The game was not without controversy.

In the first half, Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones sacked Carr on third-and-eight at the Las Vegas 46 with 1:07 remaining in the half. Jones knocked the ball loose and pulled it in as he was going down. He braced his fall with his left hand, keeping his entire body weight off Carr but was flagged for roughing anyway. The Raiders ended up with a field goal out of the drive.

The Chiefs made the most of their second chance in the second half. The Raiders stopped Kansas City and Matthew Wright missed a 37-yard field goal, but Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce was called for defensive holding on the field goal attempt. It gave the Chiefs an automatic first down, extending the drive, and Kelce scored his fourth touchdown on a 1-yard reception.

Kelce’s other three scores covered 1, 4 and 8 yards.

Mahomes completed 29 of 43 passes for 292 yards and four touchdowns, and Carr was 19-of-30 for 241 yards and two touchdowns.

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Davante Adams pushes a camera man to the ground out of frustration... what a dumbass! Suspension???

 

Week 5 is in the books...

 

After he won me a hard fought fantasy battle he goes and does that? He might have two weeks off instead of one now