I asked Matt LaFleur for Jordan Love's best throw of the 2023 season. He had an immediate answer.
Plus: What's the biggest difference between the 2023 and 2024 Packers? Terrific This Is Football episode today.
Michael Jordan brings like seven million people together for two hours every Sunday night just to calmly destroy guys he didn't like two decades ago. This is the television event of the century.
You think next week's TNF is looking up until you realize it's Kyler Murray on the week a new Call of Duty comes out. Do not let him get an early copy.
Amazon should just sign Lamar Jackson for 500 million dollars guaranteed and he can enter games like this and just do cool stuff for a while for whichever team needs him. Like a recurring TNF character when he's needed. Solves everyone's problems.
The Jets want to make a switch at QB. The team is leaning towards Zach Wilson to take over, but he is reluctant to stepping back in, sources tell
@DMRussini
and me. The team is hoping he changes his mind as they continue to discuss the next steps.
More on
@TheAthletic
shortly.
Bill Belichick slowly opens a warehouse door. It's revealed he hoarded every 2011 Schutt Air Advantage helmet in existence. "Well my work is done here," he says calmly.
The 45 year old guy screaming “remember me” in front of his family to a 20 year old is the biggest loser among all college football fans which ranks him pretty high for being the biggest loser in the world.
When you see the 2004 generation of quarterbacks cycling out, you realize how many quarterbacks in this league will dominate for the next 15 years: Mahomes, Mayfield, Jackson, Tom Brady.
Every other sport is absolutely desperate to generate stars and the NFL is like "The Giants have an Italian guy" and it's a national story. I love this sport. I love this country.
The Bills are going to develop Trubisky so well that next offseason he’s going to sign a one year, $10 million deal to be the starter of the Chicago Bears.
Pac Man Jones said last year he adopted the sons of his late teammate, Chris Henry, and now he’s accompanying Chris Jr. on college visits. I’ve never used this emoji before and might never again:😭
Reminder: The Cleveland Browns let Kyle Shanahan, who was under contract, leave as offensive coordinator in 2015 because he didn't think Johnny Manziel was ready. Starting to think they screwed up.
You think the Gase thing is a funny little meme because Tannehill and Darnold improved post-Gase, and because the Broncos won the Super Bowl immediately after he left. Then you see he left LSU after 2002, and they won the national title in 2003. Then you realize how deep it goes
The magic of college football is that on any given Saturday, a team with six 5-stars and 52-four stars can hang with Alabama, who have 14 5-stars and 59-four stars. You gotta love cinderella stories. You just never know.
From the sources I spoke with about Ja'Marr Chase's hip injury, the reason the timeline is so up in the air regarding his return is that the team hopes because of his physical makeup, Ja'Marr's hip will heal faster than the average person.
Teddy Bridgewater drawing up plays for his old high school on an off night from the Dolphins is the best football thing you or I will see tonight (via
@305sportss
)
Every fan--every true fan--eventually develops a sixth sense where you can predict exactly when your team will make a backbreaking mistake. You are never wrong. It is the most powerful feeling in the universe.
Last week at Steelers camp, a player said "Mike!", calling to a Steelers staffer. Mike Tomlin turned around. The player explained he was calling for another Mike and would never call Tomlin "Mike." Tomlin said "We are grown men working together, call me Mike whenevever you want."
Jason Garrett just told us to call him coach as he walked off the podium. He said good to see you guys. We said good to see you in person, Jason.
“We say, ‘Good to see you, Coach.’ That’s how we do it.”
Oh yeah?
#Giants
I regret to inform you—this is not a joke—that Adam Gase’s Michigan high school, Marshall, won the state title in the first season after his 1996 graduation.
John Lynch was praising Mike McDaniel at the podium. Listening in, unbeknownst to John, was Mike McDaniel. This is what it looked like. This is beautiful.
The year is 2058:
Every play ends in either a penalty flag or someone calling a play action pass an RPO.
The green zone is a hologram in your living room.
There has not been a completed pass that withstood replay review in 16 years.
Darren Sproles picks up a big first down.
The Raiders are Las Vegas' team because every time I go to Vegas I have no plan, lose every asset I have very quickly and have no idea what the hell happened.
Reminded today of what Aaron Rodgers told me over a year ago in a sit down. Rodgers on NFL protests: “It was never about the anthem, it was never about the troops. It was about social equality and racial injustice.”
The reason I think Mahomes is Michael Jordan is because Jordan relegated so many would-be legends to minor characters. He left literally no breathing room for anyone else and shaped the legacies of basically all his contemporaries. We might be seeing it again. He's on his way.
College football is amazing because the line between the greatest feeling you’ve felt this year and posting on a message board that your team should just hire Urban Meyer is razor thin.
Derrick Henry runs like the type of player who has to bring his birth certificate to every game because opposing teams' parents get upset he's on the field.
Due to travel, internet scarcity & time zones I will not be watching the lottery live. Every year, I park myself in front of the TV like a huge moron to watch us get the fourth pick. The problem, obviously, was that I was watching. The Orlando Magic will win the lottery tonight.
I clicked on this just to see what my guy Brian was saying and two minutes later I’m consumed by the question of what’s going on with the Utah Jazz. It’s my only quest in life to find out. This is perfect television.
It is amazing that the two greatest athletes of our lifetimes, Tiger Woods and DJ Augustin, are competing at such a high level this weekend. We are lucky to witness it.
I feel that there is not enough appreciation of the original Orlando Magic theme song from 1989. Not from the fans, the team, the media. It’s mostly been erased from history. That changes today with this video I found of a live performance during the team’s first game. All-timer.
One of the best things by far over the next two offseason will be dumb teams drafting a "Deebo Samuel type" who plays nothing like Deebo Samuel and they force the ball to him anyway and waste a pick. A lot to look forward to.
It will never stop being funny that the last-ever time the Steelers had Roethlisberger, Bell and Brown--three of the best offensive players of their era--they lost to Blake Bortles.
Listen, don’t be sad, Urban Meyer got fired doing what he loved best: belittling coaches he himself hired and telling people he’s allowed to kick them.
The best thing I saw this week was walking 10 feet behind Michael Irvin on an LA street and a random Niner fan yelling "Michael Irvin you're a b****" and Irvin not breaking stride, giving a little wave and saying "alright brother." The fan was devastated. Just totally disarmed.