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“NFL NOTEBOOK”
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A wild weekend of stories and lots of items from my notebook:
TOM BRADY-VS-MEDIA…All this time, all these opinions about Tom Brady-broadcaster and Tom Brady-minority Raiders owner and what is legal-illegal about the roles he is filling. All this yapping back and forth because he was sitting in the Raiders coaching booth in the Monday Night loss to the Chargers. Connecting all the dots to his job as a Fox TV analyst and the fact the NFL does not allow him access to other team’s facilities, nor allows him to meet with the GMs-Coaches or players of the teams he is going to broadcast that weekend. Like they fear he gets some inside information? C’mon now-he gets coach speak at best and he can draw his own conclusions based on his own video study. What a waste of energy. What he knows about football is enormous. What he can supply the Raiders about opponents is no different than what Pete Carrroll can gleam from his sources and from video. Much-ado-about nothing-me thinks-as Shakespear would say.
MIAMI MESS..They keep losing and Tyreek Hill throws another tantrum on the field on a bad overthrow from Tua Tagovailoa. Implosion coming for sure.
JAGUARS JUNK…Liam Coen is trying to say the right things about Trevor Lawrence, but there are issues about throwing to the wrong reads and about the QB decisions. The surprise on Sunday was Coen screeching at Lawrence and Lawrence waving him off-ignoring him stepping to into the huddle.
BENGALS BUSINESS..Joe Burrow is gone with a terrible foot injury, surgery coming, out 3-to-5 months. It’s his fifth major injury of his career playing for a Mike Brown-led organization that drafts poorly, feuds with players over contracts, and makes mistakes in free agency. Wasting a great player’s career.
GIANTS GRUESOME…What a bad outing for a young offensive lineman, four penalties on one series, including a brutal head slap. Brian Daboll has lots of problems to deal with, but the video was beyond brutal. OT-James Hudson-might have been the worst day I have seen an NFL lineman have.
DENVER DOINGS..A bit of a surprise of ups and downs for Bo Nix and Sean Payton to start the season. Strange playcalls. Not much of a running game. And alot of pressure on Nix.
CHIEFS CALAMITY…An (0-2) start plagued by bad plays, roster troubles and Travis Kelce tantrums. His raging exchanges with teammates in the opening day loss to the Chargers, was followed by a helmet throwing incident after a tipped pass led to a pick that cost the Chiefs a critical TD. Things are not going well in KC.
BAD NEWS BEARS..Caleb Williams is playing too much freelance football, scrambling, taking big sacks, turning the ball over, and just not being trust worthy to put scoring drives together.
EAGLES..Video surfaces showing the ‘Tush-Push’ goal-line and first-down plays, and the video shows the Eagles interior offensive line continually lining up off side (helmets over the line of scrimmage) and no penalty flag calls from the NFL refs. Now that it is out there on social media, does it change going forward-in terms of flags?
RAIDERS WRECKAGE..That was a pretty poor Monday night outing by QB-Geno Smith, freaked out by a Chargers pass rush and the coverages. Alot of work to be done by the Raiders offense, lack of run game, and lack of protection packages, and on defense, too many penalties. Work in progress for Pete Carroll.
Here comes week three and there will be lots more stories coming.
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