Giants’ Zak DeOssie lost Super Bowl rings after night of raising $65K for charity

Posted on June 16 by admin

Giants co-captain Zak DeOssie and his wife were in a celebratory mood after raising more than $65,000 to support first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds when they were struck by a bad twist of fate.

It’s unclear how quickly Murphy will act. Some were hoping he’d sign it as soon as Friday so betting could begin in time for the end of the NBA and NHL finals.

But multiple sources say he is expected to review the bill for at least a few days. They say it’s also possible he could hold the bill up amid tense state budget negotiations with Sweeney.

The sources asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.

McCarthy also said that the team is happy that the damage wasn’t worse and that there aren’t any long-term concerns about Matthews’ health. He also said that the injury won’t lead the team to stop holding the long-standing event.

I think it’s great on a number of fronts any time your players give back to charity, involved in the community. It’s a great day for the fans, McCarthy said, via Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

McCarthy also suggested Matthews might want to work on his fielding before any future trips to the mound, although the immediate focus will likely be on healing and getting ready to play his primary sport in the fall.

It would also offer Trump fertile material for his steady diet of social media and Fox & Friendsappearances, which can’t be discounted.

Story Continues How will Kaepernick’s team build an argument to subpoena Trump? But long before that quandary comes to fruition, Kaepernick’s attorneys will be tasked with illustrating a connection between the quarterback’s unemployment and Trump’s pressure on the NFL regarding protests during the national anthem.

Garoppo-Mania in San Francisco.

Posted on June 9 by admin

Eli Apple embarrassed about 2017, happy for fresh start

Posted on May 29 by admin

As the 2017 season wound down, there were plenty of people who thought that the team might move on without cornerback Eli Apple after a year marked by poor play on the field and a series of incidents off of it.

Apple said he thought he “got a little too confident” last year and said he’ll be more patient as he works to “fine-tune everything” over the next few months. If that goes well, the Giants’ own patience with their 2016 first-round pick could pay dividends as they try to recover from their own miserable season.

A short time later, newly signed linebacker Paul Worrilow was carted off the field after colliding with a teammate during the first practice of OTAs.

He suffered a torn ACL on the play, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Frustrated with the coaching staff, Hackenberg hired Chicago-based quarterback instructor Jeff Christensen after the season to overhaul his throwing motion. He said the organization was apprised of his decision, but Bowles said he had no idea until just recently.

Hackenberg served as the fourth-string quarterback in 2016 and the third-stringer last season. Because of injuries to other players, he was active in five of 32 games. In other words, he wore a uniform five times, but he never stepped on the field.

“I can’t tell you how many men would want to be on the field, seeing these places inside the Hale Center you only get to see on Snapchat or Twitter,” she said. “It’s a good time, and it’s always for a great cause that they’re supporting. In the past it’s been breast cancer and for domestic abuse, and now it’s for the Epilepsy Foundation. To be honest, I think I’m losing money not going because it’s just so much fun to participate in it.”

2018 NFL draft may tie 1983 with six first-round quarterbacks

Posted on April 12 by admin

The 1983 NFL draft ushered in a new era in the NFL, with six first-round quarterbacks. That had never happened before and has never happened since. But it may happen now.

The 2018 NFL draft has four quarterbacks who are certain to go in the first round, in USC’s Sam Darnold, Wyoming’s Josh Allen, UCLA’s Josh Rosen and Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield. Louisville’s Lamar Jackson appears likely to go in the first round as well, and Oklahoma State’s Mason Rudolph has visited with several teams in need of a quarterback and may find himself going in the first round as well.

In this situation, I would try to convince the player and his agent that we would pay him more than he would receive if he were to be cut and picked up by a new team. I would offer incentives to give the player opportunities to recoup most or all of the lost salary. I’d also say that if he rejected the pay cut and opted to be traded (which would likely require a restructured contract) or released, he then would have to learn a new system and move away from the city in which he has established roots and maintains close ties to the community. This could be the approach Gaine takes with Watt.

However, pride gets in the way, and a player often makes the unwise decision to play elsewhere for less money, refusing to take a pay cut with incentives from his current team.

The draft will happen in little more than two weeks. For many, the draft boards are set, or damn close to it. So maybe it’s now officially nit-picking time.

That was the reaction during Monday’s PFT Live of Chris Simms to the assessment of Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen by former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky, who shared with Peter King of SI.com two specific critiques of Allen.

Simms pointed out that, without knowing what Allen said to his teammates and/or what Allen had been coached to do in those situations, it’s too hard to know exactly why things happened the way they appeared to be. As to Orlovsky’s other concern — that Allen stares down receivers — Simms seemed to give the issue more credence. But Simms pointed out that every incoming quarterback has flaws, and that he’ll need to be coached to iron out his flaws.

He can motivate people in a lot of ways. That is the Shaquem Griffin effect.

Posted on April 10 by admin

Considering Reid hasn’t collected a paycheck from the Eagles in half a decade, I’d say probably no. But that doesn’t mean the Eagles shouldn’t be wildly thankful for The Godfather, whose fingerprints are all over this league like no other sideline roamer.

In a sit-down interview at the Annual League Meeting in Orlando, general manager Les Snead told the Around The NFL Podcast that Ogletree was a victim of defensive coordinator Wade Phillips’ cornerback-oriented scheme.

Great leader, great human. We re-signed him because he was one of our best football players, Snead explained. But when we went back and really analyzed, talked about, discussed what makes Wade’s defense go, it’s the corner position.

It motivated me to calm down and do what comes naturally, Hughes said. Central Florida’s Shaquem Griffin runs a drill during UCF football pro day, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) More Only a few months ago, he was a very good player on a very good American Conference team.

Locals knew about him and his twin brother, Shaquill, who played here and went to the Seahawks. Fans knew Shaquem was born with amniotic band syndrome, which kept the fingers on his left hand from fully developing. He had surgery as a little boy and, when he saw his mom after, asked when he could play football again. He grew up playing on the same teams as Shaquill, all the way through college, but he was always considered a little bit behind his brother. Then a series of events vaulted him to the spreadsheets of scouts and the hearts of fans everywhere. The Knights ran the table in 2017 and then beat Auburn on New Year’s Day.

Viewers across the country watched UCF and couldn’t help but notice Griffin flying around the field and making tackles as if nothing was missing. Some of those viewers surely did web searches and found stats: 44 solo tackles and seven sacks in his final season. They found highlights of him wreaking havoc, breaking up passes and even making an interception. There was one play where he scooped up a fumble with his right hand as if he was a shortstop.

Giancarlo Stanton homers in 1st Yankees at-bat

Posted on April 7 by admin

The Giancarlo Stanton Era started off with a bomb.

Stanton hit a no-doubt home run in his first at-bat as a member of the Yankees in the first inning of Thursday’s Opening Day matchup with the Blue Jays.

Stanton’s blast zoomed on a line out over the right-center field wall and deep into the first deck’s seats. It came in a 0-1 count and it was off Toronto starting pitcher JA Happ.

It was also Stanton’s first Yankees swing, and it was on a 91.7-mph two-seam fastball.

Just build off (of it). Trust yourself. Trust your preparation. Know you’re going to do well and that you set yourself up to do well. Not worry about those side expectations or the sophomore slump or whatever you want to call it. It only exists if you put it in your mind.

Outstanding player, the elder Shurmur said. I watched him sack my son a year ago in the bowl game.

So will Shurmur hold it against Chubb if he is on the board when the Giants are on the clock

No, he said, laughing at the intentionally funny question. Sacking the quarterback is a good thing.

Shurmur just has to remember which proverbial hat he is wearing at which time: Wincing father or head coach scouting defensive prospects.

Last year, when all those SEC defensive linemen were getting drafted, their highlights were sacking my kid, Shurmur said. I texted him like four times:’I just saw you on tape. I just saw you on tape.’

It was a funny one-liner from Shurmur, who quickly slipped back into coach mode and clarified those pass-rushers are good prospects and he wasn’t critiquing his son for holding the ball too long or any Vanderbilt offensive linemen.

Anthony Averett Jr.’s story helps explain why Alabama is an NFL cornerback factory

Posted on April 7 by admin

No experience playing cornerback in high school? No worries when Nick Saban is your college head coach.

Anthony Averett Jr. arrived at the University of Alabama without a set position. Five years later, he leaves as one of the top-rated CBs in the 2018 NFL Draft.

The process, as Saban would say, wasn’t an easy one.

After a redshirt year, Averett began receiving snaps at wide receiver during spring practice in 2014. The conversion experiment was short-lived, as Averett quickly returned to the secondary. He appeared in only one game that season and received action almost exclusively on special teams rather than defense in 2015.

“I had to start from the ground up,” Averett said. “I don’t think I really realized how hard it was going to be.”

At the same time Averett was trying to get his footing, Alabama was recruiting other elite-level cornerbacks who too were competing for snaps. Averett admitted he considered transferring to a school where he’d have a better chance for more playing time.

“I was a guy that was the man in New Jersey in high school and I thought I was going to come right in and play right away [at Alabama],” Averett said. “It obviously didn’t work. It was just hard, but I have a strong family. They told me to be strong, don’t give up, keep doing what you’re doing and work hard at it.

Shurmur told reporters that he was encouraged by the fact Beckham showed up, and said he didn’t think the recent trade talk (which was generated by the bosses of Shurmur and Beckham) would be a distraction.

“I’m not worried about it,” Shurmur said, via Ralph Vacchiano of SNY. ” I really believe Odell is a professional. He wants to be great.”

There’s still plenty to be worried about, of course. Until he signs a new contract (with the Giants or anyone), there will be reason to wonder how committed to any cause he’ll be. And until he shows up on the field in the fall (with the Giants or anyone), that speculation will continue.

Beckham’s covered in case of injury while he’s working out with the Giants, a protection he’ll lack if he works out on his own. Last year, he split time between the Giants program and working out on his own, so the fact he showed up for the first day of school is too soon to declare all is well, and Shurmur seems to know that.

“I’m not overthinking this, he said. “This is the first day of work. I think it’s important that Odell is here. I look forward to Odell getting one day better.”

Former Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman visited the San Francisco 49ers .

Posted on March 12 by admin

Traded to New York in 2015, Wing had a strong 2016 season, finishing the season ranked 10th in league net average (40.9 yards). He was named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week twice (Week 14, 15) and made 28 punts that season inside the 20.

4.The four-time All-Pro, who is continuing to rehab from a torn Achilles tendon he suffered last season, took a physical and met with team doctors, Rapoport reported.

And part of that is asking Acu?a to wear his hat “the right way,” rather than slightly askew. Baseball has rightly earned a reputation as being stiff and stodgy in regard to individual expression on the field, and the Braves might be the worst offenders (remember Brian McCann’s run-in with Carlos Gomez, and their run-in with the late Jose Fernandez?). This seems to be another one of those silly things.

I get that teams have uniform standards they want all players to follow (that’s why it’s called a uniform, after all), but baseball gets too hung up on this stuff. (I wrote a column about it last year when the Yankees gave Clint Frazier grief about his hair.) If Acu?a is as good as expected, Braves fans won’t care how he wears his hat. And as I tweeted the other day, it would be a shame if kids saw Acu?a’s elite talent and youthful attitude and fell in love with baseball.

Perhaps his most famous play of his career came in the NFC Championship Game (coincidentally against San Francisco) when Sherman tipped a pass intended for Michael Crabtree in the end zone, resulting in a game-sealing interception and ensuring Seattle’s trip to Super Bowl XLVIII, where the Seahawks dominated the Denver Broncos to win the title.

Odorizzi will ultimately slot into the third spot in Minnesota’s rotation behind Jose Berrios, who won 14 games with a 3.89 ERA in his Age 23 season, and Ervin Santana, who had a spectacular 2017 — with 16 wins and a 3.22 ERA — but is expected to be out until at least May after finger surgery. In addition to Kyle Gibson, 24-year-old lefty Adalberto Mejia and Phil Hughes — who’s still recovering from thoracic outlet surgery that he underwent in August — Minnesota signed veterans Anibal Sanchez and Michael Pineda (expected to miss the season after Tommy John surgery in July) to round out its starting pitching depth.

The owners voted in January 2016 to allow the Rams to move from St. Louis to L.A. and gave the Chargers the option to join them.

Posted on February 10 by admin

The $2.6 billion stadium the Rams and Chargers will share in Inglewood, Calif., is scheduled to open in 2020. It is clear that in the meantime, the Rams and Chargers have work to do.

Some within the sport thought that the option was granted as a consolation prize to Dean Spanos, the chairman of the Chargers, by owners who respected Spanos but preferred the Inglewood stadium proposal by Rams owner Stan Kroenke to the Carson project put forth by the Chargers and Oakland Raiders.

The Chargers have another chance this Sunday when they host the Kansas City Chiefs at StubHub. The biggest number to come out of that game won’t be quarterback Philip Rivers’s passing yardage or pass rusher Joey Bosa’s sack total. It will be the attendance figure.

When the Lions won an instant-replay challenge regarding the spot of the football during their triumph Monday night over the Giants at the Meadowlands, the ball was re-spotted and then the officials remeasured for a first down. So, in other words, the NFL uses high-def replay to determine precisely where to spot the ball, then drags out two poles and a chain to guesstimate whether it’s a first down? Isn’t there a better way? …

I mean, that’s just insulting. Literally anyone else could have done this job. He didn’t win a single game! No one else might have been able to do his job and not get fired after doing it, but that’s a different story. The way Jackson handled DeShone Kizer was way beyond questionable, and there’s no doubt he cost the Browns several games with bad coaching.

The Browns deciding not to blow it all up again is admirable, but it’s hard to fathom a situation where Jackson suddenly wins a bunch of games next year.

The offseason talk about internal strife won’t matter if the Seahawks play well and get back to being among the NFC’s top teams. But if things start to come unraveled even a little bit, any unrest that already existed could become a far bigger issue.

Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

Posted on February 7 by admin

Mr. Blonde’s trash-talking inquiry is applicable to the Eagles, the oddest underdog of the 2018 NFL playoffs, cast into the corner of the NFC and now lashing back out at everyone who discarded their championship hopes. And here we are again, with the Eagles checking in as a 5.5-point underdog in Super Bowl LII to the Patriots.

Nelson will step into the NFL and instantly improve a team’s run game, regardless of who’s carrying the football. As a pass-protector, the Notre Dame star uses his strong base and balance to win much more often than not. And he’s incredibly aware of blitzers. He was dominant against the always-stout LSU defensive front. He’s a line-changing guard prospect.

Smith was quiet in the first half of the Rose Bowl, then looked like the best player on the field as Georgia put the clamps down on the most explosive offense in college football in the final two quarters. He had two impact stops in overtime to force Oklahoma into field goal attempts, the second of which was blocked and helped the Bulldogs earn a trip to the national title game. His blend of power and speed are unparalleled in this draft class at the linebacker spot.

Dak Prescott picked up right where he left off during his 2016 Offensive Rookie of the Year campaign, even though Ezekiel Elliott wasn’t on the field for the Week 2 preseason game due to his suspension. With Darren McFadden in the backfield, Dak promptly took charge of the offense, completing four passes on the Cowboys opening drive, including a deep touchdown to Dez Bryant. Get that X up.

Prescott had that pass to Bryant, another 23-yard strike to Dez and a pair of passes to tight end Jason Witten for 24 total yards on the first drive. Dallas probably would have scored a second touchdown — the Cowboys were marching — but a McFadden fumble on the Colts side of the field brought the drive to a halt.

Just like last year, you watch Prescott play and he just looks like he’s comfortable, like he belongs on the field. There wasn’t that question like there was before 2016, but expecting a sophomore slump may be betting against an incredibly talented individual.

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