Month: December 2016

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh will not be entering the final year of his contract

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Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh will not be entering the final year of his contract, a team source said Tuesday.

There has been speculation that Harbaugh was signed only through 2017 because that was his last reported extension. According to the source, Harbaugh is signed beyond next season.

Harbaugh will become the longest-tenured coach in Ravens history next year, when he begins his 10th season with the team. He is also the sixth-longest tenured coach in the NFL.

John Harbaugh will become the longest-tenured coach in Ravens history next year, when he begins his 10th season with the team.
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This season, Harbaugh became the Ravens’ all-time winningest coach, and he owns the fifth-best winning percentage (.601) among active NFL head coaches.

This season, the Ravens missed out on the playoffs for the third time in four seasons since winning the Super Bowl in 2012. Baltimore came close to reaching the postseason this season but fell short in a 31-27 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.

The Ravens (8-7) are looking for their seventh winning season in nine years under Harbaugh when they finish out the regular season at the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.

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Guyer released another statement with specific dates relating to Sly’s internship and his responsibilities

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“Yes, I have been a patient under Dr. Guyer,” Manning said. “I have had nutrient therapy, oxygen therapy and other treatments that are holistic in nature but never HGH. My wife has never provided any medication for me to take. Ashley and I never attended the clinic together after hours. There were times when I went in the morning and there were times when I went after practice so this thing about ‘after hours’ is so misleading because it may have been 5:15 p.m. because their office closed at 5.”

On Sunday, Guyer released a statement denouncing Charles Sly, a former pharmaceutical intern who claimed he provided performance-enhancement drugs to Manning and a number of other professional athletes while he was working at the Guyer Clinic:

The Jets nearly knocked off the then-undefeated Patriots in Week 7, narrowly falling to New England 30-23. It was Fitzpatrick’s seventh loss to the Patriots in eight games and the Jets’ eighth loss in their last nine contests to their top division rival.

But since then, the Jets have rebounded to win four straight games. Their fifth-ranked defense gets a lot of the credit, but Fitzpatrick has also morphed into one of the best quarterbacks in football over the last month. He’s posted an average QB rating of 105.7 in this four-game stretch.

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Gosder Cherilus Womens Jersey “I don’t know if I want to place a significance on it, where (it ranks) in my career, but this is huge for me,” Fitzpatrick said this week, via ESPN. “I’m excited. This is why everybody in here plays the game, to play in a football games like this in December and have a shot at playing longer.”

Langston was in Los Angeles, training for his first season as a Pelican

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Rainfall, estimated at 6.9 trillion gallons of water in the span of one week, affected more than 60,000 homes, led to an estimated $30 million in damage, and caused 13 deaths in what is now widely considered the worst U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

“It’s just supposed to rain,” Sabrina said. “The rivers and the canals are supposed to fill up and deposit, fill up and deposit. But then they’re not depositing. They’re about to breach.

“My mom has been in her house for 30 years and she didn’t even have flood insurance. No one in my neighborhood had flood insurance, because they’ve been there for 30 years and it’s not in the flood zone. But they got 4 feet of water, so clearly it is in a flood zone now.”
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Langston was in Los Angeles, training for his first season as a Pelican.

If he wanted to sign with another team, he could still get $133 million over four years. The starting salary for him on the max contract would be $30 million. That’s a $76 million difference. 76 MILLION! What do you think Curry is going to do with that sort of economic option? Sorry, Charlotte, your dreams of Steph coming home will probably have to wait for, oh, about five years — at least.
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Last year Durant was offered the same $26.5 million starting salary by all the teams that pitched him. That’s why this is being called the “Kevin Durant rule.” It’s a big difference.

You said it was a select group of players, so who do you mean?

To get this type of premium deal you have to have played eight or nine years in the league and been on the All-NBA team this year or in two of the past three years, win the Defensive Player of the Year or have won the MVP in one of the past three years. You also have to re-sign with the team you played for since your rookie contract, although players traded during their rookie contracts still qualify. That’s not a lot of players.

The Packers appear to be obtaining insurance for Rodgers

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Limited Mens Sio Moore Jersey Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers, calf: There are several variables working against Rodgers this week. First — and most notably — he is dealing with a right calf injury sustained just last week. Coach Mike McCarthy said Rodgers was injured on the third play of the game yet he hung in there, his limp getting progressively worse, as the game went on until he was removed in the fourth quarter, buoyed by a comfortable lead.

And, it’s worth noting, he accomplished his three-touchdown performance despite his injury. Still, it’s a different set of circumstances when entering the game with an injury. Rodgers did not practice all week in an effort to rest his calf and focus on treatment along with other elements of game preparation. He told reporters it will be “about pain management on Sunday but the good thing is I’ll be out there.”

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, a Highland Park alum, had a pregame message that was shown on the huge video board hanging over the middle of the field. Stafford led Highland Park to its 2005 title.

Leading 14-7, Highland Park stopped Temple on fourth-and-1 at its 4-yard line early in the fourth quarter, when Bennett Brock and John House stuffed Zion Leach at the line of scrimmage.

Highland Park padded its lead with a safety, when Michael Clarke’s punt pinned Temple at its 1; and two plays later, Reid Hesse was sacked in the end zone by Turner Coxe with five minutes remaining.

John Stephen Jones’ long scoring run on a quarterback draw pulled Highland Park even at 7-all late in the second quarter.

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Franklin had 78 yards rushing, and Hesse was 21 of 31 for 177 yards with an interception.

Nathaniel Hackett wanted to name a play “Han Solo” but could not get buy in from the team

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“My dad had a laser disc of the original “Star Wars,” and I watched it so many times it got scratched,” Hackett said. “I probably watched it at least 70 times growing up as a kid. I still remember having to flip [the disc] over right when they would arrive at the Death Star.”

Hackett hit the jackpot when one of his brothers married into a family that included someone that worked as an assistant to Rick McCallum, who worked with Star Wars creator George Lucas to produce revised versions of the original trilogy and produced the three prequels. That family connection earned him a tour of Skywalker Ranch, which is Lucas¡¯ movie ranch and workplace in Marin County, California.

Even Hackett¡¯s wife, Megan, has a Star Wars connection. Hackett said she once lived near Skywalker Ranch, and to get to her home she used the same exit: Lucas Valley Road.

By everything, Brian means that at a routine doctor visit at three months, they heard what every parent fears.

They had found some “abnormalities,” and the doctors wanted to look at them further.

That set off an almost seven-month odyssey for Brian, Ashley and young Elizabeth. Blood tests, MRIs, many different specialists and more than 30 different hospital visits to try to figure out what was wrong with Elizabeth. Finally, they figured it out.

More tests, more visits, more doctors. And while it was very tough on the young family, they kept an upbeat attitude. “Yes, there were some dark days, but what keeps driving you is hope. Hope that one of these doctors can figure out what’s wrong with my little girl and make her better.”

Game Mens Wilt Chamberlain Jersey And then, on Oct. 22, 2014, smack dab in the middle of fantasy football season, “That’s the day my life would never be ‘normal’ again,” says Brian.

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we’ll see Coughlin again on the sidelines

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Everson Griffen Game Jersey Even the only guy I thought was immune to getting fired just got the ax in New York, but something tells me we’ll see Coughlin again on the sidelines, hopefully paired up with Andrew Luck in a constent competition to see who knows less about cellphones.

Woudnt be the least bit suprised if he coaches so long that he dies on the sidelines during a game and no one notices until its time for him to run out for the post game handshake because hes just got that bewildered look permanently glued like were all use to. Heck, he might of been dead for years already, but like one of those bugs that continues to have sex after its head is cut off his body has been instinctualy injuring running backs and saving 2 timeouts for overtime for the past 3 seasons.
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With Payton established as the team’s head coach heading into 2016, the Saints still face some uncertainty. The club’s 88-year-old owner, Tom Benson, has spent the last couple of years mired in a legal battle over whether his children or new wife can gain control over his trust. A trial date for the trust fund has been set for 2016.

Quarterback Drew Brees also has just one year left on his contract, and he carries a cap hit of $30 million for the 2016 season. But Payton said it was “a good assumption” that Brees will be under center for New Orleans next season.

The Saints brought in Brees and Payton prior to the 2006 campaign, and they led the club to a 10-6 record and its first division title in six years. Despite the recent uncertainty about both Brees’ and Payton’s futures with the team, Brees sounded confident that both would return to New Orleans in 2016.

For now, he was at least right about Payton sticking around.

Chicago Cubs acquire Danny Duffy from the Kansas City Royals

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Pittsburgh Pirates keep Andrew McCutchen. This looks inevitable, as trade talks with the Nationals broke down, and they instead acquired Adam Eaton. Keeping McCutchen allows top prospect Austin Meadows more time in Triple-A, which he needs after hitting .214/.297/.460 there in 37 games. Keeping McCutchen — I¡¯d slide him over to left field — allows him to rebuild some trade value as well if the bat comes back to MVP level. And if the bat comes back, who knows, maybe the Pirates find a way to contend.

New York Yankees sign Derek Holland. Holland hasn¡¯t had a good and healthy season since 2013, but he¡¯s the kind of starter the Yankees need to take a chance on to fill out a rotation that has a bunch of question marks after Masahiro Tanaka, Michael Pineda and CC Sabathia. Adding depth to the rotation could allow manager Joe Girardi to move Luis Severino to the bullpen, adding a third power arm behind Aroldis Chapman and Dellin Betances.
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Toronto Blue Jays re-sign Jose Bautista. The saturated first-base/designated hitter market just isn¡¯t there for Bautista, and I don¡¯t see him signing with the Rangers — who need a first baseman or DH — and playing alongside his good buddy Rougned Odor. Jays fans love Bautista. He¡¯s thrived in Toronto. The two sides reportedly spoke at the winter meetings, so the divorce papers on this marriage haven¡¯t been signed just yet.
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Chicago Cubs acquire Danny Duffy from the Kansas City Royals. Then sign him to a multiyear extension. The Royals have a slew of free agents after 2017, including Duffy, and the risk in making a run in 2017 is falling short and getting nothing in return for all these guys except potentially some compensation picks. Duffy, coming off a big season with a 3.51 ERA and 188 strikeouts in 179.2 innings, would have higher trade value than anyone else. For the Cubs, Jake Arrieta and John Lackey are free agents after 2017, so this brings a younger arm to the rotation and puts less pressure to sign Arrieta to a megadeal.

Underdog Molina aims for boxing history against Joshua

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After he handled nine targets in Week 13, do you expect Sammy Watkins to return to an every-down role this week?
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I spoke Thursday to Watkins, and he says he feels like he is beyond his foot injury and has “no limitations” physically. The issue for him was conditioning, and after playing 49 snaps in the Bills’ Week 13 loss, Watkins says he “feels pretty good.” I wouldn’t expect an every-down role for Watkins because offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn still wants to be careful, but I would expect his playing time to continue to increase.

Jay Ajayi handled a career-high seven targets in Week 13. Was this by design or simply a product of the team’s massive deficit?

The Dolphins were forced to abandon the run early in last week’s 32-point drubbing to the Baltimore Ravens. Miami’s preference is to run with Ajayi, then to pass to him. The Ravens also did a good job of backing off and taking away Miami’s deep passing game. Many of those throws to Ajayi were checkdowns.

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With the Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans tied atop the AFC South standings, it¡¯s not surprising that Houston¡¯s trip to Indianapolis on Sunday is the game with the largest league-wide playoff impact. If Houston wins, its chances of making the playoffs will rise to about 70 percent. But if the Texans lose, that will drop to about 22 percent.

Del Rio had his own plan. Last season, he wanted the Raiders to learn how to compete

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It has been an up-and-down season for the Colts and Andrew Luck, but they have plenty to play for

Condo also credited Del Rio with evolving the team’s off-the-field attitude, specifically in bringing in ultra-secretive strength and conditioning coach Joe Gomes.

“Before, we’d just go in the weight room and lift,” Condo said. “But now there’s a nutritional aspect. We wear heart monitors, sleep monitors. He’s trying to find the narrowest edge that we can have on our opponents.”

Del Rio had his own plan. Last season, he wanted the Raiders to learn how to compete. This season, he wanted them to learn how to win. Check and check.
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Change the culture? You could say Del Rio, who has pictures of the Raiders’ Super Bowl-winning coaches, John Madden and Tom Flores, hanging in his office as inspiration, simply dug the team’s swashbuckling nature up again as if it was Sparano’s football.

The Browns have 12 losses and zero victories, and could become just the fifth team since the end of World War II and the second since the 2008 Detroit Lions to go winless during an NFL season. Big, tough men have cried, including first-year Browns coach Hue Jackson, but Thomas exhibits the no-nonsense demeanor of a factory worker.

“It’s going to be rough next week,” Thomas told a teammate. “All-whites.

“I’m going to be on low-carb diet.”

Laughter is his coping mechanism, a way to get through this. Joe Thomas won’t lose it, because the whole team is watching. But when he gets home, his wife, Annie, says she can “see the pain and sadness after every game.”
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It doesn’t seem fair. Thomas has been named to nine Pro Bowls, and likely will get to the Hall of Fame someday, but he can’t get a whiff of the playoffs.

Cutler went from leading the NFL in interceptions

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It was surprising when Gase didn’t get a head coaching job during the 2015 offseason, considering the hype around the young offensive mind, following a pair of strong seasons as the offensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos. He was reportedly close to getting the job with the San Francisco 49ers before Trent Baalke tried to strong-arm him into picking Jim Tomsula as defensive coordinator.

Here, however, Baldwin’s precise and explosive route is simply too much to defend. Charles Gaines, the slot corner here, guesses wrong as he jumps to cut off the slant route by Baldwin, and it’s all over.

This exact same concept is something the Seahawks use a ton in short- to medium-yardage third down situations. Here we can see it against the Cardinals. Note how Jermaine Kearse’s “rub” doesn’t actually even do any damage here. Baldwin’s route is just so effective that Jerraud Powers has no shot at defending it.

The counterpunch: Check out this little wrinkle that the Seahawks’ could pull out on Sunday against the Panthers.
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Like any good team, Seattle will study how teams defend certain concepts, and adapt accordingly. In this case below against the Rams, Darrell Bevell and Russell Wilson noticed that St. Louis was switching on the rub routes (eliminating the rub).

It really wasn’t that long ago, guys. Hell, I’m not that old. This isn’t to pick on Lynch either because he was a great player and teammate. Everybody remembers his big hits, so hopefully they can understand where I’m coming from.