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Everyone is surprised the Jets are three-2. Everyone, this is, besides the Jets.
Jets quarterback Josh McCown stated on PFT Live that he and his teammates had been watching for to be a competitive group, just as they’ve been thru the first five video games of the season.
“For us in the building it’s no longer surprising,” McCown stated. “We started to paintings again in April and May, placing our group together and working together and building our group with a aim in mind. Obviously there’s a narrative out of doors the building that’s happening, however whilst you come to paintings you don’t in reality enroll in that. You’re together with your brothers inside the locker room and also you’re going to move after this aim. So that’s been our attention and when you do find success I don’t think for us, as with all crew, surprise about it. It’s the way we paintings. It’s what we have been anticipating to take place.”
The narrative McCown referenced, that the Jets have been tanking, has been tested incorrect. They won’t end up a winning soccer team, but they’re without a doubt now not tanking. This is a team that’s gambling difficult, and that specialize in a first-location battle with the Patriots on Sunday.
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The Browns have made a change at quarterback.
Cleveland educate Hue Jackson has determined to bench rookie DeShone Kizer and begin Kevin Hogan on Sunday in opposition to the Texans.
“I’ve made the selection to begin Kevin this week,” Jackson said. “We’ve preferred what Kevin has been capable of do inside our offense while he’s been in there and he’ll begin on Sunday because that’s what we feel is fine for our group at this factor in time. This does not trade the way we sense approximately DeShone going ahead. He has labored extraordinarily tough and nevertheless very a whole lot has a vivid future. Right now, it’s higher for him and his development to again up Kevin.”
Hogan came off the bench in relief of Kizer on Sunday and has seen action in a complete of 7 games over his two years in Cleveland, but this can be his first start. So a ways in his profession Hogan has a 62.5 percent final touch fee, 3 touchdowns, 4 interceptions and a passer rating of 75.1. Hogan is a great runner who also has 13 incorporates for one hundred forty yards.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is sincerely seeking to flow beyond the national anthem controversy.
But President Donald Trump maintains seeking to paint him into a corner, in order to show that he’s the maximum patriotic.
Trump’s at it at the Twitter device again this morning, with more bluster about the handiest truth display that threatens to get bigger scores than his personal.
It is set time that Roger Goodell of the NFL is eventually demanding that each one players STAND for our high-quality National Anthem-RESPECT OUR COUNTRY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017
The league hasn’t finished some thing equivalent to stressful that players stand. If whatever, they’re tiptoeing up to the line of pretty-please-asking-if-they-might-so-we-ought to-all-get-alongside in trade for a few vague promise of a platform to specific their social worries.
And whilst decisions with the aid of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross to help quell dissent will probably lead some owners to follow suit, there’s no guarantee that players are going to go together with it.
At a time when the NFL appears to be looking for a graceful way to extricate themselves from the controversy over the crimson, white, and blue with the intention to defend their inexperienced, the President is the usage of his platform of choice to attempt to push them into compliance.
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The NFL hasn’t specifically stated that it plans to do not forget revising the rule of thumb that makes standing for the anthem non-obligatory, but all symptoms factor to the league taking up the opportunity — and quite possibly converting the rule to require status. Although NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart didn’t say at some stage in a Tuesday media briefing that the league clearly might be thinking about a ability revision to the availability of the game operations guide that says players “have to” (no longer “must”) stand, a dialogue/debate over whether or not to make status obligatory is feasible if no longer probably, in particular in light of recent remarks from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Dolphins owner Stephen Ross.
Based at the Tuesday memo from the Commissioner to all groups, which changed into posted now not leaked via the league office (which means that they wanted the media and lovers to peer it), it’s truthful to wonder whether the final results might be the implementation of a rule that requires status. The reference in the memo to an “in-season platform to sell the work of our gamers” on “core issues” concerning their communities coupled with the statement that “we trust that everyone ought to stand for the National Anthem” indicates that the league, thru the authority vested in its $forty million-in keeping with-12 months pin cushion, might be telling the gamers, “Here’s a automobile for giving attention to the causes that are vital to you. Now, you’ll stand for the anthem.”
This ought to spark a felony war with the union over whether that change can be made with out submitting the difficulty to the tit-for-tat of collective bargaining. From the league’s angle, so what? Like different times of going too a long way after which forcing the NFLPA to beat back thru the court gadget, the league would be able to inform the President and every body else who has a hassle with kneeling for the anthem that the league has done the whole thing it can to pressure the players to face. If, ultimately, a court docket blocks the NFL from forcing gamers to face, the final results got here be blamed on “activist, unelected judges” who don’t nicely admire nation, flag, and u . s . a ..
Along the manner, the NFLPA and the players will doubtlessly turn out to be the villains, from the angle of the President and those who refuse to just accept that kneeling or sitting for the anthem is ever some thing but disrespectful. The NFL and its owners will emerge with smooth arms, and the NFL and the proprietors in the end want to be concerned approximately that due to the fact the players will come and cross but the owners will constantly maintain the fairness inside the league.
Could it get unsightly if the owners in the end secure the capability to pressure gamers to stand, at the chance of being stored from gambling? Sure. But as we’ve discovered through multiple strikes and a lockout, players want to play. If the NFL successfully adopts a rule requiring gamers to stand for the anthem with the result being that they won’t play and that they won’t receives a commission in the event that they don’t, they’re going to face for the anthem.
The simplest ultimate question may be whether the NFL legally can pull it off. For now, it’s searching feasible if no longer probable that they’ll at the least try.
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Lions tight end Eric Ebron met with quarterback Matthew Stafford on Monday, seeking help to get out of “the dumps.”
“That’s my man,” Ebron informed Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “We had a talk after the sport, on Monday, the day before today absolutely, and just basically tried to assist him will me round, because I feel like I’ve been in the dumps and haven’t been as mentally engaged as I have to be, and he helped me out.
“I can rely on him, and he is predicated on me, and that’s what form of courting we’ve built over those four years, so I leaned upon him and he’s been a very good dude for me.”
Ebron, who stuck a career-excessive 61 passes ultimate season, has best 12 catches for ninety three yards. His 7.8 yards according to seize ranks as a career low, and his 3 drops tie him for 1/3-maximum, in line with STATS.
“Just got to get my act together as a long way as playing,” Ebron said. “From the manner I exercise to the manner I play are various things. I’ve been really a success as a ways as practising, I just want to get it as a ways as the sport-clever and I don’t . . . recognise what the intellectual blockage is, but I’ll simply get it collectively.”
Ebron’s remarks inside the locker room and on Twitter after the Lions’ loss Sunday seemed to be directed at Stafford or offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter. He tweeted lovers need to “be aware of the whole image.”
In his interview with Birkett on Tuesday, Ebron characterised his remarks as “simply talk,” adding “I”m now not blaming my quarterback.”
“I guess something humans want to make a tale about,” he said.
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