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Unwritten rules of football that need to go

NFL broadcasts and coaching news conferences are full of football proverbs. Very often, these are simply explanations for a why a situation demanded avoiding risk, or at least delaying it. And very often, the numbers — while not perfect — tell us otherwise.

In many cases, these unwritten laws of coaching and game management in football are more a function of history and tradition without a space for self-reevaluation or change. That’s not acceptable. Teams who spend all week looking for the tiniest little competitive advantages abandon them when given the opportunity to impact a game. That’s a waste, and it’s time for a change.

Let’s run through some of these close Auston Matthews Womens Jersey scenarios and explain why the traditional method of thinking about them is antiquated. Starting with a classic …

Today, after what he calls the “gamblization” of sports in Australia, Hunt says sports bettors make up one-third of the clinic’s patients.

If sports betting is legalized, will the United States be headed for a future with increased addiction potentially spurned by a rampant barrage of gambling Bobby Baun Womens Jersey
advertising? Proponents point to the expected economic benefits and increased game-integrity protection of legalization. Opponents say those perceived pluses won’t outweigh the pitfalls.

“For the two-thirds-plus of Americans who rarely or never engage in commercial gambling, the change will be negative,” said Michael K. Fagan, a former federal prosecutor and current adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law. “Anyone fairly and comprehensively evaluating the unbiased, independent academic, health-care and economic evidence readily finds that it weighs in favor of continuing prohibitions on commercial sports gambling.”

Sam Skolnik, author of “High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America’s Gambling Addiction,” believes the only thing truly inevitable about the future of sports betting in the U.S. is that similar pitfalls to what Australia is experiencing will follow any expansion of legal sports betting.

Daily fantasy ads were everywhere in the fall of 2015. Could gambling ads be equally prevalent if betting is legalized in the U.S.? ESPN Illustration
“Voters, state legislators and other stakeholders should start thinking about the potential downsides of what would be a major expansion of legalized gambling,” Skolnik said. “You’re going to have this pool of new gamblers, and there is going to be a subset of problem gamblers. This is extremely painful for them and not just their families. It’s for their employers, the whole communities that will pay the costs of increased gambling addiction.”

In the U.S., gambling addiction peaked at about 2.7 percent in the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG). It has been on the decline ever since, even as gambling has expanded across the nation, and has now settled around 2 percent. At state-run problem gambling hotlines, calls from sports bettors are rare. In 2014, less than 1 percent of callers to the Nevada’s gambling hotline identified sports betting as their most problematic form of gambling.

In fact, the NCPG does not oppose the legalization of sports betting and will announce a resolution later this year that will lay out recommended safeguards for an expanded regulated market.

Vikings sign coach Mike Zimmer to contract extension

Mike Zimmer built a solid reputation as a defensive coordinator over the course of his NFL career, but it took him 20 years to become a head coach in the NFL. Now, just two years after the Minnesota Vikings hired him to fill that role, Zimmer has received a contract extension.

Unofficially, check out this Riley Dixon Authentic Womens Jersey little piece of Fisher coach-speak from a radio interview he did in June, talking about Goff:

“We’re not going to rush him. He’s a quick learner. He’s got a special and arm and vision, and he’s going to play sooner than I think a lot of people think. We’re not going to put him in position to fail. We want him to be successful.”
They’re not going to rush him, but he’s totally way ahead of where everyone thinks he is.

Word of warning, Goff is the fourth Russell Okung Authentic Womens Jersey quarterback of the future Fisher’s promised since starting his four-year run of sub-.500 seasons with the Rams.

A couple of weeks ago, this looked like the most legitimate quarterback competition of all. Doug Pederson declared that Carson Wentz just wasn’t ready and would be third on the depth chart.

We should have known better. He’s since softened that stance, telling the media that he wants Wentz to be “starter ready” by Week 1. Forgive Pederson, he’s a rookie head coach who forgot how these things are supposed to work.

One thing Bradford’s done consistently throughout his NFL career, the only thing, is wow people in camp. I would expect him to be the Eagles starter when the season begins. There are two other things Bradford’s done consistently throughout his career: get injured and watch his play go wildly up and down from week to week and quarter to quarter. Wentz should have the job sewn up by the end of September.

There’s another question that doesn’t get asked in the camp “competitions” to anoint highly drafted rookies: what if the guy stinks? Camps aren’t set up for players to fail, but it’s possible that a first-rounder shows he’s just not ready for the job. If that’s the case, then the team’s got another quarterback battle on the horizon, a very serious problem.

Last year the Jets had a quarterback battle between Geno Smith and Ryan Fitzpatrick that lasted for about two weeks, when a sucker punch put Smith on the shelf and settled the matter.

Until Wednesday when the team finally re-signed Fitzpatrick, the Jets were on this list again. It would have been the fourth season in a row that the Jets kicked off camp with a question about who would be their starter.

Fitzpatrick isn’t the long-term solution the Jets have been seeking since Mark Sanchez butt fumbled his way to infamy — he’s a temporary fix. For the Browns, who have had 24 different starting quarterbacks since 1999, they’re just hoping RG3 can give them any sense of stability.

When it comes to the position, stability is the next-best thing to the absolute certainty a team gets from bona fide franchise guys.

If your team is having a quarterback battle this month, a real one, you have our condolences.

NFL wins longstanding appeal against Adrian Peterson, confirming Roger Goodell’s power

Nearly two years after Adrian Peterson’s lengthy battle with the NFL and Minnesota Vikings during the 2014 season, the running back is being forced to pay his fine after the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that Roger Goodell was acting within his rights as commissioner to suspend and punish Peterson for his arrest.

In the ruling delivered on Thursday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals said that Goodell acted within the rights given to him by the collective bargaining agreement:

With today’s court ruling #Vikings RB Adrian Peterson Chris Kirksey Jersey owes MIN three game checks from the ’14 season, which (I think) = $2.0M #math #fixed

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 4, 2016
If Peterson tries to fight against the ruling through the NFL Players Association, his chances of avoiding a fine seem slim:

Next step: NFLPA asks for rehearing Christian Kirksey Jersey en banc from Eighth Circuit. Little good it did Brady though. Longest of long shots.

— Daniel Wallach (@WALLACHLEGAL) August 4, 2016
Based on the NFLPA’s statement, though, the matter appears to be over.

“Our union pursues all claims because we believe in due process, fundamental fairness and in the spirit of collective bargaining agreements,” the statement read. “While the NFLPA disagrees with the decision, we accept this loss. When negotiation or collective bargaining fails to resolve our differences, we will always fight and pursue every recourse for our players’ rights.”

But he also missed seven games in 2011 and 11 games in 2013. Hall hasn’t played a full 16-game season since 2010, at which point he had played every game for the first four seasons of his career. Still, in 121 career games he’s put up 470 combined tackles, five forced fumbles, two fumble recovers, 26 interceptions and 111 passes defensed.

While Hall has become a coveted free agent as training camp begins, the veteran cornerback sat on the open market for nearly five months. The Bengals made a late push to bring back Hall, especially after losing rookie William Jackson to a torn pectoral muscle early in camp.

Instead Hall will join a Giants secondary that features the new additions of Janoris Jenkins and Eli Apple, and now looks much better than the unit that was last in the NFL in passing yards allowed in 2015.

Hall was a second-team All-Pro player in 2009. He will turn 32 during the 2016 season.

Colin Kaepernick will continue to sit during the national anthem

Colin Kaepernick created a firestorm when he chose to remain seated during the national anthem prior to the 49ers’ preseason matchup with the Green Bay Packers on Friday night. Kaepernick’s actions have been met with criticism, but regardless of the backlash, he plans to continue his protest.

“I’ll continue to sit,” Kaepernick told the media following Sunday’s practice. “I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. To me, this is something that has to change. When there’s significant change and I feel that flag represents what Graham Glasgow Jersey it’s supposed to represent, and this country is representing people the way that it’s supposed to, I’ll stand.”

The backlash and criticism of Kaepernick’s decision to remain seated during the national anthem will surely continue, but so will his protest.

The injury suffered by Tony Romo in the preseason was worse than the Dallas Cowboys initially believed, and head coach Jason Garrett announced on Saturday Haloti Ngata Jersey that an MRI revealed the veteran quarterback has a broken bone in his back.

Romo, 36, has struggled to stay healthy in recent years, suffering multiple clavicle fractures, so the back injury is a frustrating start to his 2016 season. However, Garrett said the injury isn’t expected to cost him the entire year.

Bridgewater is entering his third season in the league, and is coming off of a solid second season. He completed 292 of 447 passes for 3,231 yards and 14 touchdowns. The Vikings finished the season 11-5, winning the NFC North. The Vikings lost narrowly to the Seahawks in the wild card round of the playoffs with a final score of 10-9.

The team was looking to build upon last year’s successes and take a step forward in 2016, which will now be more difficult to do. Shaun Hill, 36, is currently listed as Bridgewater’s backup on the unofficial preseason depth chart, and Joel Stave is also on the roster.

Zimmer expressed confidence in Hill and the Vikings to carry on without Bridgewater.

“I have confidence in him,” Zimmer said. “I have confidence in this football team.”

Are the Patriots trying to fuck with the Texans, Jimmy Garoppolo, or both?

We still don’t know if Jimmy Garoppolo is going to play this week or not. He was listed as limited at practice on Tuesday, but with a Thursday game, this seems more like Belichick trying to psyche out the competition. Or maybe there’s another mind game they’re playing.

Are the Patriots Craig Mager Jersey putting pressure on Garoppolo to play this week? That’s what some folks close to the team are suggesting. One went so far as to say that the Patriots told Garoppolo that Tom Brady played through a similar injury. However, he can barely lift his right arm, so maybe rushing him back onto the field isn’t the best idea. Then again, this is the Patriots, so who the hell knows?

All we know right now is that Bill Belichick is not a doctor, and he’s fine with that. To be honest, he would make a horrible doctor.

The Rams own the Seahawks of late, winning four of the last five meetings between these division rivals.

The Rams have yet to D.J. Fluker Jersey score a touchdown in the 2016 season, but they were still able to get into field goal range enough against the Seahawks to get the job done and secure a win.

In Week 2, Cleveland was rolling offensively before McCown got hurt. They led the Ravens 20-2 after the first quarter, and McCown hit rookie wide receiver Corey Coleman with two touchdown passes.

After the injury, though, Cleveland was unable to score and lost 25-20. McCown was in pain and needed help removing his shirt in the locker room following the game, according to Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. Still, his plan was to be ready for next Sunday.

“We will see,” McCown said, according to Cabot. “My mindset is that everything will be alright and we’ll move ahead business as usual. It’s just a matter of letting the doctors and trainers do their job, and my expectations are to play some ball.”

Nuggets guard J.R. Smith remained hospitalized after being thrown from his vehicle

Briar Road, a ‘quiet, intriguing mystery’ about a family trying to find their missing daughter, captivates judges of £15 prize Buckley … praised for starkly impressive prose The writer Buckley has won the BBC national short story award with a haunting account of a family struggling to find a missing daughter, Briar Road. A part-time medium arrives at a becalmed house, a home full of the stillness that follows calamity, to search for clues to the girl’s disappearance by holding an awkward seance. Some people can hear notes that others Louis Williams Jersey can’t, Buckley’s narrator explains. Some tongues can distinguish gradations of flavour that elude the majority, some noses can detect a dozen elements a perfume that to other people is a single scent.

That’s what it’s like, as I tell them. According to Buckley, whose nine published novels include He Takes the Dog and 2015’s The River Is the River, the story grew out of notes for a novel which he never completed. It was going to have a medium as its central character, but the narrator that case would have been male and the setting would have been something quite different, he told the BBC’s Front Row. I could sense it was going to turn into something like a sub-standard Spark novel, I put that aside. But returning to his notes, Buckley continued, he Magic Johnson Jersey came across another idea – a story focused on the aftermath of a crime where the victim would not appear – and the foundations of Briar Road were place. Buckley’s story won the £15 prize ahead of a shortlist that included Mantel’s controversial The Assassination of Thatcher, as well as stories from Leviston and. Chair of judges, Alan Little, hailed its quiet, intriguing mystery, adding The prose is understated, stark and plain. The intrigue builds as key details are revealed slowly, hinted at and suggested rather than spelled out. It is a haunting evocation of the tensions between family members at a moment of bearable loss borne, the outward calm masking the turmoil into which the family has been swept. Little was joined on the panel by the novelist Tash Aw, the writer Sarah Hall – who won the BBC national short story award herself 2013 – the crime writer Rankin and BBC Radio’s books editor, Di Speirs. Haddon won the £3 runner-up prize with Bunny – a story of a morbidly obese, who is trapped his home and finds love with an old school friend. Buckley joins a roster of winners including Clanchy, Miroslav Penkov and last year’s winner Shriver.

We had guys out on the floor that can spread the floor, Cheeks said. We had out there, we had out there, we had different guys out there who could get the floor spread a little bit more, rather than have it packed in. The fact that we we were able to have those guys make some shots and spread the floor helped our offense.
, 10 NEWARK, N.J. – Nuggets guard J.R. Smith remained hospitalized after being thrown from his vehicle during a crash Saturday night, but his injuries aren’t believed to be as serious as first thought. J.R. is fine. There is nothing career- or life-threatening, Nuggets spokesman said. I did not hear anything that would suggest he is going to be out any. He is more concerned about the other people the accident. Smith and a passenger,, 21, of East Orange, were seriously injured Saturday when the sport utility vehicle Smith was driving went through a stop sign and overturned after colliding with a car at about 5 p.m. Millstone Township, state police said. Carroll, 23, another passenger the SUV, and Sinatra, 49, of Millstone, who was driving the car, sustained minor injuries. They were taken to CentraState Medical Center Freehold, where they were treated and later released. Both Smith and were ejected from the vehicle, said Lt. McPherson, commander of the state police’s Hamilton barracks. _ who sustained life-threatening head injuries _ was airlifted to Jersey Shore University Hospital Neptune, while Smith was taken there by ambulance. Further details on their status and their injuries were not disclosed. Smith, 21, was a player at Lakewood High School and St. Benedict’s Prep New Jersey before being the 18th overall pick of New Orleans the 2004 NBA draft. He averaged 13 points 63 for this past season.

The Detroit Red Brunner is getting his second wind. It helps to regain some confidence

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MOST people thought Arsene Wenger was mad when he said his young Guns could win the title. We’re in a good run but have to keep going as this was just one game. It’s just the beginning. It’s an important game for our confidence, especially after being with our national teams. We lack a little bit physically after 10 days away. We have to play more as a team like we’re doing now. We’re playing more collectively, more as a team and this is important.” Spurs had plenty of chances but confidence is down and on another day Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane and Bent would have had a hatful.

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Brunner is getting his second wind. It helps to regain some confidence. That’s what Brunner did Monday, scoring what proved to be the deciding goal a 3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche at Arena. It snapped his 15-game goal-scoring drought. The Red ‘t have a surplus of offensive options, they desperately need Brunner to display the scoring touch he showed the first 19, when he notched a team-high 10 goals. I thought the last couple of, I started to get the feeling back,” Brunner said. I was skating better, I had my legs underneath me, I was gaining a lot of confidence and getting a lot of scoring chances. I knew when I was getting the scoring chances that they were going to go sometime.” Brunner blasted a one-timer at 9 of the second period on a nice Jonas Jerebko Jersey set-up by Gustav Nyquist. It gave his team a 3 lead, following goals by Abdelkader and Cleary. The Red ran out of a steam the third, as Colorado got a power-play goal by McGinn at 5 and a goal from Matt Duchene with 1 remaining after pulling goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere for the extra skater. But, Jimmy made a game-saving glove save on PA Parenteau with seven seconds remaining, and Detroit rebounded from Sunday’s disastrous 7 loss at home to Chicago. Brunner tied Pavel Datsyuk for the team lead with 11 goals by scoring for the first time since Feb. 24 vs. Vancouver, when the first-year right wing recorded his lone career two-goal game. The last five were better, but the 10 before, I really felt the heavy legs and was tired. I have to admit that,” Brunner said. You’ve got to prepare yourself mentally to play tough every night. You’ve got to fight through it to bounce back. I I can take a positive from today.” Brunner has played 68, including 33 Switzerland.

He hadn’t played more than 56 a season, and that was with much less travel and not as condensed a schedule as he is experiencing now. It’s the first time I’ve had that that days,” Brunner said. I definitely felt it a little bit, but the last trip out West, it was more like getting the energy back. Getting out the a little bit, getting that good feeling. All the boys were happy, we had a great road trip. I kind of felt much better.” The Red Brunner can get on another roll. It was good for him, real relief for a goal-scorer,” coach Babcock said. Like most goal-scorers, he’s probably streaky. When you get ‘er going you feel it. Next thing you know you’re shooting the puck more.” Johan Franzen, who had two assists, said: It’s tough when you ‘t score when you’re a goal- scorer. He found a great spot and made a great pass, and he doesn’t from there. He’s got a great shot.” Nyquist had to navigate a broken stick on the ice to set up Brunner. Starting goalie Semyon Varlamov was pulled after that goal. I just came up from laying down with a battle with a D-,” Nyquist said. I saw the puck come loose and went to get it. One of their guys made a move on me and then I saw Bruns was open back where he found a good spot. Just had to feed him the puck and he’ll make sure to put it the back of the net. The Red came dangerously close to squandering the lead the waning seconds, before robbed Parenteau. I was trying to take everything away,” said. He was at a bad, and if that goes, it’s completely on me. … As a goalie, you’re supposed to make that save 99 times out of 100.”.

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In fact, he was ranked BA’s 9th best prospect the entire minor leagues entering the 2005 and was ranked as the 5th best prospect the IL 2005…Has been voted his league’s best defensive third baseman by league managers each of his last 4 seasons…Spent the majority of the with Richmond, batting.275 with 26 doubles, 20 homers, 74 RBI and 51 runs scored 109…Posted a.506 slugging percentage and.372 on-base percentage…One of 12 Braves to make their league debut 2005, Marte had 3 stints Atlanta, going 8-for-57 with 4 RBI from 6, July 8 and 1 through the end of the…Filling for the injured Chipper Jones, the 21-year old Marte started at third base his league debut 7 vs. the Angels and collected his first RBI with a sacrifice fly the 4th inning…Recorded his first hit 11 vs. Oakland, a 5th-inning single off Kirk Saarloos to snap an 0-for-9 drought to begin his big league career…

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The ‘s concussion policy is flawed. It is not necessarily that the , its teams, and its players are trying to hide concussions-though they certainly have the incentive to do -but that concussions cannot be adequately diagnosed by a ten-minute battery of tests the locker room. We got a stark reminder of that tonight.

Early the fourth quarter, Klay Thompson took a nasty knee from Ariza: Thompson went back to the locker room to have his bleeding ear sewn up, and Burke reported on the broadcast that he did not undergo concussion tests. He returned to the bench and was cleared to play, but did not end up re-entering the game as the Warriors lead never dipped Cortez Kennedy Jersey below nine: You can guess what happened next. While being interviewed on national TV post-game Thompson said that he felt dizzy, and the Warriors just released this statement: Definitionally, a concussion is about symptoms, and those symptoms can take a day to appear. Luckily Klay Thompson did not return to the game, but it wasn’t out of abundance of caution.

The statement says that Thompson was put through a concussion evaluation, but it is unclear what that means since Burke reported that he did not undergo concussion tests. But either way, as long as the concussion policy allows players who pass a couple of tests to re-enter the game, this is going to keep on happening. Update : The post has been updated to better express the uncertainty over exactly what tests Thompson did or did not undergo.