Emerging Giants star defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux blasted NFL officials for an apparent egregious bad call at the end of Big Blue’s crushing 13–10 overtime loss to the Jets during Week 8.
Thibodeaux joins Steelers wideout Diontae Johnson who also ripped officiating following Pittsburgh’s 20–10 loss against the Jaguars on Sunday.
The No. 5 overall pick in 2022’s NFL Draft shared a video of the late offsides call on the Jets’ game-tying drive in regulation, which essentially gave the Jets a free play.
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Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where Jim Harbaugh is an admirer of corn:
First Quarter: Michigan’s spygate silence | Second Quarter: Questions for first CFP ranking
Third Quarter: Is Dabo done as an elite coach?
The demise of Clemson is final and official, at least the 2023 version. The Tigers have slid to 4–4, their worst eight-game record since 2010, stumbling out of contention to win the league they have dominated for most of the past decade.
In an offseason where NFL running backs struggled to get paid, former Philadelphia Eagles RB Miles Sanders signed a four-year, $25 million contract with the Carolina Panthers. Head coach Frank Reich envisioned a high-level running back helping take heat off No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young.
That hasn’t happened. Not even close, in fact. Sanders started strong, tallying 98 yards from scrimmage in his first game in Carolina. He hasn’t topped 62 since. In Sunday’s win over the Houston Texans — the first this season for the Panthers — Sanders was an afterthought.
The New York Giants traded defensive lineman Leonard Williams to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday.
Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell has yet to name a replacement starter for Kirk Cousins, who suffered a torn Achilles tendon Sunday and is out for the season.
To top off our Monday coverage of Week 8, we have a quick look at where things stand with less than 24 hours left until the trade deadline.
• The Giants deserve credit for their creativity in offloading defensive lineman Leonard Williams—because in getting the return for him that they did, the devil was in the details.
On the surface, getting a 2024 second-rounder and ’25 fifth-rounder for Williams, a versatile and good-not-great player, seems like a masterstroke. And it is just in a way you may not realize.
Just how beneficial is making the final weekend for an underdog program? FAU can learn a lot from what happened after similar runs for Butler, VCU, George Mason and other Cinderellas.
The only part of Sunday more laughable than the sarcastically melodramatic finish of the Snoopy Bowl was the moment when Giants fans decided to make the loss some kind of referendum on Brian Daboll who, just a year ago, won the NFL’s Coach of the Year award.
This is typical of the fan base that, somewhat infamously, tried to run off Tom Coughlin myriad times before, and in between a pair of Super Bowl wins, and certainly after them, despite the fact that the organization has been hopelessly adrift ever since.
BATON ROUGE, La. – It was a simple question.
But LSU coach Brian Kelly was as miffed by it as Alabama coach Nick Saban and his players were last year when Kelly decided to go for two in the first overtime in Tiger Stadium. That gamble worked. No. 10 LSU beat the No. 6 Crimson Tide, 32-31, on a pass from quarterback Jayden Daniels to tight end Mason Taylor in the right flat.
“I was not expecting it,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said at the time.
Welcome to Week 7 of the 2023 NFL season here at The MMQB. Below are links to everything Albert Breer wrote over the weekend, plus more from our staff.
How We Know Joe Burrow Is Really Back
The Bengals have weathered the storm and gotten back above .500.
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Albert Breer talks to the star QB about overcoming his calf injury earlier in the season and his biggest plays against the 49ers.