Saquon Barkley doesn’t begrudge unhappy football fans for booing their team. But heckling injured players crosses a line in his view. That’s what provoked the running back to shout back at a fan in Miami who was jeering Daniel Jones while the Giants quarterback was being checked for a neck injury Sunday.
Barkley explained his behavior to reporters Thursday in response to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) of him yelling at a fan from the sideline.
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The Chiefs won their 16th game in a row against the Broncos on Thursday Night Football even though they found the end zone just once.
Kansas City kicker Harrison Butker was active all night, kicking four field goals (one from 60 yards out) in a 19–8 win. The defending Super Bowl champs did cover the 10.5-point spread as Denver fell to 1–5, but this was still a surprisingly low output for a Patrick Mahomes-led offense, especially against the NFL’s worst defense.
Sean Payton’s first season at the helm of the Broncos is off to a rocky start, with Denver falling to 1-5 after a 19-8 loss to the Chiefs on Thursday night.
One particular gaffe seemed to illustrate the team’s season overall, as the veteran coach made a crucial mistake that cost the Broncos three points against Kansas City.
At the end of the first half, with Denver trailing 10-0, Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson was sacked on third down with 22 seconds left in the half. The sack occurred at the Chiefs’ 37-yard line, effectively pulling Denver out of field goal range.
Stefon Diggs recently expressed gratitude for the support system he has in Buffalo, even when he’s not at his best.
The Bills wide receiver said he is thankful that teammate Josh Allen “has (his) back” after the quarterback called out reporters who tried to frame his number one target in a bad light.
“Obviously, I’m thankful to have a quarterback who has my back. And someone who understands, somebody who is out there, somebody who plays the game of football,” Diggs said.
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Let’s rank the best college football games of the weekend.
The college football season is in full swing, and boy do we have a heavy slate for you this week. We’re smack dab in the middle of conference play, and every game here is important to not only races towards the conference championship, but to the New Years’ Six as well.
If you want to see some good football this weekend, follow us as we head out west for some fireworks and amazing QB play.
Here are the five best college football games of the weekend.
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1. New York Post sports columnist (and recent SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast guest) Andrew Marchand reported Thursday that Pat McAfee pays Aaron Rodgers, “more than seven figures per year to come on the show each week.”
I was genuinely shocked by some of the reactions I saw after the story broke. I had assumed McAfee was paying Rodgers. Every athlete or coach who does weekly spots on radio or TV gets paid.
I grew up listening to WFAN, where managers and coaches and players did weekly spots and always got paid.
While we’ve all been focused on head coach Sean Payton and what he has to say, the bigger question is: What is owner Greg Penner going to do about this?
After this week, we’re already one-third of the way through the 2023 NFL season.
As always, there are a slew of games that will be decided by one score. And, in those games, the result often comes down to one or two facets of the matchup.
As we always do, we break down which portions of the games you need to be paying special attention to, giving you some knowledge your friends are almost certainly unaware of.
Heartbreaking: The worst Pat McAfee you know just made a great point.
A report emerged on Thursday that ESPN’s Pat McAfee is paying Aaron Rodgers to appear on The Pat McAfee Show each week to discuss his life in football, and spread his brand of misinformation, which stirred up discussion of the nature and ethics of the show.
McAfee addressed the issue head-on, confirming that he’s absolutely paying Rodgers, and that he sees it simply as a way to share the wealth his show is generating.
In a week of sweeps and upsets, the Astros found a way to survive and advance — just like they always do.