1. I kicked off last Monday’s “Traina Thoughts” with an item about how bad the NFL officiating was in Week 6. Well, guess what? It was even worse in Week 7.
The officiating in the NFL has always been suspect, but it’s a full-blown problem now, no matter how much the league wants to ignore it.
Refs are going to miss calls. That’s part of the gig. Nobody is perfect. But the outcomes of games are being determined by the officials, and that’s a major, major issue.
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At one point in our conversation late Sunday afternoon, maybe a half hour after his Ravens had finished dismantling the Lions, John Harbaugh made a point that could’ve been taken as a cliché, a way of tamping down the hype from this sort of win.
“What is this? Week 7? Week 8?” he asks. “We’ve got a lot of football left to play.”
You’ve heard it before, I’m sure.
But, as Harbaugh kept talking, it became clearer and clearer how the point he was trying to make was more deeply rooted.
The Browns’ thrilling 39-38 win against the Colts came with a game-winning drive and a hint of controversy—but neither of those things are what made Sunday’s game at Lucas Oil Stadium truly extraordinary.
Case in point: A fan gave birth to a baby girl inside the stadium about 20 minutes after kickoff.
As it turns out, the child is the newborn niece of Browns wide receiver David Bell, according to WTTV-TV and WXIN-TV. Bell, an Indianapolis native who played at Purdue, told reporters that his cousin was hoping to have the baby prior to Sunday’s game.
A funny thing happened while everyone was focused on Deshaun Watson’s absence.
A Browns team that was on the ropes has come together. And that much was obvious to me Saturday afternoon when I asked their best player, on the heels of a wild comeback win over the Colts, whether he’s playing the best ball of his seven-year career.
“It’s too early to say all that,” Myles Garrett says. “I just know I’m having fun doing it. It’s been a blast, win or lose, just playing with these guys. This defense is really rocking and rolling. It wasn’t our best showing today.
DP World Tour Commissioner Keith Pelley and PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan speak outside the clubhouse at the 2022 BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images
The DP World Tour, now more than ever before, appears to be acting as a feeder tour for the PGA Tour across the pond.
Before Tiger Woods burst onto the scene in the late 1990s, the European Tour—now the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons—competed head-to-head against the PGA Tour.
Auburn is the proud owner of one of the stupidest tweets of the college football season.
Ole Miss went on the road and beat the Tigers 28-21 Saturday, and that made a tweet from Auburn age like spoiled milk left out in the sun for a week.
Shortly before the game started, Auburn’s official X account tweeted a photo of Hugh Freeze and Lane Kiffin shaking hands with the caption, “Coach Freeze and a fan [handshake emoji].”
It was a stupid tweet at the time it was sent, but it became a hell of a lot dumber once the clock hit zero and Auburn walked off the field with a loss.
Still better than Jack Del Rio though.
We can add a new entry to the genre of “hilarious motivational tactics by coaches that backfired.” This week USTA coach Jeff Traylor put rat traps loaded with cheese in his players’ locker rooms as a message to “not eat the cheese,” a motto that requires a lot of mental gymnastics to understand how it applies to football — but nonetheless it went bad when a player pranked his coach with one of the traps and smashed his pinkie.
.@UTSAFTBL players got rat traps out in their lockers this week as a reminder to not eat the cheese.
These are not your average player rankings. Entering the season, these are the 39 players that will absolutely have a say in who wins the championship, some much more than others.
Ranking players happens everywhere. At Yahoo Sports, we’re putting a bit of a twist on it. Thirty-nine names. Four categories. Let the arguing begin.
It only took one snap for Nathan Peterman to make himself the butt of the joke yet again.
Peterman, whose career has been marked by his propensity for throwing interceptions, served as the Bears’ backup quarterback Sunday behind Tyson Bagent, the undrafted rookie playing in place of the injured Justin Fields. And while Bagent put together an efficient day as a passer, Bears coach Matt Eberflus turned to Peterman for a Hail Mary pass at the end of the first half due to his superior arm strength. And while that may have been a good idea on paper, the result was meme-worthy.