Author: Michael

The Steelers came away from their game with the Baltimore Ravens with a victory that, no matter how difficult or ugly or physically painful, had to be satisfying because it said important things about Mike Tomlin’s team.
Tomlin would never admit that one regular-season game was exceptional in any way other than it accomplished it’s purpose: Delivering a win.
“When my car leaves that parking lot, I’m on the move,” the coach said Monday. “I’ve been in it too long to bathe in it.

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Alpine F1 hopes to build off their tremendous weekend in Brazil at this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix
The 2024 Formula 1 season could not have started worse for Alpine.
The team’s 2024 challenger — the A524 — came in overweight and the team lagged at the back of the pack during pre-season testing. Fears were confirmed in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, when Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon locked out the back row during qualifying, starting the race at the back of the field.

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Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson entered Sunday about even in the MVP race. By the evening, Allen had started to pull away. Jackson struggled mightily in a crucial divisional loss against the Steelers. Allen, on the other hand, handed the Chiefs their first loss in 11 months, thoroughly outplaying Patrick Mahomes.
Knowing this, former television host Bomani Jones tried to get in front of the conversation by pushing the idea that Allen is only in the MVP conversation because of favoritism from the media.

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Netflix is slowly working its way into the sports streaming game. Its biggest step came last Friday with the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight. It was not without its hiccups, and Howard Stern issued the company a strong warning before they take their next step.
Despite the incredibly high number of viewers the fight drew (65 million watched it at its peak), Netflix had tons of issues with the stream itself. Buffering issues ran rampant for viewers, causing many to watch the fight in a less-than-seamless fashion.

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The Broncos are no fluke with Bo Nix and Sean Payton.
Back in October, I had a six-week check in with the rookie QBs that played at the time. Among the QBs who qualified for a grade, Nix had the worst one of the bunch. Coming in at a D+, there were many concerns I had about his early play, some of which are outlined here:

It’s easy to say the game has to be slowed down for Nix, but it really does. He’s playing way too sped up and sacrificing his footwork, throwing off his mechanics.

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