Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where Nick Saban has joined the Depth Chart Paranoia Brigade:
First Quarter: Traditions Left Behind | Second Quarter: Bold Predictions | Third Quarter: Coaches Under Pressure
FOURTH QUARTER: THE ELUSIVE THREEPEAT
If Georgia wins a third consecutive national championship, it would either be unprecedented or a first since 1934-36. Depends how you view these things. The Dash leans toward unprecedented.
Minnesota won three straight titles of some sort from ’34-36, but times were very different back then.
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Mike LaFleur stood with two of his new position coaches nearby, and the Rams’ offensive coordinator reached back into his past, two jobs ago, to try to describe what Sean McVay’s done to Los Angeles’s tried-and-true scheme this offseason.
Five years ago, LaFleur was Kyle Shanahan’s pass-game coordinator in San Francisco, and the 49ers brought the Navy SEALs in to train the players. The coaches got educated, too.
“It’s like what the SEALs say: You always have to evolve,” LaFleur says. “For them, if you don’t evolve, you’re dead.
Nick Saban is already taking shots at the media, and Alabama hasn’t played a single game yet.
Alabama opens the season against Middle Tennessee this Saturday night, and all eyes are on Tuscaloosa to see how the depth chart will shake out.
Most notably, people want to know who will start at QB for the Crimson Tide. It certainly feels like the most open QB battle in years for Nick Saban’s squad.
Just don’t count on Saban to give a damn when it comes to what the media wants to know.
Nick Saban won’t give the media a depth chart ahead of the season starting.
Russell Wilson looked like a no-doubt Hall of Famer in Seattle. Would another bad year in Denver damage his Canton chances? Plus 9 more players facing a critical year.
Last season, the Jets hogged both Rookie of the Year awards all to themselves, with Garrett Wilson taking offensive honors and Sauce Gardner defensive honors. We’ve already taken a look at the odds for this season’s Offensive Rookie of the Year. Now let’s see which first-year defensive players have the best odds to take home some hardware.
Houston’s new edge defender, Will Anderson Jr. of Alabama, leads the field at +333. The Texans traded up to get their guy at the no. 3 pick after taking quarterback C.J. Stroud at no. 2, starting off the NFL draft with a bang.
The Eagles fell short in Super Bowl LVII, but Jalen Hurts outplayed Patrick Mahomes on the biggest stage to remind the organization of what they possess at quarterback. Philadelphia didn’t mess around and locked down Hurts with a five-year, $255 million contract after his breakout 2022 season.
But with Hurts’s new deal eating a sizable chunk of the team’s salary cap for years to come, the Eagles had to say goodbye to a handful of veterans, including defensive tackle Javon Hargrave, guard Isaac Seumalo, linebacker T.J. Edwards and defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
USC’s Caleb Williams is looking to become the first player since Ohio State’s Archie Griffin in 1974 and 1975 to win multiple Heismans. But odds suggest he’ll have some competition.
For 20 years, the AFC East consisted of the Patriots and three NFL versions of a laugh track.
Fast forward to 2022, and the roles are reversed. The Jets have Aaron Rodgers under center, the Bills are three-time defending AFC East champions and the Dolphins are loaded with talent and boasting a new defensive coordinator in Vic Fangio.
While Buffalo remains the favorite, New York and Miami are fascinating.
Fans at Citi Field had no sympathy for Max Scherzer as the ex-Met pitcher returned in a Rangers uniform.
Scherzer was a casualty in the Mets’ dumping of contracts at the deadline. He waived his no-trade clause to be traded to Texas after discussions with the Mets front office.
On Monday, the Citi Field screens welcomed Scherzer back with a tribute video.
Ravenous Mets fans stuck it to Scherzer for no longer being a Met with loud boos as a live shot showed him waving to the crowd.
If it seems like everybody is in awe of Shohei Ohtani, it’s probably because it’s true – everybody loves the coolest baseball player in the world.
Ohtani might no longer be able to pitch this season because of an injury he suffered last week, but he’s still serving as the designated hitter in Angels games, which is both wild and impressive.
Monday he shared another cool moment with someone who is in awe of him – the Phillie Phanatic. The legendary mascot had some fun with Ohtani as he got ready to go to the plate in Los Angeles’ 6-4 loss to the Phillies.