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Among others, the Bucs are considering five young assistants for their offensive coordinator role, including former Dallas OC Kellen Moore.

Eli Manning joins The Carton Show after the division championship games, and shares his thoughts on these big matchups. They start with the San Francisco 49ers, who suffered yet another blow at the quarterback spot against the Philadelphia Eagles. Brock Purdy was out early with an injury to his elbow, and Eli shares his thoughts on what Purdy was going through, and ho the 49ers couldn’t have been prepared to be down two quarterbacks. Plus, Eli talks going back on his word to never return to Philadelphia for a game.

After a 3-game losing streak to the Cincinnati Bengals, the Kansas City Chiefs are able to pull off an important win. Patrick Mahomes carried the Chiefs to an AFC Title win, and he did it on a sprained ankle. Craig Carton and James Jones talk the highlights of the game, including key plays missed by the Cincinnati Bengals that led to the Chiefs’ win.

The Philadelphia Eagles have stamped their ticket to Super Bowl LVII, soundly defeating the San Francisco 49ers 31-7 in the NFC Championship Game. Craig Carton is joined by James Jones to talk the highlights of the game, and together they decide how much of this loss might be on the Niners’ defense. With both Brock Purdy getting hurt early, and 4th-string QB Josh Johnson going out, Craig decides how much of a chance the 49ers had without a quarterback.

The Chiefs tight end wasn’t happy with the mayor’s comments leading up to Sunday’s game.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce made sure to put Cincinnati mayor Aftab Pureval in his place after Kansas City’s 23–20 win over the Bengals in the AFC championship game on Sunday night.
Pureval smack talked the Chiefs on social media all week leading up to the matchup. The mayor even chimed in and used the term “Burrowhead,” which was popularized by Bengals cornerback Mike Hilton leading into the game.

The Hershey Bears broke a world record, again, on Sunday. During the 21st annual Teddy Bear Toss, hockey fans threw more than 67,000 stuffed bears onto the ice and watching them rain down from the stands never gets old.

At the end of the day, the children of our community are the true winners. #TeddyBearTossHershey has once again established a new WORLD RECORD of 67,309 teddy bears collected for over 35 local charities. THANK YOU for your generosity! #HersheyBearsCares pic.twitter.

Joseph Ossai is taking a beating after his boneheaded decision against the Chiefs, but that doesn’t mean he has to dwell on it.
With the clock winding down and Kansas City pretty much out of field goal range, Ossai hit Patrick Mahomes out of bounds. The idiotic decision drew an unnecessary roughness flag, which pushed the Chiefs comfortably into field goal range to set up the winning kick.

Mahomes gives it his all for the first down!
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It will be his fourth Super Bowl appearance as an NFL head coach.
After the Chiefs edged the Bengals, 23–20, in a thrilling AFC title game Sunday, the victory set up Kansas City coach Andy Reid for a Super Bowl appearance against his former team, the Eagles.
When the Chiefs take the field in Super Bowl LVII, Reid will become the fifth coach to face a former team in the Super Bowl.

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The Heat’s defense is great. It’s revolutionary, too.
In his 2014 novel, “Basketball Analytics: Spatial Tracking”, Stephen Shea identified rim protection as the number one variable that contributed to a team’s Defensive Rating.
Looking at the cream of the crop defensively in 2023, it appears Shea’s finding still holds true today:

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Screenshot taken from NBA.com on January 29, 2023
The teams ranked one through four on this list all roster multiple gigantic guardians.

If you’re going to spend 13 hours on an aircraft the very least you can ask is that you get off that plane at a different airport. It doesn’t even have to be the airport you had wanted to go to in the first place, as long as it’s not the same one you took off from, your rage would be kept somewhat in check.
That’s not what happened to some folks in Dubai.
Passengers filed onto an Emirates Airline flight that was scheduled to fly to Auckland, New Zealand.