The Philadelphia Eagles return home to host the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field on Monday Night Football.
All eyes will be on quarterback Jalen Hurts odds, who has some doubters after how last season ended. He helped lead the Eagles to a comeback victory in Week 1 and may have an easier time against this Falcons team.
Read on for my Hurts-related props for Falcons vs. Eagles on Monday, September 16th. For more on this prime-time clash, check out Jason Logan’s Falcons vs. Eagles predictions.
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Chelsea have decided against using their buyback clause for Sassuolo’s Jérémie Boga, despite the 23-year-old having emerged as one of the best young wingers in Serie A. Instead the club are negotiating with Sassuolo to include a sell-on clause for the Ivory Coast international, who is likely to be sold this summer.
Boga came through the Chelsea youth system and made the step to the senior squad in 2015 but played only 18 minutes of competitive football for the first team, against Burnley in the Premier League in December 2017. He had loan spells at Rennes, Granada and Birmingham before being sold to Sassuolo in the summer of 2018.
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Every year the question is asked: what is the point of the FA Cup, why should we care? This is not the Premier League, with its slick production values, glamorous stars at every turn and sense of dramatic urgency. There’s no great sense that it matters: you lose, you’re out and it has no bearing on the race for fourth. You win the thing and your manager still gets sacked a few days or weeks or months later – between 2012 and 2018, Arsène Wenger was the only FA Cup-winning manager still to be in his job a year later.
Yet it remains a tremendously democratic institution and, amid everything else – the landmark final, the money it diverts down the pyramid, the chance it offers smaller clubs for a day to mark indelibly in their history …
Luton have signed Andros Townsend on a short-term contract until January. The 32-year-old winger was released by Everton last summer and has not played since March 2022 due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
“Luton are my local team – I live 20-25 minutes away so I’ve kept my eye on their progress and watching the Championship playoff final and see them win promotion was great for the club,” said Townsend. “I never thought I’d pull on the Luton shirt, so it’s a huge honour to play again in the Premier League for this club and hopefully help this club get as many points as we can and see where it takes us.”
Townsend has made a made a total of 264 Premier League appearances, also featuring for To…
There’s a distinct difference between being a top-ranked prospect and an impact rookie.Take a peek at the top two picks in the 2023 NFL Draft as Exhibit A. Bryce Young was almost universally framed as the top quarterback in the draft. Carolina pushed its chips to the middle of the table, acquired the No. 1 pick from the Bears and hitched its nearly empty wagon to the former Heisman Trophy winner out of Alabama. No. 2 pick C.J. Stroud went from Ohio State to Houston to NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in a scheme that emphasized strengths and offered superior skill-position talent. While offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik was a critical asset for Stroud, the underappreciated element in his success was the superior offensive line to the group that tried – and largely failed – to pro…
While every World Cup is unique in its own way, and this one especially, there are certain happenings you can count on. They come about every tournament. The pressure, the coverage, the overall oeuvre of the whole thing just drives people into the same patterns. Over the next month, you can look for just about any and all of these to happen at some point. The press conference meltdown The only distinction here is whether it’s a player or a manager. Sometimes it’s a striker who has misfired in the first two games. Sometimes it’s the captain who’s tired of eating all the shit between his manager and his teammates. Sometimes it’s a manager who knows he’s about to hit the unemployment line in the next few days. Either way, there will be a press conference where the first question…
Amelia Molitor was just another college student at Oklahoma—until Sooners running back Joe Mixon punched her in the face at sub shop Pickleman’s Gourmet Café *, fracturing multiple bones in her face and requiring surgery that left her jaw wired shut. Afterward, she told the Oklahoman that she worried about retaliation from fans. “That’s my big fear (the fans),” Molitor said at the time. “I’ve been told to stay off of social media to avoid (OU fans) coming after me on there.” Nearly two years later, Molitor talked to the paper again and gave an interview that largely proves her own fears came true. She deleted her Twitter and Facebook accounts. A mug shot from a previous misdemeanor drug arrest got passed around the Internet, while Mixon’s lawyer tried to turn her pa…
Some people are fans of the Miami Dolphins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Miami Dolphins. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here. Your team: Miami Dolphins: Your 2015 record: 6-10, including a 1-3 start that prompted the firing of Joe Philbin and the glorious ascendancy of this man… God bless you, Weight Room Tomsula. Dan Campbell started off his reign in Miami by having players do the Oklahoma Drill. I wonder if fatigue could have been a factor in them dropping seven of their last 10. ONLY GOD CAN KNOW. One amusing NFL tradition is when a horrible team’s season is over and the interim guy gets a token interview for the permanent job. I guarantee you that Campbell…
Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here. Your team: Tennessee Titans Your 2012 record: 6-10. 6-10 might be the worst record for your team to end up with (not mathematically speaking, of course). Going 6-10 means you're bad, but you're not the WORST. Going 6-10 means you don't get the top draft pick, and the people in charge of the shitstorm can sometimes escape with their jobs intact. And so here are the Titans, a year after going 6-10, still looking awfully 6-10ish. Your coach: Mike Munchak. To refresh your memory, here's Peter King talking about how Mike Munchak got his …
On Oct. 9, Dolpins offensive line coach Chris Foerster resigned after a video showing him snorting lines of cocaine was released by Las Vegas model Kijuana Nige. After releasing the video, Nige talked to the press, saying that “a point had to be proven” about white privilege. Since then, all has been quiet until yesterday, when Foerster opened up to NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero about his issues with substance abuse and his efforts towards recovery. Foerster says he has had alcohol issues for around 30 years, though he didn’t start doing cocaine until 2015, when he was with the 49ers, which “put the accelerator on” his addiction troubles. He found Nige in a “back page ad” in California in September when the Dolphins were in California, and the two proceeded to go on a eight-…