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For a man now firmly entrenched in middle-age, it'd make sense if he was spending this special day on a golf course This is why we're so close. Do you guys view the 49ers as a double digit win team in ? This is the End Around AB84 showed up in a helicopter. Pittsburgh Steelers steelers July 25, For the last three sum Every NFL team's training camp will be underway by the end of the week, and fan optimism is in overdrive all across the country.

Training camp represents a sacred place for the glass-half-full sect, a time when potential team strengths easily oversha What are the chances the Alex Smith Redskins finish the regular season with a better record than the Kurt Cousin Darrelle Revis retired on Wednesday.

Five thoughts on one of the best to ever play the cornerback position. Yeah, yeah, I know. How dare I besmirch Broadway Joe! Trust me, I'm not doing that. Jay Cutler spent his NFL career being painted as a misanthrope with a nicotine addiction , a quarterback with all the arm talent in the world but none of the grit to match. Cutler was never "just a kid out there. Love me some Pro-Football-Reference. I mean, not as much as this site Area Man Saves Job , but it's right up there. Whether you're a diehard fan or a member of the football cognoscenti, PFR is an invaluable resource for pure, unadulterated Who trades for Flacco next year after he inevitably gets benched for Jackson?

Every NFL offseason is unique. It's also exactly the same. Look at the NFL offseason like a long-running sitcom: A little thought exercise on a football website in the middle of June Imagine the NFL as a community. A town where the league's players, coaches, general managers, owners, scouts, et. There's a grocery store and a Now it's the NFC's turn. Everything I've written here will be proven this autumn to be a percent accurate and If you're like me, you've been studying your favorite team, diagnosing the roster's strengths and weaknesses as you make an internal case for a playoff With the impending decline of the Pats in the coming years, which franchise has the best chance of being the next dyn There's nothing worse than last place.

You can't sugarcoat or rationalize it. There is no, "Yeah, but All there's left to do is proce Is it better to be lucky or good? To be successful in the NFL, you had better be both. After all, every team that's raised the Lombardi Trophy benefited from some luck along the way. For evidence, look no further than the defending Super Bowl champ For most of the millennium -- well, s With how many teams that have never won repeat superbowls, is there a strong belief that the Eagles actually make it He's reached that most rarified level of sports celebrity -- a larger-than-life, quasi-mythic, demigod-level of renown that allows him to pass even The Grandmother Test As OTAs, mandatory minicamps, training camp and the preseason approach, here are our top 10 offseason storylines to watch.

Which one of the Big Five rookie QBs will see There was something special about the marriage of one of Manhattan's most historic venues with one of the NFL's tentpole events. From the red carpet in the middle of midtown, The Jets have a new face of the franchise. Welcome to New York, Sam Darnold. The Jets selected the USC passer with the third overall pick of the NFL Draft on Thursday night, a move the organization hopes will finally solve their forever riddle Being selected in the first round of the NFL draft seems like a pretty perfect life event.

After all, who wouldn't relish the opportunity to realize an improbable life's dream and become an instant millionaire at the same time? There's also the li Today, it's all about the draft. And do you think Seattle will actually pick on the first round this year? Toughest schedules Most forgiving schedules Revenge games Top prime-time bouts Revenge. What could possibly be more rewarding than vanquishing a foe by way of expert retaliation?

We're talking profound justice, baby! Which NFL stars have looked the most out of place in a uniform that didn't connect them to their glory days? Dan Hanzus takes us on a walk down memory lane to gawk at All-Pros in duds that were easy to forget. Some of these photos will be Aqib Talib and Michael Crabtree will ply their trade outside the confines of the AFC West in , but that won't stop the two men from sharing a field this year.

Dan Hanzus takes questions from you, the readers, in his latest mailbag studying the world of the National Football League. Going into last season there was a lot of talk about Dak vs Carson, who was better. Did last season settle that argument or Every team that changes its uniform is ultimately hoping for the Bucs Effect. On April 9, , the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hit the reboot button. After years of losing, new owner Malcolm Glazer decided his team needed a fresh, more intimidating image Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last month that the unemployment rate was steady at 4.

Employment rose in the fields of construction, retail trade, professional and business services, We learned earlier this month that the Dallas Cowboys are the subject of the third season of the Amazon documentary series All or Nothing. Now we have a trailer, which offers a glimpse into the highs and lows of a disappointing season for Joe Namath remains, all these years later, the only true franchise quarterback in New York Jets history.

I know what you're thinking. Joe Namath was on the Jets, like, 40 years ago 42, actually. There has to be Dan Hanzus takes questions from you, the readers, in the latest End Around Mailbag. Long time listener, first time question asker The Bills have inquired regarding the 1 overall pick per reports and havent got it The Arizona Cardinals exist today as a franchise in flux.

It wasn't long ago they were the envy of the league. Flashback to June 10, On that day, the Cardinals gathered in downtown Los Angeles for the premiere of Amazon's newest documentary If Barkley is taken at 1, who do the giants take? Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Let's take a look back at the week and decide who won It was a good week for The Rams general manager is in that good place for a front office official.

Gruden hadn't been at the combine podium in 10 years before Wednesday, but the man showed It was a loss for the Arizona Cardinals, but also for the rest of us. After all, Arians was a true original -- a man who brought personality to a gig where that's not necessarily Reich had one of the lines of the offseason when asked during his introductory press Dan Hanzus takes questions from you, the readers, in the reincarnated End Around Mailbag.

I was on the field as the Eagles celebrated their Super Bowl win That may not seem like something that seems worthy of a dispatch, given Philadelphia had just won its first Super Bowl in the year history of the damn game. But in reality, hoisting a Lombardi So credit Timberlake with a little outside-the-box thinking: Why pick just a few hits to showcase when y That's an incredible accomplishment, but here's a scorching hot take delivered to you straight from the North America tundra: The pop star is standing in front of a packed convention room of reporters from all over the world, but he looks like his next stop could be a pig roast in the woods.

Clad in a flannel button up ove Every Wednesday, Dan Hanzus combs through the expert findings of the NFL Media Research Department to share nuggets also known as "nugs" that fascinate, frighten or change him on a fundamental level. Super Bowl week is here. Approximately 90 percent of the content herein can be fairly described as "accurate. For the time being, football fans will have to settle for a pretty stellar merch battle going on between the two star quarterbacks. This might not seem like a big deal, but history tells us this solitary wardrobe decision has already decided the very outcome of pro football's most celebrated co Every week of the NFL season tells a story.

The Gatorade Bath wasn't always a thing. This is weird consideri I was sitting in the office today having a conversation with my co-worker Brooke, starting pitcher for our fabulously successful newsroom softball team and a die-hard fan of the Minnesota Vikings. Killing time before a Super Bowl planning meeting, This is the Championship Week edition of High-Fl I am you 12 hours in the future. The Vikings have already begun the process of preparing for their conference championship affair against the Eagles next Sunday. We, as fans, don't need to move on so quickly.

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This isn't just the playoffs for NFL teams. The lights are up for the whippersnappers running team social media accounts, too. Blake Bortles is in a weird place right now. Bortles has advanced with his team into the NFL's version of the Elite Eight, but that achievement has done nothing to slow the steady flow of insults directed at the Jaguars quarterback on a near-weekly This is the Divisional Playoffs edition of If you've ever been to an NFL game, you know how close fans can be to The NFC South remains a realm not recommended for the thin of skin, the weak of heart, and the vulnerable of disposition.

We're currently in the process of finding out who will play in the final game of the season, but the non-football related entertainment portion of Super Bowl LII is now set. The league announced Monday that Pink -- or P! NK -- will perform the natio Dalton's stunning touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd on Sunday served as a late Christmas miracle f The regular season is over, the playoff field is set. I know exactly what you're thinking: So let's tell the story of Week 17 through GIFs.

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As in, the coldest weather ever. This has been an adverse development for NFL players, who are crashing into each other a high velocity with temperatures in The regular season comes to a close on Sunday. For 12 of the NFL's 32 teams, the journey will continue into January. The Sam Ficken era is off to an inauspicious start. Ficken, signed by the Rams after NFL point leader Greg Zuerlein was sent to injured reserve with a back injury this week, missed a field goal and an extra point attempt in the first half of Sunda Blake Bortles has become perhaps the grand curiosity of this NFL as we reach the final weeks of the regular season.

For most of , Bortles looked every bit the liability that would stand in the way of the Jaguars and their gifted defense making This is the Week 16 edition of High-Flying Adven Those of us who don't sit on the Throne of Ease are still attempting to process how the Patriots managed to win on Sunday in Pittsburgh. New England certainly looked cooked after Jesse James crossed the goal line with the ball firmly in his grasp So let's tell the story of Week 15 through GIFs.

The Oakland Raiders have already earned their spot on 's Mount Rushmore of Call it a game of millimeters. Sunday Night Football between the Cowboys and Raiders treated us to one of the strangest scenes of the season. In the fourth quarter of a tie game, the Cowboys decided to keep their offense on the field for a This is the Week 15 edition of High-Flying Adven The official paperwork represented the culmination of a night terror turned reality for Iggles fans, who thought, maybe -- just maybe -- this was finally the year. This week we'll focus exclusively on the Bills' overtime victory over the Colts in snow-blanketed Orchard Park.

This has been a special year -- a rebirth, really -- for touchdown celebrations in the NFL. And while we've all enjoyed the creativity that's come with this new post-score freedom of expression, there's something to be said for the standards. This is the Week 14 edition of High-Flying Adventu People in Philadelphia are still ticked off about the lateral. In the fourth quarter of Sunday night's key conference showdown between the Eagles and Seahawks, Russell Wilson scrambled on third-and-9 and, as Eagles defenders closed in, flipped the Everyone is having fun in the end zone thanks to the NFL's now relaxed end zone rules, but no one has done it better this season than the Philadelphia Eagles.

With a three quarters of the season in the books, let's rank our favorite Eagles celebratio So let's tell the story of Week 13 through GIFs. Marcus Peters chose a unique method to protest a penalty call late in Sunday's matchup against the Jets. He took the penalty flag out of play. The Chiefs cornerback melted down after teammate Steven Nelson was called for defensive holding on a Jets Tom Brady is one of pro football's great competitors. We know this because he yells, "Let's go! Well, that and the unending waterfall of personal and team-based achievements during a legendary year career with the Bill Belichick is not an easy man to read.

Being an impenetrable fortress of solemnity has served the Patriots coach quite well over the years. At some point, Belichick's gruff exterior became as much a part of his legend as his incredible success Anyone who attempts to sell you on this notion is a liar, a fool or both. This will be a game about the This is the Week 13 edition of High-Flying Adven The ongoing feud between wide receiver Michael Crabtree and cornerback Aqib Talib can be traced back a single piece of jewelry.

I refer, of course, to the gold chain that Talib has now snatched from Crabtree's neck in consecutive years during meeti The NFL season is long. This is especially true for head coaches, who who age like presidents during pressure-packed job tenures that demand around the clock effort. Take Colts coach Chuck Pagano, for instance, who has watched his team kick away So let's tell the story of Week 12 through GIFs. How can Antonio Brown be the most productive wide receiver since Jerry Rice and The Patriots quarterback actually threw an interception Sunday his first since Week 6 , but he piled on four more touchdown passes in a easy victory over the Dolph The Raiders have finally done it.

Fittingly, the Raiders needed a lot of luck to end one of the strangest NFL strea What's the biggest difference between this year's Falcons offense and their unstoppable attack from a season ago? There's been curious a red zone disconnect between quarterback Matt Ryan and star wide receiver Julio Jones, who en This is the Week 12 edition of High-Flying Adven So let's tell the story of Week 11 through GIFs. This is how you look when you go to JerrahWorld and score 30 unanswered points i The Bills were widely questioned for their decision to bench quarterback Tyrod Taylor this week. One can imagine the Buffalo braintrust is having second thoughts right about now.

Rookie Nate Peterman threw five interceptions in the first half of What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, the Los Angeles Rams were one of the most depressing watches in football. They couldn't score, the kid quarterback was overwhelmed, and the mustachioed veteran coach had lost the ability to summon This is the Week 11 edition of High-Flying Adven Let's talk today about the limits of friendship. Attending a football game is a communal experience. It's a big human hug.

This is the everlasting beauty of attending a live sporting event -- for four or five hours everyon It remains the greatest Super Bowl halftime show of So let's tell the story of Week 10 through GIFs. I grew up in a suburb 20 miles north of Manhattan, a Jets fan in a town filled w Teddy Bridgewater made it back. The Minnesota Vikings quarterback, who had his career and life upended by a freak knee injury in practice last summer, was on the sideline and active for Sunday's win over the Washington Redskins.

Maurice Harris is your new leader in the clubhouse in the Greatest Catch Of competition. The Washington Redskins wide receiver -- called up from the practice squad this weekend -- made a diving one-handed touchdown catch in the first quarter o Everyone is still trying to figure out how Tom Brady remains so damn good at football now months beyond his 40th birthday.

Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has a theory we'd yet to come across before Wednesday. This is the Week 10 edition of High-Flying Adven So let's tell the story of Week 9 through GIFs. This might be my favorite moment of unintentional comedy in NFL this season. Jameis Winston seems like a good leader. He's a franchise quarterback. We saw this summer on Hard Knocks how well Winston's personality connected with Buccaneers teammate The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series last night to clinch the first championship in their year history.

Bully for those guys. With the Astros on top of baseball mountain and Deshaun Watson lighting it This is the Week 9 edition of High-Flying Advent So let's tell the story of Week 8 through GIFs. There's logic in play here. JuJu Smith-Schuster is more than just the guy whose n The Atlanta Falcons needed a bounce-back game after three straight tough losses, and on Sunday, they got exactly that, beating the New York Jets, Here's what we learned from the afternoon: The Falcons ended their three-game losing The Patriots are at home in the Tom Brady era.

And while taking out the Patriots in Foxborough is not impossible just ask the Chiefs and Panthers , it represents a gargantuan challenge. You must be sharp. You must be dynamic. Every week, Dan Hanzus combs through the expert findings of the NFL Media Research Department to share nuggets also known as "nugs" that interest, fascinate, frighten or change him on a fundamental level.

This is the Week 8 edition of High-Flying The Cleveland Browns need help. The team is winless as we near the season's halfway point and sit an unsightly since the start of the season. Hue Jackson may yet still be a successful NFL head coach, but it could take him years -- decades Ah, the warm glow of new friendship.

Is there anything better than meeting someone and immediately reaching an unspoken understanding you're going to be tight for life? So let's tell the story of Week 7 through GIFs. Let's begin today with a huge shout-out to Mother Natural disasters have been a sad fact of life in our country for the past three months, from Hurricane Harvey in Texas, to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, to the wildfires of Northern California.

Watt showed just how powerful a Every Wednesday, Dan Hanzus combs through the expert findings of the NFL Media Research Department to share nuggets also known as "nugs" that interest, fascinate, frighten or change him on a fundamental level. This is the Week 7 edition of High-Fly So let's tell the story of Week 6 through GIFs. Last week, I wrote in my weekly research notes c This is a time of great hope for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who feel like a team on the brink of at long-last escaping the endless shadow of The Jags have won more than they've lost this season -- this is the latest the Jags have been above.

This is the Week 6 edition of High-Fly The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a kicker problem. Yes, a lot of teams have problems with their kickers, but that's not what I'm getting at here. So let's tell the story of Week 5 through GIFs. The Cowboys did pretty much everything in their p Tonight is an important game for the New England Patriots. The defending Super Bowl champions are and facing extreme -- and deserved -- scrutiny for a defense that has been historically bad through four weeks. Bill Belichick and defensive In terms of high comedy, nothing in Week 4 came close to the image of Jay Cutler split out wide in the Wildcat.

Let's all take a second to reminisce and smile: On the surface, the ever-substantial Cutler Don't Care contingent appeared to have a Sm This is the Week 5 edition of High-Fly This New York Giants season has gone sideways in a hurry. Another descriptive term that would fit for Big Blue? I give this game everything I got. Ain't no way around it.. A post shared by OdellBeckhamJr obj on Oct So let's tell the story of Week 4 through GIFs. Last week, we wrote about Deshaun Watson's thoughtful It was perhaps the gre This is the Week 4 edition of High-Fly No, that was not foreseen.

Elliott shocked the Giants -- and made his old man proud -- with a yard, game-winning field goal in Week 3. Jake Elliott became a household name overnight in Philadelphia.

Beating the Giants with a yard field goal will do that for you. I'd say something trite like, "Elliott never has to buy a cheesesteak in Philly again! GIFs can do the same thing. So let's tell the story of Week 3 through GIFs.

It all makes delicious sense! Richard Sherman was involved in a play Sunday he'd probably love to wipe from his memory bank. The Seattle Seahawks cornerback was flagged three times in a matter of seconds during the first quarter of the team's Week 3 loss to the Tennessee Titans In the final seconds of the first half of Sunday's matchup between the Bears and Steelers, Cooper corralled a blocked field goal attempt by Pittsburgh's Chris Boswell and began coasting Every Wednesday, Dan Hanzus combs through the findings of the NFL Media Research Department to share nuggets also known as "nugs" that interest, fascinate, frighten or change him on a fundamental level.

This is the Week 3 edition of High-Flying So let's tell the story of Week 2 through GIFs. Marshawn Lynch and the Raiders are having fun together, aren't they? The arrangement works fo The Beast Mode and Raiders marriage is working for all parties involved.

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The veteran running back continued to work in vintage form on Sunday against the Jets, trucking a host of defenders on his way to 45 yards and a touchdown, his first in two ye With the Saints in the red zone early in the second quarter, Romo spo Every Wednesday, Dan Hanzus combs through the NFL Media Research Notes to share nuggets also known as "nugs" that interest, fascinate, frighten or change him on a fundamental level. The football cognoscenti is preoccupied with how Tom Brady is going to eat and train and high-performance pajama his way to immortality.

God is good and merciful. Hopefully you woke up on Monday morning feeling like your team is an unstoppable juggernaut. If the Bengals-Ravens opener was a game of Madden, Andy Dalton would have hit the reset button about an hour ago. The Bengals' seventh-year quarterback threw a trio of first-half interceptions, a ghastly start that has help put the Bengals in a This is Adventures In Research Notes: You don't have to win this weekend, Five weeks ago, we began our episode recaps in this space by raving about the magnetic quality of the Buccaneer Positivity pulsates through One Buccaneer Place.

The team has everything you'd want: A roster stacked wit Matthew Stafford is a very wealthy man. Since entering the NFL as the first overall pick in , Stafford has earned three lucrative multi-year pacts with the Detroit Lions. Aaron Rodgers is no stranger to facial hair. Like millions of men, he'll experiment from time to time -- quietly convincing himself the reflection staring back at him in the bathroom mirror is new and different and superior. For many men, this pe Bill Belichick likes him some Celtics basketball.

The Patriots coach makes regular courtside appearances at the TD Garden during the spring. Isaiah Thomas, the dynamic Jake Butt is a survivor. It couldn't have been easy being a young Butt. Kids can be cruel. But young Jake persevered, using his athletic prowess to overcome the unfair trappings of childhood and adolescence. Becoming a star tight end at the Univers There isn't Radiohead-level reinvention each August -- and that's perfectly fine. A Hard Knocks season should be comfortabl As I watched Monday night's preseason affair between the Giants and Browns you can't say I'm not a pro , I found myself appreciating the enduring grace of one Eli Manning.

You want to start a spirited debate? Come down hard on one side or the othe The simple act of watching video of the ageless Steelers linebacker exercise is in equal parts impressive, endearing and empowering. Ryan received a pink slip in January after an uninspired two-year run with the Bills, and his prospects of getting a third big-chair opportunity may be slim.

It's fair to assume Ryan LeSean McCoy spent six seasons in Philadelphia. Given his considerable service time with the Eagles, McCoy figures to be a sound source on quality cheesesteak joints in the city. This is important knowledge to possess, of course, and Shady's not ab Justin Tucker is the placekicker coaches dream about. Whether it's the first quarter or fourth, in sunshine or sleet, the Baltimore Ravens' special teams ace kicks 'em long and he kicks 'em straight.

Tucker's career numbers tell the story of consis If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me this summer if I've seen the Netflix documentary What The Health , well, I'd be approximately 35 cents richer. Someone should really adjust that adage for inflation. Point is, What The Health You are the defending NFC champions. You are coming off the worst Super Bowl loss ever.

You deployed one of the great It's a total eclipse of the Titans -- standardized practice routine that is. On Monday at 1: CT, Nashville will have a front-row seat for the oncoming total solar eclipse. This natural phenomenon hasn't occurred since , an What do you know about Guy Fieri? You probably know he's a celebrity chef.

You're probably aware he's on TV a lot, possesses a shock of bleached blonde hair and bares a general resemblance to the guy from Smash Mouth. You might know The New York Tim Roberto Aguayo couldn't make his kicks in the Buccaneers preseason opener last weekend and he lost his job because of it. Of course, there was much more to the Robbie Aguayo saga than its sudden conclusion.

Aguayo was a source of constant constern The Los Angeles Chargers drew 21, fans to their preseason opener at the StubHub Center last weekend, a modest gathering that served as a reminder of the challenges that lie ahead as the Chargers attempt to establish a Southland foothold. Football coaches are funny creatures. Just look at the premiere of Hard Knocks as an example. At the top of the episode, Bucs coach Dirk Koetter explains to his players that teams are like rockets. Football is just like any other business.

What can you offer that others cannot? That's what defines your value. And Odell Beckham is pretty Life comes at you fast. Just ask Jordan Matthews , who spent the last two seasons as the leading receiver of the Philadelphia Eagles and now finds himself checking out rental properties in Western New York. Though Matthews' name had increasingly fo News for all you Belly Truthers out there: Kelvin Benjamin looks good tonight in Charlotte.

The fourth-year wide receiver had a pair of catches in the first half against the Texans, including a go-up-and-get-it touchdown reception that brought back OK, I've tracked down my favorite stupid beef of the preseason. It's AJ McCarron v. As you may be aware, McCarron just opened Ajian , a build-your-own-sushi restaurant on the campus of his alma mater David Quessenberry was drafted by the Houston Texans in , but he hasn't seen the field in three years.

That will change tonight. Quessenberry has spent the last three years in a fight against non-Hodgkin T-lymphoblastic lymphoma. Will Smith had Bad Boys. Mark Wahlberg had Boogie Nights. Chris Pratt had Guardians of t You already knew the Patriots were the class of the NFL. That distinction has now expanded to include air travel. Patriots become first NFL team to buy to fly to games. They actually bought two https: There are plenty of fun storylines to follow this season, but in the meantime let's take a walk Jay Cutler doesn't need this job.

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Let's talk about the Cleveland Browns and Brock Osweiler. A few months ago, the Browns traded for Trying circumstances off the field only added to emotion of the Patriots' unlikely victory. Brady's mother, Galynn, battled cancer If so, he was treated to a Redskins shoutout by singer Chris Martin. During a solo acoustic interlude during the band's sold out show, Martin launc I spent a portion of my Friday afternoon arguing with strangers on the internet about Eli Manning's Hall of Fame candidacy.

Are we all witnesses for the Roberto Aguayo uprising? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' embattled second-year place kicker is in the fight of his football life -- and so far, so good. Aguayo went 7-for-7 during Tampa Bay's two-hour workout on The Los Angeles Rams will continue to be the kings of frequent flyer miles in For the second consecutive season, the Rams will log more air miles than any team in the league.

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The Rams will travel 32, miles through the air for their eight r You know football is coming when teams start sending out packages to season-ticket holders. And you know you're a Patriots fan if the block of tickets received in the mail is a little fatter than what fans of less prodigious franchises receive. Jay Feely was a solid NFL kicker. He played 14 seasons in the league, converting field goals for six different teams. His gridiron success led to a second career as an analyst for CBS, a gig he holds to this day.

Football has been very good to Ja Tom Brady turns 40 today. Almost impossibly, he remains the best quarterback in the world. The NFL's ageless wonder has worked tirelessly to stay on top of his profession, and one can assume that competitive fire seeps into all aspects of his existe These are not easy days to be Blake Bortles. The fourth-year Jaguars quarterback is attempting to rejuvenate a once promising career at the same time his head coach is telling reporters stuff like, "We want to run literally every play. Which of the following would not serve as an accurate descriptor of Kirk Cousins?

A human being B quarterback C rich D rapper Before you answer, please be aware of the following video footage taken Wednesday at Washington Redskins The first-round rookie has wowed every set of eyeballs in his time zone this spring and summer, showing off a combination of speed and lateral agilit We never imagined Marshawn Lynch and Macklemore to be boys, but apparently there's some relationship between the veteran running back and Seattle rapper.

Lynch makes a surprise cameo in the music video for the new Macklemore track "Marmalade. Tom Brady will turn 40 this week. This is not a kind age to men in his profession. Most quarterbacks in middle age are either a long retired or b depressing shells of their former selves. We see you Dan Marino. You, too, Peyton Manning How many trophies did you get as a kid? I want you to really think about it. Start with the earliest days of tee ball straight through your high school and college years.

We already knew about the degree video boards that left Matt Ryan Do not anger Bruce Arians. The Arizona Cardinals coach decided to test his team with an earlier practice on Monday -- 8 a. When the players didn't respond in the manner the coach expected, well, this is when being a professional Training camp is serious business for NFL teams, so it's always welcome when some fun creeps into the proceedings. Last time we thought about Ryan Mallett, he was being undermined by his iPhone.

Now it's the Ravens' defense doing its best to make the backup quarterback miserable. Check out this dispatch from ESPN. Back in the old days, it was common for NFL players to use training camp as a means to get into shape for the upcoming season. Modern professional athletes are far more conscientious about how they treat their bodies, turning peak fitness into a On second thought, maybe there is some bad blood between Stephon Gilmore and the Bills. Two weeks ago, we told you about the Buffalo sports anchor who took what seemed like an innocuous tweet about Gilmore's excitement to play on national televi You can understand the pressure Antonio Brown puts on himself.

Every year, the Pittsburgh Steelers star arrives at training camp in a Rolls Royce. This has become his thing. No, that doesn't mean Rivers has quit football to open a burrito and bolo tie shop on the beach. Rivers will remain the Chargers' most important player, but he'll be NFL players spend most of their TV time wearing helmets that obscure their faces, so you can understand why so many players jump at the opportunity to get in front of the camera and express themselves when given the chance. I bring this up because Madden NFL 18 is coming.

The venerable franchise will soon return for another season, and if you're a true Madden freak, you're already wondering how the league's incoming rookies will be rated. Are you one of these people? Martellus Bennett got to Packers camp late Tuesday night. He never put his ETA on anybody's radar within the organization. And so it was that Bennett found himself locked out of the entrance to his dorm at St.

When you raise your hand during a Bill Belichick press conference, be sure to remember what Omar said on The Wire: Here's one of those silly little stories that act as a reminder how different your life is from the average NFL superstar. Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones hopped on a jet ski this week, zipping around Lake Lanier in Georgia.

Good, clean fun, righ The man with the No. At least, not yet. We're talking about James Conner, the former University of Pittsburgh standout who was drafted by the Steelers in the third roun Not all heroes wear capes. Some have carry-on bags. Like many NFL players across the country, Bears linebacker Jerrell Freeman ended his weekend with a plane ride that would take him to training camp. When the flight at Austin-Bergstrom Internation It's one of the last slow summer days on the NFL calendar, so let's go ahead and watch an insane Randy Moss highlight, shall we? This one came to our attention via NFL Reddit.

Behold the pure athletic genius. Threw the hand up before he even got Before Spicey writes his tell-all and embarks on a long career of yelling at people for money on cable news, let's look back at the time he crossed paths with the NFL The Atlanta Falcons might have suffered the worst collapse in Super Bowl history, but there remains much to be excited about as a new season approaches. James Harrison continues preparation for his 15th NFL season. This involves doing things with weights that may be illegal in some parts of the country. In his latest feat of strength, the Steelers linebacker pushed a sled stacked with 39 plates at The Buffalo Bills haven't been to the postseason this century.

It represents a marathon stretch of irrelevance that's had the effect of keeping a proud franchise far from the national spotlight. The Bills' low profile is one of the reasons new Pat One of the most famous scenes in Rocky comes during the unkillable franchise's sequel, when Sly Stallone's titular protagonist jogs through Philadelphia, a growing trail of children following in his wake until the underdog boxer and what seems When Detroit Lions fans look up at the rafters of Ford Field this season, they'll no longer have a team-dictated reminder of how remarkably unsuccessful the team has been in the past half dozen decades.

The Detroit Free Press reported that team Two summers ago, I sought the answer to a quantifiably impossible question: The result of my research was the Pain Rankings , a collection of ill-fated teams Kirk Cousins and the Redskins failed to agree to terms on a long-term deal ahead of Monday's league-mandated deadline. Cousins will play under the franchise tag for the second consecutive year, a reality that certainly appears to stick in the craw o The Panthers fired Dave Gettleman on Monday , which was surprising and odd and leaves me very concerned about who will fill the void as the NFL general manager who can efficiently use "hog mollies" in a sentence.

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He just likes the Packers. Like many men his age, Ryan spent Players across the NFL have started their version of summer vacation. For the next six weeks, team facilities are dark and players are free to do as they please until training camp. This is especially great news for Raiders left guard Kelechi Oseme As we scrub down our grills following another successful Father's Day, let's take a moment to relish a young man who just made his old man very proud. Such a pattern serves to establish coherence in the stanza, as well as to create a distinctive music.

Eliot also found repetition useful to establish rhythms of ideas as well as sound rhythms. Conventional punctuation and sentence structure are used in this poem, but capital letters at the beginnings of lines stress lineation, thus balancing the importance of the sentence with the importance of the line. While Eliot maintained that poetry should conform to current conversational speech, he emphasized the musical qualities of speech, as well as the imagistic and symbolic possibilities of words, by his use of lineation.

Little could Waugh have guessed that he was identifying the very effects that the poets intended, and that his criticism is only of interest to us today because it signifies that, by the time he was writing, the Modern Age had arrived. Modernism is a blanket term that we use for a great number of artistic and philosophical movements including Cubism in painting that were intent on throwing away the old standards and replacing them with work that is closer to the way the people really live and think. This struggle between life and theory has always gone on and continues to this day.

After years of being underground and rejected, rap has now reached a level of acceptance that makes it a prime target to be dismantled by the next new upstarts. Similarly, the rise of Modernism was a reaction to Victorianism, which was a reaction to Romanticism, and on throughout history. Out of this grew the Romantic movement, which included such great early-nineteenth century writers as Keats, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Emerson, Melville, Poe, and Dickinson. Romanticism was a spirit of intellectual freedom that affected all areas of society.

The individual, especially the artistic individual, was held to be of the highest importance to Romanticism: The last half of the nineteenth century saw the triumph of industry and capitalism, and is considered a less humanistic time. Novels concerned themselves with social structure, and poetry became more formal, more stylized, emphasizing how things were said over what was said. The Industrial Revolution brought trains and eventually automobiles, stepping up the pace of life: Throughout the period, though, there were scattered elements that would eventually make it impossible for the forces of social order to hold: Each of these created a revolution in its own intellectual area and lead to the Modernist suspicion of all previously accepted beliefs.

There is no particular philosophy of Modernism, but instead we measure its growth by looking at various revolutionary movements in the arts. In , for instance, the Futurist movement in. International telephone calls, as well as cellular communications and public phones on airplanes, all are transmitted by having their signals bounced off of satellites orbiting the earth.

The first Civil Rights Act to be passed by Congress since the s made it a federal crime to discriminate against people because of race. The Ku Klux Klan is still in operation, despite strong public opposition. She is a teaching assistant at the University of Georgia , Athens. It is a mistake to approach T.

To enjoy this poem and get the most out of the verse, readers. Prufrock is an anxiety-filled, insecure, middle-aged bachelor who fears that his expressions of love will be rebuffed. First published in Poetry in , and then collected in Prufrock and Other Observations in , Eliot used the traditional form of the dramatic monologue for the speaker, Prufrock, to express his romantic dilemma.

The dramatic monologue is generally associated with nineteenth-century poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and is characterized by the voice of a single speaker who reveals something personal to the reader. In The Invisible Poet: And so the poem opens: Eliot imbues the scene with catlike characteristics, giving the evening a somewhat seductive feline tone: Prufrock falls into a state of melancholy by lamenting that his life may actually be nearly over: He then attempts to lay himself bare: When he returns to his monologue, Prufrock flirts with the notion of himself as a heroic character, but dismisses each comparison.

First he invokes the image of the prophet John the Baptist who was murdered and his head brought in on a platter to Princess Salome who had requested his death. Prufrock again repeats her curt and cruel response in the next stanza to further underscore his horror at receiving such a social death sentence that leaves him looking foolish before his acquaintances. Aging and silly, Prufrock is left only able to dream of romance. Several of the most memorable lines in the poem follow this anti-heroic sequence.

Do I dare to eat a peach? With this he creates yet another ridiculous image of himself with his hair slicked to cover his bald spot, trousers cuffed in youthful fashion, considering the act of high daring of eating a peach in easily stained white slacks. Prufrock is defeated in love by his own inaction. Eliot could do finer work on traditional lines. Eliot is one of the best known poets in the twentieth century. Eliot was comparatively unknown, despite a volume of poetry he. The modern poet, then, must be conscious of the tradition which he has inherited, and he must carry on that tradition himself.

Eliot alters these quotations deliberately in order to suggest the loss of the vitality of the traditions of the past: It is the debasement of that tradition which has brought about the spiritual and the intellectual sterility of the modern age. And it is this wasteland of the twentieth century, this intellectual, spiritual, moral, aesthetic sterility which is the theme of the poem. This image is fresh and striking; it is a most unusual kind of image, and the image is also functional: The image also describes something of the half-dead condition of Prufrock himself, who is helpless, finally, as is a patient who is etherized upon a table.

Or take the description of the yellow fog as if it were a cat. The cat image, here, also suggests sex. This is another desire of Prufrock which ends finally in inertia. The various characters that Eliot depicts in this, his first volume of poetry, are almost below the level, really, of animals and human beings. These characters seem to feel no real passions and they have no real thoughts; they are machines without the gas or oil that keeps a machine going. They run on momentum without a genuine spark of life within them. Prufrock himself is something of an exception, but not much of a one.

Prufrock lives in a world in which art and music have become the idle conversation of dilettante women, who are spiritually, sexually, and intellectually dead, who spend their lives in an eternal round of afternoon tea parties, who may talk of art because it is expected that the class to which they belong should know something about it, but for whom the meaning and the vitality of art have long since been drained in the cycle of their teacups.

Prufrock is one of this group. Prufrock is a trimmer. The Trimmers were lifeless, spiritless, mindless people For Eliot, the vast majority of men and women of the twentieth century are trimmers: Alfred Prufrock is no Hamlet who will disturb and rectify the evil of his world, the evil which consists for Prufrock in its decadence, its spiritual, moral, intellectual, sexual, aesthetic sterility.

Hamlet can cleanse the rottenness of Denmark; Prufrock can get only a glimpse of the sterility of this world, but he is helpless to do anything about it. He sings it in an effort to justify himself for not following the impulses, the suppressed desires of his alter-ego. And the effort damns him. But because the poem also shows that he has come to know his own inadequacies, to know that he is a trimmer, I think finally we do pity J.

Eliot builds his poem around the repetition of three central themes or motifs. The first of these is the time theme. There is always a tomorrow, there is always time And there will be time for Prufrock to change his mind about disturbing his universe; there will be time for Prufrock to put off doing it forever; there will be time to say farewell to the glimpse of real life he has had.

There will be time for Prufrock to sink back eternally among the rounds of teacups. This theme, allied as it is with the first theme and with the third theme as all three are allied one with the other, underscores the essential spiritual and moral cowardice of this man. He is only, finally, a pathetic trimmer, J. It is something much more practical. It is a study—a debate by Prufrock with himself—over the business of proposing marriage Huseboe, Augustana College Press, November, , pp.

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