The Damar Hamlin Fall Out
There are snow flakes in Buffalo, the Pats are about to be destroyed, and the AFC standings are wild. Red Sox lock up Devers long term cool. Plus who gets ingested by jet engines?
The Damar Hamlin Fall out
HEADLINES with The obvious one
Across the NFL
Pats hold on to playoff hopes
Devers signs long term deal
Simplest Minds of the week
SHOW NOTES:
Cold Open
Opening takes:
Damar Hamlin Fallout
Around the NFL
Pats win
Sox sign Devers
Player profile: Rafael Devers
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Damar Hamlin Fall out
The incident
- Wild to see
How was it handled?
- NFL wanted to resume?
Troy Vincent is snake
- Coaches decide to end game
Bills soft under belly
- Want to forfeit the games
- Justified?
History of on field medical emergencies in NFL https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/us/nfl-history-medical-emergencies/index.html
AFC standings hang in the balance
- Bills will play sunday RIP to pats
- No decision on how bengals v bills game will be handled?
- Machine over lords? Winning %?
HEADLINES with THE OBVIOUS ONE
Around the rest of the NFL
- AFC top seed
- AFC 7th seed
Pats, Steelers, Dolphins
Jets vs dolphins
Browns v Steelers
Pats v Bills
Very good chance all teams lose and Pats get in.
NFC top seed
Eagles clinch division and #1 with win vs giants
49ers get #1 with win vs cardinals and eagles loss
Dallas clinch division with win vs commanders and eagles loss
NFC 7th seed (8-8)
Seahawks Beat rams and GB loses
Lions beat GB & seattle loses
Packers win and in vs Lions
* No playoff team will be under .500
* Still competition for top and bottom spot in last week of the season
#winning
QUICK BREAK
Patriots 23 - Dolphins 21
Key sequences
Dugger pick 6 - 16 - 14
Bridgwater broken finger (end of 3rd) - same play
Pats 2nd TD
Mac Jones
20/33 203 yards 2 TDs
- Nice throw to Thorton
- TD to Thornton 1st qtr
- Nice seem to Henry
- * terrible sack out of FG range (Stevenson blew blitz pick up)
- Long throw to Thorton (keep running)
- Gorgeous seem to Myers
- Jackobi Myers TD
Myers TD
- Coaching or Mac?
- called time out - would have run it with Myers open. Dolphins stupid enough to run the same defense
Mac was okay. solid. A little behind on a handful of throws. (not the one to Stevenson)
- I hate his delivery. Reminds me of a less incesty Philip Rivers
Offense
Damien Harris sneaky important
Trent Brown another penalty
Defense
Hill - 4 catches 55 yards
Waddle - 3 catches 52 yards
Moestert killed them 8 catches 62 yards 1 TD 9 carries 29 yards (selling out on the WRs)
- Jonathan Jones nice play on the INT
* Myles Bryant a good game
* Kyle Dugger player of the week
Special Teams
-Another running into the kicker
- Folk is old misses another xpoint
- No guarantee on the onside kick
Coaching
- 4th down attempt at the end of the game?
- Can they operate in the end zone without a time out?
- Fuck prevent defense up 2 scores. Go win the game
- Tampa 2 dropping safeties
- Cam Achord needs to be fired. No more visors
* Last games for McCourty and Slater?
- Captains since 2011
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
Red Sox lock up Devers
Red sox sign Rafeal Devers 11 years $330 million
7th largest deal in MLB history
$30 mill per year - 21st
- Are we to be impressed? The signing didn't improve the team.
- Felt like they got the go ahead to write the check
Bloom has a plan. Has had a plan. Still don't know if he can do it
- The team could have been better than it is. Bloom struck out on a lot of free agents. Some of that was PR bull shit. Jose Abreu 40 million short.
“Rewind the clock three years, to when I got here,” Bloom said. “You had a club that obviously was coming off a lot of recent success, but clearly was not in a position where it was at or anywhere near the top of the division anymore. The talent wasn’t close in the farm system to replenish that roster, and there were quite a few commitments on the books. That’s not a great position to be in.
“And, really, the strategy all along has been to reset the table for a run of extended success, but to try to do it in a way where we were winning while we were doing it. There’s no question it’s a heavier lift to try to serve both masters. We were able to do it in 2021. Obviously in ’22, for a number of reasons, it didn’t work. But the way you do that is by maintaining elements of that core while replenishing the organization as much as you can with young talent. We have some of those young guys who are coming — some of them are going to play really prominent roles in ’23 — and there’s more coming behind that.
A positive note Young talent
- Devers, Casas, Bello, Yorke, Rafelea, Mayer, Whitlock, Mata
Is it good enough and will it take too long?
PLAYER PROFILE: RAFAEL DEVERS
Rafael Devers Calcano
-Born Oct 24 1996 (26) Mr. Devers and Lucrecia Garcia
Sanchez, DR
Devers was given the nickname “Carita,” which means “baby face,” because he was so happy and smiling as a child.
Devers' cousin, José Devers, reached MLB with the Miami Marlins in 2021
Bats L. Throws R. Is he a righty or lefty?
Signed with the Red Sox at 16 years old
Brought up to the Red Sox in 2017 to fill the massive pants of Pablo Sandoval at 3rd base
World Series champion (2018)
All-MLB Second Team (2021)
Silver Slugger Award (2021)
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Now he has to pay A LOT of money to the state of Massachusetts.
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