The first of two Monday Night Football games features a showdown between top-tier quarterbacks. Trevor Lawrence and the 0-2 Jacksonville Jaguars visit Josh Allen and the 2-0 Buffalo Bills in Week 3.
I dissect the NFL player props for both Lawrence and Allen and give my best NFL picks and Jaguars vs. Bills predictions below.
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“There were hard times,” Jérôme Boateng says as his mind drifts back to Bayern Munich’s wobbles at the start of the season. “It’s like being a child. As a child if I had no confidence, if you don’t get trust from your friends, then you lose the joy of the game. That’s what happens now, even when I’m older.”
Boateng, one of the finest defenders of his generation, could feel the spark ebbing away. Bayern were on the slide under Niko Kovac, a coach struggling to connect with a champion squad, and time finally appeared to have caught up with the old guard. Thomas Müller and Manuel Neuer were under pressure and Boateng, aware that people were starting to view him as a fading force, wondered whether a change of scenery was req…
The rise of Andy Robertson is such that he was associated with fairytale in Scotland long before the sampling of good times with the international team. It is just that there are parallels between the journey of a kid from stacking supermarket shelves to the summit of club football and what has transpired in the colours of his country.
When Scotland drew 1-1 with Canada in a 2017 friendly, the crowd at Easter Road was below 10,000. Hampden Park was more than half empty for the visits of Israel and Portugal a year later. Campaign after campaign of failure had sapped the energy from the Scottish public. Robertson’s supposed battle with Kieran Tierney for the left-back position created a narrative that quite evidently neither player could be …
Cardiff, Stourbridge and now … Carlisle? Real Madrid have had a decent run with British players in the recent past, and now it seems they are targeting another. Jarrad Branthwaite, hailing from the latter remote Cumbrian city, is the latest to be linked with a sensational move to the Bernabéu after this season’s performances for Everton.
Branthwaite is no stranger to a continental move, impressing on loan at PSV last season, so much so that his then manager, Ruud van Nistelrooy, called him a “complete’ centre-back. Standing at 6ft 5in, speedy and with as much aggression as Martin Keown rushing to laugh in the face of a certain former Manchester United striker, Branthwaite has been scouted by a number of top European clubs this campa…
Today is Melbourne Cup day, the most wonderful time of the year, the designated and officially sanctioned horserace/alcohol drinking competition when thousands and thousands of Aussies dress up in their finest duds and get blitzed while intrepid photographers capture it all in order to delight of the rest of us. Last year’s Melbourne Cup photo roundup was especially memorable, and the blokes and sheilas in attendance this time around had much to live up to. Whether they did or did not surpass their drunken countrymen in slouching, stumbling inebriation and ridiculous camera poses is up for you, the viewer, to decide. But I can report that, by crikey, these racegoers did their damnedest to compete: Photo credit: Scott Barbour/ [object Object] Photo credit: Scott Barbour/ [object Objec…
Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Dallas Cowboys. Your 2018 record: 10-6. These Cowboys overachieved and won the NFC East last season. They also somehow got good value out of giving up an oil baron’s ransom for Amari Cooper. But, in an act of divine consolation, none of that mattered in the end, because Andrew Whitworth and the Rams balled them up and shat them out after DeMarcus Lawrence decorated their bulletin board talking some Jay from Clerks shit about taking Jared Goff’s soul. He got his ass flattened. Winning the division was a ruse given that the rest of the NFC East last season was a …
In a great example of gamesmanship that falls just within ethical boundaries, T.Y. Hilton took a dive to avoid being tackled on a long third-quarter catch, and then decided it was best to take his time getting up. It was a great call, because by playing dead, Texans safety Andre Hal took him for a non-threat and strolled right past him, allowing Hilton to get back up untouched and waltz into the end zone to extend the Colts’ lead. I know a battle between Jacoby Brissett and Tom Savage may not feel like a pro football game, but Hal needs to realize that nobody here is playing by college rules. Relatedbest football betting sitesnfl play offs bettingbet on college footballbest online nba betting sitesall mlb betting sitestop online nhl betting sitestop betting sites for ufcfree soccer be…
I have a house and, like most houses, it’s an unfinished work. There are cracks in the paint. There are piles of old clothes and shoes exploding out of the laundry room, which doubles as a storage room because we don’t have a storage room. The walls in our bedroom are bare because we haven’t had time to hang pictures on them since we moved in 10 years ago. We need a pantry, but don’t have one. We just cram cans of food and boxes of pasta into the front hall closet with the coats and shoes because there’s nowhere else to put them. We do not have a larder. I don’t know what a larder is but it sounds fucking great. It sounds like you keep LARD in it, and that suits me nicely. But for now, this loving house will do, in all its imperfections. I suspect most houses are like this. Th…
Every year, we preview the upcoming college football season with a Hater’s Guide to the Top 25, and every year I make the same jokes about Ohio State fans being dumb and Alabama fans being racist (it’s true!), and it’s always a great deal of fun. But this year, between the Hater’s Guides and the Why Your Team Sucks installments, I dare say I’m hated out. It’s unhealthy to hate so much. If I keep hating at this rate, there will a be river of pink ectoplasm running under my house, and the bathtub will try to eat my baby. The time has come not for a Hater’s Guide, but for a Lover’s Guide, in which we say all kinds of drunktastically nice things about every program in the Top 25. Because college football could use the support. Between the NCAA’s tyrannical ways and all t…
Ashley Judd could be one of the more annoying of the celebrity super-fans. It is adorable when famous people are so vocal about their teams, but screamin' Ashley just tends to overdo it a bit. We get it. You love Kentucky. You wear tight shirts that say Kentucky across your boobs. Now stop yelling so much. Moving on. Judd went on the Dan Patrick show today to give the Calipari hire her blessing and the relayed a story about how she once almost broke an NCAA violation rule when she almost gave Tayshaun Prince's mother a ride. From Sports Radio Interviews: "I once offered Tayshaun Prince's mother a ride somewhere and someone came running up to me afterwards saying "Honey, you can't do that."… She's the most precious woman, she drove the publ…