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Interesting tidbit from Michigan State defensive coordinator Joe Rossi, who spoke today. When asked about the challenges of facing Michigan’s offense, he responded with, “There are only two plays they can’t execute. That’s the run and the pass”

Calvin "Megatron" Johnson says Detroit had the talent but "you can’t win a Super Bowl on a budget," and Stafford winning one immediately after leaving proved his point "But the thing I always say, man, I'm not salty about it at all, 'cause I retired like four years before, a couple years before Stafford left Detroit." "The biggest thing for me is that, I used to always say, we tell everybody we got the team here in Detroit. We had the dudes, but you can’t win a Super Bowl on a budget, man. You got to go all in." "That's what you see teams do. They go all in and get that one piece or two pieces that they're missing, to get them all the way there over the last couple seasons." "We had most of the pieces there in Detroit. And so for me, when he won Super Bowl, literally the first year after he left Detroit, I'm out there like, 'I mean, I told y’all what we had.'" via Chasing No. 1 (YT)

Joe Montana asked to play with Barry Sanders in Detroit. The Lions told him no. He had four Super Bowl rings. And he called the Lions coach himself. The front office turned him down in two words. In the video below, Barry repeats exactly what they said. It was 1993. Montana was leaving San Francisco and wanted one more shot with the best runner in football. Wayne Fontes took it upstairs. He came back with the answer and had to tell Montana no. Montana went to Kansas City instead. That same season, he took the Chiefs to the AFC Championship Game. The best quarterback of his generation and the best runner alive could have shared a backfield. Detroit passed over a birth certificate. On today’s market, Montana’s deal would be worth about $45 million a year. Barry’s, about $42 million. Detroit could have had both. What they really made is in the article below.

Jeremy is on for the closing stages 🔄

First look at Sonic in ‘ANGRY BIRDS 3’. In theaters on December 23.

Two changes for the Boro 🟡 BENCH: Brynn, Byram, McGree, Strelec, Peart-Harris, Sarmiento, Arfsten, Barron, Castledine #Boro | #UTB | bbc.in/UTB 🔗

Kyle Joseph replaces Will Lankshear up top for Middlesbrough this evening 🔁 Mark Drury: "My information is that Will Lankshear has tweaked his hamstring, but Boro are hopeful that he will be fit for Watford on Saturday." #Boro | #UTB | bbc.in/UTB 🔗

Them northern grasses acting like they can sell out 3k on a Friday night is comical 😂😂😂 Would genuinely be shock if they even sell out a reduced allocation 🤣🤣 #boro #saintsfc

If Boro win the league by 3 points ahead of us in 2nd and we declare ourselves champions, launch some fireworks, lift a trophy and make an official statement saying “Southampton football club does not recognise the -4 points”, would we be breaking any rules? 😂 #SaintsFC

Adam Silver likes the idea of cutting NBA games to 40 minutes, per @SIChrisMannix (h/t @TheNBABase)

You can put Jack Campbell is his vegetable form right now on JSN and he’d have the same result as Jaylon Johnson covering him

Every club that has lifted the #EmiratesFACup 🏆 Can you see your team? 🤔

New Lions LB KJ Britt: • Still only 27 years old and two years removed from making 11 starts with Tampa Bay in 2024. • Spent four seasons in Tampa Bay with Lions DL coach/run game coordinator Kacy Rodgers. • Auburn teammate of Lions DB Roger McCreary (2018–2020). • Impressive showing against the Lions in 2024, playing 41 snaps and recording four tackles and a pressure. • Athletically limited but powerful downhill thumper. • Todd Bowles described him as very vocal, a natural leader, and probably the most talkative guy on the field. • Antoine Winfield Jr. noted how Britt would get into trash-talking exchanges with Baker Mayfield. • Interestingly, began seeing increased playing time by taking snaps away from former Buccaneer and current Lion Devin White. • Described by Auburn teammates as an “alpha.” • The Beast 2021: Described as the “pulse of the team” and a natural leader who stays dialed in to football 24/7. • Named the top linebacker on the American team at the 2021 Senior Bowl. • Taught one of his Auburn defensive line teammates how to drive a car. • Should provide value on special teams.

Max Arfsten scored, then got benched. Middlesbrough are wasting one of their best weapons. Sept 19, St Andrew’s. Max Arfsten starts at left wing-back, scores his first Middlesbrough goal and walks off with an 8.1 match rating. He hasn’t started a league game since. Five league appearances since then, all off the bench: 3 minutes, then 12, 16 and 21, and against Charlton he came on in the 77th minute. And his numbers are some of the best in the league. 3.50 successful dribbles per 90. That’s the best at Middlesbrough by a distance. Callum Brittain is second at 1.80, about half as many. Only four players in the entire Championship do better. 77.3% dribble success. Of the Championship’s top five dribblers, he’s the only one above 60%. Corey Blackett-Taylor completes fewer than a third of his. Elite chance creation. Arfsten sits above the 90th-percentile line for both open-play chances created and xA per 90. That’s the “high volume, high quality” corner where the league’s best creators live. Before the Charlton game, FotMob had him at 12 chances created and 1.53 xA in just 425 minutes. A fullback who beats his man more than three times out of four should be starting. Hellberg has a weapon. It’s time he used it. #USMNT #Boro #eflchampionship #EFL

A new No. 1 after Sunday's action. Did your team make @BuckyBrooks' Monday Morning Top 10?

Jack Campbell is resting and will remain in a local hospital tonight, for continued evaluation and monitoring. The team will provide further updates as we have them.

Jack Campbell is being transported to a local hospital to be evaluated for a neck injury.