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Another confusing new rule Blindside blo
And you thought pa s Zach Laskey Jersey interference was the only new rule change you had to pay attention to this season.Along with the revamped rules surrounding PI, the has instilled a ban on blindside blocks this season. As it was back in March: "It is a foul if a player initiates a block in which he is moving towards or parallel to his own end line and makes forcible contact to his opponent with his helmet, forearm, or shoulder."While the rule change in itself isn't much of a big deal, the way in which the rule is currently stated is making things a bit confusing for teams, which was on full display during the Lions-Texans preseason contest John Franklin-Myers Jersey on Saturday. guard was called for it in that matchup after hitting linebacker . While right tackle David Wiggins was blocking for quarterback , Davis was able Jack Youngblood Jersey to loop around Wiggins. Aboushi saw Wiggins was about to get beat and laid a hit on Davis. By the letter of the rule, Davis "was moving towards" his own end line, but it wasn't exactly a traditional blindside block as he saw Aboushi coming, an area of the ruling that certainly could use more clarification. Because the way the rule is currently constructed, Aboushi was flagged for the infraction and NFL senior V.P. of officiating Al Riveron supported the call. In , DET #76 goes back toward his own end-line and forcibly blocks his opponent with his shoulder. By rule, this is a blindside block. -AL NFL Officiating (@ Gerald Everett Jersey NFLOfficiating) The intent behind the rule is to limit head injuries. As the league noted when they first came to an agreement on the banishment, one-third of all concu sions suffered by players on punts were cause by blindside blocks Brandin Cooks Jersey . This is their effort to try and reduce that number for player safety. While a valiant endeavor, there's certainly some areas that may need some fine-tuning to really encapsulate the spirit of the change.
A.J. Greens injury on subpar Bengals pra
The were fighting an uphill battle to be a contender this year already and things just got much tougher for Cincinnati with the news that A.J. Green will mi s between six and eight weeks with a leg injury that occurred on Saturday at training camp.Green suffered what Bobby Evans Jersey was when he was carted off the field at Dayton University on Saturday. However, an MRI revealed more damage than originally expected and now Green is almost certainly going to mi s the entirety of the preseason.In fact, per Ian Rapoport of Media, Green's status for the Week 1 opener is "in doubt."Cincinnati's Week 1 matchup in Seattle is almost exactly six weeks away, and it's po sible that Green could mi s up to a full eight weeks, which would mean the injury lingers into the regular season. Green is in the final year of his contract, and there was some debate about what the Bengals would do with Green. Certainly now any contract talks are in a holding pattern until they find out what the receiver's status is moving forward.Making matters worse is the status of the field Green was playing on. , there was concern from Bengals staffers about the quality of the field they practiced on Saturday. However, ESPN reports the team ultimately Greg Gaines Jersey cleared the field for action. More on the decision to practice at the University of Dayton where A.J. tore ligament in his ankle Saturday: Bengals cleared the football field for use in the end, per source. Team did a site survey there and confirmed it was good Eric Weddle Jersey to go. Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) Originally the team was slated to practice at Triangle Park, the location of the first ever NFL game, in Dayton to help celebrate the NFL's 100th-anniversary season. They were going to build a big facility there for the Bengals as part of it. However a Native American group pushed back on it because the location was on top of an old burial ground. The NFL wanted the team to be in Dayton anyway, so the Bengals went to the University of Dayton's stadium. Per Breer, "several Bengals staffers were frustrated" about Green getting hurt because they believed the field was "subpar" noting that "players were sliding all over the place" and there were "pebbles lodged into the turf."Fortunately only one player was hurt. Unfortunately that DeSean Jackson Jersey player is Green, who was slated to play a huge role as primary target in Zac Taylor's new offense. Now Dalton will have to rely on , .Boyd is an ascending young receiver and a dynamo out of the slot. However, as noted by Evan Silva of Establish the Run, Boyd was substantially more productive when Green was on the field last year than when Green was hurt. slot WR Tyler Boyd was quite a bit more productive with A.J. Green in the lineup last season than without him Tyrunn Walker Jersey . Evan Silva (@evansilva) Looking at -- and not -- the numbers are equally concerning, although it's a very small sample size in both cases.The Bengals' first four weeks of the season, which feature three road games, was going to be hard regardle s of who was healthy. If Green isn't ready to go by the start of Week 1, it's going to be an extremely hard stretch of games.And this injury puts hypothetical contract talks into a weird place. A tough season just got much tougher.
Carrie Underwood NFL facing lawsuit over
Carrie Underwood was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday that accuses the country music star of plagiarizing the new "Sunday Night Football" theme song that she started singing for NBC back in 2018.According to the lawsuit, which was , a singer named Heidi Merrill believes that Underwood flat out stole the song from her. Merrill and her songwriting team apparently wrote a song called "Game on" back Ryan Hewitt Jersey in 2016, and they believe that Underwood used their version to write the SNF intro, which is also called Joe Burrow Jersey "Game on." The and NBC are also being sued.The lawsuit notes that Underwood's version of the song "is substantially -- even strikingly -- similar, if not identical," to Merrill's version song. Merrill's attorney, Sam P. Israel, believes that it's pretty obvious that Underwood copied Merrill's version of the song."This is a blatant attempt by a celebrity singer to rip off other artists' work, ," Israel said this week, via CNN. "It's indefensible to steal music created by hard-working songwriters and then broadcast that theft on national television."According to the lawsuit, Merrill actually asked Underwood's team to use her Darqueze Dennard Jersey song for the SNF theme. Merrill says she spoke to one of Underwood's producers about the po sibility back in August 2017. After Merrill's pitch, she later got an email in October 2017 from the producer's a sistant saying that Underwood was going to take a pa s on using Merrill's song. The SNF theme song underwent a change after the 2017 season and Underwood didn't sing the new song for the first Brandon LaFell Jersey time until September 2018. As for Merrill, she gained some notoriety for writing sports Clark Harris Jersey theme songs back in 2015 when she wrote a song for the Nebraska football ."The lawsuit against Underwood was filed in Manhattan federal court.You can decide for yourself below whether or not you think the two songs are similar.Here's Underwood's version of the song... And here's Merrill's version of the song.
Baker Mayfield facing backlash for comme
Top overall pick exploded onto the scene last year and gave the some much-needed hope and promise at the quarterback position. The are hoping that their first-round pick, , can do the same for them when he takes the field.However, Jones has plenty of doubters -- and you can Jake Fisher Jersey count Mayfield among them. This week, a profile of Mayfield revealed that the Browns star isn't a big fan of Jones, or the Giants decision to draft him with the sixth overall pick this spring."I cannot believe the Giants took Daniel Jones," Mayfield told writer Clay Skipper. "Blows my mind. Some people overthink it. That's where people go wrong. They forget, you've Randy Bullock Jersey gotta win.Not surprisingly, that quote generated plenty of headlines on Tuesday, with some people applauding Mayfield for his Michael Jordan Jersey blunt honesty and ability to entertain. Others, however, think the second-year quarterback was a bit out of line with his comments and that he's causing unnece sary trouble by running his mouth. "My problem with Baker is that, off the field, he just needs to grow up," said former NFL quarterback Danny Kanell on Tuesday's episode of Kanell & Bell. "There's an immaturity there with his comments...that just show me a lack of awarene s of what it takes to be a franchise quarterback."Kanell's co-host, Raja Bell, didn't nece sarily see a major i sue with what Mayfield had to Josh Shaw Jersey say, but agrees with the idea that it was an unnece sary dig."Clearly Baker has no problem speaking his mind and being authentic, and I do praise him for being authentic and people knowing what they're going to get out of him all the time -- that' Andre Smith Jersey s a good quality in my book," said Bell. You can listen to the full discu sion, as well as other topics from Tuesday's episode of Kanell & Bell, below.