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Trade: The Colts are trading 3-time Pro-Bowl DT DeForest Buckner back to the 49ers, the team that made him a 2016 first-round pick before dealing him to Indianapolis in 2020, per me and Adam Schefter. A reunion!! Now Buckner returns to SF, fortifying their defensive line.

retweeting sad fans to gloat is “i pay elon musk for twitter” behavior

Pat McAfee more like Bert Reicher

Cowboys love weird cowardly play calls like that 3rd and 8 fullback dive. Even Joe Buck noticed. It's like Jason Garrett never left

this is how far down the page I had to go before I saw the World Series mentioned

Apparently the World Series is on? I had to go 3/4 of the way down ESPN's home page to even find a mention of it

The Vikings being the last undefeated team left while having the worst offense in the NFL by success rate is truly one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen

Worst Field Goals Made Over Expected this season, per NFL Next Gen Stats Harrison Mevis, -2.3 Trey Smack, -2.1 Harrison Butker, -1.4 Riley Patterson, -1.1 Cairo Santos, -0.7

perfectly designed screen to go away from the blitz, wow

Time for Harrison Butker to get back in the kitchen

nobody really knows anymore how to just fall on a football, huh

"Can Jaxon Smith-Njigba singlehandedly beat Kansas City if backed by Seattle's defense" seems to be the question of the evening

I really want this to be the Sports App, so it's disappointing how frequently I seem to run across the kind of meathead emotional infants who watch sports mostly as an excuse to throw tantrums

one frustration people in analytics had w 4th down decisions is that "contextual factors" always altered a model's recommendation toward punting, never going for it. never saw a coach use his gut to be more aggressive. then dan campbell blew that shit out of the water

Solid go on 4th down. This one will be second guessed because of where they are on the field. But value of possession is very high and conversion chance is high on a 4th-and-1. Remember: punts are turnovers ~100% of the time.

I liked the gutsiness to go for it but uh you really need something either faster or executed better

I thought the pass interference call on Cisse was basically mutual contact. But Amon-Ra is the veteran and he's better capable of selling it as a penalty

no he didn't because I forgot I was watching FOX and not CBS. it was Curt Menefee

did JB just say the Steelers won "in England" earlier today?

Texans close the game giving up 72 yards and the winning TD in two runs. It's over

the Texans defense being legitimately bad could be the most shocking aspect of this entire season

We have a chance at the Giants double tie. No team has had two ties in a season since overtime started in the NFL. Go double tie!

49ers fans in Atlanta making Penix use a silent count at home

god damn what a nice deep connection from Weigman to Koby Young

so uh that's why they call it the "blind side' huh

I don't know what's weirder, that Texas managed that comeback against Ohio State down 20 in the fourth quarter, or that Texas has been completely eating ass in second halves the last three weeks Or what I really mean to say is, how do you reconcile those two facts

Ryan Wingo still being slept on in favor of Cam "dropping perfectly placed deep balls" Coleman

just an excellent set of downs by UCF's defense there to close it out. after the madness of the last few minutes of regulation onward, seeing some straightforward good defense practically felt unusual.

sicko find on the 2pc

odd third down play call

UCF has deadass just turned in the two most excruciating minutes of football of all time

South Carolina does it

BYU is gonna lose this game because of an unsportsmanlike conduct celebrating a turnover that was def not a turnover and is instead gonna put UCF in field goal range

man both of those last two plays should have gotten across the line. come on UCF, you gotta execute

about that game you can't lose to Stanford

The Chicago Bears defense, not to be outdone by the Patriots' performance on that Luther Burden TD...

I don't think they should name a medication after something that sounds like giardia or giardiniera

Okay can someone explain to me what makes an "illegal forward handoff"

when you can't decide who your goat is

tried to get a free luxury suite by contacting federal, state and local authorities, the nba, the new york knicks and msg officials to express concerns about my personal safety at a knicks game and james dolan personally responded with a photo of him loading a bullet with my name on it into a gun

Crazy that Cam Cook leads FBS in rushing attempts and is fifth in yards... And West Virginia has another running back third in attempts and 10th in yards (Michael Hawkins Jr.). Combined they have more rushing yards than the team's QBs have passing yards.

Found myself in a mock draft mood last night and whipped up a first round - even though I know the draft order and evaluations will wildly change until the real thing. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Maryland’s athletic department called the cops on two student-journalists trying to get comment from players about the Mike Locksley firing