INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The Cooper Rush Show came to Tinsel Town and kept rolling to conquer the defending Super Bowl champions. Rush remained perfect as the fill-in replacement for the injured Dak Prescott, helping the Dallas Cowboys topple the Los Angeles Rams 22-10. Dallas (4-1) won for the fourth consecutive game as Prescott rehabs from surgery for a broken thumb. And …
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Sooners hit rock bottom in 49-0 shutout by rival Texas
There’s no easy way to say this, but the Oklahoma Sooners are at rock bottom. Three straight losses, and their latest came in the game that’s circled on the calendar every year for Oklahoma. Texas dismantled Oklahoma 49-0, marking the first time in program history the Sooners have lost by 30 or more points in consecutive games. The game was …
Read More »NFL Week 5: Cowboys suffocate Rams, Chargers edge Browns, more top plays
The New York Giants upset the Green Bay Packers in London to open the fifth Sunday of the NFL season. Then the Buffalo Bills hammered Kenny Pickett and the Pittsburgh Steelers, while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers held on to beat the Atlanta Falcons. In the late afternoon window, the Cowboys took down the Rams in America’s Game of the Week, while the …
Read More »Cowboys move to 4-1 with Cooper Rush as defense suffocates Rams on road
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Dallas Cowboys’ visit to the Los Angeles Rams ended as it started: with Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford running for his life and the Cowboys defense taking the ball away. Stafford dropped back on third-and-11 with 3:38 to play, scrambling just barely to his right before he unleashed a pass and was knocked down by Cowboys defensive …
Read More »Rutgers fires coordinator Sean Gleeson as offense struggles
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Rutgers fired offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson on Sunday, two days after the team’s third straight Big Ten loss. Head coach Greg Schiano announced the move, which comes following the sixth game of Gleeson’s third season with the Scarlet Knights (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten). The Rutgers offense has struggled this season. The team ranks No. 108 in total …
Read More »TE, QB, or RB? Call him what you want, Taysom Hill says ‘I just work here’
Taysom Hill is a team player. He’ll score three touchdowns as a runner and another as a passer and then block a defender out of the way so Alvin Kamara can run for a first down in the game’s final minutes. Call him a tight end, a quarterback, a running back, whatever you like — he’s just here to help …
Read More »Tom Brady ‘unnecessarily’ thrown by Grady Jarrett, per NFL ref
Were the Falcons robbed of a potentially historic comeback in broad daylight? With Atlanta trying to mount a 21-point, fourth-quarter rally on the road against the Buccaneers, defensive lineman Grady Jarrett was called for a questionable roughing the passer penalty on a third-down sack of Tom Brady with 3:03 remaining. At the time of the penalty, Atlanta had trimmed Tampa …
Read More »Big 12 Power Rankings after Week 6: Oklahoma hits rock bottom
Week 6 was another eventful one in the Big 12 Conference. Eight teams were in action with Baylor and West Virginia on a bye. Undefeated TCU traveled to take on undefeated Kansas in a game that certainly lived up to the hype. TCU was able to outlast the Jayhawks 38-31 in a back-and-forth affair. Texas ran Oklahoma out of the Cotton …
Read More »NFL football pool, pick’em, office pool, confidence picks: Select the Dolphins in Week 5, 2022
USATSI Through the first four weeks of the 2022 NFL schedule, there are 15 teams that have 2-2 records. There’s so much parity in the NFL that a .500 record is good enough for a share of first place in four of the league’s eight divisions. Whether you’re making NFL confidence pool picks or NFL office pool picks, the number …
Read More »Jaguars’ Doug Pederson on Travis Etienne’s lack of touches: ‘It’s on me’
Jacksonville Jaguars second-year running back Travis Etienne looked well on his way to a breakout game Sunday when he gained 68 yards on his first three touches. Then Etienne seemingly vanished for most of the second half, finishing with 71 yards on 10 carries and 43 receiving yards on three receptions. After the game, Jaguars coach Doug Pederson took responsibility …
Read More »Top 10 Big Ten rushing yardage leaders after Week 6
Chase Brown of Illinois continues to set the pace for the Big Ten’s running backs as he continues to rack up yardage on a weekly basis. Brown has rushed for at least 100 yards in each game the Illini have played this season, including 146 yards in Week 6 against Iowa in a defensive field goal battle. Michigan’s Blake Corum …
Read More »Mike Tomlin says Steelers open to making more changes after franchise’s worst loss since 1989
Mike Tomlin didn’t mince words following the worst loss of his 16-year tenure as the Steelers’ head coach. Pittsburgh, a historic underdog entering Sunday’s game against the Bills, was down 31-3 at halftime and eventually fell 38-3. The Steelers suffered the franchise’s worst defeat since Week 1 of the 1989 season, when they fell to Cleveland 51-0. The ’89 Steelers …
Read More »Tom Brady roughing-the-passer controversy: NFL officials explain call against Falcons in Week 5
Getty Images The Falcons’ efforts to come back against the Buccaneers on Sunday were thwarted in part by a controversial third-down roughing-the-passer penalty against Tom Brady. Fans and analysts across the NFL had no trouble calling the flag unnecessary, seeing as Falcons defensive lineman Grady Jarrett delivered a textbook takedown of the star quarterback, whose head made no contact with …
Read More »USC offensive lineman thanks the man who improved his career
It was heartwarming to see this before Saturday’s game between USC and Washington State: Justin Dedich went up to Clay McGuire and gave him a warm embrace. Remember Clay McGuire? He’s the man who was hired by Clay Helton to coach USC’s offensive line for the 2021 season. Helton fired Tim Drevno at the end of the 2020 season and …
Read More »Aaron Rodgers laments negative talk in Packers’ locker room
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he believes in the power of positive thinking, so hearing negative comments from some teammates got under his skin after a surprising 27-22 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday. When asked about the Pack’s second-half defensive woes against the Giants, star cornerback Jaire Alexander said he isn’t concerned – yet. “I …
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