Aditi Kinkhabwala
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Reporter and storyteller, @NFLonCBS , @cbssports . Previously: @nflnetwork , @wsj . Mommy, neat freak, dream-chaser. Board @ChildrensHome .
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After 10 years at
@nflnetwork
, it’s time for some new challenges. I’ve had a decade of great adventure, wonderful friendships and the opportunity to share all sorts of stories. Now, I’m on to some other dream-chasing. Stay tuned!
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@statesman
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So trained police officers, whose entire job description is to protect the public, had armor and firepower to halt the murder of innocent children. And didn’t. But arming teachers, whose job description is to teach, will do it?
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This is from
#Steelers
rookie punter Pressley Harvin III, who was booed yesterday. I wish we didn’t need reminders that we don’t ever really know the whole of someone’s challenges. Or that it’s a lot easier to show kindness and grace than the opposite. 💛 to the Harvin family.
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Marshawn Lynch asked if he's surprised he didn't get the football. Says "No." I ask him, Why not? Says, "Because football is a team sport."
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I hung out w/ the
#Browns
today. One guess what I was asked about. (Also: it sometimes takes more than one voice to paint a full story.)
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RB Najee Harris, whose family struggled w/ homelessness at one point, commits already to be a significant part of the
#Pittsburgh
community. Says when he got to Alabama, the first thing he wanted to know is "What is the poverty rate and what can I do?"
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Baker Mayfield called Myles Garrett ripping off Mason Rudolph’s helmet and smacking the QB in the head w/ it “inexcusable.” Jarvis Landry called it “embarrassing.” Odell Beckham, Jr. used “ugly,” HC Freddie Kitchens “embarrassed.” What does it say when your own team is horrified?
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I get that we’re supposed to be unbiased impartial journalists. But Nick Chubb is everything football is supposed to be. The way he runs, the way he works, the teammate he is… I feel so deflated. And am praying for a miracle.
#Browns
💔
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Damar Hamlin created the Chasing M’s Foundation as soon as his eligibility at
@Pitt_FB
was up and he was allowed to. He is a brother, and a son. He finished his bachelor’s at Pitt and he grew up right here. Please, let’s please keep 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Today, just now, the American-born daughter of an Indian immigrant was named the vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. And I, as the American-born daughter of Indian immigrants, can’t stop thinking of my father telling me: here, hard work makes anything possible ❤️
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The
#Steelers
sent a private plane to pick up Ryan Shazier's parents and bring them to Cincinnati.
#FootballIsFamily
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Baker Mayfield is emotional, passionate and takes everything personally. It's what makes him him - and such a match for the city of CLE. Now - after 4 HCs in 4 years and his team saying it may like someone better - you want him to not be emotional and not take that personally?
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Today, I was CBS’ sideline reporter for a scintillating game, and had a BLAST. Four months ago, I left a job I’d had for 10 years and was unsure what the future would bring. I should’ve remembered what my dad always says: work as hard as you can, and your chance will come. 💜
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Remember Mitch Trubisky talking about coming into Pittsburgh and leading right away? He’s having the
#Steelers
pass-catchers and the other QBs (Mason Rudolph and Dwayne Haskins) down to his FL home this weekend to throw and hang out. I’m told RB Najee Harris is going too.
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Just spoke to one of Deshaun Watson's new
#Browns
teammates. Went out of his way to call Baker Mayfield a "true warrior and fierce competitor" and talked about how cutthroat the scrutiny at QB can be. That said, he said: "Sometimes you're a Matthew Stafford away from a Lombardi."
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I don’t know that there is another quarterback in the league whose personality more perfectly fits a franchise and its fan base (and what both need) than Baker Mayfield and Cleveland. He just handled what could have been a tough media session exquisitely.
#Browns
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Le’Veon Bell’s teammates have had his back through one arrest, two suspensions and two off-season holdouts. They’ve had his back through his showing up late to a playoff walkthrough, his threatening retirement and his strip club video. Let’s not suddenly forget that.
#Steelers
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Heinz Field crowd breaks out into cheers of “Con-ner, Con-ner, Con-ner” for James Conner.
Just think about that for a minute. Kid grew up in Erie, went to Pitt and has his hometown NFL team’s crowd chanting his name.
#Steelers
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"We were the better defense tonight. We played w/ more passion," Chase Young said. Who's disagreeing w/ him?
#WashingtonFootball
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There were four separate third-and-one and fourth-and-one situations in this game where the
#Bengals
did NOT have their 225-pound Pro Bowl RB on the field - and failed to convert. That Joe Mixon did not get the ball in even one of those situations is very perplexing.
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Sarah Taylor, the wife of
#Bengals
coach Zac, started by asking her kids’ classmates if they wanted to make cards for the
#Bills
Damar Hamlin. That extended to 53 different schools, Sarah collected all the cards and personally delivered them Friday.
#whodeynation
#billsmafia
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Chief Justice John Roberts said this to his son and his classmates as they graduated 9th grade. I urge you to read it.
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#Eagles
WR Alshon Jeffrey could not have been classier. Answered questions for a long time from one scrum, sat in his locker and waited for a few stragglers and then stood up for another round of cameras: “I’ll take this loss on me. But it won’t destroy me.”
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Stop w/ the
#Ravens
are lucky BS. When you lead your division and have 7 wins despite having nearly 20 starters/contributors on IR - and pull out a win w/ a backup QB on 2 hrs notice, that’s not luck. That’s coaching. It’s mindset. And it’s knowing how to come up w/ the big play.
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Love this from Baker Mayfield: “I do not get why people have a problem with football being a competitive sport. You are supposed to play with emotion. You are supposed to play with passion. Quite honestly, if you do not like it, whatever. Football is not meant to be a soft game.”
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I do this job, and I love this job. But I will never love this job as much as I love my children. And all you jacks who have a problem w/ my children and go out of your way to try to make me feel bad about my children… may you one day realize how sad you are to rip a baby’s joy.
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Antonio Brown has only three options:
1) Play for the Steelers
2) Play for whichever team he is traded to
3) Sit out the year and forego his salary.
The
#Steelers
have not given him the power to dictate where he goes. And remember: the Steelers do not HAVE to do anything.
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I was born in NYC. I have never held any passport but an American one. But I am the daughter of immigrants. And in my experience, immigrants are some of the most patriotic people. B/c they chose this country, they are truly grateful for this country and they know the alternatives
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We were supposed to leave town Sunday, after the game. She had other ideas. Ran out of clean clothes days ago, haven’t left the hospital to find new ones and so who comes through?
@Browns
, thank you. So, so much.
#FootballisFamily
#NFL
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Ben Roethlisberger will indeed be back as the
#Steelers
starting QB this fall. Just connected w/ the two-time Super Bowl winner’s agent, Ryan Tollner, who said this:
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We were told Deshaun Watson didn’t love the cold. We were told he saw an easier path in the NFC. We were told he wanted a big city, and that he wanted to stay close to his family.
Everything we were told was moot. Deshaun Watson picked the roster he liked best: the
#Browns
’.
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The
#Steelers
just announced that JuJu Smith-Schuster is their team MVP - as voted by his teammates.
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The
#Browns
went down 40 seconds into this game. They were eventually down 15. In 60 previous AFC North games where the Browns faced a two-TD hole, they’d never before climbed out to win.
This play right here is everything that’s different about these Browns.
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Well, this is jarring:
When the
#Steelers
rush for 100, yards, Ben Roethlisberger is 106-20-1 (.839). When they don't, he's 50-54 (.481). Since 2018, he's 12-0-1 when his team gives him 100 rush yards, 9-11 when it doesn't.
The man turns 39 in six days. Get him a run game.
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Maurkice Pouncey also issued this reminder: "A star is born every year in the NFL. Did anyone know Kareem Hunt would be an All-Pro before last season? If James Conner didn't have cancer, he'd have been a first round pick. Just watch him."
#Steelers
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#Steelers
coach Mike Tomlin says yes, he is indeed going to talk to JuJu Smith-Schuster about dancing on other teams' logos: "It's about respect."
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Mike Tomlin is of course asked about Chase Claypool's suggestion that
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practice could be more fun, and feature music. He says, "Claypool plays wideout and I’ll let him do that. I'll formulate the practice approach, and that division of labor is probably appropriate."
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Baker Mayfield wasn’t sacked once last night. His LG at the end was not Pro Bowl vet Joel Bitonio, nor the recently elevated Michael Dunn. It was a kid named Blake Hance, signed off the Jets p-squad last week, who Baker first met before the game IN THE LOCKER ROOM.
#Browns
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Ben Roethlisberger puts a hand on Antonio Brown's arm in the
#Steelers
postgame locker room and says: "Are you OK?" Brown responds quietly and the QB says, "We'll get there. We'll get there."
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#WashingtonFootball
DE Montez Sweat runs off Heinz Field yelling, “I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!” When I ask Chase Young, he says, “We all did. Baltimore exposed some things.”
#Steelers
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There are not people who look like me doing what I’m doing. That doesn’t mean they can’t. Or shouldn’t.
Let’s change the image of who gets to talk about the
@nfl
intelligently and insightfully; let’s make it ANYONE who can, no matter their gender or ethnicity. 🙏🏽
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James Conner now has more TDs thru
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’ first 8 games than Le’Veon did last year (10 to 5), more missed tackles (51 to 35) on fewer touches (190 to 229), and has 8 carries of 20+ yds (Le’Veon had 3 all last year). At this point, what is Conner not giving you?
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She was smaller than a New York City rat. But as we always say: if you’re born at 3.5 pounds, you’d better come out of the womb fighting. She’s our warrior, our athlete, our absolute butt-kicker and … our miracle. 💜
#WorldPrematurityDay2021
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My husband complained that I was too “loud” at my seven year old’s flag football games last session. My seven year old, however, just asked me to be the coach of his flag football team this session.
I think that means I win?
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So, here’s an idea: keep giving the ball to Nick Chubb. And if you have another idea, ignore it.
#Browns
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My whole life I’ve been told to turn the other cheek. To ignore the racists, the sexists, the demeaning bullies. But now I look at my daughter, and I think: I don’t want HER sitting in a corner, hurting alone. How does anything change if we don’t call out the misogyny and hate?
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Whatever you think of Ben Roethlisberger personally, he’s given 18 years of his life to one club. He’s carried it on his back, he’s engineered magical moments, he’s embodied the ethos of what that club fancies itself to be. Can we save the Aaron Rodgers chatter for two weeks?
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If you think it will never happen in your neighborhood, if you think hate is someone else’s problem... please stop.
Some of my best friends belong to this synagogue. My son goes to school at another synagogue here in Pittsburgh. Whoever you pray to, please do.
#TreeofLife
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@SharpFootball
What really gets me is yelling at Trai Turner, who tried to grab the ball and hurry it back for the snap… what was that tantrum about there?
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In 17 years, Ben Roethlisberger has never not once received an MVP vote.
#Steelers
RB James Conner doesn't give a s*: "We don't need anybody else to validate his resume."
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#Steelers
had eight drops yesterday. Mike Tomlin's plan to address that? "They can catch the ball or they can get replaced by those that will catch it. I expect guys to make routine plays routinely."
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The magic that Ben wove w/ AB and that high-flying offense he ran w/ Le’Veon Bell was definitely prettier. But there’s something about this undrafted longshot, his merry band of barely-shavers and the stifling Pittsburgh D that is so much fun to watch.
#Steelers
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All this hating on Brock Osweiler. The guy is brilliant. He's 26 and he's already made $40 million - w/ no discernibly otherworldly talent!
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An AFC front office exec texted me this this week: First you pay the guy who throws, then the guy that chases the guy who throws, then the guy who catches the ball thrown best, then the guy who covers the guy catching the ball best, then the guy who blocks for the guy throwing.
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Ben Roethlisberger didn't practice last week, threw 50 balls Fri, then had his best passing outing of year. He asked Mike Tomlin abt repeating that sked.
Tomlin: "We did have that conversation. I'll acknowledge it was a very brief one and I will see him at practice on Thursday."
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It was a stunningly gorgeous day to be on a football field. And despite all the trolling, the vitriol and the misdirected anger (it is not my job to throw the ball, run the ball, create separation or provide protection/holes/time for any of the above), I really, really ❤️ my job.
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TJ Watt has nine sacks and 28 QB hits through nine games. Only once before in the last 15 years has a player had nine sacks and 25 QB hits in his team’s first nine games: 2015, when TJ’s big brother, JJ, did it.
JJ was the
#NFL
Defensive Player of the Year that season.
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The
#Browns
have never lost consecutive games under Kevin Stefanski.
Read that again: Cleveland has not ever lost two games in a row while Kevin Stefanski has been their head coach.
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This is how good of a teammate LT Joel Bitonio is. He told me Tyrod Taylor’s name is actually pronounced TUH-rod, not TY-rod. And that while Taylor may be too nice to correct people, HE feels it’s important to get it right. From here on out, I will.
#Browns
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Or the Steelers look like a team horribly shaken by their teammate, their defensive heartbeat, leaving the stadium in an ambulance and w/out feeling in his legs.
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#Steelers
were arguably best collection of talent in AFC. More complete than KC. More offensively potent than BAL, more talented than NE. More battle tested than LA.
But Mike Tomlin’s laissez faire approach let way too much BS and distraction fester. I felt he showed he knows it.
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The
#Steelers
when TJ Watt doesn’t play: 1-11.
I don’t know what screams Most Valuable Player more than that.
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I’m 10 days removed from a violent emergency C-section. My baby is in a NICU. And when I walked into that NICU today, the woman at security asked me if I was the baby’s grandmother.
Someone please send me a PG-rated way to say what I want to say.
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Member of
#Browns
org told me to ask the notoriously all-business Nick Chubb who can make him LOL. So I did. He said: Kareem Hunt, D’Ernest Johnson, Hollywood Higgins. He didn’t hesitate, he didn’t ask why I asked, he just super politely answered. ALL BUSINESS. (Also: I 🧡 him)
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Met Jarvis Landry in March 2018. He told me he was in CLE to change the culture/mindset. He did.
Told me he would approach every day w/ joy and determination. He did.
Told me he was a hugger. I said I wasn’t. (I’m now a hugger. 😉)
#Browns
, please keep him home.
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The
#Bengals
drafted a kicker in the 5th round in 2021. He was 14-14 on FGs during the playoffs this past season. His kicks sent the Bengals to the AFC Title game and the SUPER BOWL. He had 12 50+ yard field goals and you know what, Poni? KICKERS ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS TOO.
The Browns just drafted a kicker in the 4th round. What a clueless, dumbass organization.
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Here comes the Grim Reaper, aka known as Myles Garrett. (And yes, that is the list of QBs he’s taken down on the back.)
#Browns
#Halloween
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Al Villanueva says, "I'm tired of the cameras in my face all the time...It's completely unacceptable to use me as a tool to push an agenda."
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Spent yrs around an athlete who demeaned and diminished me and regularly reduced me to tears. My personal feelings were always separate of what was mandated of me professionally; and I ALWAYS fulfilled my professional duty. I forever thank that guy’s teammates, who kept me strong
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So G Joel Bitonio and S John Johnson both told us the
#Browns
locker room would of course welcome Odell Beckham Jr back, esp if he could help them win. There are reports Beckham wants to be back. You know what would help? If Beckham called Baker Mayfield himself.
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I don’t know if this means anything, but
#Browns
QB Baker Mayfield looked as purposeful as I’ve ever seen him look walking into a stadium. Let’s not forget what happened as soon as he lost Odell Beckham, Jr here in Cincy last year: 21 straight completions.
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As training camps open and players report, it’s time for me to get back on the field too…
I’m humbled (and ecstatic!) to be expanding my role w/ the
@CBSSports
family. You’ll still catch me on
@WeNeedToTalk
, and now I’ll be a part of our
#NFL
programming too!
#dreamchasing
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So this. Brown grew up in Liberty City, was once homeless and works harder and w more drive than any athlete I’ve been around. And don’t forget: his QB this year publicly called out the way he ran a route and refused to call him a no. 1 WR.
The
#Steelers
issues are not his alone
I think Antonio Brown has good intentions, but he needs to prioritize how to express his emotions in a healthier, productive manner this offseason.
You would expect a 30-year-old to understand this. But keep in mind: He didn’t grow up with the privileges you had.
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Afterwards, DeValve -whose wife is not white- said, "I myself will be raising children who don't look like me." Strongest motivator there is
Seth DeValve is the first white player to kneel for the national anthem:
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Maurkice Pouncey is clearly DONE w/ Le’Veon Bell’s absence. Says he’d much prefer Bell just say when he’s going to show up, even if it’s Week 10: “Why play hide and seek? Why let your agent say this? Just man up and tell us what you’re going to do.”
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I’m a person. I have personal feelings. So: I ❤️ the joy he finds in life and I ❤️ the verve w/ which he faces every day. I believe he’s absurdly smart and wildly passionate abt what he does, and I think being accountable is a mark of leadership. Lastly: this loss was not on him.
When I’m at my lowest, I’m not going to hide. I’m sorry. That loss was on me. I let everyone down, it won’t happen again.
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One day, if my son grows up to be a professional athlete, and his day doesn’t go exactly as he hoped it would, I hope he’s playing for a coach like this. And with a QB like this.
#Eagles
A good coach is always there for his players. So is a good QB. 🙌
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Woke up at 4am. Showered, made my son’s lunch, nursed and settled my daughter, got to the airport on time and fully thought: I’m winning today. Then I tried boarding the wrong flight. 🤦🏽♀️
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Ben Roethlisberger is from Ohio. He went to college in Ohio.
#Browns
passed him over in the draft. He’s been w/ the
#Steelers
since. You know what Roethlisberger could do Sunday w/ a win? Pass John Elway for most wins by any QB to play his entire career w/ one team.
#rivalryweek
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