Albert Breer
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Senior NFL Reporter/Lead Content Strategist @TheMMQB | @NBCSBoston | @985TheSportsHub | Alum of Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, NFL Network.
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The looks on the quarterbacks’ faces say everything.
Awful scene. Praying for Damar Hamlin.
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The Chiefs left the parade in busses, and in shock. I'm told players were UNBELIEVABLE calming panicked kids down. Blaine Gabbert, Tre Smith, Austin Reiter, Chris Oladukun all rallied.
Smith went to one upset kid, gave him the WWE title belt and sat with him til he calmed down.
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Caught this at the end, and it's another one of those holy crap
@TomBrady
images. That's Packers rookie Jon Runyan he's catching up with.
The connection? Brady played with Jon Runyan Sr. at Michigan.
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One hero who should be recognized here: Last night, I was told the work of Bills assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington in administering CPR to Damar Hamlin on Monday was absolutely vital.
The speed and skill with which he and others reacted = A huge difference-maker.
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I legitimately have never seen one of these graphics say “punt”.
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Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie on COVID-19: "We have 4 percent of the world's population, 21 percent of the fatalities. There's a lot to figure out. ... We're the wealthiest country in the world—21 percent of the deaths?
"We're an embarrassment. A tragic embarrassment."
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I know Tom Brady will come in at $37.5 million per at some point, and he's gonna be on Fox's A team, obviously, because of it. But Greg Olsen's done freaking awesome in his first year on the big games, and doesn't deserve a demotion.
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Little nugget I picked up: Bears QB Justin Fields apologized to his teammates after Chicago's loss to the Falcons in the locker room postgame. Told them the defense gave the offense a chance, and the offense didn't get it done.
Went a long way with guys, after he'd played hurt.
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Was told that after the teams were brought back in to wait inside, QB Joe Burrow gathered the Bengals captains and they walked over as a group to the Bills' locker room to check on the Buffalo players.
In these sorts of situations, NFL players take care of each other.
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The NFL has a lot of questions to answer after this one.
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Also fascinating: How quickly the Gruden emails have become public, while the all aspects of the league’s investigation into Dan Snyder have remained completely private.
Lesson for everyone in the difference between the people who cash the checks, and those who write them.
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Justin Herbert’s brother looks like Justin Herbert in a witness protection program.
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In 20 years, people are going to look back at Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson being on the same college team, and wonder how in the hell that happened.
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The Dolphins got three first-rounders back in the deal the 49ers did with them to go up for Trey Lance. Miami traded all three of them.
• '21 pick packaged to trade up for Jaylen Waddle.
• '22 pick sent to Chiefs for Tyreek Hill.
• '23 pick sent to Broncos for Bradley Chubb.
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In 2013, Josh Gordon led the NFL in receiving yards, Antonio Brown was second, and Demaryius Thomas was fourth. That same year, Brown was second in catches and Julian Edelman was fourth.
All four of these guys are now Patriots.
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With the retirement of AJ Green, worth revisiting ...
1) Car: Cam Newton
2) Den: Von Miller
3) Buf: Marcel Dareus
4) Cin: AJ Green
5) AZ: Patrick Peterson
6) Atl: Julio Jones
7) SF: Aldon Smith
8) Ten: Jake Locker
9) Dal: Tyron Smith
10) Jax: Blaine Gabbert
11) Hou: JJ Watt
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Headhunting up 15 with 2 minutes left is the strongest sign yet that The U is indeed back.
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All-time line from Harvard's own Ryan Fitzpatrick on the Amazon postgame. Baker Mayfield said he couldn't believe the Raiders lined up in press man on the game-winning touchdown.
Fitz, deadpan: "The defensive coordinator went to Yale."
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If sending a zero blitz into a Hail Mary situation is the last defensive call that Gregg Williams ever makes, I think it's the way he would've wanted to go out.
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ESPN just showed Bills WR Stefon Diggs walking towards the UC Medical Center to go try to see Damar Hamlin. Good job by
@ColeyHarvey
explaining the scene—Diggs was initially stopped by a cop, who let him go in after he explained who he was.
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Really nice gesture from CJ Stroud to honor Dwayne Haskins at Ohio State’s spring game today.
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On this roster, you had an eventual ...
• Highest-paid QB ever.
• Highest-paid WR ever.
• Highest-paid RB ever.
• Highest-paid edge ever.
• Highest-paid CB ever.
• Top 5 highest-paid OT ever.
(2015 will haunt me forever.)
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The Chiefs deserved to win that game.
But the officiating in that one was absolutely atrocious. Wrecked a great game. It's time for the NFL implement the SkyJudge, and deploy it aggressively, which is what a great majority of coaches want. You have the technology, guys. Use it.
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Those cops chose their own lives over the lives of 19 children. And on the most important day of their careers failed miserably.
Totally, a million percent inexcusable.
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I see people painting Calvin Ridley as the victim here ... and I mean, come on, we all understand why a sports league can't allow its players to bet on its games, right? And why it has to come down on a player if it happens?
I swear, it's not that complicated.
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S/o to Jameis, somehow still in the Top 3 despite barely playing at all this year.
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The fact that a vaccine against a deadly virus is so politically divisive, and that opinions on it break clean across party lines, is an incredibly poor reflection on the intelligence of our country.
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The rest of the world must think we are a very stupid country.
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Al Michaels saying on a national game broadcast that he thinks the league wants Dan Snyder to sell the Commanders is worth paying attention to.
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To punctuate the Bengals' recruiting pitch, Joe Burrow had La'El Collins over to his house on Friday night, along with Ted Karras, Alex Cappa and Hayden Hurst, and their wives/girlfriends, I'm told.
So Burrow's a pretty good closer on multiple fronts for Cincinnati.
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Can we just appreciate Patrick Mahomes without trying to say he’s better than a guy who won 7 Super Bowls with two teams through three eras and played 24 seasons?
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My understanding is Fields' defensive teammates stopped him as he was finishing the apology, told him they had his back. Really cool moment for everyone there, and a nice sign of where Matt Eberflus has taken the culture in Chicago.
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I like how the NFL has scared coaches and players from explaining how they feel about the officiating with fines, yet only allows for a single reporter to ask any questions of the officials in a situation like this.
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The Steelers, I’m told, will pay Ryan Shazier his base salary of $473,000 for 2019 (he’s already made ~$18K), and he gets NFL player benefits. Credit to the Rooney family. Great gesture.
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Sources: NFL owners have passed the Indy/Philly overtime proposal allowing for both teams to have a possession for playoffs only.
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I still can't believe the coaches had to step in to stop the NFL for warming the players back up to resume the game. Restarting this game at that point would've been at the level of Pete Rozelle playing games after JFK was assassinated. Maybe worse.
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The Browns are trading three first-round picks, and two additional picks to the Texans for QB Deshaun Watson, per sources. Wow. Wow. Wow.
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1) Call was corrrect.
2) Call was inconsistent to how the game's been called.
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Chiefs coach Andy Reid had Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones address the team last night at the hotel. All were great. Kelce particularly so— "Unbelievable" and "powerful", according to people in the room, to the point where some teammates were moved to tears.
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Fun fact: If Tom Brady throws 45 TD passes next year, he'll become the Buccaneers' all-time leader in the category.
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The job Bill O'Brien did over six-plus seasons in Houston is getting more impressive by the day.
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Do people actually not know the answer to this? This wasn’t some stroke of genius by Philly. Everyone knew he was the best player in the draft. It took stomach not smarts to take him.
He didn’t fall because he couldn’t play.
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I think it's at least interesting that we've had full stadiums for months now across MLB, the NBA and NHL, and people are choosing Week 1 of college football season as the time to get upset.
Virginia Tech opens season before tremendous crowd, which is concerning
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Bill Belichick and the Patriots are 8-4. Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are 8-3. Turns out, both guys are really, really good.
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What a weird situation you’ve got now. The CFP committee will either …
1) Penalize Florida State for an injury …
2) Ignore Texas’ head-to-head win at Bama OR …
3) Leave the one-loss SEC champion out.
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Saints WR Chris Olave and Jets WR Garrett Wilson just became the first pair of receivers from the same school to top 1,000 yards as rookies in NFL history.
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Raiders WR Antonio Brown was clearly out of line. But let's not pretend that the word "cracker" carries the weight other slurs do. I, personally, couldn't care less if someone called me that. And I don't know many people it would actually offend.
That's just the truth.
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There are no Bill Belichick assistants left as NFL head coaches.
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So Brad Allen went with “Calling the Lions liars”—saying that Dan Skipper reported as eligible (he couldn’t have been eligible, based on alignment) and that Taylor Decker didn’t.
This is gonna get real interesting.
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Is this Nets team the most unlikable team in all of sports?
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So how did Calvin Ridley get busted? He was in Florida, and used the only gambling app legal in the state. The app notified a compliance company the NFL has hired called Genius for this kind of thing.
That he was out of state was a factor in Ridley's activity being flagged.
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Bears return for No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft ...
• OT Darnell Wright*.
• WR Keenan Allen*.
• CB Tyrique Stevenson**.
• WR DJ Moore.
• First overall pick in 2024 draft.
• Second-round pick in 2025 draft.
* trade of 9th pick in '23.
** trade up from 61st pick in '23.
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Sources: The Bills have submitted a rules change proposal to the NFL that would bar interviews for front-office and coaching positions until after the conference title games, and hirings until after the Super Bowl.
Owners could vote on it this offseason. Would be a BIG change.
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Eagles OT Lane Johnson on Nelson Agholor’s throw to Nick Foles, tells team broadcast it wasn’t Philly Special: “It was the same play the Patriots used — the one that Tom dropped.”
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Watching Hard Knocks, and caught Jets OL Max Mitchell here laying off Jaelan Phillips as he went down, then saying, “Oh s—t … You OK, brother?” and then coming back to him afterwards.
Good example of how these guys try to take care of each other out there.
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Antonio Brown is 31 years old.
It appears Antonio Brown has unfollowed both the Raiders and Derek Carr on Instagram. Welcome to 2019.
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I guess I’m having a hard time understanding how these university presidents can welcome tens of thousands of undergrads—who aren’t being tested at all—back to campus, and cram them in dorms and classrooms, but they can’t protect a few hundred athletes.
Big disconnect there.
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We all criticized Carson Wentz, Kirk Cousins and Lamar Jackson. But at the very least, those guys owned their decisions.
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Reminder: Nick Saban had to replace eight of the top 38 picks in the NFL Draft this year. What he continues to do at Alabama is completely insane.
The John Wooden of college football.
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Text from an NFC exec: “I’m SHOCKED that Jerome Boger’s crew f----d up. SHOCKED.”
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Btw, I do you hear you,
@Browns
fans. And between the false start that should've been a neutral-zone infraction, and the missed PI call, I'd agree you have every right to be pissed.
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When the university presidents of the Big 10 open their campuses to ten of thousands of students in the coming weeks, they'll lose any room to say this was about the kids' safety.
This is about liability. Plain and simple.
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Anyone else notice how the only superteams that really worked had LeBron James on them?
Brooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks is working with Kevin Durant and his business manager Rich Kleiman on finding a trade for the franchise star, Kleiman tells ESPN.
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This seems real sketchy.
Why would Decker walk up to official and not report?
I guess maybe he didn’t but odd to walk there and not no?
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Danny Ainge wasn’t perfect, but my god did he get the 2017 draft right.
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The t-shirts the Chiefs defensive guys had in the locker room …
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Love this. Great work,
@JoshAllenQB
. That kid will never, ever forget that.
(h/t
@danfetes
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Ben Simmons (feelings) OUT for Sixers at Pelicans.
Simmons’ reluctance to physically and mentally engage with the Sixers since his return has been a consistent theme, sources tell ESPN.
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That the NFL conducted layoffs due to the economic "realities" of 2023 while pulling down $110 million to give a single playoff game to a streaming service is ... a pretty good indicator on who the owners are.
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Ohio State fifth-year senior WR Kamryn Babb leads the Buckeyes in a prayer after a tribute to Dwayne Haskins at halftime of the spring game.
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Sean Payton asked about Russell Wilson having personal coaches/staff in the Broncos building.
“Yeah, that’s foreign to me. That’s not gonna happen here.”
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So presuming Russell Wilson is cut, his deal will have cost the Broncos $124 million for two years, when he was already under contract for those years at the time of the trade for $51 million (a $73 million raise).
Add that to all the picks that went to Seattle and ... Yikes.
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Is that Dennis Rodman sitting next to Taylor Swift? 🧐🧐🧐
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This will be Tom Brady's 35th playoff win.
The QB with the next most? Joe Montana. With 16.
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Tom Brady's last 15 pass attempts ...
14-15, 223 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INTs.
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So when SEC teams dominate bowl games, it's proof of their conference's superiority, but when they get stomped, it's cuz they didn't care ... Right?
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Ohio State has had six defensive players selected in the Top 5 in the last six years alone.
#NFLU
In 24 hours, Aidan Hutchinson is expected to become the second Michigan defensive player selected in the top five of the NFL Draft, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Charles Woodson, who was the 4th overall pick in 1998, via
@EpKap
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Crowdsourcing this—Working on a list of the best catches ever ...
• Beckham on SNF.
• JJ last week.
• Tyree in XLII.
• Holmes in XLIII.
• Kearse in XLIX.
• Julio in LI.
• Edelman in LI.
• Freeman on MNF.
• The Catch.
• Swann in X.
• Franco in '72.
What am I missing?
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The decision to take Tua Tagovailoa over Justin Herbert is really leaving a mark in Miami.
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Three highest paid non-QBs in the NFL, by APY ...
• Bears OLB Khalil Mack $23.5M
• Rams DL Aaron Donald $22.5M
• Raiders WR Antonio Brown $19.8M
Holdout, holdout, trade demand. Same as it ever was -- if NFL players want to get paid, they have to be willing to get muddy.
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Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh on Keenan Allen: “Keenan, $23 million a year, playing in Chicago, who’s got it better?”
And we’re back.
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Too often, we get great games like this one, between really good teams, and everyone is talking about the officials. Shouldn't be that way.
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The real problem I have with this is people arbitrarily deciding when it's OK to have huge crowds gathering in the pandemic—based wholly on what's important to them—while our kids are in school part-time and small businesses are suffering.
Amazingly tone deaf.
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