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What do March Madness stars listen to before tipoff? 13 players and coaches share their mixtapes

Jeffrey Bailey — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:44:27 +0000

As college basketball players take their team buses to the NCAA Tournament arenas, many put on headphones, listen to a song and absorb the atmosphere. Coaches also sometimes take a moment to review last-minute scouting reports to escape to a tune filtering through their airpods.

These soundtracks, perhaps unconsciously, also serve a purpose. Music can calm our nerves – or cheer us up. A specific banger can provide a dose of self-confidence. A sentimental song may remind us of our great purpose. “Music is shorthand for emotion,” Leo Tolstoy once wrote.

So now that March Madness is underway, The Athletics wondered what these tournament stars will listen to before competing in some of the most important games of their lives. We asked players and coaches from women’s and men’s tournaments to share their pre-match playlists. The players’ tastes ranged from Nicki Minaj to Veeze and even Elvis Presley. Coaches ranged from Gospel to AC/DC.

You won’t make the same jump as these athletes by listening to their hype music, but these playlists will have you ready (from your couch) for a tip-off.

Mixtapes of Women’s NCAA Tournament Players

JuJu Watkins

Guard | No. 1 USC

Watkins, the brightest freshman in women’s basketball, has taken the Trojans to new heights this season. The Los Angeles native, who ranks second nationally in scoring with 27 points per game, mainly listens to hip-hop before games. But she always plays a song from the soundtrack to “The Incredibles,” a song that could be used for USC’s 2023-2024 theme song, “Life’s Incredible Again.” It’s definitely in Los Angeles.

“I always play this before a game,” she says, “because I love The Incredibles and it gets me excited.”

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Guard | No. 3 LSU

Q: Who do you listen to before games?

Flau’jae Johnson: Myself.

That’s more annoying. The athlete-rapper signed a distribution deal with Jay-Z’s record label Roc Nation, so why not listen to her own lyrics before games? Maybe she’ll do a mashup of “One Shining Moment” with her song “My Moment” if the Tigers repeat as national champions.

“I’m not trying to be a pluggy, commercial-y person, but they’re all my songs,” says Johnson. “I listen to me before the games. I make really motivational, uplifting music. When I listen to my songs, I feel like I can do anything.”

Paige Bueckers

Guard | No. 3 UConn

Bueckers is trying to advance to a third Final Four in her four seasons with the Huskies. With an average of 21.3 points and a score of almost 54 percent, she is enjoying a productive – and healthy – season. Her playlist is curated to inspire, packed with gospel and modern hip-hop. Bueckers often plays ‘Thank You For It All’ by Marvin Sapp.

“This is a great gospel song,” she says. “It helps me find my peace and gratitude before the games.”

Forward | No. 5Utah

Pili, a 6-foot-4 forward, has Utah back in the NCAA tournament for the third straight season. She is one of the best (and most unique) post players in the country, averaging 20.8 points per game and shooting 55 percent. She especially likes hip-hop (from early 2000s to present) before the games.

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Her favorite pre-game song is Drake’s “Up All Night” (featuring Nicki Minaj). “It gets me hyped,” says Pili, who calls the 2010 hip-hop single “old-school.”

Guard | No. 4 Virginia Tech

Amoore, a senior from Australia, is averaging 19.2 points and 6.9 assists per game. She tries to lead the Hokies back to the Final Four. As a feisty guard on the court, it’s no wonder Amoore is looking for songs that fuel her energy.

Her favorite pre-game song ‘Never Lose Me’ by Flo Milli builds her confidence. “I’m trying to get into my mood,” Amoore says. “Like, I’m that girl.” She likes Rihanna’s
‘Love the Way You Lie’ to tap into a little aggression. “I like feeling heartbroken,” she says, “so I go out with my fists clenched.”

Mixtapes of women’s NCAA tournament coaches

These coaches have sprinkled quite a bit of personal nostalgia into their playlists.

LSU’s Kim Mulkey features Brooks Jefferson’s “Callin’ Baton Rouge.” The former four-time high school state champion, a native of tiny Tickfaw, La., clearly enjoys being reminded of her roots before leading the Tigers onto the field. She also listens to Mel McDaniel’s “Louisiana Saturday Night,” Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn’s duet “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” and New Orleans legend Fats Domino’s “Blueberry Hill.”

As Mulkey puts it, “I’m a small-town Louisiana girl.”

Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin’s playlist is filled with South African Amapiano music and West African Afrobeat artists, while the rhythms remind her of similar music from her childhood. McPhee-McCuin was born and raised in Freeport, Bahamas, before coming to the US for college. “I’m an island girl, so I love anything that has a Caribbean vibe.” The seventh-seeded Rebels are looking to pull off some upsets to advance to the Sweet 16, just like they did last season.

Veteran coach Vic Schaefer led Texas to a Big 12 title and aims to win the top-seeded Longhorns’ first national title since 1986. A little piece of his heart still seems tied to Mississippi State, where he coached for eight seasons. moving to Austin. A favorite pre-game listen is Johnny Cash’s “Starkville County Jail.”

Mixtapes of Men’s NCAA Tournament Players

Wing | No. 1 North Carolina

It takes strengths at multiple positions to win an NCAA tournament, and Ingram’s playlist resembles a full roster. He draws from multiple eras and genres: a 2023 Veeze hit, a 2004 Snoop Dogg earworm and a 1972 Elvis Presley classic. “I just shuffle, and whatever’s playing, I just vibrate,” he says.

Averaging 12.1 points and 9 rebounds per game, Ingram will work to return the storied program to the Final Four.

Chance McMillian

Guard | No. 6 Texas Tech

The junior is one of five Red Raiders averaging double figures with 10.6 points per game. McMillian hopes to help Texas Tech return to the Sweet 16 after losing in that round last season. There’s no need to be intimidated if you want to participate well into March, and his music choices reflect that understanding. Listening to Youngboy’s “War With Us,” he says, “gets me ready to go out and play and just be fearless.”

Center | No. 4 Chestnut brown

The SEC tournament MVP wants to keep the good atmosphere going. Nasty are he best listens to music that makes him feeling like the best. At 6 feet tall, it’s no wonder he loves the song “The Biggest.”

“He just talks about being the biggest and one of the best and just letting your stuff pop,” Broome says. “It gets you hyped, and the beat is pretty good.”

Men’s NCAA Tournament Coaches’ Mixtapes

Boy, do these coaches love the 80s?

UConn’s Dan Hurley is aiming for a championship repeat in the NCAA Tournament. Perhaps one of his favorite pre-game songs – “Dream On” by Aerosmith – could be dedicated to the underdogs who dream of upsetting his No. 1 seed Huskies?

Hurley says he’s listening as tip-off approaches for another reason. “To get my energy going,” he says.

Once Baylor players are on the floor for warmups, Scott Drew listens to Christian-themed music in the locker room for a few moments of pre-game comfort. But don’t misunderstand him; he will get excited too. Like Texas women’s coach Vic Schaefer, AC/DC’s thrasher “Thunderstruck” is a game day favorite.

One line in Scandal’s 1984 hit “The Warrior” particularly ignites Drew: “And the victory is mine.”

(Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletics; Photos of Paige Bueckers and Harrison Ingram: Paige: Jessica Hill/Associated Press, Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

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Where’s the Next Generation of Great Coaches?

Jeffrey Bailey — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:34:40 +0000

Twenty years, it would appear, is a very long time indeed. This week, a brief video montage fluttered through the flotsam and jetsam that clog my (and your) social media feeds — the engagement-farming banalities, the craven attention-seekers, the willfully deranged Kate Middleton theories — to celebrate the glorious madness of 2004.

That was the year, after all, when Greece won the European Championship, a triumph so unexpected that at least one squad member had to rearrange his wedding around the team’s progress. The Greek triumph came a few weeks after Porto, led by a charismatic young coach with hair more pepper than salt, lifted the Champions League trophy.

That was after Werder Bremen finished the season as champion of Germany and Valencia secured its second Spanish title in three years. Whoever compiled the video did not even need to mention the victory by a Colombian minnow, Once Caldas, in the Copa Libertadores to declare that 2004 had been a year for the underdog.

The compilation clip could, at a push, be used as a sort of generational Rorschach test. It might inspire, in older viewers, that bittersweet pang of nostalgia, the ghost of a memory that this is how things used — and therefore ought — to be. Werder Bremen should be able to win the Bundesliga. Porto should be contenders to be champion of Europe. You might not want to watch Greece win the Euros again, but it was nice that it happened.

Younger fans, though, may well interpret it differently. They have grown up in an era of dominance and dynasty, in which the sport’s major teams have established unprecedented primacy over their rivals, and stasis has become the truest marker of excellence. The sight of all of these unfamiliar teams lifting trophies might reinforce their suspicion that soccer is rather better now than it was then.

There are two things worth pointing out in rebuttal. The first is that 2004 was an outlier even by the standards of the time. The previous six editions of the Champions League, for example, had been won by Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and A.C. Milan. And the second — albeit obvious only with the benefit of hindsight — is that it was a liminal year.

The best measure of that came between seasons in a summer of considerable change. In the space of three months, half a dozen of Europe’s major clubs appointed new managers. Some of the candidates they appointed were successful. Some were not. Some, it would emerge later, had strongly-held beliefs about the healing powers of cheese.

To modern eyes, though, what is most striking is how risky so many of those hires seem now. Juventus’s decision to appoint Fabio Capello — his mien, even then, that of a stern immortal hewn from basalt — appeared a safe bet, but many of the others were not.

Inter Milan hired Roberto Mancini, who had won only one honor, a Coppa Italia, as a coach, and had most recently led Lazio to an unspectacular sixth-place finish. Bayern Munich went for Felix Magath, the cheese enthusiast, on the back of a celebrated playing career and his guiding Stuttgart to fourth place in the Bundesliga.

Real Madrid followed a similar playbook: José Antonio Camacho was one of the club’s more beloved alumni, a factor that probably played as significant a role in his appointment as the Portuguese Cup he had won in his brief spell in charge of Benfica.

Indeed, even the two standout hires on the market — José Mourinho and Rafael Benítez — came with caveats. Mourinho had turned Porto into champions of Europe, something that even in the olden times of the early 21st century was not really supposed to happen, but he was not yet 40. His fire had burned impossibly brightly, but (at that stage) worryingly briefly.

Benítez, unlikely as it sounds now, was arguably the more cautious choice. His Valencia team had won two Spanish titles in three seasons, and had just lifted the UEFA Cup. Still, his résumé was not flawless: Before joining Valencia, he had been a somewhat peripatetic figure at relatively minor Spanish teams. It was not enough to dissuade Liverpool, though, from bringing him on board.

Two decades on, this summer is likely to bring coaching change on a similar scale. Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich already know that they must appoint new managers. There is a reasonable chance that A.C. Milan, Juventus, Chelsea and Manchester United will join them.

There is Rúben Amorim, winner of a Portuguese title and a couple of domestic cups at Sporting. There is Sebastian Hoeness, who would probably not be pleased to be depicted as a modern-day Magath but who has also taken Stuttgart to the Champions League. There is Roberto De Zerbi, the early promise of his Brighton tenure now starting to fade.

The cases for each seem almost outweighed by caveats; with any of their appointments, there would be the unavoidable feeling of taking a shot in the dark. Amorim has worked only in Portugal. Hoeness has never won a major honor. Brighton is no adequate proving ground for the pressures of Old Trafford or Turin’s Allianz Arena.

It is this, of course, that makes that suite of appointments in 2004 seem so alien, that makes the contrast between then and now seem so stark. Of course, a modern team would appoint a manager like Mourinho who had just won the Champions League. Of course, a coach who had won any of the major domestic leagues on a first try would be in demand by bigger clubs.

But those things do not happen anymore, not really. It is the fact that Alonso is on the cusp of achieving it that makes him so exceptional, and so compelling. Even the sort of success Mancini or Magath had enjoyed is vanishingly rare, so greedily do the elite gobble up major trophies, so desperately do they cling to their places near the summit of their domestic leagues. Nobody will ever make a video declaring 2024 the year of the underdog.

For a vast majority of coaches at the start of their careers, no matter how talented they may be, all they can hope to muster is a form of qualified success: outperforming their salary bill; employing a bold and daring style; surviving in Europe for long enough to win some fleeting kudos.

At the same time, even that is no longer necessarily enough. The task of managing Sporting — with its squad of young promise and gnarled journeymen — is a world away from taking charge of the superstars at Barcelona or Manchester United. Coping with the stresses of Stuttgart is no longer adequate preparation for the expectation to win every game at Bayern Munich.

That is why, in recent years, those managers who have landed the game’s most prestigious jobs have either played for those clubs — Frank Lampard, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Xavi Hernández — or already managed one of their rivals. There is a chasm between the great and the merely good, and the perception is that nobody is able to jump it.

In reality, of course, that is not true. Just as Benítez and Mourinho and Mancini managed to grow into the roles they earned in the summer of 2004, so Amorim or Hoeness or De Zerbi might look an inspired appointment from the vantage point of 2044.

Whether any of the superpowers are brave enough to take that chance today, though, is a different matter. It is a problem entirely of their own making. And only they, ultimately, have the power to solve it.

The curious case of the missing shootouts

The long wait ended in the tumult of the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday. After years of disappointment, of desperate near misses and bitter failures, Arsenal finally made it happen: The Premier League leaders failed to score a second goal against a resolute F.C. Porto, ensuring that the Champions League would — after eight long years — see a penalty shootout.

Of course, what with fate being a cruel and mocking force, a second duly followed: On Wednesday, Atlético Madrid took Inter Milan to penalties, too, with Diego Simeone’s side eventually winning to take a place in the quarterfinals of Europe’s somewhat jaded elite club competition.

Those two shootouts were — remarkably — the first the tournament has seen since Atlético’s defeat to Real Madrid in the 2016 final. We have, in other words, managed almost eight editions of a knockout soccer tournament, one designed to taper into a single, evenly-matched fixture, without a single game going to penalties. And that, scientifically, seems weird.

In these situations, there is an overwhelming desire a) to find an all-encompassing explanation and b) to ignore the fact that, sometimes, stuff just happens. That second bit remains the likeliest rationale, but there are other factors worth considering.

It might, to some extent, be a consequence of European soccer’s increasing wealth gap: The last 16 and even the quarterfinals have, in recent years, grown ever more lopsided as power in the European game has become concentrated among a handful of teams.

But the level to which the true elite have pushed the game may be just as relevant. As the very best teams have become impossibly intricate tactical masterpieces, so, too, have they become more vulnerable to systemic failure: If a certain gambit does not work, or is exposed by the opposition, they are more liable to being overwhelmed.

There was something refreshing about the games in London and Madrid this week. This is how European soccer used to look, and used to feel — a welcome blast of nostalgia in a competition that has an obsession with modernity, with the future, with the next big thing.

Blunt edge

Liverpool, then, will be the next to fall. In the coming months, the club intends to join the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea, Brighton, Aston Villa and a host of others and “expand its portfolio,” a piece of euphemistic jargon that means it will buy another soccer team, strip it of its existential purpose and place it in a form of corporate service.

Liverpool’s hierarchy believes it has little or no choice but to join the growing ranks of rich clubs with expansive, club-owned feeder systems. Establishing a network of teams is the only way the club can compete with its rivals, as Michael Edwards — the celebrated sporting director now restored to Anfield as the head of soccer operations for the team’s owner, Fenway Sport Group — put it this week.

It is easy to see why Edwards and F.S.G. believe that. Soccer seems at some point to have agreed that multiclub ownership was the way forward. Some 300 or so clubs are now part of these models, inspired by the likes of City Football Group and the Red Bull herd. Many more will follow: Newcastle, among others, is exploring its options, too.

The problem is that the argument in favor of this approach does not extend much beyond the fact that everyone else is doing it. The benefits seem indistinct: sharing a little information, spreading a few costs, centralizing the development of the occasional player.

The hazards, on the other hand, are clear: not just a threat to competitive integrity across Europe, but the wholesale erosion of the rich, varied mosaic that has been the sport’s strength, replaced by the unapologetic diminution of social institutions in the interests of unchecked greed and ambition. Whether that cost is worth the benefit is a question too few seem to ask.

Correspondence: a Kilmarnock special

Something of a change of pace this week: just a single piece of correspondence, courtesy of David Heath. Correspondence, in fact, may not be the right word. David’s email was really more of a confession, the expiation of a jersey-related sin that seems to have been burdening his soul for some time, brought about by our discussion last week of how teams choose which jerseys to wear.

A couple of decades ago, while David was serving as chief executive at Kilmarnock, a middleweight club in Scotland, he — in his own words — “set aside all semblance of sporting integrity in pursuit of a European place.

“This moral descent,” he admitted, “culminated in the ‘Red jersey affair.’” This, it would seem, is the source of David’s shame.

As some of you may know, Kilmarnock traditionally plays in very fetching blue-and-white stripes. It always has. That season, its away jersey was yellow. There was also a red jersey, for use — in theory — when Kilmarnock met a team on the road that also played in yellow. (Motherwell, Livingston, maybe Partick Thistle?)

We’ll let David take up the story (with light edits). “We had a few away games at a crucial juncture of the season in our third red jersey. This was designed in part to boost sales of this unusual and popular color over the Christmas period. The club went on an excellent run of form, though, and the jerseys took on a talismanic status.

“With a vital home match looming, I was approached by a delegation consisting of the kit manager, team manager and commercial manager pleading with me to find a means of playing at home in the red jersey. Mesmerized by the allure of our precious red, I approached the league secretary directly.

“He was an amiable, if firm, gentleman, always willing to interpret league rules in a flexible manner but also resolute in their enforcement. In what he would later class — somewhat Homerically — as ‘dissembling indirectness,’ I explored with him scenarios in which a club might resort to ‘emergency kit management.’

“At the time, we reused jerseys extensively and had our own in-stadium laundry. The sudden malfunction of that laundry at the last moment could not have been reasonably foreseen. Faced with the potential of a match’s postponement in front of an expectant crowd, I had no alternative but to send the team out in the red jerseys.

“In a subsequent display of pettiness by the league, we were allowed no further games in red that season, went into decline and finished seventh.”

This, presumably, was all the proof that David needed that Kilmarnock’s red jerseys did, in fact, have some special power. “The following season, we promoted it to our away kit,” he said. “We finished a strong fourth.”

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Man Utd coaches ‘shocked by surprise request flops after Fulham defeat’

Jeffrey Bailey — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:04:27 +0000

MANCHESTER UNITED staff were reportedly “shocked” by a surprise player request following their defeat to Fulham.

The Red Devils suffered a dramatic late defeat at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Manchester United players submitted a ‘surprise request’ after losing to FulhamCredit: Rex

Erik ten Hag’s staff was reportedly shocked by the requestCredit: Getty

Erik ten Hag’s future has since been thrown into doubt again after United fell further behind in the race for a top four finish.

SunSport also understands that the Dutchman’s relationship with Marcus Rashford is beyond repair.

The pair are barely speaking after Rashford called in sick for training after an all-night party in Belfast last month.

Meanwhile, his staff was further shaken by Saturday’s defeat.

According to the Guardianplayers complained that they wanted Sunday off after the defeat.

However, the request was rejected, after which the normal analysis routine and a warm-down under Ten Hag followed.

Players were reminded of their commitments by staff, the report added, with Ten Hag not informed of the request.

Saturday’s defeat ended a run of four straight wins for United, who were defeated by Alex Iwobi’s 97th-minute winner.

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The Red Devils are now eight points behind the top four and are in sixth place.

Ten Hag will be hoping his side can bounce back at the City Ground on Wednesday when they take on Nottingham Forest in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

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Before the match, he defended under-fire winger Antony, telling reporters: “Antony: I have supported him for a long time. I know his capabilities and he has great capabilities.”

“If he plays like I know from the past, he is unstoppable. No defender can stop him because he is one of the fastest players in the first ten meters.

“If he plays that game, he will perform. I’m sure he will do that in the future. I’m sure he is resilient, he has character and he will fight back and I support him.”

“He now has to wait for his chance and when he gets there, he has to pick it up.”

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A major development in the football racism scandal, as coaches begin grilling in front of their accusers

Albert Elence — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:33:35 +0000

Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan will face the Human Rights Commission
They will be joined by Jason Burt in a mediation process
Trio denies allegations of racism against Hawthorn players

By Ollie Lewis

Published: 07:10 EST, February 27, 2024 | Updated: 11:08 AM EST, February 27, 2024

Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan will come face to face with their accusers after the football coaches were called to a meeting with the Human Rights Commission over the Hawthorn racism scandal.

According to 7NEWS, the Human Rights Commission is involved in the scandal that rocked the AFL when it first emerged in 2022.

Clarkson and Fagan, then coach and assistant coach of Hawthorn Football Club respectively, have been accused of racism towards former Hawks players. The pair deny the allegations against them.

The duo, along with former aide Jason Burt, will conduct a ‘reconciliation process’ at the Commission on March 26 and 27.

Conciliation is a similar process to mediation and it will see the trio face their accusers, including AFL great Cyril Rioli.

Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan will appear before the Human Rights Commission next month

A number of Hawthorn stars, including Cyril Rioli, have accused them of racism

The meeting will take place just days before Clarkson and Fagan oversee the Monster Games over the Easter weekend. Clarkson now coaches North Melbourne while Fagan is in charge of Brisbane Lions.

Fagan will coach the Lions in the grand final rematch against Collingwood on March 28, while Clarkson’s Kangaroos will take on Carlton on Good Friday.

Despite the impact on match preparation, Seven adds that both coaches believe their participation in the mediation is a clear sign of commitment to the process.

Last May, the AFL closed its investigation into the coaches, ruling there was ‘no misconduct’.

There is hope that the saga will end with the Commission, rather than developing into the legal system.

Clarkson, Fagan and Jason Burt deny the allegations against them

Clarkson and Fagan have strongly denied the claims. Last May, Clarkson took a mental break from the sport as a result of the case.

“The game is embarrassed, obviously myself, ‘Fages’ and Jason, our families are embarrassed. Indigenous families and First Nations families have been disgraced,” Clarkson said last year.

“The damage has been done, the reputation has been damaged and we have to get our reputation back somehow through this whole process.”

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NFL coaches pick the Super Bowl winner: Why they think Kansas City has the edge

Jeffrey Bailey — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:55:34 +0000

For the second season in a row, the Kansas City Chiefs enter the Super Bowl as underdogs. They defeated the favored Philadelphia Eagles last season and will try to eliminate the favored San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

Will it feel like a disappointment if Kansas City lets it happen? The Chiefs have the ultimate edge in quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who is healthier this season than last and has played brilliantly through most of the playoffs.

Every year around this time I ask a collection of NFL coaches which team they're picking to win the Super Bowl and why. Our panel did quite well last season, with the first coach correctly picking the Chiefs to win by three.

Four coaches made their predictions this year. We continue the conversation with a defensive coach's insights on what bothers 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, and whether the Chiefs are well-equipped to exploit this particular vulnerability.

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Defensive coach

The Fighting Taylor Swifts are playing better defense than the Niners right now, and that could be the difference. San Francisco needs to play better defense to win. The 49ers are still dangerous and violent, but they are giving up more yards and plays. I think they'll play pretty well, but if you ask my gut, I still think Kansas City will pull it out.

Impacting Brock Purdy is one of the biggest keys to this game. The teams that give Purdy problems are the ones that can impact him in the pocket. Cleveland was able to do that. Detroit couldn't influence him that way, but the Chiefs could. They do a really good job of getting their hands up. That's a big deal against Brock. They may very well do their best to influence not only the longer throws, but also the faster throws at all different launch angles.

Purdy's strength is how strong his lower body is. George Kittle's quote was very funny when he said that Purdy looks like one of those little water dragons that run on the water. That's exactly what Purdy looks like. His legs are strong as hell. But if you can push the bag to his front foot, he struggles. It's hard to get there because they throw fast sometimes, but I think the Chiefs are capable of doing that.

When people get to Purdy's front foot, the ball will track and drag or drift. Like the one he threw in the belly of the Packer man. He couldn't fully rotate his hips and it was floating. Influencing Purdy in this way is easier said than done. The 49ers know what they're doing, and Purdy is really good, and Kyle can call it good, but I think the Chiefs with four (rushers) can do that sometimes.

(Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo) is going to apply pressure and also play his two-high combination coverages. It's hard to play combination coverage when the 49ers are taking everyone out. They have positionless players. (Christian) McCaffrey will be a wideout, Deebo (Samuel) will be in the backfield and 44 (Kyle Juszczyk) will be everywhere. If you play them in split-safe defense and they can see it and get it out, the matchups can be very good.

The Chiefs don't always tackle well when you get them in space. Steve has done such a good job this year of not letting that happen. In other years you could isolate their boys. All of Kyle's boys are 6-foot-4 or 6-foot-4 and can run with big hands and anger after contact. That would be their advantage if they can find ways around the D-line and then get those guys going.

I also think San Francisco will attack the edges in the run game, like Kyle did with Atlanta versus New England in the Super Bowl. If you can explore the interior of Kansas City and force guys other than (Justin) Reid to tackle, you can do a number of things. But you have to bypass their big boys. I think Kyle will find a way to do that, but I trust the Chiefs a little more.

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This is going to be a very interesting game because Spags has the defense rolling, and I think it's going to cause problems. They will be able to come after Brock Purdy. Spags will come up with some good plans to at least make Purdy think and disrupt his rhythm.

The 49ers, that whole team is built on a front-running mentality. When they play with an edge, they just jump on and they're better, they're more athletic, their talent shines. When they play from the back, it's usually different. They came back against Detroit. I give them credit for that, but Detroit screwed that up royally. What happened was not worth repeating.

What you need to do with the 49ers is match them early. I grabbed the ball and tried to score. Green Bay did that. I know it's only 7-0 too early and that doesn't matter, but if you score early, you don't react to it.

Mahomes will make the right plays when necessary. He protected the ball, which he hadn't done very often in the first half of the season. People need to honor Rashee Rice right now. He has developed. MVS (Marquez Valdes-Scantling) has become more consistent.

The 49ers defense has shown throughout the playoffs that they will move the ball on them. They don't have many answers. If you hit their weak spots and don't get their rushers going and they don't get takeaways, you'll be fine. The coverage system is not extensive. They have one good corner and one safety who plays very well.

When you have a guy like Andy Reid there with Patrick Mahomes, they're going to find those weak spots. Andy is okay with taking 5 yards from Travis Kelce on a catch-and-run. It's just hard to argue against Reid and Mahomes.

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Defensive Coordinator No. 2

The better team is probably San Francisco, but the Eagles were probably a better team last year and it came down to Patrick Mahomes.

For San Francisco, a big part of it is game flow. That's not to say Brock Purdy can't come from behind. I'm not trying to say that. But I think they're a team that has a much better chance of winning if they play their game, while the Chiefs might find a way to win a little bit better in every type of game.

That's what happened in 2019 when those teams played. Kansas City was down by two scores, and is suddenly up by two scores in the fourth quarter. It was incredible.

San Francisco came back to beat Green Bay and Detroit, but they were drastically better than those teams, especially Detroit. In my opinion, Detroit is not a team that can hang with San Francisco. The fact that Detroit couldn't put that game away shows how much better San Francisco was as a team.

I could tell San Fran's defense wasn't dominant against the Chiefs. I don't know if they are a dominant defense like they are with DeMeco Ryans and Robert Saleh. It doesn't feel like they all are. Deep down I say Chiefs.

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The 49ers offense is difficult to defend because they have skilled guys who can create yards after the catch and they have a quarterback who can read the defense very quickly and put the ball in place with accuracy. Their dropback game is very timing-based, while Kansas City is not.

Mahomes' ability to play on or off the schedule could be the difference. What makes Mahomes good is that he's a great off-schedule quarterback who doesn't have to play off-schedule to be great. I always felt that was the case with Russell Wilson. When everyone said he was great, I felt that to be a high-level quarterback you still have to be able to throw on time. Mahome's can do that.

Purdy isn't running badly on schedule because he's a bit slippery. He just doesn't play that much out of time. Mahomes is out of elite time, and I think that's Kansas City's advantage.

Offensive coach

Kansas City surprisingly has the ball pretty well with (Isiah) Pacheco, and they're more willing to run the ball, and I think that does take some pressure off Mahomes. It has served their defense well. That has probably made them a more complete team.

San Francisco gave up 280 yards against Detroit in the first half. Maybe they were surprised by Detroit, but they still haven't figured out how to slow down perimeter runs. Pacheco is a slasher, and if you got him on the edge, I think he would be good, despite being more of an inside runner.

Detroit kept pinning the ends and throwing the ball, and the 49ers secondary was late in supporting. I'm sure San Francisco will make an adjustment for the crack toss games. They just need to support someone faster. That's not a huge adjustment, but they'll likely be reluctant to do so because of Mahomes.

I love Kansas City. I want to like San Francisco, but I think the quarterback matchup in these games is pretty big, and this is a big divide between these guys.

Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel, those two guys could be enough to overcome that, but I don't think so in this game.

Final thoughts

If the 49ers win, someone involved with their team will surely argue that no one gave them a chance. It won't be a huge task, despite the oddsmakers favoring the 49ers, because so many people in and around the game are picking the Chiefs. I won Kansas City by a 24-20 margin in our personnel pick. It wasn't so much a pick against the 49ers as it was a fear of picking against Mahomes. I've been by his side every week of the playoffs. Why stop now?

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LATEST NEWS: Stone pelting on Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat train, coaches damaged

Sabir Ansary — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 05:54:35 +0000

New Delhi: Vande Bharat is one of the most popular trains and modes of transport in general. Launched in 2019, Vande Bharat express train is a reserved AC Chair Car service that connects multiple cities across the country. Apart from being a high-speed train, Vande Bharat has also been in the news for many negatives including accidents and engine failures. In a recent news update there was an incident pelting stones on the Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat Express which damaged the windows of nine coaches, further questioning the safety of the passengers traveling on the train.

Stone pelting on the Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat train

As mentioned earlier, an incident of stone pelting on the Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat train has been reported; it happened on Monday, near Maniachi train station. According to reports, railway sources have said that some miscreants attacked the train as it was leaving Chennai and crossing Maniachi Station.

Coaches damaged, police case registered

At least nine carriages were damaged by the stone pelting; the window of the executive class carriage and the window glass of the Executive Chair are damaged. Despite the stone pelting and damage to the carriages, no passenger was injured in the accident. A report has been filed with the police and an investigation is underway.

Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat Schedule

The Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat, covering a total distance of 650 km with a duration of seven hours and 50 minutes. The train has stops at six stations: Tambaram, Villupram, Trichy, Dindigul, Madurai and Virudhunagar. The bus leaves Tirunelveli at 6:00 AM and reaches Chennai at 1:50 PM; the train starts its return journey at 2:50 PM and reaches Tirunelveli at 10:40 PM.

In other news, a Vande Bharat Express train arrived at Pune railway station after an hour's delay and the reason for this was another train. Railway authorities said the Vande Bharat was delayed due to engine failure of another train near Boribel Station in Solapur division.

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NFL Playoff Predictions: 9 Coaches and Executives Predict Divisional Round Winners

Jeffrey Bailey — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:58:49 +0000

Don't laugh because it's over. Cry because it happened.

That would be the more appropriate phrase for anyone hoping the wildcard weekend will feature more than one competitive game over the three days. Not only were five of the six games decided by multiple possessions, but all of the blowouts were practically decided at some point in the third quarter.

We're hoping for some more drama in the divisional round.

For the second week in a row, we've assembled a team of nine team leaders and coaches from across the NFL to weigh in on the playoff games. Last week, they combined to correctly call four of the six outcomes, missing the Green Bay Packers' loss to the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans' latest impressive performance against the Cleveland Browns.

Some fascinating storylines are taking shape this week. At quarterback, Lamar Jackson, CJ Stroud and Jordan Love are trying to win their second career playoff games, and No. 1 picks Jared Goff and Baker Mayfield continue to try to solidify their positions with their new teams. Then, in the weekend finale, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen gear up for their third playoff installment, with Allen trying to put the Buffalo Bills on the board in the budding rivalry.

There is also a contrast in the settings. Saturday's slate includes a pair of down-home spots, Baltimore and San Francisco, which are a little more accustomed to postseason success, while high-energy Sunday in Detroit and Buffalo will continue to figure prominently in the weekend's theatrical performances.

Now let's get to the choices.

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Ravens coach John Harbaugh hasn't won a playoff game in three years. He hasn't been to the AFC title game in more than a decade. Will DeMeco Ryan's Texans extend both streaks this weekend? (Brad Mills / USA Today)

Kick-off: 4:30 PM ET, Saturday

Experts' picks: Ravens 9, Texans 0

Fear not, Texas fans. No one on the panel picked them to beat the Browns either.

Of course, the Ravens are a tougher opponent. The AFC's top seed has won six straight games, started by Jackson, the favorite to win the MVP Award next month. But if Jackson wants to improve on his 1-3 record in the playoffs, he will likely have to be more efficient as a passer. Jackson has completed fewer than 60 percent of his passes in all three postseason losses, and the Ravens have averaged 10.7 points in those games.

And while the Ravens allowed the fewest points in the league this season, they also had a top-three defense the previous three seasons when they reached the playoffs with Jackson.

It's simply a matter of translating that success to the playoffs, where the Ravens have one win in nine years.

“They can dominate all three phases and have proven that during the regular season with a tough schedule,” said one director.

The Ravens went 6-3 against teams that made the playoffs this season (two losses to the Pittsburgh Steelers), including a 3-0 win against teams that were still standing. They defeated the Texans 25-9 in Week 1.

“That's who I see winning the AFC,” the director added against the Ravens.

However, the Stroud effect is real. The NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year favorite was outstanding in back-to-back win-or-go-home games, completing 36 of 47 passes for 538 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions.

Additionally, edge rushers Jonathan Greenard (12 1/2 sacks) and Will Anderson (eight sacks, including one in the playoffs) are a formidable duo. It's a different challenge for Jackson, but defensive head coach DeMeco Ryans will certainly have something creative in store for the veteran QB.

DeMeco already knew pic.twitter.com/CXdSInCWHJ

— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) January 18, 2024

It may not be enough.

“The Ravens are the better team overall,” one coach said. “But I think it will be a good match.”

The outcome can be determined by the best player on the field.

“Lamar is playing too well, and the defense will get to the rookie QB,” one executive said.

The Packers have a rough recent history against the 49ers in the playoffs. Green Bay has lost four straight postseason games to San Francisco dating back to the 2011 season. The Packers' Matt LaFleur and 49ers' Kyle Shanahan were the coaches for the last two meetings. (Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)

Kick-off: 8:15 PM ET, Saturday

Experts' picks: 49ers 9, Packers 0

Sticking with the Saturday theme, can a first-year starting QB keep the magic going against a No. 1 seed? And just like last week, the Packers didn't get a single panelist to pick them to win.

That will be the test for Love, but his best friend of late is running back Aaron Jones, who has 476 rushing yards during the team's four-game winning streak. The Packers' disciplined, tough game plan exposed the Cowboys, and head coach Matt LaFleur was patient enough to stick with it. Love consistently worked on schedule and made several elite throws to keep the Cowboys off balance.

This piece, from this angle. @jordan3love inserts the needle @RomeoDoubs! #GBvsDAL | #GoPackGo

Next one: #GBvsSF | Saturday, January 20 at 7:15 PM CT | FOX pic.twitter.com/ZGprjESKVy

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) January 15, 2024

They'll need a similar approach against the 49ers, who have allowed 4.1 yards per carry, just a touch better than the Cowboys.

“No QB should be as confident as Jordan Love heading into the weekend,” one executive said. “He's turning out the lights right now, and that offense is starting to roll. Green Bay should be excited about the future given the amount of young talent on the roster. I expect a good battle this weekend, but ultimately I see the Niners' run game and the front seven taking over to win. Green Bay is still suspect on defense and I doubt they will be able to take control of the game at any point.”

The 49ers are a more challenging test than the Cowboys for two reasons. They are much more committed to their running game with Christian McCaffrey, and the 49ers are seen as a more disciplined team. They may not be as likely to succumb to the mistakes the Cowboys made to pull off the upset.

“(The game) will be closer than people think,” one executive said. “The 49ers' play and playmakers will make the difference.”

Added another coach: “The (Niners) defense will eliminate big plays and allow (the Packers) to ride on them.”

The 49ers have won two games in each of the last two postseasons, so they are experienced. They also may have been a Brock Purdy injury away from a Super Bowl rematch with the Kansas City Chiefs a year ago.

Classic Shanahan.

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—NFL (@NFL) January 18, 2024

While the Packers' youth is impressive, it was born out of necessity. They had $67 million in dead cap space this season, the fourth most in the league, so they needed big production from players on rookie contracts.

That might be too much to ask of a potential juggernaut in San Francisco.

“Too big a stage, too early for the Packers,” said one executive.

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Coach Todd Bowles' Buccaneers have won three straight road games. To advance to the NFC Championship Game, they must eliminate coach Dan Campbell's Lions at what is sure to be a rowdy Ford Field. (Kim Klement Neitzel/USA Today)

Kick-off: 3:00 PM ET, Sunday

Experts' picks: Lions 8, Buccaneers 1

If you're of a certain age and watched a lot of football before the turn of the century, the idea of a Lions-Bucs game to determine an NFC Championship Game entrant might have thrown your week into disarray.

But here we are.

“I went back and forth (with my choice),” said one director. “I ultimately chose Detroit because they are the more complete team and have home field advantage. I'm curious to see how Goff plays this weekend, because I think Tampa can put pressure on him. And historically, if you can hit Goff, you can take him out of rhythm.

The Lions have been preparing for this stage all season and the Bucs have exceeded expectations. The visitors have won six of seven and have won their last three road games.

“We'll be ready to go.”@JaredGoff16 pic.twitter.com/t3Gb7Ogrs8

— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 18, 2024

“The Bucs are hot, but the Lions have a good, balanced offense that should help keep Tampa's defense honest.”

The Lions are 7-2 at Ford Field this season, including the playoff opener against the Los Angeles Rams last weekend.

“Home court will matter,” one executive said. “And Goff will outperform Baker.”

Will Patrick Mahomes and his Chiefs make it three straight playoff wins over Josh Allen and the Bills? Or will Buffalo finally overcome Kansas City's hurdle? (Denny Medley/USA Today)

Kick-off: 6:30 PM ET, Sunday

Experts' picks: Bills 8, Chiefs 1

Allen has been considered one of the NFL's best quarterbacks over the past four years, but he needs to get over the Mahomes hump in the playoffs. The Chiefs defeated the Bills in the 2020 and 2021 postseasons, but the Bills will finally get a chance in Buffalo.

Additionally, the Bills are the league's hottest team with six straight wins. This is a far cry from a year ago, when they were headed in the wrong direction when the playoffs started.

“(The Bills) are a little confused about the Pittsburgh game, but I think Allen will get the deal done this weekend,” one executive said. “He's bummed now.”

It's hard to argue with the Bills' chances based on recent performance, but their injuries are concerning across the board. That includes Mahomes in the playoffs, and he could be increasingly motivated after the Chiefs were written off more than usual due to the plethora of mistakes from the skill players.

“(The Bills) are coming at the right time and playing better football than Kansas City, and that will continue,” one coach said.

JOSH ********* ALL!!!!

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— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) January 15, 2024

The one voter who took the Chiefs essentially called it a coin toss. Both teams have high ceilings, but it is difficult to predict how they will perform on any given week. The lopsided nature of the picks is certainly indicative of the Chiefs' struggles this season.

The Chiefs defense may not get enough attention in the clash between two high-profile quarterbacks. Kansas City has allowed 20 or fewer points in six straight games and has given up more than 21 points only twice all season.

The Bills defeated the Chiefs 20-17 in Week 14 in Arrowhead.

“The Bills finally get it done (in the playoffs) against Kansas City,” one executive said.

(Top photo of Andy Reid and Sean McDermott: Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)

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Teamgenoten en coaches van Cutter Gauthier spreken zich uit na doodsbedreigingen, kritiek: 'Gewoon een bescheiden jochie'

Jeffrey Bailey — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:10:20 +0000

Nikita Nesterenko was maandag wakker geworden uit een middagdutje toen hij een melding op zijn mobiele telefoon ontving. Nesterenko, een voormalig Boston College-aanvaller die nu speelt voor de San Diego Gulls van de American Hockey League, zag de naam van voormalig universiteitsteamgenoot Cutter Gauthier opduiken in een bericht van de Anaheim Ducks.

“Oorspronkelijk had ik het gevoel dat ze hem alleen maar feliciteerden met de wereldjunioren of zoiets”, zei Nesterenko. “Iets raars. Misschien een soort verbinding. En toen zag ik dat ze hem hadden overgenomen. Ik dacht: 'Wauw, dat is gek.'”

De Ducks hadden Jamie Drysdale geruild, een verdediger die ze hadden opgeroepen met de nummer 6 keuze in 2020, en een tweede ronde keuze in 2025 voor Gauthier, de nummer 5 keuze in 2022. De deal veroorzaakte schokgolven door de hockeywereld en verliet de Philadelphia Flyers maakten grote delen van hun gepassioneerde schare fans gedesillusioneerd en woedend.

Een bijna uitverkochte zaal in het Wells Fargo Center omhelsde deze week de 21-jarige Drysdale tijdens zijn indrukwekkende Flyers-debuut. Aan de andere kant kwam Gauthier woensdag in twee interviews naar voren om de handel te bespreken, hoewel hij geen specifieke antwoorden gaf over hoe het met de Flyers ging. Gauthier zei dat hij via sociale media doodsbedreigingen ontving nadat berichten naar buiten kwamen dat hij niet voor Philadelphia wilde spelen.

Dus, wie is Gauthier? Wordt de 19-jarige prospect onterecht verguisd omdat hij inspraak wil hebben in zijn toekomst? En zijn zijn vaardigheden goed genoeg om al deze controverses te rechtvaardigen? Sommige mensen die tijd met hem hebben doorgebracht en hem nauwlettend in de gaten hebben gehouden, zijn van mening dat hij in sommige kringen geen eerlijke behandeling krijgt.

“Hij heeft een goede persoonlijkheid”, zei Nesterenko. “Hij is niet bang om zijn mening te uiten. Mensen zien dat.

“Het is duidelijk dat de fanbase en de organisatie van de Flyers een beetje zout en boos zullen zijn dat ze niet zo'n sterspeler hebben gekregen. Als je een beetje pissig bent, is je eerste instinct om het kind weg te gooien en te zeggen dat hij recht heeft en dat hij daar niet wil zijn. Hij is een geweldige jongen.

“Hij heeft voor zichzelf de beslissing genomen waar hij denkt dat hij beter bij zal passen. Een betere ontwikkeling voor zijn carrière en de toekomst. Het feit dat mensen met de vingers wijzen en zeggen dat hij recht heeft en al dat soort dingen, vind ik gewoon gek, want zo was hij op de universiteit nooit. Hij wil gewoon het beste voor het team. Gewoon een geweldige speler en een geweldige jongen op het ijs.”

Craig Button, een TSN-analist en voormalig NHL-directeur, vindt het niet leuk hoe de Flyers reageerden in de nasleep van de transactie, met scherpe opmerkingen van teampresident Keith Jones en voorzitter-CEO Dan Hilferty, die op een podcast met Flyers-thema zeiden: “Het is Het zal een zware rit worden hier en hij heeft het verdiend. Wij zijn Philadelphians en we willen mensen die hier bij ons willen zijn.

Volgens Button hadden de Flyers enige medeplichtigheid aan het bevuilen van Gauthiers make-up.

'Ik werk al een aantal jaren bij Cutter,' zei hij. “Ik denk dat Cutter een elitespeler is. Ik weet niet wat er is gebeurd. Maakt het echt uit? De Philadelphia Flyers konden een ruil maken. Wat mij verbaast is dat ze een kind wilden beschermen door niets te zeggen totdat ze hem ruilden. Toen startten ze een lastercampagne.

“Wat mij betreft is het een stelletje BS. … Neem aan het einde de hoofdweg. Ik weet niet of Cutter er ooit commentaar op zal geven of dat hij er ooit commentaar op moet geven. Het komt erop neer dat ik alle tijd van de wereld heb voor Cutter Gauthier. De Philadelphia Flyers erkenden dat hij daar niet zou spelen, en ze gingen een ruil doen. Vier wat je net hebt gedaan. Je hoeft het kind niet uit te smeren.

“Het is grappig. Ik zag niemand in de Philadelphia Flyers-organisatie praten over Eric Lindros die zou kiezen waar hij heen wilde. Een hoop rotzooi, dat is wat ik denk dat het is.”

Nesterenko speelde vorig seizoen negen wedstrijden bij de Ducks nadat hij zijn BC-carrière had beëindigd en werkt eraan om terug te keren naar Anaheim. Hij hoopt weer teamgenoot te worden van Gauthier en is van mening dat de Ducks in Gauthier een speler zullen hebben die bekend zal staan om veel meer dan het afwijzen van het team dat hem heeft opgesteld.

“Als hij naar Anaheim komt, zal hij geweldig zijn”, zei Nesterenko. “Hij is super competitief. Hij wil winnen. Dat is waar wij naar streven. Eerlijk gezegd heb ik alleen maar goede dingen over hem te zeggen.”

De eerste reactie van Brendan Buckley, hoofdcoach van Boston College, toen hij de reactie van anderen op het vak zag, was dat hij aan Gauthier dacht, van wie hij wist dat er veel te doen was buiten het vak. De Eagles-staf had hun zes leden van Team USA's gouden medaillewinnende wereldjuniorenteam wat vrije tijd gegeven voordat ze terugkeerden naar Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, om zich weer bij het team te voegen en hun collegiale seizoenen opnieuw te starten. Sommigen waren op 8 januari teruggekeerd naar de campus. Anderen waren dinsdag nog onderweg.

Cutter Gauthier scoorde 29 doelpunten in zijn 49 wedstrijden voor Boston College. (Michael Miller / ISI-foto's / Getty Images)

Van zijn kant heeft Buckley “niets dan goede dingen te zeggen over hem en wat hij de afgelopen twee jaar voor ons programma heeft gedaan.”

“Hij is een geweldige teamgenoot geweest, een geweldige kerel om te coachen, hij is competitief in de praktijk, hij pusht zichzelf, hij wil beter worden, hij wil dat het team het goed doet”, zei Buckley. “Vorig jaar waren we niet waar we waarschijnlijk wilden zijn, en toen hadden we een leuke klas met een aantal goede talenten en hij hielp ze en hielp ze op snelheid te komen.”

Hij weet de Ducks krijgen ook een goede speler.

“Het eerste dat in je opkomt bij Cutter is een elite-release en opname,” zei Buckley. “Hij kan vanaf het hele ijs scoren en het komt snel van zijn stick af. Ik denk dat het de keepers verbaast hoe snel de puck bij hen kan komen. Dat doelpunt in de halve finale tijdens het powerplay bij de junioren ter wereld was een goed voorbeeld van hoe hij gewoon een puck kan scheuren en een spel kan veranderen. ”

Buckley zei dat Gauthier de afgelopen twee seizoenen ook hard heeft gewerkt om zijn spel af te ronden en zich voor te bereiden op de NHL.

“Hij is nu gewoon een meer volwassen speler en ik denk dat dat komt doordat hij een beetje ouder en fysiek volwassener is, en dan ook nog eens in competitieve wedstrijden speelt, wat hij de afgelopen twee jaar altijd voor ons heeft gedaan”, zei Buckley. “Hij heeft het heel goed gedaan. Hij werkt hard en is een leuke jongen om te coachen, want hij wil elke dag beter worden.”

Drie jaar geleden, toen Gauthier zou toetreden tot het nationale programma van USA Hockey, herinnert Nick Fohr, een van de coaches voor de leeftijdsgroep van 2004, zich dat er ‘veel over hem werd gezegd’.

Er waren geen bijzonderheden, maar hij herinnert zich dat er “een beetje een negatieve connotatie was vanuit het standpunt van ‘hij is misschien moeilijk om mee om te gaan’.”

En dus was hij natuurlijk een beetje geïnteresseerd in hoe Gauthier het zou doen in de twee jaar samen met het team.

Maar uiteindelijk “kon de waarheid niet verder daarvan verwijderd zijn”, aldus Fohr.

“Eerlijk gezegd, al deze dingen die werden gezegd, waren allemaal niet waar. Niets van dat. Hij was geweldig en hij was een geweldige teamgenoot. Hij werkte zich uit de naad, hij was betrokken, hij had een geweldige relatie met iedereen, inclusief het personeel. Hij was geweldig. Hij deed alles wat we hem vroegen en hij wilde zelfs meer.”

Gauthier werd vanaf het begin aangekondigd als een van de sterren in zijn leeftijdsgroep. ‘Iedereen had het over Cutter Gauthier,’ zei Fohr. Maar hoewel hij als die man zou eindigen – een primeur voor het team van '04 – en de nummer 5 keuze zou worden, is dat niet waar de staf van Fohr en de VS hem begon.

Dat omvatte het spelen op de tweede powerplay-eenheid tijdens zijn tijd bij het programma, omdat hij op dezelfde plek speelde als een grotere ster, Logan Cooley. “Het weerhield hem er niet van om door te gaan met zijn zaken, zijn werk te doen en er goed in te zijn”, aldus Fohr.

“Het was een supergetalenteerd team en hij werd niet als de uitblinker gespeeld. Logan Cooley was de uitgelichte speler in de groep. En hij verdiende het waarschijnlijk soms om in die topeenheid te zitten, maar dat was hij niet. Hij kreeg dus niet alles, hij kreeg niet alles, het ging niet alleen om Cutter Gauthier. En hij was geweldig”, zei Fohr.

“Het was hier niet gemakkelijk voor hem en soms, als jij de man bent als je binnenkomt en je blijft de man twee jaar lang zoals Cooley, dan is het gemakkelijk voor die jongens. Ze krijgen nooit echt te maken met tegenslagen of hebben momenten waarop ze raken gefrustreerd en plotseling komen hun ware kleuren naar voren. En dat was niet het geval voor Cutter. Hij moest werken voor de dingen die hij kreeg en dat was niet altijd gemakkelijk voor hem. En tegen het einde zit hij op één lijn met (Cooley en Jimmy Snuggerud) en de dingen zijn echt heel goed. Ik denk dat het alleen maar zijn karakter laat zien, hoe hij werkte, en zijn wedstrijdniveau.'

Dat is ook niet veranderd in Fohrs tijd bij Gauthier sinds hij het programma verliet. Hij coachte hem bij de juniorenwereld van 2023. Vóór de wereldjunioren van 2024, toen Gauthier in Plymouth was voor een selectiekamp, maakte hij tijd om te skaten en te oefenen met het huidige U18-team van Fohr.

“Hij was geweldig met mijn huidige spelers, en er is geen 'ik ben beter dan wie dan ook'-houding tegenover hem. Hij is gewoon een bescheiden jongen die gewoon zijn gang gaat en waardeert wat hij krijgt”, aldus Fohr.

Toen Fohr deze week zag hoe dit allemaal uitpakte, moest hij denken aan spelers als Jimmy Vesey en Adam Fox, die ook besloten niet te spelen voor de teams die hen hadden opgesteld. Op de dag van de dienst herinnert hij zich dat hij Gauthier en zijn gezin in het hotel zag en dat ze ‘enthousiast’ waren over de Flyers.

“Misschien zijn er dingen veranderd. … Het gebeurt veel meer dan mensen zich realiseren. Dit gebeurde toevallig op een groot moment toen de wereldjunioren een prominente man waren. Het maakt hem geenszins een slecht mens”, aldus Fohr.

'Het zijn kinderen. Het zijn nog kinderen.”

Gauthier zal zijn eerste NHL-wedstrijd pas spelen nadat hij zijn tweede seizoen bij de Eagles heeft afgerond, wat een gedenkwaardig seizoen zou kunnen zijn gezien het feit dat ze op nummer 1 staan in het land. Het zou in april met de Ducks kunnen gebeuren, omdat hij bevestigde dat hij van plan is een instapcontract met hen te tekenen. En er zullen grote verwachtingen zijn voor de aanvaller, die centraal of op de flank kan spelen en, zo gelooft Button vurig, een “multidimensionale dreiging” in de gedaante van Colorado Avalanche-ster Mikko Rantanen als een even gevaarlijke schutter en opstelling. man.

“We kijken naar Cutter en bedenken wat een geweldig schot en wat een geweldige doelpuntenmaker hij is”, zei Button. “Hij is ook een geweldige spelmaker. En ik denk dat dat is wat tegenstanders uit balans houdt als je tegen Cutter speelt. Hij kan je verslaan met een spel, hij kan je verslaan met een schot. En hij is groot. Hij kan schaatsen. Hij heeft vertrouwen in zijn spel.”

Button noemt Gauthier “een elite, elite shooter” met uiterste nauwkeurigheid. Dat heeft hem geholpen om de topscorer van BC te worden gedurende zijn twee seizoenen, met 29 doelpunten in zijn eerste 49 wedstrijden voor de Eagles. Hij had er slechts twee in de mars van de Verenigde Staten naar hun zesde gouden medaille op de wereldjunioren, maar had 10 assists om de Tsjechische Jiri Kulich, een Sabres-prospect, gelijk te trekken voor de toernooiscoretitel.

Nesterenko speelde vorig seizoen bij Gauthier bij BC en herinnert zich hem aanvankelijk als een rustige jongen die zich open begon te stellen toen hij voet aan de grond kreeg in de NCAA-competitie. De twee zouden floreren als lijngenoten en hoewel de Eagles een ondermaats record van 14-16-6 hadden, leidde Gauthier hen als eerstejaars in doelpunten (16) en punten (37).

“Op het ijs is hij een begaafd doelpuntenmaker”, zei Nesterenko, die drie seizoenen bij BC speelde en na een ruil met de Wild tekende bij Anaheim. “Het is op dit niveau niet eenvoudig om een doelpunt te scoren, dus elke keer dat je zo’n man met dat scorende gevoel kunt vastleggen, is dat een groot pluspunt. Buiten het ijs is hij een geweldige jongen. Hij bedoelt het goed. Hij heeft een geweldige familie. Hij was nogal verlegen toen hij naar de universiteit ging. Was erg voor zichzelf. Het is duidelijk dat veel jongens verlegen zijn als ze binnenkomen. Nieuw team, nieuwe sfeer. Toen hij eenmaal alle jongens een beetje had leren kennen – en ik hem een beetje onder mijn hoede had genomen en hem een paar dingen had geleerd – raakte hij heel snel gewend.

“We hadden veel lol. Qua resultaat hadden we niet de beste ploeg. Het is duidelijk dat ze het dit jaar veel beter doen. Maar hij was een groot deel van ons team. We hadden veel lol. Hij is een geweldige jongen.”

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NFL’s Black Monday stories: ‘For the coaches and families, it’s an absolute nightmare’

Jeffrey Bailey — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:26:25 +0000

Most will downplay and dismiss it, especially when pressed in front of a microphone. They’ll claim it’s the last thing on their radar, then lean on some trusty clichés to get through a few weeks of uncomfortable news conferences: on to the next practice, the next meeting, the next game. They’ll say there’s no point in worrying about what they can’t control.

But privately, the worry is in the back of their minds and in the pits of their stomach. It weighs on them, their staff, their players, their families. The fear. The angst. The unknown.

“It happens from Thanksgiving on in the NFL,” said former Bengals coach Marvin Lewis.

For a handful of head coaches across the league — like Washington’s Ron Rivera, Chicago’s Matt Eberflus, Atlanta’s Arthur Smith, New Orleans’ Dennis Allen, even New England’s Bill Belichick — an already stressful job grows even more tense late in the year, as disappointing seasons crawl to a close and they await ownership’s decision on their future with the team.

Will they keep their jobs?

Or are they out?

“When you’re in it and playing meaningful games this time of year, there’s nothing better,” said former Colts coach Chuck Pagano. “And there’s nothing worse than being on the other end of it … for the coaches and families, it’s an absolute nightmare.”

Rare is the profession where a single day on the calendar is synonymous with pink slips. In the NFL it’s called Black Monday, the first day after the regular season ends, and it’s usually when coaches on the proverbial hot seat find out their fates.

For some, a firing can bring closure, even peace. But it stings nonetheless.

“No one likes to be told their services are no longer needed,” said former Bucs coach Dirk Koetter.

But even when they sense it’s coming, it’s a hard pill to swallow. In Minnesota in 2013, Leslie Frazier drove into work on Black Monday “hoping against all hope” he’d keep his job. After he was let go, he sat in his car and prayed. Pagano, fired immediately after the Colts’ last game in 2017, went home and poured a drink with his wife, Tina.

“Win or lose, we booze, right?” he said, laughing at the memory.

The final few weeks of the season can be draining.

“You see things slipping a little bit, and those rumors are beginning,” Frazier said. “I got friends right now who are in the same situation, who told me they’ve already talked to their owner and they can’t get a feel for what he’s thinking.”

Black Monday awaits.

Based on conversations with a half-dozen former head coaches, here’s a peek inside the unease, disappointment and fallout that accompanies one of the most daunting days on the NFL calendar.

After he was fired in Minnesota in 2013, Leslie Frazier said a prayer in his car. When he got home, his players started calling, including Adrian Peterson (above). “That was really hard,” Frazier said. (Nam Y. Huh / AP)

The weeks before

They hear the chatter. They just pretend they don’t.

Playing into that speculation publicly would serve no point. There are practices to run, opponents to study, game plans to script. Coaches, already creatures of habit, lean even more into their weekly routines, walling themselves off from the outside noise as much as possible.

Sometimes, it’s their families that can’t escape it.

“That was one of the biggest things I had to battle,” Pagano said. “They wanna protect you. They wanna stand up for you. They wanna fight, so they’re gonna pay attention to what’s being said. ‘Hey, Dad, did you hear this?’ Of course I did! My whole deal was blinders and earmuffs, but we’re all human. It gets to you.

“(Coaches) have families. They have kids who go to school and listen to stuff. Can you imagine?”

Added Koetter: “It’s so tough on a coach’s family, the wife and kids not knowing what the future holds. Because in this day and age, you can’t get away from it. It’s everywhere.”

Frazier said the team’s PR staff would keep that type of news away from him — the rumors, the speculation — so most of what he knew about his job status came from concerned family and friends. “Hey, look out!” they’d tell him. “A lot of things swirling about your job security.”

Norv Turner, twice fired on Black Monday — after the 2005 season with the Raiders, then after the 2012 season with the Chargers — said he wouldn’t let any of it creep into his mind.

That is, until it was time for his news conference.

“Someone asks you that question: ‘There’s a lot of speculation that you’re gonna be fired. Do you have an opinion?’” Turner said. “Your opinion is, ‘Yeah, it’s part of the business.’ There’s always a lot of speculation. We can’t sit around worrying about it.”

Near the end of his run in San Diego, Turner used to joke with the team’s public relations director that as soon as his news conference was finished, he wanted it promptly scrubbed from his memory.

“You know in ‘Men in Black,’ that flasher they have where they can flash and you don’t remember anything? I used to tell them after my media thing, just get that ‘Men in Black’ flasher and flash me so I can go do my stuff.”

There’s also the matter of getting the team ready to play, which comes with its own challenges, especially as the losses pile up and any dreams of a miracle run to the playoffs fade away.

“You’re always telling your players, ‘Be a pro, be a pro, be a pro,’” Koetter said.

Added Pagano: “If it goes south, and it looks like ‘Oh, he’s lost the locker room,’ and that comes out and you don’t do anything to change it? Then there’s a good chance you’re gone.

“But like I always said, we all know what we signed up for.”

The last game

Turner knew it was over before his last game in Oakland. It was New Year’s Eve 2005. After a 30-21 loss to the Giants — the Raiders’ sixth in a row — he and his wife, Nancy, had some friends over to the house.

“I don’t think I was stressed,” he said. “I was eager to leave.”

Frazier’s last game with the Vikings was a 14-13 victory over the Lions, a divisional win that left him optimistic ownership could be convinced to let him stay another year. He went out for dinner with his family that night, trying not to stress about what might happen the following morning.

“It’s definitely in the back of your mind,” he says. “What’s tomorrow going to be like?

“We had gone to the playoffs the year before. And then we took a step back, and there were circumstances that allowed that to happen. I felt like I was growing as a head coach, and I could see what we needed to do to get back to the playoffs.”

Most know it’s coming, or at least have a hunch. It’s the ones who are left stunned that Lewis can’t figure out.

He was the defensive coordinator for a Ravens team in 1998 that dropped three of its final four. After it was over, coach Ted Marchibroda and his staff were let go.

“It’s weird because we all kind of expected it, but there were coaches that were shocked,” Lewis said, laughing. “And I was like, ‘What season were you just in?’ That’s the hilarious part. There was one coach who had all his binders normally on his shelves, and the binders that were there were completely empty. Most coaches can figure it out. You don’t wanna be the one hanging around, cleaning your s— out.”

Black Monday

Romeo Crennel, fired in Cleveland on Black Monday in 2008, then in Kansas City in 2012, said most of the time the coach’s fate has already been decided when he pulls into the team facility a day after the season finale.

“They usually don’t tell you until Black Monday,” Crennel says, “and you’re not given much of a chance to make a case.”

He had a feeling he was done in Cleveland when he got word that the team’s owner at the time, Randy Lerner, was in town a day early. “That threw up some flags, because he was usually in town on Tuesday,” Crennel remembers.

Lerner came down to his office and delivered the news. “I figured I should probably leave the office, which I did, and I depended on my secretary to help get the office in order. Because, you know, you got to get everything cleaned out.”

Turner knew it was over in Oakland, but he also knew he’d have to wait.

“Al (Davis) wasn’t an early guy,” he said of the Raiders longtime owner. So Turner held one final team meeting, telling the players he looked forward to seeing them on the opposite sideline.

Finally, the boss summoned him.

“I met with Al and it was quick. It was pretty simple. We talked for five minutes and he said he was going in another direction. It was honestly welcomed … we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things and it wasn’t going to work.”

His exit in San Diego seven years later was tougher. The Chargers ripped off three straight AFC West titles to start his tenure, advancing once to the conference championship game. Then they missed the playoffs three years in a row. Turner survived a touch-and-go Black Monday in 2011 after finishing 8-8; a year later, after a 7-9 season, his gut told him it was over.

“We were 59-43 over six years. And it wasn’t enough, because we didn’t win a Super Bowl, and not making the playoffs the last three years affected me … the last year, we really struggled during the middle of the year (at one point, the Chargers lost seven of eight). So I think it was apparent to everyone that it would be unusual if they didn’t make the change.”

After owner Dean Spanos fired Turner, he allowed him to hold one last team meeting. The players gave him a standing ovation.

“That was very appreciated,” Turner said.

Toward the end of his run in Minnesota, Frazier was left without answers, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Driving home from the team facility after a Friday practice with two games left in the 2013 season, he called up Vikings ownership to address the rumors directly. “Where do you stand?” he remembers asking Zygi and Mark Wilf. “We want to finish this, and I want to be able to stand in front of the guys and talk with confidence.”

But the Wilfs dodged the question, Frazier said. They told him to keep coaching hard and they’d see where they were at the end of the season.

Two weeks later, he was out of a job.

“They wanted to go — the famous cliché — in a different direction,” he said. “And that was that.”

Frazier went home to “lick his wounds,” and that’s when his phone started ringing. One player after another, plenty of them emotional. Frazier had been an NFL cornerback himself, and to his players, he’d been a friend and a father figure.

“Some of the guys got really, really emotional,” he said. “That part was hard. That was really hard.”

The ownership factor

Turner’s first firing came in Washington, seven years into his tenure, when the club’s fresh-faced new owner, Dan Snyder, canned him with three games left in the 2000 season. Turner had taken the team to the divisional round of the playoffs the year before, but after working under Snyder for 19 months, he was completely over it.

“When it comes to people making decisions about your future,” Turner says now, “I think it’s important to always consider the source.”

And in some Black Monday calls, that source is a team owner who is either naïve or overly involved, or worse: both.

“I never felt anything negative (about being fired in Washington) because I knew what was going on behind the scenes,” Turner said. “It was an impossible situation and it proved to be that for another 20 years.”

Snyder had pushed to sign a number of aging, veteran free agents well past their prime — Deion Sanders, Bruce Smith, Mark Carrier, Jeff George, Adrian Murrell — and as the league’s first team to climb past $100 million in payroll, expectations soared. Of those personnel decisions, Turner says, “I’ll be nice, we had our differences along the way … our relationship was deteriorating.”

Same as it is with first-time coaches, first-time owners experience a learning curve. And as the price of franchises continues to skyrocket, fewer and fewer arrive with any sort of football background.

That hurts them, Lewis said. This is an entirely unique business.

“They’ve been very successful in other walks of life, and their ability to afford an NFL squad came in a different way,” he said. “They expect results like that all the time. And they really believe all these pieces are interchangeable, which as we know, they’re not. You can’t just plug and play (a head coach) like you’re changing out a department head.”

Pagano has noticed a thinning patience among owners the last few years, especially the newer ones, who are less likely to give a coach the requisite time it takes to reshape a roster and change the direction of the team.

“Shoot, anymore, it could be a year in, two years in, the way people react and respond to the narrative out there,” he said. “When pundits and critics start going after you, these owners — not all of them, but a majority of them — start to listen to that stuff.”

Turner, who worked for two owners he didn’t get along with in Snyder and Davis, added this: “When you’re the head coach, unfortunately, you can’t fire the owner. A lot of these owners would be fired if you could. I’ve been with, like, five different first-time owners. And it’s comical, they make the same mistakes … and it seems it takes them a while to learn, too.”

Of those tense conversations toward the end of his stints with both teams, Turner said: “Sometimes if you’re too honest, it doesn’t help the relationship.”

Frazier has some advice for interim coaches hoping to land the full-time gig: Don’t take it. He served as the interim in Minnesota before being hired on full-time, and he doesn’t believe it sets a coach up for long-term success. “When you are the interim, they still somewhat see you as part of the previous regime,” Frazier said. “You’re still trying to get some of that stink off of you … you need to be able to start fresh and get your people in different areas.”

After he was fired, Frazier took comfort in knowing he’d be a better head coach the second time around, confident that he’d get another chance. That helped ease the pain.

That chance still hasn’t come.

“Lo and behold, that was 10 years ago,” Frazier says. “It’s a lot tougher than I thought it would be to get that opportunity.”

Most recently, he was the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator for the Bills. Last March, he decided to take a “sabbatical” — his word — after 35 straight years in the profession. In a recent conversation, he said he’s not retired, he’s not quitting and he wasn’t fired in Buffalo.

And he still wants the opportunity to lead a team.

“I hope there is an owner out there that is looking for an experienced former head coach who has had success in this league as a coordinator and a guy who led a team to the playoffs,” he said.

The pain of his first Black Monday firing still lodged in the back of his mind, Frazier wants another shot, with hopes a second head-coaching stint has a different ending than so many do.

(Illustration: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic; photos: Kirk Irwin, Rich Schultz, Michael Reaves, Nick Cammett / Diamond Images / Getty Images)

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The coaches of Jodhpur-Bhopal passenger train derail near Kota Junction, rescue operations underway

Sabir Ansary — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 02:35:55 +0000

The coaches of the Jodhpur Bhopal Express derailed near Kota Junction on Friday evening and rescue operations are underway. Know more about it…

Jodhpur-Bhopal Express coaches derailed

New Delhi: Several railway accidents have been reported in the past year, most of which involved derailments. Last year, the Coromandel Express had derailed near Bahanaga Baazar station in Balasore, Odisha and subsequently collided with the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, which also derailed; This accident killed more than 230 people and injured about 900. As the new year 2024 has started, unfortunately a case of train derailment has occurred and was reported near Kota Junction on Friday evening i.e. January 5, 2024. Two coaches of the Jodhpur-Bhopal Passenger Train have derailed and rescue operations have been launched. on our way…

Train derailment near Kota Junction, no casualties reported

As reported earlier, two coaches of a Bhopal-bound passenger train derailed near Kota Junction on Friday evening, officials said. According to officials, the coaches of the Jodhpur-Bhopal passenger train derailed and no casualties have been reported yet. “No casualties have been reported. Rescue operations are underway,” she added. Further details are awaited.

Four killed when train caught fire in Bangladesh

In another news report, four people were killed after the Benapole Express Train, an intercity train, caught fire in Gopibagh, Bangladesh, as reported by the Dhaka Tribune. According to Dhaka Tribune, this accident took place around 9:05 PM on Friday, i.e. January 5, 2024, and ‘miscreants’ set fire to at least five train compartments. The blaze reportedly required seven firefighting units, but the victims could not yet be identified. Following the incident, Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operations) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mahid Uddin claimed that the Benapole Express train fire was a “planned attack”. The incident happened just two days before the general elections in Bangladesh.

(Input from ANI)

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