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Monday Notes

Stats & early leans coming tonight/tomorrow. Couple of quick things for now:

It turns out Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio told Maurice Jones-Drew to take a knee at the one yard line with under two minutes remaining against the Jets Sunday, leading to a game winning field goal by Josh Scobee. Jones-Drew was cool enough to apologize anyway:

“Sorry to my fantasy owners,” said Jones-Drew of stopping at the Jets’ 1-yard line with 1:48 left. “They told me to get as close as I can and take a knee.”

Coach Jack Del Rio explained his unusual strategy, which ultimately left Scobee with a point-blank kick from the middle of the field, “We’ve just got to make an extra point. I don’t want to give them a chance to return the kick, hit a fluke play or anything like that.

“I decided that as soon as we got down there, and the guys handled it real well.”

The win locked up the Hampton Cup for the Jaguars for the second time in a row. Who knew this was a rivalry game?

Following up with Joe Posnanski, the Chiefs/Raiders game was underwhelming. Shane Lechler punted 11 times for the Raiders, which sounds like it should be some kind of record, but isn’t.

Whatever the word, it precisely describes the feeling I have now after watching the remarkably bad Chiefs-Raiders football game. The Chiefs won the game 16-10, and in many ways the game had absolutely everything you could want from a bad football game. The Raiders went 2-of-16 on third down and they had the BETTER third-down conversion ratio (the Chiefs converted one of 15). There were 17 punts, five turnovers, 15 penalties, two missed field goals, three quarterbacks crashing into running backs, one quarterback who got yanked, another who got yelled at on numerous occasions, numerous easily-identifiable swear words shouted by coaches, a struggling officiating crew* and, quite literally, countless dropped passes.

Lastly, there’s this old youtube clip of Texans WR David Anderson impersonating Ron Jaworski. “He talks in three word sentences. He has like a pause which you’d think would be a period or a comma which really makes no sense.”