one. You know things go wrong for an NFL coach when opposing players make fun of his horrible performance.
A few hours before the Giants ended up firing coach Joe Judge on Monday afternoon, Aaron Rodgers began to poke fun at Judge’s mind-blowing decision to hit a stealthy QB at third-and-9 from his team’s five-yard line at the Sunday game. final regular season loss to Washington.
During his weekly appearance at the Pat McAfee ShowRodgers was asked if the Chargers and Raiders should have played for a tie Sunday night, which would have put both teams in the playoffs. While answering that question and talking about the Raiders kicking a game-winning field goal in overtime, Rodgers pulled Judge out of nowhere and fired a stray shot.
“This idea that he wouldn’t have been kicked because he could have been blocked. Look, you play to win the game. Nobody wants to be a part of it. Nobody wants to be a part of kneeling down to take a draw. I’d lose my mind You know what would make me lose my mind almost as much as that? Third and 9 at minus 5. Let’s get in on the goal line staff and make a tip off from QB ”.
Rodgers continued to send a message to his own coach, Matt Lafluer.
“Call that one, Matt, and see what happens. That’s not flying, I promise ”.
On a side note, here’s Dan Orlovsky’s breakdown of the Giants’ pathetic play that Rodgers references in the clip above.
3. Monday’s Georgia-Alabama national title game drew 22.6 million viewers. It was the second lowest-rated national title game ever. The lowest was last year, in the middle of the pandemic.
I think there are some factors here. The two biggest are that people have Alabama fatigue and the game must be played sooner. The semi-final tiebreaker must be brought forward one week and the national title game must be played on New Years Day at 8 p.m.
There were the 10 most-watched NFL games of the 2021 regular season.
- Las Vegas Raiders vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 12, CBS) – 40.8 million
- Dallas Cowboys vs Kansas City Chiefs (Week 11, Fox) – 28.7 million
- Cleveland Browns vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 16, Fox + NFLN) – 28.6 million
- Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions (Week 12, FOX) – 28.2 million
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. New England Patriots (Week 4, NBC) – 27.2 million
- Arizona Cardinals vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 17, Fox) – 26.8 million
- Los Angeles Rams vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 12, Fox) – 25.2 million
- Dallas Cowboys vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Home, NBC) – 25.2 million
- Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs (Week 9, Fox) – 25.0 million
- Dallas Cowboys vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Week 2, CBS) – 25.0 million
Four. Grizzlies star Ja Morant led his team to a big win over the Warriors on Tuesday night. He also messaged a little boy in the stands who was wearing a Steph Curry t-shirt.
5. Suns star Devin Booker had a major problem with the Raptors mascot, the only person in the arena during last night’s game.
6. This week SI Media Podcast, which launched Thursday afternoon, is a roundtable edition with Al Michaels and Tom Rinaldi on the career of John Madden.
Michaels, who worked with Madden for seven seasons, and Rinaldi, who was the director of the recent Fox Sports documentary on Madden, share behind-the-scenes stories, give us insight into Madden’s personality, and discuss some of the memorable relationships Madden had. throughout his career.
It covers everything from Madden’s fear of flying the Madden Cruiser to his association with Pat Summerall and much more.
Following Michaels and Rinaldi is the weekly segment “Traina Thoughts” with Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY TV in New York. This week, Sal and I talked about her experience with COVID-19, her reaction to a Wizards announcer who made an innocent mistake, Kirk Herbstreit’s recent controversial comments, and the best things we saw over the holidays.
You can listen to the podcast below or download it at Apple, Spotify Y stapler.
You can also see the SI Media Podcast in Youtube.
7. RANDOM VIDEO OF THE DAY: On this date in 2006, Michael Scott burned his foot while cooking bacon on his George Foreman grill.
Be sure to catch up with previous editions of Traina Thoughts and take a look at the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast Presented by Jimmy Traina at Apple, Spotify or stapler. You can also follow Jimmy on Twitter Y Instagram.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.