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Regardless today’s formula wasn’t it. 15 is 2017-level bad 10/4/20, 10:38 PM
HIS PIECE:
-GREAT PIECE LAST WEEK ON 49ERS - COWBOYS
Since June 1, the Philadelphia Eagles have had:
• Three starting left tackles: Andre Dillard, Jason Peters and Jordan Mailata, who started his first NFL game Sunday night;
• Three left guards: Isaac Seumalo, Matt Pryor and Nate Herbig, who started his first NFL game at left guard Sunday night;
• One center: Jason Kelce, who has been in Philadelphia almost as long as the Liberty Bell;
• Four right guards: Brandon Brooks, Jason Peters, Nate Herbig and Matt Pryor, who started his first NFL game at right guard Sunday night;
• And two right tackles: Lane Johnson and Jack Driscoll, who started his first NFL game in Week 1 when Johnson was nicked.
The five Eagle starters Sunday night at the 49ers arrived in Philadelphia, from left to right, as the 233rd pick in the 2018 draft (Mailata), undrafted (Herbig), 191st pick in 2011 (Kelce), 206th pick in 2018 (Pryor), and fourth in 2013 (Johnson).
Dillard (biceps), Brooks (Achilles), Peters (toe) and Seumalo (knee) are on injured-reserve.
It’s NFL Week 4.
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Kyle Shanahans’ record as the HC of the #49ers:5-20 without Jimmy G as the starting QB.
22-6 WITH Jimmy G as the starting QB.
Goat of the Week
Nick Mullens, quarterback, San Francisco. It’s an unenviable spot, being a backup quarterback leading a banged-up team on prime-time television. For the majority of the game, Mullens was more than adequate in an offense that was heavily reliant on short passes and the running game. But his two fourth-quarter mistakes were glaring. First was a fumble that led to the Eagles’ go-ahead score. And Mullens followed up that mistake with the game-ender, an inexplicable throw straight into the arms of linebacker Alex Singleton, who took the easiest interception of his life right into the end zone. Mullens was yanked on the next drive in favor of C.J. Beathard.
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NFL convenes conference call of all owners, coaches, General Mangers, with the expectation that the league will "read the riot act" over pandemic protocol compliance wp.me/pbBqYq-bFEtell you why the NFL hopes it doesn’t have to add a Week 18 and 19. If I had a dime for everyone who’s emailed or tweeted me with the why-not-just-push-postponed-games-to-January idea, well, I’d have about $3.10. The short answer is it might happen. The smart answer is this: There’s no good reason to decide that until you have to. And the NFL wants to avoid it if at all possible—and not just because it would push the Super Bowl back a week or two. (In February, Tampa, the Super site, is open. Wide open.)
Let’s say you have five or six games to make up at the end of the season. Say three teams have to make up two games each, and the NFL adds a Week 18 (Jan. 10) and Week 19 (Jan. 17), to ensure each team plays a 16-game regular season. That could mean the top seeds in each conference would play their final regular-season games on Jan. 3, and their divisional playoff game on Jan. 30 or 31. How fair would it be for the team that earned the bye to sit for a month before playing a playoff game? To me, it’s far better for two or three teams to play 14 or 15 games than to put your highest-achieving teams at the disadvantage of sitting for a month, then playing its most important game of the year.
But the overriding point is there might be three or four games with little meaning left to play at the end of the year. You just don’t know what you’ll face as this season runs on, so decide when you have to.
MLB Odds
Exact World Series Matchup (From most likely to least likely)
New York Yankees vs Los Angeles Dodgers 4/1
Tampa Bay Rays vs Los Angeles Dodgers 9/2
Oakland Athletics vs Los Angeles Dodgers 15/2
Houston Astros vs Los Angeles Dodgers 8/1
New York Yankees vs Atlanta Braves 10/1
Tampa Bay Rays vs Atlanta Braves 11/1
New York Yankees vs San Diego Padres 12/1
Tampa Bay Rays vs San Diego Padres 25/2
Oakland Athletics vs Atlanta Braves 18/1
Houston Astros vs Atlanta Braves 20/1
Oakland Athletics vs San Diego Padres 20/1
Houston Astros vs San Diego Padres 22/1
New York Yankees vs Miami Marlins 25/1
Tampa Bay Rays vs Miami Marlins 25/1
Oakland Athletics vs Miami Marlins 40/1
Houston Astros vs Miami Marlins 50/1
Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics vs Los Angeles Dodgers 15/2
Oakland Athletics vs Atlanta Braves 18/1
Oakland Athletics vs San Diego Padres 20/1
Oakland Athletics vs Miami Marlins 40/1
Seven MLB Central Division teams made the 16-team playoff bracket: Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland and Minnesota.
All seven lost their opening series.
Won-lost record of the seven Central teams: 2-14.
The nine East teams and West teams, combined, went 16-4.
With the latest news, from our Jared Weiss, that Myles Turner is unhappy and wants out of Indiana, the Warriors should be on the phone with Pacers president Kevin Pritchard. Acquiring Turner would be a reasonable coup if the Warriors can get him for a reasonable price.
Turner won’t be 25 until March and he’s 6-foot-11 and a career 35.7 percent shooter from 3. Wonder what’s that worth to Bob Myers.
It would probably take the No. 2 pick. My best guess is the Warriors would prefer to make a move like that without giving up the pick. But in a draft no one seems to believe in, Turner could end up better than anything the Warriors would get. Still, this draft has some intriguing upside at No. 2 despite all the talk about this being a weak group. With that said, the inability to kick the tires on these prospects during the pandemic makes it much easier to give up the pick. That’s especially true for the Warriors, who have the Timberwolves’ 2021 first-round pick (protected 1-3).
The Pacers would have to listen to anything involving a high draft pick because they don’t have a first-round pick this year. And if the Pacers are coming apart — first they fired Nate McMillan, then reports surfaced of Victor Oladipo wanting out — swapping expensive vets for young talent is the way to go. If Ethan Strauss is right and Pacers owner Herb Simon has taken a financial hitfrom the closing of his malls, then Indiana might be willing to part with Turner instead of remaining locked into the remaining $54 million he has due (not counting the $6 million in unlikely-to-be-earned incentives).
To be sure, his salary isn’t an exorbitant price by any means. But Turner’s career averages of 12.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.1 blocks don’t knock anyone’s socks off. So maybe his production feels replaceable.
From the Warriors’ end, there is a lot about Turner to like. He can shoot. He can get the ball below the free-throw line and get a basket. He’s a good rim protector. His field-goal percentage has declined the last couple of years. He isn’t a hub-of-the-offense type of big man the Warriors love, who gets the ball at the high post and turns into a passer. But that is probably good news because it means he doesn’t quite duplicate Draymond Green.
Turner could feasibly start at center for the Warriors next to Green because he can be the stretch-five or the roll man or even the low-post option in the right matchups. Plus, with Turner’s skill set, how much better could he be in the Warriors’ motion offense next to the greatest shooters? Again, he’s 24.
Turner isn’t the sexy offseason pickup. He wouldn’t have the Bay Area celebrating like Giannis Antetokounmpo or Joel Embiid. But there is definitely more feasibility to the Turner possibility as opposed to trading for a superstar. Just a note: He went to Texas, like a certain other big acquisition the Warriors had recently.
To land Turner, the Warriors would probably have to get creative, otherwise they’d be severely inflating their payroll. They could trade Turner for the pick and some pieces (such as Kevon Looney) and the Pacers could get a trade exception for the difference.
A point: The Warriors’ current trade exception isn’t enough — likely not for the Pacers to want in exchange and technically not enough to take Turner straight into it. Myles is due a $17.5 million salary next season. But the Warriors’ TPE is for $17.2 million. And you can’t add salaries to enlarge an exception — whomever they take into the exception has to make that amount or less.
Here is a deal the Warriors could do: Turner and T.J. Warren from Indiana for Andrew Wiggins. But if the Warriors do that, they’d probably want to keep the No. 2 pick and replace Wiggins with a young wing. I don’t think they are huge fans of Warren, so they’d want to get another wing in the draft.
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