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Rodger Sherman

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTW, this is my big weekly football roundup. It’s also got entries about Alabama, Arch, trick plays and weird rules. And you can get it in your inbox every Monday for free

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 2

The greatest coach in NFL history took a college job. The idea was that his schematic superiority and legendary discipline would instantly outclass unsophisticated opponents in a second-tier sport.

and then...
he lost his first game...
BY THIRTY FOUR POINTS

They hired Bill Belichick for THIS?!?!?

Is this your GOAT? (Plus, Arch Manning, calling Paul Finebaum, and the highlight that made me change my national championship pick.)

rodgersherman.substack.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 34m

Now that we are a few days removed from this play, it’s time for my widely reviled, but correct take that most of these pre-goal line fumbles should be ruled illegal forward passes and result in a 5-yard penalty instead of a turnover. Especially this one, he clearly threw it forward

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 55m

After zaprudering the Emari Demercado goal line fumble I think he actually broke the plane before losing the ball. The corrupt and very dishonest mainstream media won't tell you this.

Emari Demercado fumbling at the goal line in Week 5

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1h

Unclear to file this under “Bill Belichick likes trying to see if he can get away with rules violations,” “Bill Belichick didnt figure out the rules of college football before becoming a college football coach,” or “Bill Belichick has no idea what’s going on with recruiting”

Bruce Feldman @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social · 13h

SOURCE: UNC CB coach suspended in relation to extra benefits allegations: www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

UNC CB coach suspended in relation to extra benefits allegations: Source

www.nytimes.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10h

I like how all the Tigers fans around this guy are pumped for him. The type of opposing fan who is so ridiculous and charming that they win you over by the end of the game

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11h

LARGE BASEBALL MAN!!!!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11h

I need Cal Raleigh to hit a second home run directly to this man to see how committed he is to the bit

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 11h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15h

……. Maybe I am showing my ignorance of large swaths of sports media, but were people hyping this up? The vast majority of college football people seemed to clue onto it being a disaster from the start

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17h

just checking out Memphis’ roster

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17h

What sort of Softball Names are you cooking up for this book

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19h

Did they travel by boat?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20h

did you remember to snag this in the Fantasy Things draft?!?!?!?!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20h

yeah lol at how they got access to do a documentary which got WAY MORE INTERESTING AFTER THEY AGREED TO DO IT and that's why they have to stop filming

James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 20h

I'm not saying anything new, but we've got to stop referring to these kinds of sports content projects as "documentaries."

This UNC incident is just further proof that almost all of them are PR plays taking on a form similar to documentaries.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20h

RELEASE THE FOOTAGE YOU ALREADY SHOT

I NEED IT LIKE I NEED AIR

Inside Carolina @insidecarolina.bsky.social · 20h

UNC, Hulu Not Moving Forward With Season Documentary

North Carolina announced in August that it would do a season-long documentary to showcase the team.

dlvr.it

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21h

PSA

With the start of Wednesday night college football tomorrow and Tuesday night college football next week, today is the last day without an NFL or Division I college football game until Wednesday, November 26th, 51 days from now

Please handle any errands/finish any TV shows as needed

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you to this magnificent and very ugly car for getting me to 62 college football games in 4 months

Me, in bad need of a shave and a haircut, in front of a tan Kia Soul

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22h

holy crap TruMedia is gonna win the Super Bowl

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22h

The MLS started out playing in football stadiums and now there’s a whole league playing football in their soccer stadiums. How the turns tabled

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

ALSO IN THIS WEEKS NFL NEWSLETTER

—a brief history of SkyCam interference
—the Eagles need to do Eagles things
—why MVP candidates should have awful backups

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

I truly don’t think I have ever seen a team lose a football game like the Arizona Cardinals lost a football game on Sunday. Multiple uniquely destructive plays where they simply had to act normal but instead gave the other team free points and possessions

A masterclass in collapsing

I've never seen a team make this many inexplicable, catastrophic, unforced errors. Plus! SKYCAM DRAMA, an identity crisis in Philly, and more.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

A masterclass in collapsing

I've never seen a team make this many inexplicable, catastrophic, unforced errors. Plus! SKYCAM DRAMA, an identity crisis in Philly, and more.

open.substack.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

The Chiefs going 12-0 in one-score games last year and 0-3 this year is a clear omen the gods have abandoned them. It should be treated the same way ancient peoples treated solar eclipses and floods. They must sacrifice Harrison Butker at sunrise to rid themselves of evil

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

Why is there anything weird going on with the Las Vegas Raiders’ run game and offensive line play right now

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

Like Belichick literally just needed to trust some of his semi-dumb friends instead of his dumbest friends, his children, and his dumbest friends’ children

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

One funny subplot to the Belichick UNC disaster is that two of his former buddies working as college assistants (Ohio State DC Matt Patricia and Ole Miss QB coach Joe Judge) are legitimately doing incredible work right now

(despite me repeatedly saying they would be disasters)

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

Lombardi spent his first offseason recruiting a QB transfer he immediately decided he didn’t want anymore leading to a fight over NIL money and then had to go get a new QB after spring ball. The evaluation and tactical brilliance of a superior NFL mind

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

The best part here are the parents saying “Bill’s great at teaching one on one, the program sucks but he’s great at that” www.wral.com/sports/belic...

Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

www.wral.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

This is worse than the CFL changing the rouge

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

I have discovered a potential problem with throwing no-look passes

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