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Bucs To Start Jameis
Brother Of
Condoleeza Rice Says
Winston Over Ryan
Cowboys WR
She’s ‘Not Ready To Coach’
Fitzpatrick Vs. 49ers
Michael
The Cleveland Browns
The Tampa Bay Bucca- neers will start star quarter- back Jameis Winston Sunday against the San Fran- cisco 49ers. The game starts at 1 p.m. on FOX.
Winston stepped in Sun- day in the third quarter against the New York Giants after Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three interceptions, in- cluding a pick-six. Winston finished the game 12-of-16 for 199 passing yards, two touch- downs and an interception. The Bucs lost to the Giants 38-35.
It's the fourth quarterback change the Bucs have made this year, including when Winston served a three- game suspension to start the season for a violation of the
JAMEIS WINSTON
NFL's personal conduct pol- icy, stemming from an al- leged groping incident involving a female Uber driver in Arizona in 2016.
Coach Dirk Koetter ac- knowledged that the constant change has been disruptive for both quarterbacks.
MICHAEL GALLUP
The mood in the Dallas Cowboys’ locker room follow- ing the team’s win over Atlanta on Sunday was not what you would have expected.
Some sad news swept the locker room as a family mem- ber informed Cowboys wide re- ceiver Michael Gallup that his brother had died. It is being reported that the brother com- mitted suicide.
Other reporters described the atmosphere as somber.
Gallup, 21, is in his rookie season after being drafted in the third round out of Colorado State. He is from the Atlanta area and said he was expecting two brothers as well as friends and former coaches to attend the game. He is the youngest of eight children, six of whom were adopted.
Alex Smith Will Undergo Surgery For Broken Tibia, Fibula
ALEX SMITH
The bad injury news about Alex Smith has been con- firmed.
Redskins head coach Jay Gruden said after Washing- ton’s 23-21 loss to Houston on Sunday that Smith suffered a broken tibia and fibula and will undergo surgery.
Smith was tackled on a sack in the third quarter and had his leg visibly broken. He was in clear pain and had to be carted off the field with his leg in a cast.
Smith, 34, signed a 4-year, $94M contract with Washing- ton that includes $71M guaran- teed. While he will be out for the rest of the season, he may be able to recover and rehab in time to play next season.
CONDOLEEZA RICE
“BTW — I’m not ready to coach but I would like to call a play or two next season if the Browns need ideas! And at no time will I call for a ‘prevent defense.’”
Cleveland general manager John Dorsey said Sunday that the Browns had not dis- cussed Rice as a candidate.
Gallup Dies
Condoleeza Rice will not be the next coach of the Cleve- land Browns football team. The former Secretary of State responded to the ESPN story that positioned her for an in- terview with the struggling NFL team with a Facebook post by noting, “I’m not ready to coach.”
“On a more serious note, I do hope that the NFL will start to bring women into the coaching profession as posi- tion coaches and eventually coordinators and head coaches,” she wrote. “One doesn’t have to play the game to understand it and motivate players. But experience counts — and it is time to develop a pool of experienced women coaches.
The End Is Getting
Robert Kraft Is Optimistic That Colin Kaepernick Will Return To The NFL
ROBERT KRAFT AND COLIN KAEPERNICK
Close For Head
Coach Dirk Koetter
Tampa Bay’s season is moving along in disappointing fashion. And so is the Bucca- neers career of head coach Dirk Koetter.
Koetter has brought the team back to a state of medi- ocrity. Yes, the hope of finally becoming a team that oppo- nents respected arrived briefly but was short-lived following his first season as head coach in 2016 when they finished 9- 7.
We all remember the off- season that followed. It was filled with expectations and high hopes that 2017 was fi- nally the year they truly turn things around and reach the playoffs.
That never happened.
Instead we saw a lack of adjustments made throughout games leading to losses, self- ish playcalling, lack of answers following losses (which con- tinue today), inability to sepa- rate himself from his friend and former defensive coordi- nator Mike Smith, keeping franchise quarterback Jameis Winston in games despite a shoulder injury until that shoulder was injured some more weeks later, and on and on and on. Let us also not forget the reports of a rift between Winston and Koet- ter last season.
Front office executives for
DIRK KOETTER
the Buccaneers have often left games disappointed, wonder- ing how there can be so much talent on the field yet have a losing record along with a loser mentality. The air has been deflated out of the Buc- caneers locker room and the post-game scene in there is no different.
With every “I don’t have an answer” response from the coach, any air that may be left leaks more and more. What exactly is he showing players there, especially the rookies coming in. It’s just fine to not have answers? To not find a solution?
So what happens next? For now, what happens next is that the Buccaneers take on the 49ers Sunday. However, the near future may be much different and that is a future where the Buccaneers organi- zation finds themselves inter- viewing head coaching candidates in January.
That future can’t come soon enough.
It’s been over two years since Colin Kaepernick kneeled during NFL games to enact social and racial change in America.
Since that time, the for- mer San Francisco 49er re- mained unsigned with hopes of one day playing in the league again.
Owners and other NFL personnel have tip-toed around the actual reason why Kaepernick remains con- tract-less.
In a story by the New York Times, a high-profile team owner expressed his op- timism yet no explanation.
Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots’ owner, said he’s hopeful that Kaeper- nick will hit the turf in the near future. “Let me say this: I would very much like to see him in the league,” he curtly said. Kraft also addressed a report that Kaepernick would sign with the Pats, but
when asked to elaborate, the billionaire admitted, “I’m done talking about it” after claiming it was simply a rumor started within Kaepernick’s legal team.
While the Times’ article partly sought to produce a concrete answer on Kaeper- nick’s situation, the main focus centered on Eric Win- ston, the NFL Players Asso- ciation (NFLPA) president and his fight for the league’s players and fair treatment.
Los Angeles Rams’ An- drew Whitworth touched on the frustrations the ath- letes currently face. “Guys are fed up,” he said. “The game right now — as strong as it is, as much money as is being made, and you’ve got a com- missioner out there making the kind of money he’s mak- ing, guys are getting frus- trated with how teams treat players in general sometimes. They’re getting tired of it.”
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