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Marshawn Lynch, Richard Sherman Among Investors In New Football League
RICHARD SHERMAN AND MARSHAWN LYNCH
Eric Bieniemy Has Interviews For Every Head Coach Opening Except This One
ERIC BIENIEMY
Kansas City Chiefs offen- sive coordinator Eric Bie- niemy is one of the hottest names on the coaching mar- ket. There are six teams look- ing to hire head coaches, and all of them either have or will talk to Bieniemy — with one notable exception.
The Houston Texans are the only team with a head coaching vacancy that has not asked the Chiefs for permis- sion to speak to Bieniemy. It does not appear they have any plans to either.
It’s certainly an interesting decision on Houston’s part. The Texans have a quarterback in Deshaun Watson whose game bears at least some simi- larities to Patrick Ma- homes’.
Doc Rivers On Storming
Fan Controlled Football is a unique new concept that will likely be met with a great deal of skepticism, but the league already has several big names endorsing it.
One former NFL player and two current players own three of the four FCF teams. Marshawn Lynch is a co- owner of the “Beasts,” and he is joined by WNBA star Renee Montgomery. All- Pro cornerback Richard Sherman and Los Angeles Chargers running back
Austin Ekeler also own teams. The fourth team is owned by rapper Quavo.
On the player side, FCF has already landed some star power as well. Johnny Manziel announced recently that he is joining the 7-on-7 league.
FCF games will be 7-on-7 format on a 50-yard field in an Atlanta-area complex. The league will play a six-week schedule beginning in Febru- ary, and games will be streamed live on Twitch.
As the dust was clearing amid the chaos of President Donald Trump’s support- ing storming the U.S. Capitol, Philadelphia 76ershead coach Doc Rivers asked a pointed question while speaking with reporters Wednesday.
Rivers, speaking ahead of Wednesday’s game against the Washington Wizards, wanted to know what would have happened if it was a mob of Black people breaching the Capitol, breaking windows and grappling with police.
It’s pretty disturbing, obvi- ously, sad. But what it’s not is — I keep hearing ‘this attack on democracy,’ it’s not. Democracy will prevail. It al- ways does. It shows a lot though. When you saw the protests in summer, you saw the riots or more the police and the national guard and the army. And then you see this and you saw nothing. It basically proves the point about a privileged life in a lot of ways.
I’ll say it because I don’t think a lot of people want to, could you imagine today if
DOC RIVERS
those were all Black people storming the Capitol and what would’ve happened? So that to me is a picture that’s worth 1,000 words for all of us to see and probably something for us to reckon with again. No police dogs turned on people, no billy clubs hitting people, people peacefully being es- corted out of the Capitol. So it shows that you can disperse a crowd peacefully, I guess, would be the one thing.
But it’s a sad day in a lot of ways, not good for our coun- try, more across the borders, that people see this. But it’s part of what we are and so we have to solve it.
Of U.S. Capitol: 'Could You
Imagine Today, If Those
Were All Black People?'
Seahawks’ Jamal Adams
Trevor Lawrence
On Pro-Trump Mob’s
Thanks Clemson In Video Declaring For Draft
Storming Of U.S. Capitol:
‘It’s Disgusting’
Preparing for a playoff game and a shot at the Super Bowl didn’t prevent some Seahawks from noticing the events Wednesday in Wash- ington, D.C., where a mob of Donald Trump supporters rushed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the pres- idential election.
Three veteran Seahawks who spoke to the media via Zoom had strong reactions.
“It’s disgusting,” said safety Jamal Adams, who has raised a fist in the air dur- ing the national anthem all season. “It’s really just expos- ing what’s been out there.”
Adams stopped there, saying he wanted to keep his focus on Saturday’s wild-card playoff game against the Rams but added, “We’ll han- dle the rest when the time is right. But it’s disgusting.”
Quarterback Russell
JAMAL ADAMS
Wilson said because of meet- ings he had looked at his phone only once all day and did not have a full accounting of the events.
“Just kind of seems like a madhouse down in DC,” Wil- son said. “I don’t know much more than that. But what I do know is, I do know it’s a criti- cal part to our change that we need to make in America. I think it starts with love at the center of it all.”
TREVOR LAWRENCE
There was virtually no chance of Trevor Lawrence returning to Clemson next sea- son with his draft stock as high as it can get, but the quarter- back made his decision official on Wednesday.
Lawrence shared a video on Twitter in which he thanked his teammates, coaches and fans for his three years at Clemson.
There was some talk earlier in the year of Lawrence po- tentially returning to Clemson for his senior season, but that never seemed realistic. The Jacksonville Jaguars are al- most certainly going to take Lawrence first overall in the draft, so he would only risk hurting his stock if he re- mained in college.
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