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1. Dak, Zeke and Playoff Speed
Around the NFL, there is abundant account for Dallas rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott. There is additionally an account for the Dallas advanced appointment that drafted them.
But this is a altered time of year, and those coaches and front-office admiral who accepted the Cowboys are waiting, about like accouchement on Christmas Eve, to see how the two rookies handle the playoffs.
"Lots of bodies are watching to see if they are assuredly overwhelmed," said one AFC chief aggregation executive.
Finally is the key word. Little has ashamed them so far, and I'm not abiding annihilation on the football acreage will. They are amid the smartest and best composed rookies this alliance has anytime seen.
But if there is one affair that can apathetic a rookie, it's the acceleration and acuteness of postseason play, say players and aggregation executives.
Packers players I batten to were appropriately afflicted with Prescott and Elliott. But several wondered how the akin of postseason comedy would affect them. To be clear, this wasn't debris allocution or an attack to abase the two players. No, these Green Bay veterans were absolutely analytical because they accept the aberration amid regular-season and postseason speeds the way a pilot knows the aberration amid Mach 1 and Mach 2.
There are abounding sayings in football, but abandoned a scattering of them are absolutely true. One of those truths is that there are three speeds in the NFL: preseason speed, regular-season acceleration and postseason speed.
Prescott and Elliott accept done added than accomplished in two of the three settings, but annihilation can absolutely basic them for the third.
Owner Jerry Jones said on 105.3 The Fan's G-Bag Nation (via Mike Fisher of CBS DFW) that the duo's academy acquaintance has able them for the playoffs. This is ambitious thinking. It's additionally silly. Prescott acceptable the 2015 Belk Basin MVP does not adapt him to comedy the Packers in the bounded annular of the NFL playoffs.
Prescott, in particular, has handled every blazon of assault package, arrangement and allotment of awful assailment from defenders with skill. But playoff acceleration is all but absurd to carbon alfresco of the games. It can't be accounted for with blur abstraction or postseason tales from Michael Irvin. Or what happened in a academy basin game. It can abandoned be abstruse with raw experience.
This isn't groundbreaking news, which is why Prescott should apprehend Packers arresting coordinator Dom Capers to analysis him. We aren't aloof talking concrete adjustments, but mental. Can Prescott handle new, hyperaggressive arresting schemes and coverages, alive and affective at bastardize speed?
Prescott won't be abandoned in adverse a new acquirements curve. Capers is abiding to claiming Elliott as well.
This is annihilation new for any playoff rookie. Aloof aftermost week, we saw Odell Beckham Jr. bead passes and lose his air-conditioned in a accident to the Packers. And while abounding accept approved to lay the accusation on the now-infamous Miami baiter cruise Beckham took, players and others I batten with accept it wasn't the baiter that sunk him (sorry), but his adversity adjusting to a altered bold speed—playoff bold speed.
At atomic that's a approach activity about the league.
Prescott and Elliott are so good, they will apparently be fine. Added than fine. And that Dallas abhorrent band can awning for a lot of mistakes and apathetic akin the quickest of playoff defenses.
At least, that's what the Cowboys hope.
2. All Aboard the Rodgers Bandwagon
Another week, addition bulk of texts, buzz calls and aback tingles about how able-bodied Aaron Rodgers is playing.
What seems to bolt everyone's absorption is how Rodgers balances throwing accurateness with athleticism. He can hit his targets from the pocket, afterwards abstract burden or while on the run.
Many of those I batten with about the alliance accept the amplitude of football that Rodgers has been arena will go bottomward amid the best in history.
3. Alabama Admirers Can Rest Easy
One official on a aggregation with a apprenticeship abstraction said he believes "every aggregation with an aperture has accomplished out to Nick Saban."
The result?
"All of us were told to f--k off," said the official, "but in a actual affable and admiring manner."
Few in the NFL accept the Alabama arch drillmaster will acknowledgment to a able football amusement again.
4. NFL Still Taking Concussions Too Lightly
Bud Dupree's hit on Matt Moore was one of the best abandoned I've anytime seen. It was like article from 1970s football. And the way the Dolphins reacted was like article from the aforementioned era. Moore absent actual little time.
That's not how the league's blow protocol is declared to work. The league's own rules say an assay is declared to aftermost amid eight and 12 minutes. Moore absent one play.
So actuality we are again, talking about arch trauma, and again, apprehensive if the alliance follows its own rules.
5. Giants Allocution Tough on OBJ
On Monday, Giants accepted administrator Jerry Reese told reporters that advanced receiver Odell Beckham needs to abound up. One accepted administrator texted after and said Reese bare to accompaniment that publicly. Addition texted me an emoji with two easily clapping. (There is annihilation added alarming than a developed man, his iPhone and emojis.)
Does Beckham charge to abound up? Sure, a little bit. Did he lose the bold because he was on a baiter in Timberlands and no shirt? Hell no.
Lost in the Beckham kerfuffle is how some of the game's greatest, best celebrated players did things far worse than Beckham did. Google "Lawrence Taylor" and "handcuffs." Go ahead. Do it. I'll wait.
Taylor was the best destructive, brilliant, amazing arresting force in the history of football, yet there was additionally no bigger miscreant.
One of the affidavit why I adulation autograph sports books with actual angles is because of how bound bodies balloon history. Sports admirers are amid the affliction offenders. Great, best players got drunk, partied all night and did drugs afore games. Some buried booze in their lockers. Debauchery abounded. Afresh they'd go out and perform.
Beckham didn't err by activity to Miami or punching a wall, as Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel reported. Players accept partied on off canicule aback there were off days. Entire locker apartment accept been besmirched by players and coaches alike. Who cares?
But Beckham, so accomplished at application amusing media, didn't assume to accept the ability of the medium. Allowing teammates to column that account gave bodies an alibi to back-bite him if he didn't comedy well, and he didn't comedy well.
Beckham should apperceive better.
6. Jaguars May Be Getting Things Right
Yes, Jacksonville assassin Doug Marrone as its new arch coach, but the best move the Jaguars fabricated aback the end of the division was bringing on Tom Coughlin as controlling carnality admiral of football operations. I adulation this. (Don't @ me, bro.)
The Jaguars accept absent accepting addition aerial up in the alignment who has done a lot of, well, winning. Coughlin won a lot of amateur there. He afresh went to New York and won two Super Bowls. Jacksonville bare addition like Coughlin.
The abstraction of architecture a "winning culture" isn't aloof lip service. It's important. Coughlin can advice body it in Jacksonville...again.
7. Arena for History
A adept amateur alleged the bounded annular "legacy weekend," and I activate it was an odd characterization until I anticipation about it.
He's right.
This weekend appearance quarterbacks who can either body on their Hall of Fame careers (Tom Brady, Rodgers, Russell Wilson and Ben Roethlisberger) or activate new legacies (Alex Smith, Matt Ryan and Dak Prescott).
(Brock Osweiler has been so bad this year, he doesn't calculation for this weekend.)
The best absorbing quarterback to watch this weekend is Smith. He still has the rep as a bold administrator and boilerplate player. If he beats Big Ben, and plays a cogent role accomplishing so (instead of, say, Spencer Ware assertive the game), Smith could go a continued way against alteration the acumen about him.
8. Stranger Things in Pittsburgh
The arrest of Steelers abettor drillmaster Joey Porter ability be celebrated in some ways. I can't acquisition anyone who can bethink the aftermost time a drillmaster was arrested during the playoffs.
Coaches accept been arrested while active naked at a Wendy's, but who hasn't done that? And regardless, that was a regular-season arrest.
Porter is a awful accepted abettor in the Pittsburgh locker room. And while the Steelers may accept too abundant to anguish about to let this abstract them, this is awful unusual, and the abeyant furnishings are unknown.
It abiding isn't the affectionate of account you appetite aback you're starting to basic for a abeyant cruise to the AFC appellation game.
9. Will the Browns Barter No. 1?
Some aggregation admiral I allege to accept the Browns will barter the No. 1 all-embracing aces in this year's draft, move down, and booty North Carolina quarterback Mitch Trubisky. I acquisition this difficult to accept because for my money, Clemson brilliant Deshaun Watson is bigger than Trubisky by, like, a agency of 1000. Watson is potentially a franchise-changing player.
If the Browns canyon on him (and I'm not abiding they will) and he becomes appropriate (and he might), and Trubisky becomes Johnny Manziel, it would be addition Brownsian aberration in a continued account of Brownsian mistakes.
Taking Watson seems like the smartest affair to do, which some of you contemptuous types ability anticipate takes him out of comedy for Cleveland. But I don't anticipate this Browns administration is like accomplished ones; I anticipate this one knows what it's doing.
At least, I achievement so.
10. Warrick Dunn Paid It Forward
I knew Warrick Dunn, the above NFL active back. I never met a kinder, added 18-carat and tougher being in my life.
When he started his charity, I wrote belief on the lives Dunn changed, accouterment homes to the financially disadvantaged. You knew he was alteration lives forever, but it still was adamantine to quantify aloof how much. Now, we accept an idea.
Watson was in one of those families, according to Paul Newberry of the Associated Press. Now, he's a civic champion, on the border of authoritative millions in the NFL. And from aggregate I've heard about Watson, he will advice added families the way Dunn helped his.
Mike Freeman covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter: @mikefreemanNFL.
