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TNF! Week 9
With the Texas Rangers winning the 2023 World Series, the Cowboys have the longest championship drought in Dallas:
World Series (Rangers): last night
NBA (Mavericks): 2011
Stanley Cup (Stars): 1999
Super Bowl (Cowboys): 1995
The Atlanta Falcons are now the oldest American sports team to never win a league championship.
The Falcons were founded in 1966 and have never won a Super Bowl. While the Cardinals, Lions, Titans, Chargers, Browns, Bills and Vikings are older and have never won a Super Bowl, all won at least one AFL or NFL title before the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.
At least Falcons fans have this: a limited edition full rack of St. Louis style ribs stuffed with mac and cheese in a custom Mercedes-Benz Stadium container filled with kettle chips for $35
Probably still doesn’t taste as good as a Superbowl would have, which the Falcons had a 99.8% chance of winning when they had 6:04 to go in the third quarter.
The only thing that has a better chance of happening is this: in a room of 75 people, there’s a 99.9% chance of at least two people having the same birthday.
It’s known as the Birthday Paradox, and it refers to the counter-intuitive probability that in a group of just 23 people, there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday.
Today is former Falcons Wide Reciver, Roddy White’s birthday. White spent his entire career as a wide receiver with the Atlanta Falcons and holds a number of records:
Most receiving yards in a half (185)
Most receptions in a playoff game (11) (tied with Julio Jones)
Most receiving touchdowns in a career (63)
Most career starts for a wide receiver (149)
Most games played as a wide receiver (171)
He had six straight 1,000-yard seasons from 2007-12 and was the model of consistency in Matt Ryan’s early years.
Numbers
1: Josh McDaniels is the first head coach in NFL history to be fired before the end of his 2nd season for two different teams. McDaniels was fired by the #broncos after Week 13 in his 2nd season (2010)
11.25: Jimmy Garoppolo has $11.25M fully-guaranteed for next season. He has another $11.25M that becomes fully-guaranteed if he can’t pass a physical by March 17th. The Raiders benching him is to prevent that money from triggering, just like they did last year when they benched Derek Carr.
1: Most targets this season among players with just one receiving TD:
Chris Olave (76)
Michael Thomas (60)
6 [TRIVIA] Which NFL QB has won 6 straight games when his team has trailed by double digits? This is the longest streak by any QB since the stat was first tracked in 1991. No QB has 5 straight.
Quotes
“He’s our best QB.”
A Raiders source on why the QB change to O'Connell
“People respect real. There’s not a lot of it in this world.”
Ravens All-Pro LB Roquan Smith on his fiery pregame speeches
“Explains why they ghosted us…Nobody responded yesterday.”
Interesting comment from a team that was still hoping to pry a playmaker from the Raiders on trade deadline day:
He’s somebody who stabilized the locker room. I was really lost for words. I understand it’s a business, but I’m still sick to my stomach, honestly.”
Keisean Nixon on the Packers trading Rasul Douglas.
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Picks
Thursday, 11/2 @ 8:15pm
Titans (+3) at Steelers (U36.5)
The Under has 69% of the bets and 89% of the money: +20% differential
Primetime unders are 61% over the last four years and 72% so far this season.
Thursday unders at 40 or below are 17–4 (81%) since 2010.
Unders at 37 or below are 21-6-1 (78%) over the last four calendar years.
These teams are a combined 11-3 to the unders so far this season.
Record
ATS: 20-25-1 (-4.55u)
O/U: 14-14 (-0.91u)
Highlights
Jalen Hurts not in the mood for questions about his knee
Getting slimed was a childhood dream come true for Will Levis
T.J. Watt's got some power in his hands. Showing them to rookie Anton Harrison.
Clip of Jaren Hall’s combine interview
Strong woman helps Jahmyr Gibbs with leap into stands
Trivia
Jalen Hurts. Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Philip Rivers, Vinny Testaverde had 4.