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Mark Ingram II owns up to ‘crucial mistake’ in Monday night loss to Bucs

Mark Ingram II owned up to his ‘crucial mistake’ in Monday night’s loss to the Buccaneers, having gone out of bounds short of converting a critical first down

It’s easy to point to one moment as the biggest swing in Monday night’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Veteran running back Mark Ingram II went out of bounds a yard short of converted a first down late in regulation, setting up a short-yardage situation the Saints couldn’t convert. They wound up punting the ball away, which opened the door for the Buccaneers to rally back.

Afterwards, Saints head coach Dennis Allen admitted that Ingram injured his knee on the play, which appeared to be the case; team trainers and medical staff huddled around him after his knee gave out near the New Orleans bench. Ingram first injured that knee on the previous possession but Allen and the Saints coaching staff put him back in the game anyway over a healthy Alvin Kamara. It’s just the latest personnel decision they’ve bungled, but Ingram isn’t making any mistakes for himself, saying he felt “sick” about his impact on the game.

“Regardless of circumstances or how I feel I have to get that fresh set of downs for the squad,” Ingram wrote from his official Twitter account. “I apologize to my teammates my coaches and my city for a crucial mistake. We work way too hard and sacrifice blood sweat and tears. I will be better.”

Still, Ingram shouldn’t have been in the game anyway. Pete Carmichael Jr.’s plan for Kamara has been baffling. He was used primarily as a runner between the tackles in this game with Ingram getting looks as a receiver and rusher out on the edge, which is the opposite of how both their skills sets should be deployed. Maybe Carmichael thought the approach would throw off the Buccaneers defense, but he ultimately just looked too clever for his own good.

Now Ingram is on the mend. He’s already missed several games recently with a sprained MCL in his knee, which may be related to this new knee injury. It’s too soon to say. But the Saints have a real problem on their hands in how they’re making decisions about this football team. Coaches with Carmichael and Allen’s extensive pro experience shouldn’t be botching calls like this and putting less-effective, injured players into games over their better, healthier options.

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Bryson DeChambeau makes a 10 at Muirfield’s 15th after getting second opinion on OB debacle

Bryson DeChambeau called in a second opinion from a rules official, but still walked off Muirfield’s 15th with a 10.

Sometimes long is wrong, as Bryson DeChambeau found out Friday in the second round of the Memorial. And sometimes Kraken stays too long in the water.

But it’s not that often that PGA Tour pros make a quintuple bogey.

The long hitter was 1 over par for the tournament and safely inside the cut line on the tee of the par-5 15th at Muirfield Village, but he pumped his tee shot into a hazard on the left 279 yards away. After a drop in the rough and a penalty shot, he had 289 yards to the hole.

Things didn’t get any better. His third shot went out of bounds near a fence to the right of the fairway, so he dropped again with another penalty shot. (More on that ball later.)

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Now hitting his fifth shot, he again lost a ball with a wayward swing. Another drop in the rough, another penalty. It was the second time the PGA Tour’s scoreboard tracker used that most unfortunate of phrases: “to unknown.”

Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy – “Give me another ball!” – would be able to commiserate.

Now hitting seven, he had 259 yards to the hole, and he missed the green to the right.

He finally got his eighth shot onto the green, 29 feet from the hole. Two putts later, he had a quintuple-bogey 10 to fall to 6 over par and outside the cut line.

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For those counting, that was three drops and three penalty shots on No. 15. Ouch.

But DeChambeau didn’t go quietly. After finding one of his lost balls beneath a metal fence, DeChambeau disagreed with a rules official that the ball was out of bounds. As is his right, he asked for a second opinion. But that ruling didn’t go any better for DeChambeau, and he stomped off unhappily after the ruling.

To his credit, DeChambeau kept swinging and went on to birdie No. 18, but he finished the day with a 76 and was 5 over for the two rounds. The six-time PGA Tour winner, who most recently won the Rocket Mortgage Classic two weeks ago, declined to comment after the round.

Sometimes golf is hard, even when you can hit it 350 yards in the air.

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