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Titans’ Will Levis enjoying offense under Brian Callahan

Brian Callahan’s new offensive scheme is sitting well with Titans quarterback Will Levis, who says there are more ‘gimmie’s’ in this scheme.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis has a big job this fall. It’s his sophomore season, and he is looking to build on what he started when he took over the starting quarterback spot last year. With a new head coach and new players to work with, there’s a bit of a learning curve, but it seems the new offense sits well with Levis.

“Just with the philosophy of what we’re trying to do from a play calling standpoint and in the drop-back passing game and all the different things we’re doing in the pass game, there are kind of more gimmies I feel like,” Levis said on Tuesday. “And especially in different concepts maybe that I’ve never really majored in the past, but stuff that’s opened my eyes as to players that we can get the ball “easily” [finger quotes] and understanding that the more we take those, too, the more it’s going to open the stuff up behind it. So it’s just playing that game of not forcing the ball and making sure that you’re taking it when you have it, and also recognizing when they’re able to react off of it and for the compliment.”

Learning a new offense can be difficult, especially for a young quarterback. However, since he learned a new offense last year when he entered the league, he has a better understanding of how to implement and adjust his game to match the offensive scheme. This involves not solely adjusting how he plays his own game but also his rhythm, vision, and general field awareness.

Practice makes perfect, though, and Levis admits that he’s still learning despite being able to recognize “gimmie” plays pre-snap.

“think that’s been the coolest part is that we’ve been able to learn from mistakes in that first week of camp. You know, we’re on the field, and we try to make one decision or throw an option that we thought might have been the favorable decision pre-snap, and then going back and watching the film and understanding that there’s an option out there that could be even more of a gimmie the more we think about it.”

Repetition is key when learning a new offense. Building muscle memory, your brain automatically scanning the field for matchups and formations, and being able to do those things plus make a decision in a matter of a few seconds are what make a quarterback good at his job.

Levis has a big job this season. There are a lot of changes and adjustments, but he’s coming along. If he plays well enough this season and stays healthy, the Titans may have found their next franchise quarterback.

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman will be a DJ for the next few days

Spin it coach!

Notre Dame’s [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] has been one of the more outgoing head coaching across the country.

He’s frequently is at Irish athletic events, and when he’s not supporting the team, he’s representing them well at others. Freeman has thrown out first pitches at Major League Baseball games, and has been sighted at NBA games.

Freeman’s next foray is in the booth, the music booth. He will be a guest DJ on SiriusXM on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, as he will be on the FLY channel. Many of us wonder what kind of music that Freeman enjoys, and we will soon find that out.

DJ Marcus Freeman will be in your ears soon.

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Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo thrilled by players looking forward to potential three-peat

Kansas City #Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo is thrilled that his players are looking forward to a potential three-peat.

The Super Bowl champions are still the Kansas City Chiefs following another NFL season. The team came together to pull off the back-to-back title bid and further etch their names in league history as the next great dynasty.

The praises have been loud and frequent for Steve Spagnuolo’s impressive job as the Chiefs defensive coordinator. He took time on Sunday to share his thoughts on players voicing their excitement to try for a three-peat on Super Bowl titles during his appearance on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio with host Jake Asman.

“Are you kidding me, our guys? All they’re saying is three-peat. I mean, I love professional athletes,” said Spagnuolo. “They just bubble with confidence. And it’s amazing that the guys thought about that immediately.”

The talks of a three-peat were immediately discussed by players following their Super Bowl LVIII victory, most notably by quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

“I mean, Patrick Mahomes might have been his first thought in the locker room after we won, and that just shows you what they’re made of guys like that elite athletes that if you win one, you want to win more,” Spagnuolo explained. “I mean, it’s a love challenge. And so I guess the next challenge, we try to go back to back to back.”

The Chiefs players under contract beyond the Super Bowl will have that on their minds while the front office gets to work on retaining stars and building from within the upcoming draft.

Notre Dame apparently too stuffy of a place for Brian Kelly

Sorry you had to work harder with the Irish, Brian.

We get it. We know you don’t want to hear about Brian Kelly anymore. He’s part of Notre Dame’s past and just want to leave him there. But some things are just hard to ignore.

Kelly, entering his second season as LSU coach, was in Nashville for the annual SEC Media Days. Even though he’s been gone for the Irish for over a year-and-a-half now, he simply can’t avoid questions about his former employer. It seemed inevitable that someone would pose one, and it came while he was interviewed by SiriusXM College Sports Radio. When asked to compare coaching the Irish as opposed to the Tigers, he said this:

“Well, I don’t think you have to wear a tie every day at the job if you know what I mean. It’s a little bit more relaxed from that perspective. That’s not good or bad, but there is a much more relaxed [feeling] because you’re in the south. You’re around people that are very easy to get along with. Not that they were hard to get along with, but there are rules you have to follow in an environment like Notre Dame. And you can’t cross those lines. So there is a little bit of a difference there.

Well, excuse Notre Dame for wanting everyone to look and dress proper, Mr. Kelly. We’re not sure what you expected from a Catholic university with high academic standards, but we guess everyone has their thing.
Not only that, but Kelly doesn’t seem to like traveling far for recruiting either:

“I would say the biggest one other than that small narrative that I gave you is that I had to be on a plane and I had to pull the best player out of California, out of Texas, out of New Jersey. I don’t have to do that at LSU. The best player in the state of Louisiana, if we do a really good job recruiting him, he wants to be a Tiger. That’s a difference that, more than anything else, allows you to really focus on what’s important within your program and that is the state of Louisiana and player development.”

Based on this, maybe Kelly never was comfortable with Notre Dame being a national school and having to do everything to keep that reputation going. But it’s OK because not everyone embraces the national spotlight. Sometimes, it’s best to stay regional, which he seems to enjoy in Baton Rouge. Good for him, we guess.

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Cam Jordan’s goal for 2023: ‘I expect to take Derek Carr back to Vegas’ for Super Bowl 58

Cam Jordan’s goal for 2023 is simple, saying on SiriusXM NFL Radio: ‘I expect to take Derek Carr back to Vegas’ for Super Bowl 58

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Whew. You can’t say Cameron Jordan isn’t motivated — the New Orleans Saints defensive end made an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio, and after sharing a thoughtful take on the impact Derek Carr could have on the Saints offense in crunch time, situations that got away from the team in recent years, he delivered the money line.

Asked about his expectations for 2023, Jordan responded: “I expect the Super Bowl, I expect to take Derek Carr, DC4, back to Vegas where he just left and have a return run, have the Super Bowl.”

Super Bowl LVIII will be held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, the home turf of the same Raiders franchise that just kicked Carr to the curb in favor of oft-injured quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Carr has made his feelings about the fallout clear, admitting he didn’t play his best football last year, but Jordan knows as well as anyone what it would mean for Carr to lift the Lombardi Trophy in the Raiders’ own building.

And as he observed, Carr could do a lot to help the Saints offense right itself after its struggles in life without Drew Brees and Sean Payton. Jordan pointed out the fatal mistakes the team made in so many losses last year — a failed third-down conversion here, a missed scoring opportunity there — and voiced his confidence that Carr can take care of business so that Jordan’s defense can focus on protecting “every blade of grass.” He’s fired up. It’s a shame we have to wait so long to see that passion translate to the field when the season begins in September.

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Roger Maltbie dishes on his career with NBC, plans for the future and why he’d be shocked if LIV Golf comes calling

Maltbie said his age and a past spat with Greg Norman may keep him from getting a call from LIV Golf.

“Welcome to the graveyard of old fired golf announcers.”

That was the playful introduction for Roger Maltbie earlier this week when the former PGA Tour player and NBC on-course reporter joined Gary McCord and Drew Stoltz on their SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio show.

Golfweek was first to report last week that Maltbie and Gary Koch won’t be returning to NBC in 2023 after the network told the pair of longtime broadcasters it wanted to “refresh” the team for the future.

Maltbie was originally told 2021 would be his last year before Jim “Bones” Mackay left his on-air role with the network to caddie for Justin Thomas. He returned as an on-course reporter for 2022 but wasn’t renewed for 2023. A five-time winner on the PGA Tour, Maltbie, 71, had been covering golf for NBC Sports since 1992.

“Does it hurt when you hear the words? Sure. ‘You’re not in our plans.’ Thirty-one years I spent with NBC. ‘You’re no longer in our plans and you’re not part of our future. We need to go young,’ which is a nice way of saying you’re old, and I understand all that,” said Maltbie. “But you know, there’s hurt feelings and there’s also a lot of gratitude. They were great to me for 31 years. I don’t have a complaint.

“I absolutely love the guys I worked with. I will miss watching the greatest players in the world play great,” he continued. “My role was to walk with the final group on Sunday, so I was watching the best players in the world playing their best and I still get a kick out of it to this day, even though I can’t do it anymore. I sure like watching it and I’ll miss all that. I will.”

If anyone knows how Maltbie and Koch feel, it’s McCord. In Oct. 2019, he and Peter Kostis, two longtime members of the CBS golf team, were not renewed for 2020. Both were told by the network that things were getting “stale.”

“I would have liked to have kept going but it’s a funny thing, the phases your career goes through over the course of 31 years,” Maltbie explained. “When I first started, hell, I knew every player, I was a player still. I was one of them and I was doing TV. I knew the names of their wives and the names of your kids and competed with and against them. There was a real familiarity. Then you go through a period where they know who you are and they know you played and so on and so forth, and then you meet a new bunch of young kids and you go on and then the later years, most of those kids don’t even know I played golf for a living, really to be honest with you. There’s a timespan to everything.”

Maltbie said he’s mulling over calling some PGA Tour Champions events for the network, noting how he’ll miss the adrenaline rush that comes with live TV. But what about a hypothetical chance with LIV Golf?

“I guess at this age, at 71, you never say never, but that would shock me beyond belief,” said Maltbie. “Greg Norman and I had sort of a spat you might call it years back, and I doubt that I would get a call from LIV, let’s put it that way.”

The international travel and 14-event schedule would be something to consider for Maltbie if the call did come, and he’d have “no compunction about going to work for somebody that’s willing to pay you a salary.”

“This LIV thing, it’s kind of crazy. There’s so much hypocrisy involved in it,” Maltbie said. “I don’t begrudge any player that accepted that money or decided to do that. That’s still a decision that is 1,000 percent their right. I don’t like the idea that they think they could do that and play the PGA Tour. I don’t follow that, but I’m not upset with it.”

“There are people that have this moral outrage about accepting money from the Saudi Investment Fund and it’s like, really? All the business that our government does with Saudi Arabia, and the largest corporations in America, so many of them do some business with the Saudis. Why all of a sudden are golfers the moral compass of the world? I don’t understand that. So I have no problem with those guys taking that money.”

With Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund as its sole funder, LIV Golf has long been criticized as a way for the Kingdom to sportswash its human rights record. Saudi Arabia has been accused of wide-ranging human rights abuses, including politically motivated killings, torture, forced disappearances and inhumane treatment of prisoners. Not to mention members of the royal family and Saudi government were accused of involvement in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist.

It’s still to be determined when and where golf fans will see Maltbie in the future. Whether its on a Champions tour or LIV broadcast – maybe he’ll pull a McCord and help with The Match? – the longtime voice will surely be missed by many.

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2022 Players Championship: How to watch the Monday finish at TPC Sawgrass

For the first time since 2005, TPC Sawgrass will have golf on a Monday.

The first round of the 2022 Players Championship took 55 hours and 16 minutes. The end of the second round and ensuing cut didn’t happen till Sunday.

For the first time since 2005, TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, will have PGA Tour golf on a Monday. There’s even still a remote chance the “fifth major” spills over to Tuesday.

Good thing next week’s PGA Tour event, the Valspar Championship in Tampa, isn’t that far away.

For those who have already been attending this week, any fan holding any competitive-round Stadium Pass ticket or hospitality venue ticket from Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday can get in for free Monday.

Apologies for those who have to work but here’s a look at the viewing options for Monday at the Players. All times Eastern.

The Players: PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ | Leaderboard

How to watch/listen

Monday, March 13

TV

Golf Channel: 8-11 a.m., conclusion of third round
Golf Channel: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Live From the Players
Golf Channel: 1-6:30 p.m., final round
Golf Channel: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Live From the Players

STREAMING

Peacock: 8 a.m.

RADIO

SiriusXM: 1-7 p.m.

Monday’s final round

This marks the eighth Monday finish in the history of the tournament and the fourth at the Stadium Course. It’s also the first Monday finish since the Players moved to its current March spot on the PGA Tour schedule. But again, due to the tournament’s three-hole playoff format, it is possible action spills over to Tuesday.

Weather

The temperature is expected to be 56 degrees at the restart at 8 a.m. Monday.

The PGA Tour reports a 20 percent chance of rain in the morning hours and into the early afternoon. High temps on Monday should get into the mid-60s.

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2022 Players Championship: How to watch Sunday’s NBC TV coverage, ESPN+ live streaming coverage

On a day we’d normally be enjoying the final round at TPC Sawgrass, players are still finishing the second round.

What a wild week in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Normally we’d all be enjoying Sunday’s final round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, but lots of rain led to lengthy delays earlier in the week. The first round alone took 55 hours and 16 minutes.

A Monday finish is a certainty, but with the tournament’s three-hole playoff format, there’s a remote chance the “fifth major” spills over to Tuesday.

Hey, at least next week’s PGA Tour event, the Valspar Championship, isn’t that far away.

Here’s a look at your viewing options for Sunday at the Players. All times Eastern.

The Players: PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ | Leaderboard

How to watch/listen

Sunday, March 13

TV

NBC: 1-6 p.m. ET

STREAM

ESPN+: 8:15 a.m.-6 p.m. ET

RADIO

SiriusXM: 1 p.m.-6 p.m. ET

Third-round action

After they made a rare Sunday cut, the third round will begin at about 2:15 p.m. ET, with golfers playing in threesomes off Nos. 1 and 10 tees. They will play as much as they can today but the leaders won’t start their third rounds until about 4 p.m. ET and may only get to the turn before running out of daylight.

Weather

The rain, rain finally went away and there is 0 percent chance of more on Sunday, according to the PGA Tour’s weather report.

The skies will be mostly sunny but the high temperature will only get to 54.

As for that wind: ” Northerly winds could gust over 20mph at times this morning and will shift to the northeast this afternoon and gradually diminish,” according to the report.

Sunset is 7:32 p.m. Saturday’s action was suspended due to darkness at 6:29 p.m. ET.

After Daylight Saving, Sunday will be 7:32 p.m. Saturday’s action was suspended due to darkness at 6:29 p.m. ET.

On Monday, there is a 20 percent chance of rain in the morning hours and into the early afternoon. High temperaturess on Monday should get into the mid-60s.

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How to watch, stream and listen to the 2022 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass

Here’s how you can catch all the action live from the PGA Tour’s premier event.

An absolutely loaded field of not only the PGA Tour’s best players, but the world’s best players are bound for TPC Sawgrass for the Tour’s premier event of the season.

After Bryson DeChambeau withdrew late on Sunday night, 47 of the world’s top 50 players will tee it up this week at the 2022 Players Championship, where a $20 million purse is up for grabs, with a cool $3.6 million going to the winner.

Aside from the golf, Tuesday will feature a Military Appreciation Ceremony, followed by a concert from country music star Kelsea Ballerini. On Wednesday, all eyes will be on the World Golf Hall of Fame Ceremony, highlighted by the induction of 82-time Tour winner Tiger Woods.

NBC and Golf Channel will air 22 hours of coverage from Thursday through Sunday, with PGA Tour Live producing an estimated 167 hours of coverage across four streams for the four tournament channels.

Here’s what you need to know to watch and listen to all the action from the 2022 Players Championship. All times Eastern.

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How to watch/listen

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Tuesday, March 8

ESPN+: 2-6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 9

ESPN+: 2-4 p.m.

Thursday, March 10

TV

Golf Channel: 12-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

Friday, March 4

TV

Golf Channel: 12-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday, March 5

TV

NBC: 1-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday, March 6

TV

NBC: 1-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

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How to watch, listen and stream the PGA Tour’s 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill

How to watch, listen and stream all the action from Bay Hill.

A loaded field of the PGA Tour’s best are bound for Bay Hill Club and Lodge as the Florida Swing continues.

World No. 1 Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and a host of stars highlight the field for the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational that won’t include defending champion Bryson DeChambeau, who withdrew due to injury after recently picking the Tour over a Saudi Arabia-backed rival league..

Here’s what you need to know to watch and listen to all the action from the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational. All times Eastern.

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How to watch/listen

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Thursday, March 3

TV

Golf Channel: 2-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

Friday, March 4

TV

Golf Channel: 2-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday, March 5

TV

Golf Channel: 12:30-2:30 p.m.
NBC: 2:30-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday, March 6

TV

Golf Channel: 12:30-2:30 p.m.
NBC: 2:30-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:15 a.m.-6 p.m.

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