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What a time to be a fan of hip hop. Earlier today, we were blessed with “Talk To Me,” the first single off of Run the Jewels’ upcoming album. And now, we’ve got four new songs from Drake and an announcement for a project called More Life.

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Drake turned 30 years old today, and to celebrate the occasion, he delivered some major news on Sunday night on OVO Sound Radio. Here’s Complex with the scoop on More Life, which is scheduled to be released in December.

“I’m off like mixtapes, I want to do a playlist. I want to give you a collection of songs that become the soundtrack to your life, so this More Life: The Playlist. Like I said, dropping in December. All original music from me. You might hear some tunes from the family on there. Just really excited. I had a great tour, I had a great summer. And most people would like go probably take a break, but for me I just want to get right back to it. Be with the people again.

Drake also dropped four news songs, including the ruthless “Two Birds, One Stone.” In the track, Drake gets revenge on Kid Cudi after Cudi took shots at Drake for using ghostwriters. Drake mocks Cudi’s serious battles with depression and suicidal urges with vicious bars like this:

You were the man on the moon
Now you just go through your phases
Life of the angry and famous
Rap like I know I’m the greatest
Then give you the tropical flavors
Still never been on hiatus
You stay xanned and perked up
So when reality set in you don’t gotta face it (via Genius)

A lot of people are pissed off at Drake for taking things too far with those lyrics, but as far as I’m concerned, all is fair in love and rap beefs. I want to hear the most uncalled for, coldest shit imaginable in my diss tracks.

Here’s the rest of Drake’s new songs, courtesy of Spotify and SoundCloud. It sounds like the 6 God is going to have himself a very happy Hanukkah.

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On Friday, I asked if the NFL should do away with Thursday Night Football, thanks to the near offensive quality of play they have been trotting out in recent weeks. Well, that trend of horrendous nationally televised games continued with two absolute duds: the Giants and Rams in London and the Seahawks and Cardinals on Sunday Night.

Across the pond, the Giants won a 17-10 game where Eli Manning threw for 196 yards and no touchdowns, and he wasn’t even the worst quarterback on the field (OBJ had 5 catches for 49 yards and LOL). That’s because, on the other side of the ball, the Rams’ quarterback Case Keenum threw four interceptions. And that wasn’t even the worst game of the weekend.

No, the worst game of the weekend was a 6-6 TIE (TIE!!!!!!) on Sunday Night Football between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals. It’s not only the result that’s shockingly putrid, it was how the result happened: both of the teams (professional NFL teams, btw) missed chip shot field goals in overtime.

First, Cardinals kicker Chandler Catanzaro misses from 24 yards out. Mind you, a 13-year-old kicker is able to bang a 24-yarder:

Then the Seahawks kicker, not to be out-sucked by the Cardinals, decided to shank a 28-yarder as well:

Three nationally televised games. Three piles of steaming horse shit. The Jets-Ravens game was better than this, and the Jets started Geno Smith and the Ravens rushed for six yards.

It doesn’t look any better tonight. Two horrible offenses face two solid defends in tonight’s matchup between the Texans and Broncos, so be on the lookout for another suckfest. Then on Thursday comes what may be the NFL’s annual worst game of the year, the Thursday Night Football matchup between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans. Literally. This is always the worst game of the year.

The NFL has a real quality-of-play problem on its hands, and it looks like the only way of fixing it is to quit spreading out the schedule and having more standard Sunday games.

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This is what I like to call “PR 101: Turning A Negative Into A Positive.” Whoever is Curt Schilling’s publicist should get an immediate raise.

The ex-ESPN broadcaster has found a new home as Schilling will begin hosting an online daily radio show for Breitbart, a right-wing political website. Schilling will provide his political commentary as well as allow listeners to call into the show. The move was made to bolster up Breitbart’s on-air talent as Breitbart’s Executive Chair, Steve Bannon, continues to work with Donald Trump to start a potential Trump TV Network.

For those not familiar with Breitbart, it sides with alt-right ideologies, which are as conservative as they come. In other words, Curt Schilling, the man who once compared radical muslims to Nazis, should have no trouble fitting in. I once called Curt Schilling nuts after his rant about Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer. Schilling has definitely taken some Ls recently, including throwing a Trump rally where no one showed up.

What I am about to say is something that I never thought would come out of my mouth: Curt Schilling is actually smart.

Wait, what? How can Curt Schilling be smart? Don’t get me wrong, Schilling is still nuts. The man is off his rocker, actually. That being said, Curt Schilling is going to be paid to share his crazy opinions with the world. Let that sink in. Curt Schilling is going to be paid to talk crazy. How can I fault him for that? He is going to make money for essentially saying whatever he wants. Wouldn’t everyone like to be paid for their opinions? Isn’t that the American dream right there?

Do I still think Schilling is crazy? Yes, but someone is going to pay him to be nuts so it looks like Schilling won this round.

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On Sunday, the Oakland Raiders traveled to Jacksonville and took the Jaguars to the woodshed, picking up a 33-16 victory. At 5-2, the Raiders look primed to head to the playoffs for the first time since 2002, while the 2-4 Jags seem doomed to have yet another lost season.

But it wasn’t a total disaster for the Jaguars yesterday, as one slick fan was able to escape getting put through a table by a Raiders fan.

And that’s why going off the top rope is a high-risk maneuver, kids. What a crafty move by that wily son of a bitch. Was that a random Jags fan or was that Bret Hart? He played possum like a seasoned veteran to avoid taking a big-time elbow drop. Just uncanny ringsmanship and awareness.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA. Geno is just not meant to be an NFL quarterback. I don’t know what or who it is, but there are forces in this universe that are just not having it with Geno as an NFL QB.

Not only did Geno find out he tore his knee, but he originally thought he was FINE. Talk about a letdown.

Via NFL.com:

NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Monday that based on an initial MRI, the belief is Geno Smith tore his ACL, per multiple sources.

Smith started his first game since 2014 on Sunday but left in the second quarter with a knee injury. He completed 4 of 8 passes for 95 yards and a touchdown before exiting.

After starting 29 of his first 30 career games, Smith was in line to keep the gig last season. Then the notorious punch from teammate IK Enemkpalihappened, wiping out the start of the season. By the time Smith was healthy enough to play Ryan Fitzpatrick was entrenched and on his way to breaking the franchise touchdown pass record.

Just a snake bitten dude from the jump. Naturally, Twitter was ruthless:

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Define the phrase ‘worst vase scenario.’

I’ll do it for you. 100,000 people packed inside of Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium to watch a football game between Alabama and Texas A&M. Those same 100,000 people are probably chugging a lot of beer and eating a lot of hot dogs and burgers. Now imagine those same 100,000 people were told not to use the bathroom. That looks like a worst case scenario to me.

Well, that’s exactly what happened this past Saturday. Officials at Bryant-Denny Stadium informed the raucous crowd during the third quarter that due to water pressure issues, fans had to refrain from using the bathroom.

As anyone could have predicted, the fans were not happy and took to Twitter to make fun of the situation.

The funniest part about this whole situation was at the time of the announcement, Texas A&M was actually beating Alabama, 14-13 early in the third quarter.

It’s safe to say that the only thing that was flushed down the toilet on Saturday were Texas A&M’s chances of beating Alabama. Roll tide.

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Outside linebacker Aaron Lynch of the San Francisco 49ers isn’t letting his team’s 1-6 record sour his opinion on his team’s talent level. Why let silly stats like having the second worst point differential in the NFL bring you down? When you’ve got a double-headed quarterback monster of Blaine Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick, the sky is the limit!

Here’s Lynch inexplicably placing the 49ers among the NFL’s elite teams.

I know that to succeed in sports you gotta believe in yourself, but this is goddamn ridiculous. I’ve never heard such brazen overconfidence in my entire life. Since crushing the Rams 28-0 in Week 1, the 49ers have lost six straight games by a combined 103 points. It’s not like these guys are losing heartbreakers left and right; they are routinely getting blown the f*ck out.

I guess Lynch is just hoping that if he keeps saying the 49ers are good, it will magically come true. We all know that if you say Beetlejuice three times in a row that creepy bastard will show up, so maybe if Lynch keeps bragging about the 49ers prime Joe Montana and Jerry Rice will come save them. It’s far-fetched, but it’s still a better strategy than employing Chip Kelly as your head coach.

For those of you who didn’t know this, police ride alongs are an actual thing. If you go through the correct channels, you can actually sit in the passenger side of a police car while a real-life police officer takes you along for a day on the job. Sounds like fun, no? Normally I’m sure that they’re actually a lot more boring than you’d expect, but that’s not exactly the case with a ride along out in Madera, CA.

This past weekend, early Sunday at 4:30 A.M. a police officer was trying to make a traffic stop in Madera, CA for a car with a busted headlight. There was a female passenger in the passenger seat of the car present for a ride along.

Things started to escalate pretty quickly once the white SUV refused to stop. In fact, the ride along passenger was the first person to shout out that someone in the white SUV had a gun. Almost immediately after she mentions that, someone leans out of the SUV and begins blasting the police car. Watch in the clip below.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: yes the officer did a great job ignoring his passenger and trying to get the perp. But after looking at the damage to the police cruiser, it seems as though the passenger should be thanking their lucky stars they didn’t get shot.

There’s one bullet hole in the center of the car, and another one directly below the passenger side roof.

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General Mills is getting ready to change the cereal game forever with limited edition Girl Scout cookie cereals. Starting in January of 2017, you will be able to go to your local grocery store and pick up a box or 20 of this ingenious culinary concept.

For now, it’s being reported that General Mills will have Thin Mints and Caramel Crunch (Samoas) varieties.

I’ve already developed three cavities by just writing this post. I absolutely cannot wait to get my days started with a soup pot’s worth of Thin Mints cereal. Blog productivity is going to skyrocket, as the ensuing sugar rush will give me the strength of Tyrone Biggums on a Red Balls binge.

It’s hard to imagine this not being a home run for General Mills, so hopefully, their Girl Scout cookie cereals will stick around permanently. It is also imperative that they add Tagalongs into the mix. I will go to my grave believing that the three greatest duos the world has ever known were Lennon/McCartney, Batman/Robin, and Chocolate/Peanut Butter.

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I could literally care less about the divorce and Future and any of that — this post is strictly about how next-level hot Scottie Pippen’s newly single ex-wife is.

According to TMZ Sports, Scottie is divorcing Larsa Pippen because he found out she was hooking up with Future.  You may (hopefully not though) recognize Larsa, 42, from the Bravo series The Real Housewives of Miami, which ran from 2011 to 2013. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Political Science, and also studied at the Piven Theater Workshop.

Larsa and Scottie have four kids together. Here is her official statement on the divorce, via Larsa’s rep:

After careful consideration and 19 years together, Larsa and Scottie have each filed for dissolution of their marriage. Although they are no longer to be married, Larsa remains hopeful that she and Scottie will always do what is best for their 4 beautiful children and jointly raise them with love and respect. She would like to thank everyone for their understanding and kindly ask for privacy from the media during this difficult time of transition for her family.

Anyway, sucks to be cheated on Scottie, but you should know to never trust a woman that looks like this. They can have whoever they want.

It was a lovely Wednesday afternoon when a man in a golf cart pulls up next to me and asks if I wanted a ride. Usually, I am skeptical to accept rides from strange and unknown older men, but when I looked to the left and saw that this old man was Coach Franklin, head coach of the PSU football team, I naturally had to oblige.

I hopped in and he proceeded to ask me my name, major, where I was from, etc. While being totally starstruck and lost for words in the confusion of Coach Franklin driving me home, I somehow managed to eek out, “Are you excited for the game this Saturday against OSU?” Even though in my head I knew we were going to royally lose.

Fast forward to around 7:00 P.M. on Saturday night. I was going to sell my ticket because I figured Penn State’s defeat was awaiting us all, but it was the first night game of the season and it was our white out game, so I decided to attend even though it was freezing cold and raining. Before the game started I made my Snapchat a video of Beaver Stadium with the quote, “We gon lose,” everyone’s natural thought at this point in the evening.

However, all of a sudden it was the fourth quarter and Ohio State was only four points ahead, and the energy in Beaver Stadium was nothing I have ever seen before. With four and a half minutes left, Trace McSorley, Penn State’s quarterback, scrambled for the touchdown that put PSU in the lead. I then updated my Snapchat, “Wtf is happening we’re winning.” What happened next seemed to be some sort of a dream.

The entire student section was screaming at the top of their lungs, jumping up and down and on top of one other, then falling all over the stands. Once we scored the extra point, everyone rushed to the front of the bleachers; there was a point where I was so squished between so many people that my legs were no longer on the ground and I was being held up by the people next to me.

And then, the game was over. Penn State won 24-21. As I tried to clasp onto my friends’ arms as we maneuvered to the front of the bleachers, I looked around and saw everyone doing the same thing I was doing. We were all about ready to storm that mother f*cking field. I got to the front with my friends, jumped off, and ran faster than I think I ever have in my life all while screaming like a maniac. I don’t even know what I was running towards, I just could not believe what had happened. The best part about it was no one even tried to stop the students from getting onto the field, they knew it was going to happen regardless. The next thing I knew the stadium was empty and every breathing human being was now on the field and I was arm in arm with people I did not even know singing the Penn State Alma Mater.

All while this was occurring, students who did not attend the game started the biggest rally I have ever heard of on Beaver Avenue in downtown State College. People were climbing street lights, ripping off street signs, lighting bushes/trees on fire, and projecting “Ohio State Sucks” on the side of buildings. It was absolute madness. I received a text from the PSU Alert system that read, “Avoid downtown State College. Crowd is an unlawful disturbance. Leave the area or be subject to arrest.” And I thought, “Holy f*ck, what the hell is going down over there.” I later found out and saw videos of students being maced and tackled, and an army of police on horses was the necessary force chosen to clear the area. It was hilarious but so dangerous.

Students then RAGED their faces off for the rest of the night. Parties were going on until four or five in the morning because Penn State has not seen a win like that in a substantial amount of time. I argued that classes should be canceled for the rest of the week.

It is safe to say that even though I obtained multiple injuries and a lost voice, and even though students were maced and tackled by police, Saturday night was one of the best nights of our natural born lives, and will forever go down in history.

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When Teddy Bridgewater suffered a  knee injury during NFL training camp, the word was that the scene was so gruesome that all his Minnesota Vikings teammates who witnessed it were shaken up.

Then a lot of eyebrows were raised when the Vikings gave up a king’s ransom- a 2017 first-round pick and a 2018 fourth-rounder- to Philadelphia for Sam Bradford, a QB who had never sniffed a pro bowl in his first six seasons in the league.

Now new reports suggest that Bridgewater might never return to the league as a result of the injury, which makes the Bradford trade a lot more understandable. On Sunday NFL Countdown yesterday, ESPN’s foremost reporter Adam Schefter gave this update:

Teddy Bridgewater continues to rehab in Minnesota and he is making progress. Nearly two months after he dislocated his knee, Bridgewater is making strides and Vikings officials are pleased with where he’s at. But other doctors around the league know there are no guarantees Bridgewater will be able to return to the type of quarterback he was, if he makes it back to the NFL at all.

As one doctor who’s worked with NFL teams said this week, ‘If he didn’t make it back, it wouldn’t surprise me. This is a bad injury, about the worst knee injury a player can have.’

The mobile Bridgewater showed some promise in first two seasons in Minnesota after being selected in the first round pick out of Louisville, and you hate to hear about any player’s career potentially ending so abruptly and prematurely. Let’s hope the more optimistic forecasts come to fruition for Bridgewater rather than the doomsday scenario that these doctors are suggesting is a possibility.

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Alabama football fans are the single most insane group of people on the entire planet. It doesn’t matter if you’re a policeman, a janitor, a even a reverend in the church: if you’re doing something that someone believes is slighting the Alabama Crimson Tide, you’re going to get a death threat.

Just take Michael Casagrande, the beat writer for the Alabama Crimson Tide, for example. You’d think that a beat writer for the home team would be free from death threats from Alabama fans, right? Wrong. After writing one preview about the upcoming Alabama vs LSU game, Michael got this letter from a reverend threatening to kill him with a baseball bat. Literally multiple references to assault by baseball bat. Can’t make this stuff up folks.

You can read the email embedded in the Tweet below:

Obviously threats of violence don’t come easily from a reverend, so he had to make sure that this guy was for real. Guess who doubled down on their douche?

Sheesh, but I mean as the beat writer of ‘Bama, Michael should know that if you suggest that LSU will beat Alabama, people will send you death threats. Even reverends. Oh what’s that? The article didn’t even say that LSU would win against Alabama? The article was just about how it will be a closer game than people think? The story is literally just a boring list of facts with absolutely no opinion whatsoever?

Well then what the hell was this reverend even thinking? Obviously he wasn’t.

We got more than a little curious about the email, so we dug deeper into Michael’s tweet. It didn’t take very long before we found the identifying information we were looking for.

So we quickly dialed up the old Google, found http://medicaid.alabama.gov/, searched that website for any references of “reverend,” and came up with this little gem of information.

Commissioner Steckel has a Master’s Degree in Public Health from UAB and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology from Birmingham-Southern College. She is married to Reverend Arthur D. Steckel, II, who serves as the Chaplain at Cooper-Green Mercy Hospital.

This guy sounds like such a gem. Someone even found another wonderful bit of writing from the good reverend and shared it with everyone to read.

Honestly, my favorite part about this is that the article that Reverend Steckel hated so much has become the #1 most viewed article on AL.com today.

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The ex-wife of disgraced former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has sued the sandwich restaurant chain, claiming that it knew about his pedophilia since 2004 and surpessed the information from the authorities. Fogle is currenlt is serving a sentence of 15 years and eight months after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography and traveling to pay for sex with minors.

Katie McLaughlin divorced Fogle after his history of sexual abuse of children came to light and he reached a plea deal for his crimes. She alleges in the suit that Subway knew about Fogle’s history of sexual abuse of children and chose not to report that information because the company’s brand was so strongly intertwined with Fogle’s. “Subway’s ambition for sales and growth came at the expense of Katie [and her children],” it says.

McLaughlin alleges in the suit that she and her children suffered emotional distress because she and her children did not know of Fogle’s predatory history when she married him in 2010. Via the CNN Money report:

The suit details an instance when a Subway franchisee, Cindy Mills, called the company’s then-CEO Jeff Moody in 2008, to alert him about Fogle. She said that Fogle had told her that “he really liked them young,” and that he admitted to her that he had had sex with minors from ages 9 to 16.

The suit charges that Moody interrupted Mills and told her “Please don’t tell me any more. Don’t worry, he has met someone. She is a teacher and he seems to love her very much, and we think she will keep him grounded.” Moody told Mills that he had dealt with similar complaints in the past.

The suit says that the teacher that Moody was referring to is in fact McLaughlin.

The suit also explains that after that incident Subway initiated a campaign that had Jared visiting elementary schools to speak about childhood obesity.

The suit is for” intentional infliction of emotional distress,” and it doesn’t have a specified desired compensation amount.

While this obviously could have a damaging effect on Subway, the company has declined to comment on the pending litigation.

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Usurped in the Miami Dolphins backfield by burgeoning star Ajayi and facing another injury rehab, veteran four-time Pro Bowl running back Arian Foster announced his retirement tonight. Foster has famously lived life on his own terms and this is the latest example of that.

After being undrafted out of Tenessee in 2009, Arian Foster signed with the Houston Texans and went on to become the most prolific running back in that franchise’s history. Since he came into the league, Foster averaged 115.2 yards from scrimmage per game, which was the highest in the league during that span. His 31 100-yard rushing games in that span were also the most in the league.

In a statement on Uninterrupted.com, Foster wrote, “This is a beautifully violent game and the same reason I loved it is why I have to walk away.” Below is his full statement.

The eight-year veteran began his short stint with the Dolphins after signing with them in free agency during the previous offseason. After being the starter in the first week of the season, Foster has dealt with a succession of soft-tissue injuries.  NFL.com’s Ian Rapaport reports that Foster retired because he found the prospect of another rehab too daunting.

Foster was one of the best running backs in the current era of the NFL and though it’s a bummer to see him have to call it quits, Foster is the rare NFL player who is capable of doing great things outside the realm of football.

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There’s a new top dog in the power rankings as we near the midpoint the NFL season. Tom Brady is in eff you mode, and the Patriots are deservingly the Super Bowl favorites.

After Minnesota’s disappointing loss in Philly and Seattle’s touchdown-less tie in Arizona, the idle Cowboys actually have a valid case as the best team in the NFC. I’m not ready to go that far, but Dallas and the rest of the NFC East teams have reestablished that division’s reputation.

Conversely, the AFC South is an absolute dumpster fire. The Texans lead the division but only earned the #19 spot in the power rankings, followed by the Colts at #22, Titans at #25 and Jaguars at #29.

The Dolphins were the biggest gainers this week after riding Jay Aijayi to an upset of Buffalo. They moved up seven spots from #28 to #21.

Now here are the complete week 8 power rankings.

Week 8’s Top 10 Teams

1.New England Patriots (6-1) (Last Week: #2)

Sure the Patriots win over the Steelers would have been more impressive if Ben Roethlisberger was starting for Pittsburgh rather than Landry Jones, but they took care of business 27-16 to pick up win number six of the season. With the Vikings faltering on Sunday, we no longer have to keep them them above New England in the power rankings out of respect for their unbeaten record. While I still like Minnesota a lot, it just didn’t feel quite right having a team with Sam Bradford as its quarterback in the #1 position. No such qualms about the Tom Brady-led Patriots.  They’ll fly to Western New York to take on the Bills this week.

2. Minnesota Vikings (5-1) (#1)

After having no turnovers in their first five games, Minnesota coughed up the balls four times (three fumbles lost and one interception) in Sunday’s sloppy 21-10 loss to the Eagles. Philadelphia exposed that Sam Bradford still doesn’t deal well with pressure. Still, you don’t start 5-0 by accident and Minnesota should continue to be one of the best teams throughout the regular season. The playoffs could be a different story though. They next face the woeful Bears in Chicago on Monday Night Football.

3.  Seattle Seahawks (4-1-1) (#3)

Seattle’s 6-6 tie against Arizona on Sunday night certainly wasn’t pretty, but it wasn’t actually a bad result for the NFC West-leading Seahawks. While Seattle only being able to muster 6 points wasn’t great, the takeaway of this weird game should be how stout both teams’ defenses are. As long as Steven Hauschka doesn’t spiral into a crippling depression after that game, they’ll be fine. Look for them to score more than six points in New Orleans on Sunday against the Saints, who give up a league-worst 32.5 points per game.

4.Dallas Cowboys (5-1) (#4)

The Cowboys remain in the #4 spot after their bye week. If Dak Prescott and co. can win their sixth straight game when they host Philadelphia on Sunday Night then they’ll have a legitimate claim to being the best team in NFC. It remains to be seen if their 11th ranked defense will continue to overachieve for the whole season though. As a Giants fan, I sure hope not.

5.Denver Broncos (5-2) (#6)

The Broncos kept Brock Osweiler’s Houston Texans from reaching the endzone to snap their two-game skid. Looks like they made the right move letting Osweiler go, because so far this season rookie Trevor Siemian has been better than the former Broncos signal caller.  On Monday night C.J. Anderson was finally able to give the Broncos offense a jolt to take some pressure off of Siemian. Their next outing is at home against the Chargers on Sunday.

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6. Green Bay Packers (4-2) (#7)

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Green Bay handled the Bears 26-10 on the latest monotonous edition of Thursday Night Football. It was a job well done but, let’s be honest, the Bears are one of the worst teams in the league. Aaron Rodgers has received a lot of criticism this season, but the weapons at his disposable are mostly subpar. Still, the smart money is on one of the best quarterbacks in the league getting on track at some point this season. They face the Falcons in Atlanta on Sunday in a game that could have serious wild card implications.

7.Kansas City Chiefs (4-2) (#8)

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With Spencer Ware averaging 5.2 yards per carry, it looks like Jamaal Charles will be a luxury for this offense going forward rather than a focal point. The Chiefs weren’t great against the Saints, but Andy Reid’s men were able to avoid costly mistakes while their opponents couldn’t. It also didn’t hurt that Alex Smith had a perfect QB rating (158.3) against the blitz in the win. A road game against the Colts is next up for Kansas City.

8. Oakland Raiders (5-2) (#13)

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Derek Carr is superior at this point to his fellow 2014 draftee Blake Bortles, and he proved it in Oakland’s 33-16 triumph in Jacksonville. While we knew the potent Raiders offense could put a lot of points on the board, it was their defensive improvement on Sunday that was most encouraging. They have an intriguing game in Tampa Bay this weekend.

9.Philadelphia Eagles (4-2) (#15)

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Who knows what to make of the Eagles. Everybody thought they were going to be terrible before the season and then they won their first three out of the gate, including a demolition of Pittsburgh. Then everyone got excited about them and they proceeded to drop two in a row after their bye. Then as everybody was writing off their hot start as a fluke, the Eagles put a halt to Minnesota’s undefeated start to the season, with their defense suffocating the Vikings offense all afternoon. A big NFC East showdown in Dallas on Sunday Night awaits.

10. Atlanta Falcons (4-3) (#5)

Atlanta will be kicking themselves after they allowed San Diego to rally from 17 points back to beat them 33-30 in overtime on Sunday. After a hot start last year they faded into oblivion, and they’re in danger of that happening again. But Matt Ryan leads the league in passing while playing the best football of his career, and I think this high-powered offense will continue to put up a lot of points. As previously stated, they host Green Bay on Sunday.

The Rest:

11. Pittsburgh Steelers (4-3) (#9)

12. Arizona Cardinals (3-3-1) (#11)

13. Washington Redskins (4-3) (#12)

14. New York Giants (4-3) (#14)

15. Buffalo Bills (4-3) (#10)

16. Cincinnati Bengals (3-4) (#18)

17. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-3) (#20)

18. Detroit Lions (4-3) (#21)

19. Houston Texans (4-3) (#16)

20. San Diego Chargers (3-4) (#26)

21. Miami Dolphins (3-4) (#28)

22. Indianapolis Colts (3-4) (#27)

23. Baltimore Ravens (3-4) (#17)

24. Los Angeles Rams (3-4) (#22)

25. Tennessee Titans (3-4) (#19)

26. Carolina Panthers (1-5) (#24)

27. New Orleans Saints (2-4) (#23)

28. New York Jets (2-5) (#29)

29. Jacksonville Jaguars (2-4) (#25)

30. Chicago Bears (1-6) (#30)

31.  San Francisco 49ers (1-6) (#31)

32. Cleveland Browns (0-7) (#32)

Final Fantasy superfans are suckers, and most of us will admit that. It’s been years, if not decades, since a game in the series genuinely met expectations. To be excited about each new release is to willfully ignore the fact that the franchise has been surpassed by just about every other top-flight RPG series that’s come along. Final Fantasy games are at best laborious oddities, and at worst maddening pieces of mediocrity. But boy, does it have a fantastic past! From the NES origins to the PlayStation high point of Final Fantasy VII, its glory days are unmatched. World of Final Fantasy exists only to get you to recall those glory days.

Game: World of Final Fantasy
Consoles: PS4 (reviewed), Vita
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix
Release Date: October 25

At its heart, World of Final Fantasy is Pokemon. Developers peppered its sweeping lands with uncountable references to nearly all previous iterations of the game, and it’s your job to ignore the ludicrous excuse for a story and wander around the wonderland, wide-eyed, mouth-agape and eager to eat up all the curiosities like a kid at an amusement park. Characters and settings from various games are mashed up, chewed up and spat out in the form of kewpie-style dolls that resemble Disney Tsum Tsums. The art style, which shamelessly panders to children, serves as the middle ground for 8-bit and polygonic characters to meet and interact.

Combat sticks with the Active Battle System format, meaning you’r free to move around and dodge attacks and position your party members for optimal tactical advantage amid a turn-based structure. Players of recent Final Fantasy games are used to the system, which keeps clashes from devolving into rote, button-mashing affairs with the same commands being mindlessly repeated. Your recruits and upgrades spice up the throwdowns with special attacks that can turn the tide — for better or for worse — in an instant. You can build up your party by battling and enlisting allies, and don’t even need to lure them in with candy.

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As in most Final Fantasy games, the plot here is a long, meandering mess of twists, asides and other general nonsense that exists mostly just to prolong itself. Those who are well versed in Final Fantasy wikis and Reddit fan theory threads will get the most out of it, no doubt squealing with joy and raging in offense at the ways the convoluted narratives are crissed and crossed. If you have a kid, there are worse ways to introduce them to the likes of innocent chocobos, power-mad Sephiroth or the walking disappointment that is Lightning.

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While by no means a “real” Final Fantasy game, World of Final Fantasy gets the long-term appeal of the series more than most other entries since the franchise’s numbered entries reached double digits. The pure, unabashed love for the saga’s many stories and its building blocks abounds in every pixel. If you’re not feeling the magic, this is nothing more than a dull, hyperextended death march. But then, so are the Pokemon games it apes. If you’re a lapsed fan of the series and not sure whether it’s worth your time to jump back in, you may as well cut out the hemming and hawing and give the game a shot, because knowing it is out there will gnaw at you until you give it a shot. At the very least, it will kill time until Final Fantasy XV comes along in November.

ORDER: World of Final Fantasy here

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World of Final Fantasy Reviews Around The Web:

“Sort of like Pokémon with Final Fantasy creatures, which is a pretty compelling hook.” –Kotaku

“You don’t know happiness until you’ve heard a Cactuar speak for the first time.” –iDigital Times

“The funniest game in the franchise.” –CinemaBlend

World of Final Fantasy Screenshots

The publisher provided a review copy. 

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The word “SPOILER” is in the title, so if that doesn’t give you the hint that Game of Thrones season 7 spoilers follow, then I don’t know how to help you — you’re just an idiot. But, for those who are slower than most, I’ll give you a second chance to get the hell out of here before you read spoilers you may not want to see (even though every real Thrones fan has seen this coming).

Ready? Okay, cause, shit is lit:

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So, yeah, you can say shit’s about to get real. This is something we’ve been waiting for since essentially the beginning of the show. It’s yet to be seen what kind of relationship the King in the North and The Dragon Queen forge — whether it’s through marriage or otherwise. However, this now confirms the long-awaited theory that Jon Snow and the North will be teaming up with Daenerys to defeat the White Walkers.

There are A LOT of great shows on television, but nothing quite like Game Of Thrones. We can’t wait.

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Your boy had a generally rough weekend so I had to take the L yesterday and work from home. Happens to the best of us. Anyway, I’m back in the office today and I realized I forgot to write my favorite Monday piece: This Week In Florida News. So, me being the committed blogger that I am, here is our Tuesday edition of This Week In Florida news, and boy is it a banger.

According to the Sun Sentinel, two men armed with an ax are accused of stealing drugs worth thousands of dollars from a Davie pharmacy and are being sought by police. Yup, just two ax-wielding dudes lookin’ to make a quick score selling some scripts, you know, Florida things.

Via Sun Sentinel:

The burglary happened at 12:41 a.m. Wednesday at a Walgreens store at 2710 N. University Dr. The men pried open the front door of the closed store and used a small hatchet to break into a door at the pharmacy area, Sgt. Mark Leone said.

Then they broke into a locked cabinet and removed numerous bottles of medication worth just over $4,500, according to Leone.

“It’s possible these guys were in the store before,” Leone said. “They knew exactly the right tools to bring. Hopefully someone says, ‘I know that guy.'”

You guys think Florida even knows there is an election going on? Or are they just running around causing mayhem, living blissfully in ignorance?

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Right now, the tallest church steeple in the world is Ulm Minster, located in the German city of Ulm. The steeple is 529 feet tall and the fourth tallest structure built before the 20th Century. But all that might come toppling down unless the drunk Germans stop peeing and vomiting at the base of the steeple, say the stone masons responsible for the care of Ulm Minster. These experts claim that all of the acid and salts in people’s urine are destroying the stone base of the church.

Locals are at a loss for how to stop people from relieving themselves on the iconic structure. They’ve upped the fines from €50 to €100 but haven’t seen any drop in the amount of urine incidents.

“I have observed it again for the last half year, and once more people are urinating and vomiting on it,” said Ulm Minster’s head mason Michael Hilbert. “I am not the pee-police, but it’s about maintaining public order,” he continued.

I mean, this story is funny and all, but how awesome is it to read about someone other than Americans destroying something great?