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‘Never thought I’d make this kind of money’: Batherson talks new contract
Dommersjefen om VAR-tabben: – Får tunnelsyn
Dommersjef Howard Webb snakker ut om hvorfor Erling Braut Haalands matchvinnerscoring mot Manchester United ble stående, og sier feilen kom etter at VAR-dommer Matt Donohue fikk «tunnelsyn».
– VAR blir superfokuserte på Haaland. De fastslår at han er onside og synes målet er riktig, for Haaland er ikke i offside, som første antatt, sier Webb i Match Officials Mic’d Up på Sky Sports.
Webb mener hele situasjonen med hvordan Enzo Fernández faktisk påvirket spillet ikke ble evaluert godt nok.
– Fernandez er ikke borti ballen, men Donohue evaluerer ikke de andre elementene av offside. I det øyeblikket får han tunnelsyn. Han fokuserer på Haaland og da er det opp til resten av teamet å få ham ut av den tunnelen, og dessverre skjedde ikke dette denne gangen, sier dommersjefen.
– Jeg er veldig skuffet over utfallet. Det er vi alle, og ingen mer enn dommerne selv, legger han til.
I samme program forteller Webb at han støtter det røde kortet til Citys Phil Foden, men sier at også Manchester United-kaptein Bruno Fernandez skulle hatt gult kort for sparket før Foden reagerte.
Mandag ble det kjent at VAR-duoen Donohue og Blake Antrobus ikke får dømme før tidligst etter landslagspausen igjen. afrikasportnews.co.za
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Week 2 TV schedule gives Jags coach Liam Coen more grist for "disrespect" mill
With Week 1 in the books, it's time to start thinking about Week 2. There's one game that stands out, mainly for where it has been tucked into the TV schedule.
The entire slate for the second week of the season has only two games pitting a pair of 2025 playoff teams against each other: Steelers-Patriots in the 1:00 p.m. ET cluster and Jaguars-Broncos in the late-afternoon window.
But Jaguars-Broncos isn't one of the 4:25 p.m. ET games. It begins at 4:05 p.m., with a regional TV audience. The big window goes to Commanders-Cowboys on Fox (Raiders-Chargers and Seahawks-Cardinals are also in that spot.)
Yes, the Cowboys are the Cowboys. They continue to draw big TV crowds. But the Jaguars went 13-4 last year. They thumped the Broncos in Denver in Week 16, 34-20. This time around, it's the home opener at Mile High Stadium. And, suddenly, the Broncos will be feeling more than a little antsy, after losing badly to the Chiefs on Monday night.
The scheduling decision fits nicely with Jacksonville coach Liam Coen's belief that his team is being overlooked. It gives him extra grist for the "disrespect" mill. Which should make it easier to get the players ready for a repeat of last year's underrated performance against the team that won the No. 1 seed in the AFC.
From a programming standpoint, it makes sense to go with the Cowboys. Still, Jaguars-Broncos should be a better — and more consequential — contest.
The message to Coen and the Jags is clear. To get more attention, you'll have to command it. The best way to do that in the short term will be to send the Broncos to 0-2.
Ben Johnson: We knew we couldn't let off the gas against Carolina
The Bears had their highest Week 1 scoring output in franchise history on Sunday with the club’s 59-37 victory over the Panthers.
While Chicago was up 45-31 with Kyle Monangai’s 61-yard touchdown run at the end of the third quarter, the team put up two more TDs in the fourth to keep the game out of reach.
Head coach Ben Johnson said in his Monday press conference that was by design, in part because of Carolina’s offensive effectiveness.
“I think we needed it,” Johnson said of the team’s final two touchdowns, via transcript from the team. “The game was still back and forth at that point. Anytime you're still within a couple of scores there in the fourth quarter, the game is still on, and so we needed that. I forget what time it was that we took the field for that last drive, and it was, ‘Guys, we want to finish the game with the ball’, and then ended up getting one to pop through, and ‘Swifty’ [D’Andre Swift] ended up scoring there at the end.
“But I thought they did a really good job in the fourth quarter, pressing on the gas. And it's a credit to Carolina more than anything. We went into the game with a lot of respect for how well they could play in the fourth quarter. They had a number of games a year ago where the quarterback and the offense found a way to come back and win from behind, that was just something that was on our mind going into the game. We knew we couldn't let off the gas.”
After such an impressive performance in Week 1, we’ll see what the Bears can do as a follow up in the club’s home opener against the division-rival Vikings on Sunday.