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Foles, a 10th-year NFL veteran, hasn’t played in a regular-season game in 2021. He played in nine games with seven starts in 2020, his first season in Chicago after the Bears traded a fourth-round draft pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars to acquire him. He threw for 1,852 yards, 10 touchdowns and eight interceptions last season as the Bears moved back and forth between starting him and Mitch Trubisky.
“I asked that exact question two days ago to our medical people,” Donovan said Sunday before a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. “We’re around these guys. We’re all together. We’re in locker rooms, on planes. We’re in buses, we’re in huddles. And the response I got was, ‘Count yourself lucky.’ So I don’t think there’s anything as much as we’ve been very fortunate.”
“When you look at the production on the tape and you see the speed and the instincts with which this guy plays and how he gets people around him better,” Desai said, “he’s kind of been the one constant for us this year that’s played in every single game and has been that productive every single game, week in and week out,. His ability to get off blocks, his ability to key and diagnose plays and get to the ball carrier on a consistent basis is unique and I think that’s what needs to be emphasized.”
The latest COVID-19 hit to the Saints came as they await the return of coach Sean Payton, who did not travel to Tampa, Fla., for the Saints’ victory against the Buccaneers and has worked from home since testing positive for COVID-19 last Thursday. Saints defensive coordinator Dennis Allen has been serving as acting head coach.
Star guard Zach LaVine returned to practice along with teammates Devon Dotson, Matt Thomas, Ayo Dosunmu and Alize Johnson. DeMar DeRozan, Derrick Jones Jr., Coby White, Javonte Green and Troy Brown Jr. were cleared to return to play within the last week.
“As we have done since the onset of the pandemic, we continue to evaluate our policies and procedures related to COVID-19 based on the most current information,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “Circumstances have clearly changed since our interrupted game policy was implemented in August and this updated approach is intended to support healthy, fair and equitable competition.”
“On the offensive line, we can get aggressive and do it the clean way,” Ifedi said. “In that moment, in any moment down 14 (points) and you’re trying to move the ball, (it hurts). We hadn’t been finishing drives at that point. Now you get behind the sticks and there are no plays in the playbook that can account for second-and-22. … I love the aggression. I love the passion he plays with. And I love the kid. But in the future, we don’t want to get those penalties.
It was in high school, not long after his father, Larry, died of leukemia, that Mooney felt his ambitious spark become an inferno. Something within that loss, he said, sharpened both his perspective and ability to appreciate his gifts. His drive, by extension, strengthened naturally.
The Tokyo Olympics closed as they began — in an empty stadium with masked athletes celebrating an event many of them feared would never happen. For the more than 60 athletes with Illinois ties, these Olympics will be the one where they set personal records, fell short of their own expectations, made their debut, suffered a controversial disqualification, won a medal after beating cancer, fought for their sport’s survival, missed their families, advocated for mental health issues, helped a teammate achieve a dream and had historic gold medals hung around their necks.
Dodson finished 13-for-21 shooting and had seven offensive rebounds. Westbeld went 7-for-10 and missed only two of 10 free-throws attempts, and Olivia Miles scored 20, had eight assists and six rebounds. Anaya Peoples grabbed nine rebounds, five on the offensive end for the Irish (11-2).