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“I said, ‘Tom, no offense to you, but I think he’s better than you when you were in high school,’” Badke said. “I was kidding around with him, but I believe Jack will be a tremendous athlete and will not only play his junior and senior years, he will be a captain.”
“I didn’t mean to offend anybody,” Baez said Tuesday. “I didn’t say the fans are bad. I love the fans. But I just felt like we were alone. The fans obviously want us to win, and they pay our salary, like everybody says. But we want to win, too. The frustration got to us, and I didn’t mean to offend anybody, and if I did offend anybody, we apologize.”
Newton started each of New England’s three preseason games, but he also missed five days of practice leading into Sunday’s exhibition finale against the New York Giants after a “misunderstanding” of NFL COVID-19 protocols. It required him to sit out a mandatory five-day waiting period for unvaccinated players after he attended an out-of-town doctor’s appointment.
Not counting Calvin de Haan, whose contract runs out this season, the Hawks have locked up their top three blue liners (by cap percentage) through at least through 2024-25, when offseason acquisition Jack McCabe’s contract ($4 million cap hit) runs out.
For example, last year South Carolina didn’t open its parking lots until 2 ½ hours before kickoff, prohibited tents, asked large gatherings of people to disperse and discouraged the use of any grills, coolers or buffet-style spreads. This year, South Carolina is returning to its pre-2020 policies.
“In this extraordinarily difficult moment for the people of Louisiana, we want to do our small part by assisting Tulane with the game this weekend,” Oklahoma President Joseph Harroz Jr. said. “While we regret that it’s necessary for us to host it, we will welcome the Tulane family this Saturday with open arms and heavy hearts. We hope this act is one small way that we can help alleviate some of the stress the university is currently enduring.”
All four players were depth pieces during training camp. Archibong, an undrafted rookie out of Temple, had eight tackles, a sack, a tackle for a loss and a quarterback hit in the preseason. Harrington, an undrafted rookie out of Stanford, had one catch for 8 yards. And Lacy, who spent the first three years of his career with the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys, had four catches for 33 yards.
“He’s not where he needs to be right now, but he is improving and the only thing that we can do is keep grinding with that rehab,” Nagy said. “He’s unbelievable in the meetings. I mean, he’s the same as he’s always been. Physically we’ve got to just keep taking it day by day, and I’m not going to put a timeline on that.”
“That competition with those guys there on that back end with Kindle and Artie Burns and some of these other guys, it’s been good,” coach Matt Nagy said Monday. “And I like where Kindle’s at. I think the depth behind — like, when you say nickel position, I think Duke Shelley and (Christian) have been doing a good job of battling, and that’s again stuff that we’re going to be working through tonight and into (Tuesday).
Báez — who has not hit consistently since his July 30 trade from the Cubs, got injured shortly after the deal and made a brutal baserunning gaffe during his brief stay in Queens — was vilified on Twitter, where it was pointed out that even New York Yankees icon Derek Jeter was booed at Yankee Stadium in 2004. Jeter said he deserved it, which is the proper answer most athletes give when they’re underperforming and hearing it from fans, whether they believe it or not.