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[JetChefJr @clarke917]

@NYJ_Matt GW is the people’s captain. He doesn’t need a patch.

[Matt Chabot @Chabotsports]

Monday Mock!!!

[Anthony Becht @Anthony_Becht]

Incredibly said… Incredible Leadership… this should hit home for athletes and teams everywhere👊🏼

[Glenn Naughton @JNRadio_Glenn]

@nyjets GM Darren Mougey has reportedly flown out to watch @NDFootball QB CJ Carr three times. A player for fans to get familiar with.

Every throw against @UNCFootball.

[Austin Abbott @AustinAbbott]

Transactions this offseason that look horrific so far:

- Seahawks paying Rashid Shaheed $17M instead of Ken Walker (who only makes $14.3M)

- Jags decided to not pay Parker Washington before the season started, he’s about to get a bag

- Rams trading for Myles Garrett.. LA gave CLE Jared Verse + a 2027 1st + 2028 2nd + 2029 3rd for Garrett. He has 0 tackles, went on IR and might not be back till week 9

- Patriots giving up a 2028 1st and a 2027 5th to Philly for AJ Brown who went on IR and is expected back mid season.. just 3 receptions for 26 yards

- Dolphins signing Malik Willis to a 3 Year, $67M contract.. They’re 0-3, he has 1 Passing TD and 2 INT’s heading into Week 4

- Saints signing Travis Etienne to a 4 Year, $48M contract.. he’s the 5th highest paid RB in the league and ranks 27th in Rushing Yards (128) this year..

- Buccaneers extended Baker Mayfield to a 3 Year, $165M contract.. Tampa Bay is 0-3, Baker dislocated his right thumb and will miss time. Bakers stats over his past 10 games: 11 TD’s, 11 INT’s, with a 2-8 record

I know it’s only been 3 weeks but these decisions must be keeping these General Managers up at night

[Eli Racks @IamEliRacks]

Shout-out to Long Island Memes for this one; this had me in tears. 🤣 #bigblue

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

Little kid got SMOKED by an Ohtani home run

[Anderson Miller @AndersonLMiller]

Swing Up or Swing Down? Neither 🛫⬆️

[Adam Levitan @adamlevitan]

Lot of people wondering what’s wrong with Chargers. Found it.

[John Cena @JohnCena]

Measuring your progress against others is a sure fire path to constant disappointment. Measure your progress against where you started, where you’ve been, where you were yesterday. It’s far more rewarding and informative to evaluate yourself against yourself.

[Badlands @BadlandsTOJ]

"If you're a Jets fan, you feel like you're being made the joke. You're told 'Well, nobody succeeds with the Jets. And actually Jets fans, you don't know what you watched for years. He's actually a good coach and everyone gets a second shot after the Jets because the Jets don't get anything right.'

And a Jets fan is sitting there going 'OK, I know we've gotten a lot wrong, but you don't also get to do that.' We can evaluate things in a vacuum.

Robert Saleh failed here as a coach. It was a bad run where a lot of things were unfortunately his fault. All of us wanted him to succeed; it didn't work.

And it took one game for all of the same exact things to happen. For everyone to look around and go 'uh oh,' and Jets fans are sitting there and going 'what do you mean, uh oh?!'

I was just mind blown that it took one game for that narrative to flip on its head."

@ConnorJRogers on the Robert Saleh / #Jets of it all

[New York Jets @nyjets]

Sunday's paint job

#WearWhite

[New York Jets @nyjets]

coming Sunday

wear white

[Alex Daugherty @AlexDaugherty1]

Highly recommend listening to this caller rip the Titans on @1025TheGame this morning.

"There's 30 NFL teams out there. Then there's 50 feet of horse manure. Then there's the Browns and the Titans."

Titans fans handling this well!

[New York Jets @nyjets]

HYPE. US. UP.

(might want to watch this on full volume)

[FB_Helmet_Guy @FB_Helmet_Guy]

Curtis "My Favorite" Martin

Fun fact. Curtis Martin and Barry Sanders share the NFL record for the most consecutive 1,000 yard rushing seasons to start a career, with 10 straight seasons each.

[That Guy Rocked @ThatGuyRocked]

Curtis Martin

That guy rocked.

[Texans Uniforms @TexansUnis]

Potentially a leak of Rivalries branding

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Curtis Martin is the sixth leading rusher in NFL history.

He didn't like football. At all. For his entire career.

And when Bill Parcells called to tell him he'd been drafted, Martin hung up the phone and told his family he didn't want to play.

Point Breeze, Pittsburgh. Curtis Martin grew up watching his father beat his mother.

The line he used about her at his Hall of Fame induction is one of the hardest things ever said from that podium: you'd get punched in the face and go to work with a black eye with makeup on just to support us.

His father left the family in 1978. His mother worked three jobs.

His grandmother was murdered. His aunt died. And Curtis himself had a gun put to his head as a teenager.

His words: "God's honest truth, the bullet didn't come out."

He didn't think he would live to 21.

He didn't play a down of football until his SENIOR year of high school, and only then because his mother pushed him into it to keep him off the street.

He was good enough to go to Pitt. Good enough that in 1995 the New England Patriots took him in the third round.

And here's the draft day story you've never heard.

He got off the phone with Bill Parcells, turned around to his entire family, and said: "Oh my gosh, I do not want to play football. I don't even know that I like football enough to try to make a career out of it."

His pastor, Leroy Joseph, happened to be in the room.

And he said one thing that changed everything.

"Curtis, look at it this way, man. Maybe football is just something that God is giving you to do all those wonderful things that you say you want to do for other people."

Martin described that moment as a light bulb coming on.

His own conclusion: "I knew the only way I was going to be successful at this game called football is if I played for a purpose that was bigger than the game itself, because I knew that the love for the game just wasn't in my heart."

Then he went out and put together one of the greatest careers a running back has ever had.

He ran 30 yards on his first NFL carry, scored the game winning touchdown, and became the first Patriot ever to rush for 100 yards in his pro debut. Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Eleven seasons. Five Pro Bowls. A rushing title in 2004 at age 31, with a career high 1,697 yards.

He and Barry Sanders are the only backs in history to open their careers with TEN consecutive 1,000 yard seasons.

He finished with 14,101 rushing yards. When he walked away in 2006 that was FOURTH all time. Two decades later, after Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson passed him, he's still sixth.

He did all of it without loving the thing he was doing.

In August 2012 he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. He spoke for 27 minutes with no notes in front of 12,100 people.

"I don't necessarily have notes, so I'm going to just bare my soul. So bear with me."

He said the honor made him feel awkward and out of place, because he'd never been able to identify with the love and passion the other men in that room had for football.

And then he told the crowd what he actually considered his greatest accomplishment.

Not the yards. Not the Pro Bowls. Not the bust.

Getting his mother to forgive his father.

Parcells, who introduced him, put it simply. He has tremendous compassion for his fellow man. He is the poster child for what the NFL is supposed to be.

One more thing.

Martin said he finally became a fan of football that same week, on the Friday before his induction, after hearing 93 year old Bills owner Ralph Wilson talk about the game.

He entered the Hall of Fame roughly 24 hours after becoming a fan of the sport.

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[JetChefJr @clarke917]

@DarkSideOfRing @VICETV @jasoneisener @IAmJericho @TheJimCornette @TheArnShow @PaulOrndorffWWE @Killerbee1B I really enjoyed this one. Much better than the Samoa Joe match one. That was a waste.