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NASCAR Driver Kyle Larson Opens Up About Chiefs QB Meeting | Pro Football Network

For Larson, the experience was unexpectedly enlightening. Speaking after the meeting, he admitted his perception of football players had changed completely after witnessing the sheer depth of preparation involved.
“Well, I think what I didn’t quite realise,” said Larson. “Just being a casual fan of football was how much work it actually is. Like, I just look at big buff football players and I’m like, oh, they just have a couple meetings during the week of practices and just lift.”
Instead, Larson found a culture built on structure, discipline, and hours of mental preparation.
“So that was really need to see and just, you know, how much effort goes into you’re prepping for a single game. You know, that was, like I said, that was just eye-opening and really cool scene. You need to see the culture and leadership that goes on there. And it makes sense why they’re so successful,” explained Larson.
Larson’s visit to the Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback meeting offered him a profound new perspective on professional football. The immense mental preparation and strategic depth required particularly struck the NASCAR champion, dispelling his previous notion that the sport was solely about physical strength.

Roundtable Reactions: Ravens collapse vs. Chiefs| Baltimore Beatdown

It was clear early in Sunday’s matchup with the Chiefs that it wouldn’t end well for the Ravens. Both sides of the ball looked woefully unprepared for what should be a familiar Kansas City squad by now. All of the team’s best and highest-paid players were injured, underperforming, or both, including Lamar Jackson. The coaching staff had no answer for another Andy Reid-Steve Spagnuolo masterclass.
No team gets in their own way more than John Harbaugh’s Ravens. Far too many of their errors were self-inflicted, providing too many openings that Patrick Mahomes and Co. were not going to squander. And by the time Jackson left the game, it already felt like the rest of the team had given up.
Even more than the injuries, that might be the biggest problem facing the Ravens. Their early mistakes snowball and seem to infect the rest of the team. The offense and the defense play the opposite of complementary football, and individual bad plays turn into bad drives, which turn into bad quarters, etc.
— Nikhil Mehta

Can Ravens’ issues on both sides of the ball be fixed?| CBS Sports

These aren’t the Ravens we’ve come to know — the ones that went 25-9 with an NFL-best +360 point differential from 2023-24. They’re 1-3 for the first time since 2015, another injury-ravaged season that Baltimore finished 5-11. This was Jackson’s largest loss as a starter since 2021.
“The product that we’re putting on the field is not up to par with what the Ravens have been in the past and what the Ravens have been in the recent past,” safety Kyle Hamilton said postgame. “I think we know that. We’re trying out best to correct it. But obviously something’s wrong, so it’s up to all of us to try to fix that.”

Around the NFL

Jaguars’ Liam Coen, 49ers’ Robert Saleh clash over sign-stealing | NFL.com

Coen could be seen yelling at Saleh as he was being held back by offensive lineman Robert Hainsey following Jacksonville’s 26-21 win over San Francisco on Sunday.
“No big deal,” Coen said. “I’m just going to keep that between us right now. That’s it.”
It seemed like a bigger deal than that as the two coaches were yelling at each other as they walked off the field. Saleh had called Coen’s staff “elite” when it comes to stealing defensive signals — in a legal fashion.
Coen brushed aside those remarks when asked during the week and wouldn’t talk about it with the media after the game. But his players saw what had happened and used it as motivation on Sunday.
“You use everything you can,” quarterback Trevor Lawrence said. “If you’re going to give me free fuel, you take it. That’s something that you always do. But at the end of the day you got to go play the game. That stuff doesn’t really matter. You take care of business and execute and find a way to win the game, which we did today. So it feels great.”

Giants WR Malik Nabers believed to have suffered torn ACL vs. Chargers| NFL.com

New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers is believed to have suffered a torn ACL in Sunday’s 21-18 win over the Los Angeles Chargers, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported, per sources.
Nabers appeared to hurt his knee as he was jumping up for a ball from Jaxson Dart down the sideline midway through the second quarter. The Giants WR grimaced in pain on the turf holding his right knee following the play, which was an incompletion negated by an offsides penalty on the Chargers.
He was quickly carted to the locker room before eventually being ruled out after halftime. New York held a 10-3 lead over the visiting Chargers at the time of Nabers’ exit.

Bad Bunny to headline Super Bowl LX halftime show| ESPN

The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Bad Bunny will lead the halftime festivities from Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California.
The Puerto Rican superstar’s selection comes amid another career-defining run. He’s fresh off a historic Puerto Rico residency this month that drew more than half a million fans and is leading all nominees at the Latin Grammys in November. He has become one of the world’s most-streamed artists with albums such as “Un Verano Sin Ti,” an all-Spanish-language LP.
Bad Bunny will host “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 4.
“What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” Bad Bunny said in a statement. “It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.”

In case you missed it on Arrowhead Pride

Dave Toub is confident that Harrison Butker will bounce back soon

“We’re assuming right now that it’s just a small little thing,” Toub told reporters this week. “It’s technical. We look at the tape and see it’s an unusual miss for him: to miss it [to the] right. So it’s got to be his ball contact.
“He doesn’t need to do more; he does a lot already. If anything, we need to cut down what he does and get more specific on making sure the contact is good — [and] the rotation of the ball and the fundamentals are down.”
Toub said the staff is treating the slump as a chance to get back to basics.
“You go back from scratch,” he explained. “You evaluate it, you talk about it, you look at the tape, you build your confidence back — and then you go.”
Toub acknowledged that they’re also working on adjusting Butker’s balance between accuracy and distance.
“That’s one of the things we talked about,” Toub said. “We kick a lot of long kicks in practice. We’re going to kick more shorter kicks and less longer kicks, because the shorter kicks are the ones that you have to have. Obviously, you want to try to get the long ones too, but we can’t spend our time doing that. We have to get more specific and talk about the accuracy of the ball on those shorter kicks. That’s what we’re going to do.”

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Per Next Gen Stats, all 4 of Patrick Mahomes 4 TDs came from a clean pocket. Mahomes was pressured on just 22.0% of his dropbacks, his lowest rate in a game this season. #Chiefs #ChiefsKingdom
— Nick Jacobs (@Jacobs71) September 29, 2025