Lot of stuff going on, with seasons overlapping……..
— Tuesday was the NFL’s trade deadline; Jets dumped DT Quinnen Williams, CB Ahmad (Sauce) Gardner, got three first round draft picks in return.
Next two drafts, Jets now own five first round picks. Which quarterback will they draft?
— Teams with two first round picks in the 2026 Draft: Rams, Browns, Jets
— Cardinals 27, Cowboys 17
Arizona snaps a five-game losing skid, all close losses.
Arizona’s first six drives: 52 plays, 312 yards, 27 points.
Last four games, Cardinals converted 36-72 third down plays.
Cardinals are 9-1 ATS last ten games as a road underdog.
Cowboys in first half: 28 plays, 98 yards, no points.
Cowboys’ only first half score came on a blocked punt for TD.
Cowboys were minus-3 in turnovers.
Dallas is 0-5 when they score less than 37 points.
— In their last two games, Houston Texans scored on 9 of their 23 drives, which isn’t bad, but unfortunately for the Texans, those nine scores were 7 field goals, only 2 touchdowns.
In Sunday’s 18-15 loss to Denver, Texans went 5-for-6 kicking field goals, but you don’t win much when you don’t score a touchdown.
— Famous birthdays, November 5th:
Elke Sommer, 85
Art Garfunkel, 84
Tatum O’Neal, 62
Famke Janssen, 61
Javy Lopez, 55
Johnny Damon, 52
Jason Kelce, 38
Odell Backham Jr, 33
— NFL divisional trends:
AFC East
14-10 ATS non-divisional games
AFC North
Home teams 4-0 ATS divisional games
9-17 ATS non-divisional games
AFC South
12-12 ATS non-divisional games
AFC West
8-5 ATS non-divisional home games.
4-9 ATS non-divisional road games.
NFC East
Home teams 4-2 ATS divisional games
10-13 ATS non-divisional games
NFC North
5-2 ATS non-divisional home favorite
NFC South
13-15 ATS non-divisional games
NFC West
16-7 ATS non-divisional games
— College football trends, conference games:
American
Home favorites 10-6 ATS
Road favorites 11-6 ATS
ACC
Home favorites 11-14 ATS
Road favorites 11-9 ATS
Big 18
Home favorites 12-17 ATS
Road favorites 10-10 ATS
Big X
Home favorites 10-6 ATS
Road favorites 11-6 ATS
Conference USA
Home favorites 8-6 ATS
Home underdogs 7-4 ATS
Mid-American
Home favorites 12-5 ATS
Home underdogs 9-3 ATS
Mountain West
Home favorites 9-8 ATS
Home underdogs 4-4 ATS
SEC
Home favorites 15-13 ATS
Home underdogs 7-6 ATS
Sun Belt
Home favorites 10-8 ATS
Home underdogs 9-6 ATS
— Movie of the Day: The Fugitive (1993)- A doctor is wrongly accused of murdering his wife; he has to find the real killer while being pursued by a veteran US Marshal.
Harrison Ford is the doctor, Tommy Lee Jones is the marshal, Sela Ward is the doctor’s wife, Joe Pantoliano is one of the other policemen.
Excellent movie, lot of drama.
— UConn’s football is 6-3 and bowl eligible under coach Jim Mora Jr; all three of their losses came in overtime. Huskies won the Fenway Bowl LY, their first bowl win since 2009.
— Auburn fired football coach Hugh Freeze, who went 15-19 in 2+ years with the Tigers; he gets a $15.8M buyout to take a hike. Auburn has lost five of its last six games.
— South Carolina is 3-6, lost its last four games; they fired offensive coordinator Mike Shula, who was in his first season as Carolina’s OC. Gamecocks rank last in the SEC in both points (19.7) and yards per game (294.1).
Mike Shula is the answer to a good trivia question: he was the head coach at Alabama just before Nick Saban took over the Crimson Tide.
— With coaching jobs coming open, other coaches get big raises to stay where they are:
Nebraska signed Matt Rhule to a two-year contract extension that will take him through the 2032 season; Nebraska is 6-2 this year; Rhule led the program to its first bowl game since 2016 last year.
SMU signed coach Rhett Lashlee to a new seven-year deal that keeps him with the Mustangs thru 2032; $$$ details weren’t provided, but apparently the deal will make him one of the 10 highest-paid coaches in college football.
