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The Raiders decided at the close of last season that they needed to improve at football's most crucial position. After nine seasons as the team's quarterback, they benched Derek Carr for the final two games of last season and terminated him last month.
They acquired free agent Jimmy Garoppolo, and General Manager Dave Ziegler is "confident" the Raiders have enhanced the quarterback position.
When Garoppolo got into the NFL as a backup to Tom Brady, Ziegler and head coach Josh McDaniels were with the Patriots. As a result, they are familiar with their new quarterback, and he is comfortable with their methods.
"Simply put: Proven leader, proven winner," Ziegler told The Athlete. com's Tashan Reed. "I believe he has won 70% of his starts." And you can argue the whys and all that, but at the end of the day, he was a part of a lot of football victories. He's a seasoned leader. He's a proven winner, and he's certainly been immersed in the attacking approach that we employ. As a result, there is an advantage. Simply expressed, it was the case."
After agreeing to terms, Garoppolo's signing was postponed by a day, as was his first news appearance. Outside the organization, there was considerable anxiety that things had taken an unexpected turn. But Garoppolo ended up signing a three-year, $72.75 million deal. Ziegler said the team “never had any concern” the deal would get done.
"It was just contractual issues like language and stuff like that," Ziegler said to Reed. "There was never any concern. We were certain that it would be completed. It was just making sure that everything — there's a lot of protection and provisions and wording and everything like that — was in order, so it just took a little longer once we all got down and began going over the contract. Because you mentioned the framework previously, but when we got down to the nuts and bolts of it, there were simply a handful of things that took a little longer to sort out than we thought."
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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