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Bryce Young seems like a good sort. He's certainly a fantastic quarterback for Alabama. He comes off well in those Dr. Pepper commercials. He deserves better than the Houston Texans. Any young quarterback does. The Texans are leaving little doubt they're going to get the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft. They had an embarrassing performance in a 30-15 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday to fall to 1-9-1. The Texans trailed 30-0 at halftime and it was probably worse than the score indicated. They had 32 yards on 25 plays in the first half. Houston gave up 287 by halftime. Tua Tagovailoa had 278 passing yards at halftime and could have taken a run at Norm Van Brocklin's record of 554 if head coach Mike McDaniel had reason to run up the score. Instead Tagovailoa was pulled ... in the third quarter. The Texans benched quarterback Davis Mills to start Kyle Allen for some reason (maybe it was to get closer to that first pick?) and Allen had 49 yards and a 40.9 passer rating at halftime. And somewhere, Young, his family and advisers have to be wondering what they're getting themselves into. Young is the presumed No. 1 overall pick of the draft. If the top pick ends up being someone like C.J. Stroud of Ohio State or Will Levis of Kentucky, just change the name in the headline above. Any quarterback who's going to Houston first overall shouldn't feel good about it.
WINNERS
Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley: At some point, Staley hitting all the time at the blackjack table had to result in a 21. Staley likes to gamble, and many times he has been wrong. We shouldn’t judge results over process, but the misses were piling up.On Sunday, Staley pushed the right button.
When the Chargers scored with 12 seconds left against the Arizona Cardinals, they went for the two-point conversion and the win instead of the extra point and the tie. At nearly the same time, Josh McDaniels and the Las Vegas Raiders took the extra point and the tie in Seattle. There’s no obvious decision there.
LOSERS
Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay: McVay accidentally getting slammed in the head by the helmet of a Rams player on his way into the game was a fitting image. McVay has to be miserable this season coaching a 3-8 team that has almost no hope of a real rebound this season. The Rams were bad on Sunday and that was expected. They were huge underdogs against the Kansas City Chiefs and lost 26-10.
In February, McVay was on top of the coaching world. On Sunday he was coaching Bryce Perkins at quarterback, who was subbing for injured Matthew Stafford, with Cooper Kupp and Allen Robinson sidelined too. The offense was hard to watch. Perkins had 100 passing yards. The Rams had 198 as a team. This whole Rams season has been hard to watch.
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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