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Overreaction Tuesday: Officiating is the worst we’ve seen in 10 years, The Aaron Rodgers is on the way out, the NFC East is the best division in the NFL

Overreaction: Aaron Rodgers is on the way out in Green Bay.

After Sunday morning’s stunning loss to the New York Giants, Green Bay Packer fans may have had their football Sunday ruined before they woke up. The Packers lost to the now 4-1 New York Giants (27-22) dramatically, with the Giants scoring a go-ahead touchdown on a Saquan Barkley keeper with 6:12 left in the 4th quarter. The game was sealed for the Packers when Rodger’s hail Mary attempt with 7 seconds left was a strip sack recovered by Green Bay as time expired.

Rodgers has had his struggles early the past two seasons, starting 2021 with an embarrassing 38-3 loss to the New Orleans Saints and losing 2022’s opener 23-7 to the Minnesota Vikings. Games in which he did not throw for more than 200 yards and zero touchdowns, but sluggish starts should not have packers fans worried about Rodgers. After their wake-up call in week one of 2021 Rodgers went on to win the 2021 NFL MVP and the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

Instead, Packers fans should be concerned with the last of the talent surrounding Rodgers and how it is being utilized. In their three wins this year running backs Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon both had over 10 carries. Shocking I know, if you take the pressure off of your quarterback they typically play better. If the Packers want to see success this season the answer is already staring them in the face and it’s not Aaron Rodgers’s play needing to be better.

Not an overreaction: Officiating in wake of Tua’s injury has been abysmal.

Since Tua Tagovailoa’s horrific injury, the NFL has made a push on quarterback safety. This was evident Sunday in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons game, in which Tom Brady was sacked by Grady Jarrett and was awarded a roughing the passer penalty that stalled any hope of a comeback for Atlanta with three minutes to go.

Monday night football between the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders saw a similarly excessive roughing of the passer penalty against Chiefs NFL Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chris Jones. Jones had a strip sack of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr that was overturned due the the penalty.

This level of inaccuracy by officials has not been since the “Fail Mary” of 2012 and the egregious amount of pass interference penalties we saw in 2020. When the NFL has an agenda they let you know they are going to push it, no matter how much it may affect the outcomes of games. To the NFL the means are always justified by the ends.

Overreaction: The NFC East is the best division in the NFL.

Don’t let the records fool you, the NFC East is not the best division in the NFL. With the Philadelphia Eagles undefeated, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants sitting at 4-1 on paper they look like the best division in the NFL. With the exception of Washington being 1-4 the division is the most successful through five weeks of NFL football.

However, the entire division has a bottom 10 strength of schedule. The Giants and the Eagles have the easiest and second-easiest schedules in the NFL. The Commanders have the sixth easiest schedule and The Cowboys are tenth. It may look like the division is having great success and to each team, it is a credit to the coaches players, and their hard work, but to call it the best division in the NFL is a farce.

Not an overreaction: It’s a fire sale in Carolina

After Monday’s news that Matt Rhule is out as Carolina Panthers Head Coach, the defensive coordinator Phil Snow and assistant special team coach Ed Foley. This comes after the Panther’s slow start to the 2022 season in which they have been ineffective to get their offense going. The Panthers rank dead last in third down conversion (24.2%) and last in yards per game (271.4).

With Rhule’s departure and the Panthers learning toward a rebuild several teams are inquiring about the availability of wide receiver D..J. Moore and if the Panther would be open to trading him. With Baker Mayfield out for several weeks, teams will also inquire about Panthers running back Christian McCaffery possibly being on the market as well. Carolina could look salary dump this offseason and start from square one.

Under Rhule, the Panthers were 11-27 never having more than five wins in Rhule’s three seasons as head coach. Rhule was only three years into his massive seven-year 62 million dollar contract and leaves the team in the hands of defensive passing game coordinator/secondary coach Steve Wilks. Wilks was the Arizona Cardinals’ head coach in 2018 and is expected to name Panthers defensive assistant head coach Al Holcomb as the new defensive coordinator for the Panthers.

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Overreaction Tuesday: Officiating is the worst we’ve seen in 10 years, The Aaron Rodgers is on the way out, the NFC East is the best division in the NFL

Overreaction: Aaron Rodgers is on the way out in Green Bay.

After Sunday morning’s stunning loss to the New York Giants, Green Bay Packer fans may have had their football Sunday ruined before they woke up. The Packers lost to the now 4-1 New York Giants (27-22) dramatically, with the Giants scoring a go-ahead touchdown on a Saquan Barkley keeper with 6:12 left in the 4th quarter. The game was sealed for the Packers when Rodger’s hail Mary attempt with 7 seconds left was a strip sack recovered by Green Bay as time expired.

Rodgers has had his struggles early the past two seasons, starting 2021 with an embarrassing 38-3 loss to the New Orleans Saints and losing 2022’s opener 23-7 to the Minnesota Vikings. Games in which he did not throw for more than 200 yards and zero touchdowns, but sluggish starts should not have packers fans worried about Rodgers. After their wake-up call in week one of 2021 Rodgers went on to win the 2021 NFL MVP and the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

Instead, Packers fans should be concerned with the last of the talent surrounding Rodgers and how it is being utilized. In their three wins this year running backs Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon both had over 10 carries. Shocking I know, if you take the pressure off of your quarterback they typically play better. If the Packers want to see success this season the answer is already staring them in the face and it’s not Aaron Rodgers’s play needing to be better.

Not an overreaction: Officiating in wake of Tua’s injury has been abysmal.

Since Tua Tagovailoa’s horrific injury, the NFL has made a push on quarterback safety. This was evident Sunday in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons game, in which Tom Brady was sacked by Grady Jarrett and was awarded a roughing the passer penalty that stalled any hope of a comeback for Atlanta with three minutes to go.

Monday night football between the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders saw a similarly excessive roughing of the passer penalty against Chiefs NFL Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chris Jones. Jones had a strip sack of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr that was overturned due the the penalty.

This level of inaccuracy by officials has not been since the “Fail Mary” of 2012 and the egregious amount of pass interference penalties we saw in 2020. When the NFL has an agenda they let you know they are going to push it, no matter how much it may affect the outcomes of games. To the NFL the means are always justified by the ends.

Overreaction: The NFC East is the best division in the NFL.

Don’t let the records fool you, the NFC East is not the best division in the NFL. With the Philadelphia Eagles undefeated, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants sitting at 4-1 on paper they look like the best division in the NFL. With the exception of Washington being 1-4 the division is the most successful through five weeks of NFL football.

However, the entire division has a bottom 10 strength of schedule. The Giants and the Eagles have the easiest and second-easiest schedules in the NFL. The Commanders have the sixth easiest schedule and The Cowboys are tenth. It may look like the division is having great success and to each team, it is a credit to the coaches players, and their hard work, but to call it the best division in the NFL is a farce.

Not an overreaction: It’s a fire sale in Carolina

After Monday’s news that Matt Rhule is out as Carolina Panthers Head Coach, the defensive coordinator Phil Snow and assistant special team coach Ed Foley. This comes after the Panther’s slow start to the 2022 season in which they have been ineffective to get their offense going. The Panthers rank dead last in third down conversion (24.2%) and last in yards per game (271.4).

With Rhule’s departure and the Panthers learning toward a rebuild several teams are inquiring about the availability of wide receiver D..J. Moore and if the Panther would be open to trading him. With Baker Mayfield out for several weeks, teams will also inquire about Panthers running back Christian McCaffery possibly being on the market as well. Carolina could look salary dump this offseason and start from square one.

Under Rhule, the Panthers were 11-27 never having more than five wins in Rhule’s three seasons as head coach. Rhule was only three years into his massive seven-year 62 million dollar contract and leaves the team in the hands of defensive passing game coordinator/secondary coach Steve Wilks. Wilks was the Arizona Cardinals’ head coach in 2018 and is expected to name Panthers defensive assistant head coach Al Holcomb as the new defensive coordinator for the Panthers.

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Will Carson Wentz’s shoulder injury be a problem against Bears?

Will Carson Wentz be effective with a shoulder injury against the Chicago Bears?

It’s a short week for the Chicago Bears and Washington Commanders in Week 6 as the two teams will square off on Thursday Night Football. Both teams are coming off tough losses in Week 5 and are lookin to rebound.

As the Commanders come in led by Carson Wentz, the quarterback is dealing with a shoulder injury that could hamper his abilities a bit.

Wentz was ‘limited’ in practice on Tuesday with that shoulder injury. While it’s likely Wentz will play on Thursday barring any surprises, how effective will he be?

Head coach Ron Rivera doesn’t think the injury will hurt him at all:

JP Finlay

@JPFinlayNBCS

Rivera doesnt expect Carson Wentz shoulder to be a problem for the Bears game on Thursday night

1:23 PM · Oct 11, 2022

Wentz has struggled this season in his first year with Washington. He’s thrown for 1,390 yards, 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. But he’s also fumbled a few times and has been sacked 20 times as the offensive line has struggled.

If Chicago can get pressure and stop the Commanders run game, it could be a big night for the Bears at Soldier Field.

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Will Carson Wentz’s shoulder injury be a problem against Bears?

Will Carson Wentz be effective with a shoulder injury against the Chicago Bears?

It’s a short week for the Chicago Bears and Washington Commanders in Week 6 as the two teams will square off on Thursday Night Football. Both teams are coming off tough losses in Week 5 and are lookin to rebound.

As the Commanders come in led by Carson Wentz, the quarterback is dealing with a shoulder injury that could hamper his abilities a bit.

Wentz was ‘limited’ in practice on Tuesday with that shoulder injury. While it’s likely Wentz will play on Thursday barring any surprises, how effective will he be?

Head coach Ron Rivera doesn’t think the injury will hurt him at all:

JP Finlay

@JPFinlayNBCS

Rivera doesnt expect Carson Wentz shoulder to be a problem for the Bears game on Thursday night

1:23 PM · Oct 11, 2022

Wentz has struggled this season in his first year with Washington. He’s thrown for 1,390 yards, 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. But he’s also fumbled a few times and has been sacked 20 times as the offensive line has struggled.

If Chicago can get pressure and stop the Commanders run game, it could be a big night for the Bears at Soldier Field.

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BREAKING: Chicago Bears place starting LB on injured reserve

Bad news for Chicago Bears regarding a starting linebacker

The Chicago Bears have been without starting weakside linebacker Matt Adams for much of their first five games. Adams missed Weeks 3 and 4 with a hamstring injury. In Week 5 against the Minnesota Vikings, Adams sustained a calf injury. He only played four snaps in Week 5.

Adams did not participate in Monday’s walk-through practice. He will not be playing Thursday night. According to a Bears statement released Tuesday afternoon, the team has placed Adams on the injured reserve. He will not be available for at least four weeks.

Bears Communications

@BearsPR

#Bears roster move:
We have placed LB Matt Adams on Injured Reserve.

1:24 PM · Oct 11, 2022

The 26-year-old has had several injuries since joining the Bears this offseason. Adams missed time in training camp with a shoulder injury. The Bears have had several injuries at the linebacker position this season. The Bears recently signed linebacker Joe Thomas off of waivers to help the shorthanded unit.

Adams has just seven total tackles this season.

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BREAKING: Chicago Bears place starting LB on injured reserve

Bad news for Chicago Bears regarding a starting linebacker

The Chicago Bears have been without starting weakside linebacker Matt Adams for much of their first five games. Adams missed Weeks 3 and 4 with a hamstring injury. In Week 5 against the Minnesota Vikings, Adams sustained a calf injury. He only played four snaps in Week 5.

Adams did not participate in Monday’s walk-through practice. He will not be playing Thursday night. According to a Bears statement released Tuesday afternoon, the team has placed Adams on the injured reserve. He will not be available for at least four weeks.

Bears Communications

@BearsPR

#Bears roster move:
We have placed LB Matt Adams on Injured Reserve.

1:24 PM · Oct 11, 2022

The 26-year-old has had several injuries since joining the Bears this offseason. Adams missed time in training camp with a shoulder injury. The Bears have had several injuries at the linebacker position this season. The Bears recently signed linebacker Joe Thomas off of waivers to help the shorthanded unit.

Adams has just seven total tackles this season.

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In her first Chicago appearance, Clara de Asís collaborates with Aperiodic to model the aesthetic virtues of nonintervention

Clara de Asís is a Spanish-born, France-based multi-instrumentalist and sound artist who uses played and collected sounds as prompts to focus the power of the listener’s attention on the potentialities of the sound fields around them. The crackle of static and the decaying reverberations of struck metal on her new collaboration with Ryoko Akama, Sisbiosis (Erstwhile), are so involved that the presence of any traditional instrument would feel like a gauche intrusion. That’s not to say Asís doesn’t use such instruments, though—she employs them in her own performances as well as in her compositions for other players. On her 2018 solo album, Do Nothing (Another Timbre), the dissonant dialogue between her widely spaced guitar harmonics and a tolling Tibetan singing bowl generates enormous tension. And on Without (Elsewhere, 2018), performed by violinist Erik Carlson and percussionist Greg Stuart, discrete plucks and abrasions highlight the vast spaces that surround them. For her first Chicago appearance, de Asís will share the bill with local experimental ensemble Aperiodic. She will perform a solo piece for electronics and percussion, and then Aperiodic will play two of her pieces on a program that also presents works by Argentine composer Gabriela Areal. De Asís will spend the week following the concert collaborating with local sound artist Veronica Anne Salinas in a residency organized by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and Experimental Sound Studio.

“holsa” (2017) with thunder – Maastricht – LCollective 2019 by Gabriela Areal

Aperiodic, Clara de Asís Aperiodic performs music by Clara de Asís and Gabriela Areal; de Asís opens with a solo set. 8 PM, Elastic Arts, 3429 W. Diversey #208, all ages

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In her first Chicago appearance, Clara de Asís collaborates with Aperiodic to model the aesthetic virtues of nonintervention

Clara de Asís is a Spanish-born, France-based multi-instrumentalist and sound artist who uses played and collected sounds as prompts to focus the power of the listener’s attention on the potentialities of the sound fields around them. The crackle of static and the decaying reverberations of struck metal on her new collaboration with Ryoko Akama, Sisbiosis (Erstwhile), are so involved that the presence of any traditional instrument would feel like a gauche intrusion. That’s not to say Asís doesn’t use such instruments, though—she employs them in her own performances as well as in her compositions for other players. On her 2018 solo album, Do Nothing (Another Timbre), the dissonant dialogue between her widely spaced guitar harmonics and a tolling Tibetan singing bowl generates enormous tension. And on Without (Elsewhere, 2018), performed by violinist Erik Carlson and percussionist Greg Stuart, discrete plucks and abrasions highlight the vast spaces that surround them. For her first Chicago appearance, de Asís will share the bill with local experimental ensemble Aperiodic. She will perform a solo piece for electronics and percussion, and then Aperiodic will play two of her pieces on a program that also presents works by Argentine composer Gabriela Areal. De Asís will spend the week following the concert collaborating with local sound artist Veronica Anne Salinas in a residency organized by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and Experimental Sound Studio.

“holsa” (2017) with thunder – Maastricht – LCollective 2019 by Gabriela Areal

Aperiodic, Clara de Asís Aperiodic performs music by Clara de Asís and Gabriela Areal; de Asís opens with a solo set. 8 PM, Elastic Arts, 3429 W. Diversey #208, all ages

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Rapper-singer Angelenah makes her R&B debut with I Don’t Regret a Thing

Gossip Wolf has been hip to Chicago rapper and singer Angelenah, aka Ashley Hart and Angel Davanport, ever since she released the 2018 EP Sore but Grateful. She’s been sharpening her skills in the years since, and last week she dropped I Don’t Regret a Thing, which showcases her flamboyant singing across six luscious R&B tunes. Her fiery performance on the humid, slow-boiling “Drama” pushes her clarion voice so hard it starts to fray. On Thursday, October 13, Angelenah celebrates her EP with a show at Golden Dagger; ShowYouSuck, GreenSllime, and DJ TeaWhy open. Tickets are $12, and the show starts at 8 PM.

The songs on I Don’t Regret a Thing are produced by Chason Rice, the BeatPlug, the O’My’s, and Budah Tye.

This wolf can’t think of a better source for Halloween-adjacent jams than former My Gold Mask multi-instrumentalist Jack Armondo. His darkwave project, Panic Priest, makes the kind of moody, soaring Peter Murphy-esque choruses and stomping electronic beats that would’ve kept the dance floor at Neo bumping till just before sunrise. The new Panic Priest album, Psychogoria, drops via Minneapolis label Midnight Mannequin next week, just in time for peak spooky season—and Armondo celebrates with a show at the Hideout on Thursday, October 20, with openers Iron Years and Clubdrugs plus sets by DJ Scary Lady Sarah; tickets are $12, and the show starts at 9:30 PM.

Psychogoria includes a cover of the 1984 hit “Self Control” by Italian singer Raf, also covered by Laura Branigan.

Otherpeace, the rootsy, meditative solo project of long-grinding Chicago rocker Matt Clark (Pinebender, White/Light), debuted earlier this year with the charming and immersive album Capitalism Blues. Last week, Otherpeace dropped Lose Your Illusion I (For L.A.), an EP of covers of songs about Los Angeles—its drawling version of Lana Del Rey’s “Mariners Apartment Complex” belongs on any fall playlist you’ve got! Otherpeace opens for the Deer at the Hideout on Thursday, October 13; tickets are $13, and the show starts at 9:30 PM.

No word yet on Lose Your Illusion II.

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Gossip Wolf has been hip to Chicago rapper and singer Angelenah, aka Ashley Hart and Angel Davanport, ever since she released the 2018 EP Sore but Grateful. She’s been sharpening her skills in the years since, and last week she dropped I Don’t Regret a Thing, which showcases her flamboyant singing across six luscious R&B tunes. Her fiery performance on the humid, slow-boiling “Drama” pushes her clarion voice so hard it starts to fray. On Thursday, October 13, Angelenah celebrates her EP with a show at Golden Dagger; ShowYouSuck, GreenSllime, and DJ TeaWhy open. Tickets are $12, and the show starts at 8 PM.

The songs on I Don’t Regret a Thing are produced by Chason Rice, the BeatPlug, the O’My’s, and Budah Tye.

This wolf can’t think of a better source for Halloween-adjacent jams than former My Gold Mask multi-instrumentalist Jack Armondo. His darkwave project, Panic Priest, makes the kind of moody, soaring Peter Murphy-esque choruses and stomping electronic beats that would’ve kept the dance floor at Neo bumping till just before sunrise. The new Panic Priest album, Psychogoria, drops via Minneapolis label Midnight Mannequin next week, just in time for peak spooky season—and Armondo celebrates with a show at the Hideout on Thursday, October 20, with openers Iron Years and Clubdrugs plus sets by DJ Scary Lady Sarah; tickets are $12, and the show starts at 9:30 PM.

Psychogoria includes a cover of the 1984 hit “Self Control” by Italian singer Raf, also covered by Laura Branigan.

Otherpeace, the rootsy, meditative solo project of long-grinding Chicago rocker Matt Clark (Pinebender, White/Light), debuted earlier this year with the charming and immersive album Capitalism Blues. Last week, Otherpeace dropped Lose Your Illusion I (For L.A.), an EP of covers of songs about Los Angeles—its drawling version of Lana Del Rey’s “Mariners Apartment Complex” belongs on any fall playlist you’ve got! Otherpeace opens for the Deer at the Hideout on Thursday, October 13; tickets are $13, and the show starts at 9:30 PM.

No word yet on Lose Your Illusion II.

Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or email [email protected].

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