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Mike Vrabel – Titans to start QB Joshua Dobbs vs. Jaguars

The Tennessee Titans will start Joshua Dobbs at quarterback in Saturday’s de facto AFC South title game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, coach Mike Vrabel announced Monday.

The winner of Saturday night’s game in Jacksonville (8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN/ABC) will win the division title.

The Titans (7-9) have lost six straight games, including Thursday night against the Dallas Cowboys when Dobbs made his first NFL start.

Dobbs completed 20 of 39 passes for 232 yards with a touchdown and an interception in the 27-13 loss.

The Titans turned to Dobbs over rookie Malik Willis, who has been ineffective in three starts.

Willis, selected in the third round of the 2022 draft, has failed to pass for 100 yards or complete a touchdown pass in any of his three starts in place of Tannehill. The Titans are 1-2 in his starts despite Willis completing just 50.8% of his passes and having three passes intercepted. He has rushed for 123 yards and a touchdown.

Titans starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill is out for the rest of the regular season and likely the postseason, if Tennessee qualifies, after undergoing surgery for a high right ankle sprain, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Titans officially placed Tannehill on injured reserve on Thursday, meaning he will have to miss at least three games before he can return.

The Jaguars (8-8) have won four straight games entering Saturday’s game.

ESPN’s Turron Davenport contributed to this report.

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Mike Vrabel: We’ll decide next week whether Josh Dobbs or Malik Willis starts vs. Jaguars

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The AFC South will be on the line in the season finale when the Titans play the Jaguars, and the Titans don’t yet know who their starting quarterback will be.

Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, who made the surprise decision to start the newly arrived Josh Dobbs over rookie Malik Willis in Thursday night’s loss to the Cowboys, said after the game that a decision will come next week.

“We will continue to digest this over the weekend and make a decision,” Vrabel said. “Malik has worked hard, but then we just have to see where we are at with the quarterback position here going down to the last week of the season.”

Although the Titans lost, Vrabel sounded impressed with how quickly Dobbs has been able to come in and learn the offense.

“It was a great opportunity to evaluate Josh. We’ll make a decision going forward. He did some good things. We certainly would like to have a couple throws back. We will kind of see where things are here in a couple of days,” Vrabel said.

With Ryan Tannehill on injured reserve, the Titans don’t have any other options. Either Dobbs or Willis will be starting with the playoffs on the line next weekend.

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Hopeful Signs for Democrats in the 2022 Midterms



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The race to the midterm elections will accelerate after Labor Day—and if past is prologue, Democrats are likely to lose control of at least one legislative chamber. But current facts are more ambiguous than the historical record.

Midterm elections are usually referendums on the incumbent president and his party. Although President Biden’s job approval remains low (as it has been for the past year), it appears to have improved by 2 to 3 percentage points in recent weeks. If this trend continues, the president will be less of a drag on his party’s candidates than he was at his nadir.

Surprisingly, Democrats remain tied with Republicans in the generic congressional ballot, which reflects national preferences for the parties’ House candidates. If this is still true on Election Day, Republican gains will be much smaller than they were in 1994 and 2010. Other factors—including the record low number of truly competitive House districts—point in the same direction.

In Senate races, candidate quality matters more. As has happened repeatedly in recent cycles, Republicans appear to have damaged their prospects during primary contests by choosing nominees who have more appeal with their party’s base than with statewide electorates. In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona, nominees backed by

Donald Trump

trail their Democratic opponents, several by wide margins.

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Pat Toomey,

the two-term Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Democrat Lt. Gov.

John Fetterman

leads TV personality

Mehmet Oz

by double digits. In Ohio—which Mr. Trump carried by wide margins in 2016 and 2020—Democratic Rep.

Tim Ryan

has moved out to a 4.5-point lead over political neophyte J.D. Vance. If Democrats can pick up this seat, which Republicans have held since 1999, the GOP’s chances of retaking the Senate will be dealt a possibly fatal blow, even if

Herschel Walker

and

Blake Masters

manage to eke out victories over Democratic incumbents in Georgia and Arizona.

Inflation will do more than any other issue to shape this year’s midterms, and broad-based price increases have tilted polls toward the Republicans since last fall. But even on this issue recent trends have been favorable for Democrats. According to the AAA’s daily survey, gasoline prices have fallen to $3.95 a gallon from a peak of $5.02 two months ago. Lower shipping prices and a strengthening dollar should hold down the prices of imported goods, and bloated inventories will force retailers to give consumers some relief. Although July’s more positive inflation report—which showed a modest reduction in year-over-year inflation, to 8.5% from 9.1%—doesn’t necessarily signal a trend, a sustained decline between now and November could persuade some voters that the worst is behind them.

In midterm elections, turnout is variable—and crucial. When Democratic interest in the 2014 cycle was muted, Republicans added 13 House seats to their already substantial majority. In 2018, by contrast, Democrats surged to the polls to express their opposition to President Trump and gained 41 seats, retaking the majority after eight years in opposition.

Democrats’ enthusiasm about going to the polls this fall had substantially trailed Republicans’—but recent events have narrowed the gap. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democratic interest in the midterms surged. The passage of the major energy-and-climate bill that many Democrats had given up for dead further lifted their spirits.

The abortion issue could prove a game-changer. As the results of Kansas’ Aug. 2 referendum indicate, the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization isn’t popular, and severe restrictions on abortion are even less so. Eighty-five percent of Americans favor allowing abortions in cases of rape, incest and risks to the mother’s life, and a strong majority believe that the procedure should be widely available during the first trimester of pregnancy. While only 3 in 10 Americans favor abortion on demand, less than 1 in 10 support an outright ban. Most voters accept abortion in some circumstances but not others, and candidates who appear dogmatic or extreme will pay a price at the polls. By a margin of 25 points, voters favor protections for abortion in their state constitutions—a position backed by most demographic groups and even by one-third of Republicans.

Women care about this issue, which now trails only inflation in their list of top concerns. The pain of loss typically outweighs the satisfaction of gain, and tens of millions of pro-choice women have suffered a loss that until recently seemed unimaginable. If Democrats do better than expected this November, the justices who voted to overturn Roe will be a big piece of the explanation.

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All the ways Americans are trying to avoid pregnancy in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson decision

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The landmark Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V. Wade has sparked an influx of Americans to take action on avoiding pregnancy, including getting vasectomies and building a supply of Plan B pills. 

“It’s not right for everybody,” Lyon Lenk told Fox 17 of deciding to get a vasectomy after Roe was overturned. “Either I get this, or we risk [his fiancee] being denied a procedure down the line and that’s unacceptable to me, so it’s not a sacrifice, it’s the right thing to do.”

The nation’s highest overturned Roe V. Wade last Friday, effectively ending the recognition of abortion as a constitutional right. Urologists who spoke to the media conveyed there was an almost immediate uptick in vasectomy inquiries after the decision. 

“Typically, it’s about three phone calls over a weekend,” Kansas City Urology Care’s Dr. Christian Hettinger told Fox 17 of a single clinic’s calls for vasectomy consults. “Over this past weekend, it was 50 calls looking for vasectomies.” 

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Overall, Hettinger said calls about the permanent sterilization procedure increased by about 900% over the course of less than a week. 

Another urologist in Florida, dubbed the “Vasectomy King,” reported more of the same. Dr. Doug Stein said he typically received between four or five vasectomy requests per day, but that figure shot up to between 12 to 18 per day, the Washington Post reported. 

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“It was very, very noticeable Friday, and then the number that came in over the weekend was huge and the number that is still coming in far exceeds what we have experienced in the past,” Stein told the Washington Post. “Many of the guys are saying that they have been thinking about a vasectomy for a while, and the Roe v. Wade decision was just that final factor that tipped them over the edge and made them submit the online registration.”

Thomas Figueroa is among the group of men saying the Dobbs v. Jackson decision last week overturning Roe pushed him to get a vasectomy. 

“It is something I put on the back-burner of my mind until very recently, when the Supreme Court decision happened,” Figueroa, 27, told the Washington Post of his decision to get a vasectomy. “That was basically the triggering factor right there. It pushed my mind to say: ‘Okay, I really do not want children. I’m going to get this vasectomy now.’”

But vasectomies aren’t the only trending method to prevent pregnancies following the Supreme Court’s decision: Sex strikes have also swept the nation. 

“If we can’t safely go out and have sex and know that we will have a choice after that, then why should we be expected to?” Caroline Healey, a 22-year-old event coordinator, told the New York Post. 

She said that men who do not get a vasectomy and are not protesting in the streets for easily-accessible abortions “do not deserve to have sex with me.” 

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“I think it’s absolutely valid for us to be withholding the Holy Grail that men seem to think is important,” she continued in her comments to the New York Post. 

The calls to withhold sex became so prevalent that “abstinence” even trended on Twitter Saturday afternoon. 

Women are also stockpiling Plan B, a pill taken after intercourse to prevent pregnancy, and other similar medications after last Friday. Some retail chains have also decided to ration such pills as people rush to buy them. 

Volunteer clinic escort, Kaleb Masterson, poses for a portrait outside of a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 12, 2021. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
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“My first thought was that I would like to purchase morning-after pills not only for myself but for those who need it, because people are going to buy them and resell them for a crazy price,” 21-year-old Sarah McKenna told the New York Times. “I have friends and family who can’t always afford those things and I wanted to just have some extra to make sure that the people who need it can have it. Even if I have to ship it to somebody randomly.”

Even before the overturning of Roe was officially announced last week, some women had already rushed to get an IUD, which is a small device put into a woman’s uterus to prevent pregnancy. 

“We have to prepare for contraceptives to also be targeted. At this point, the possibilities are endless, so I’d rather be prepared,” Arlin Téllez told Bloomberg after scheduling her IUD appointment following the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion. “As someone in their early 20s, I am not ready to be a mother.”

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Conservatives celebrated the overturning of Roe last week, while supporters of abortion have protested in the streets demanding easy access to the procedure. 

Some pro-choice activists have also targeted pro-life pregnancy centers, vandalizing the buildings and leaving thousands of dollars in damages. The vandalism has also extended to some Catholic churches, including one outside of Washington, D.C., that was graffitied with messages such as, “This won’t stop” and “Separation of Church + State.”

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“Lou Dobbs Tonight” has been canceled after a decade

Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” whose host has trumpeted unfounded assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election, has been canceled. Fox News Media said in a statement Friday the move was part of routine programming alterations that it had foreshadowed in an announcement last fall.

Fox News Media “regularly considers programming changes and plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate post-election, including on Fox Business — this is part of those planned changes,” the company said.

Whether the cancellation ends Dobbs’ career with Fox Business wasn’t addressed, and the company had no further comment. The former CNN host started his show at the channel in March 2011, and it became among the most-watched business news channel programs.

Lou Dobbs on September 23, 2019 in New York City.

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The statement appeared to distance the cancellation from a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed Thursday against Fox and three of its hosts, including Dobbs, by the election technology company Smartmatic. In a previous statement, Fox News said it would “vigorously defend against this meritless lawsuit in court.”

The replacement for “Lou Dobbs Tonight” will be announced soon, Fox News said. The show last aired on Friday, with a guest host sitting in for Dobbs, who had no immediate statement.

An interim show, “Fox Business Tonight,” will air starting 5 p.m. Eastern Monday with rotating hosts Jackie DeAngelis and David Asman and repeat at 7 p.m. ET.

In December, Smartmatic sent a letter threatening legal action to Fox and two other networks, Newsmax and One America News Network, also popular with supporters of former President Donald Trump.

That month, Fox aired pre-taped segments in which a voting technology expert said he hadn’t seen any evidence that Smartmatic software was used to alter vote counts. The segments aired on Dobbs’ program and on Fox News Channel shows with Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.

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