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NFL Week 3 takeaways: Lamar Jackson, Doug Pederson steal the show; Chargers, Patriots in trouble
Another Sunday of football is just about in the books. The Colts stunned the Chiefs. The Eagles destroyed the Commanders. The Dolphins stayed unbeaten. And that was just a taste of Week 3, with prime-time matchups still on tap.
Miss the first waves of Week 3 action? Get yourself fully caught up with our Sunday Scramble, a weekly rundown of top takeaways and tidbits. Like the best greasy breakfast plates at your local diner, this is meant to be a hodgepodge of the good stuff — from weekly MVPs and true-or-false narratives to a look ahead at next weekend’s best games and hot-seat candidates.
Now dig in, and let’s recap:
Week 3 Awards
AFC MVP: Ravens QB Lamar Jackson
Tua Tagovailoa’s Week 2 breakout stole his MVP-caliber spotlight a week ago, but Jackson was back at it against the Patriots, waltzing through Bill Belichick’s defense with ease. By the end of the day, the speedster topped 100 yards on the ground and totaled five touchdowns as Baltimore approached a 40-burger in Foxborough. Elite talent, reconfirmed.
NFC MVP: Eagles DE Brandon Graham
Carson Wentz didn’t even get the chance to let it rip against his old team, because the Eagles’ D-line was in his face all day. Graham was the headliner in the assault on Washington, totaling 2.5 sacks, five quarterback hits and a pass deflection as Philly limited the Commanders to 240 yards in a 24-8 rout. Not bad for a 34-year-old coming off a torn Achilles.
Coach of the Week: Jaguars’ Doug Pederson
Make that two weeks in a row for Dougie P. His fellow AFC coach, Mike McDaniel, deserves every bit of hype guiding a surprise 3-0 team, but no one had the Jags blowing out the Colts and Chargers in back-to-back weeks. Trevor Lawrence looks more comfortable by the week under his new head man, and Pederson’s handpicked DC, first-timer Mike Caldwell, is thriving.
Mr. Cool of the Week: Colts QB Matt Ryan
He didn’t necessarily have a pretty day in a defensive battle with the Chiefs, but guess what? Any time you can get body-slammed on a sack-fumble, dogpiled by an edgy Chris Jones and still stand tall to throw the go-ahead touchdown to beat Patrick Mahomes, you deserve props. Indy isn’t dead yet at 1-2, and their QB’s resilience helped a lot.
Teams of the Week
- The Dolphins, for beating the Bills to shut up (more) critics as Tua Tagovailoa keeps firing darts from the pocket
- The Panthers, for unlocking Laviska Shenault to win an ugly contest with the Saints
- The Vikings, for withstanding the Lions’ early magic to get a much-needed rebound victory in the North
- The Jaguars, for embarrassing the banged-up Chargers to get Doug Pederson the respect he deserves
Fantasy Favorites
The CBS Fantasy team has you covered with the latest waiver recommendations, Week 4 projections and much more. In the meantime, here are the guys I’d be eyeing if I were you:
- Seahawks QB Geno Smith: You don’t wanna be relying on him every week, but as a streaming option, you can do much worse. Smith’s now thrown 2+ TDs in two of his three starts despite Seattle’s general mediocrity.
- Jaguars WR Zay Jones: Trevor Lawrence connected with everyone in a big win over the Chargers, but Jones has now totaled 24 targets in three games. He’s clearly cemented himself as a top-three receiving option for a growing offense.
- Packers WR Romeo Doubs: That preseason connection is starting to translate to the games, with the rookie collecting at least five targets from Aaron Rodgers in two of his three games. His role should only grow moving forward.
True or False
Which developing narratives — popular or artificial — are actually valid?
The Chargers are in trouble: Not only did Justin Herbert take the field with injured ribs Sunday, but L.A. also lost Rashawn Slater and Joey Bosa against the Jaguars, with stars like Keenan Allen and Corey Linsley already banged up. Herbert’s presence will keep them dangerous, but this wave of medical issues could ruin his supporting cast. Verdict: TRUE
The Patriots are all but dead: After barely beating the Steelers in Week 3, New England could not keep up with the high-flying Ravens on Sunday, and Mac Jones — already recovering from a sore back — reportedly suffered a more serious ankle injury. With the Bills and Dolphins possessing the juice in the AFC East, their playoff hopes look iffy. Verdict: TRUE
The Colts are back to contender status: Beating the Chiefs is a massive “W,” right? Well, yes, to stave off an 0-2-1 start. But their offense, despite the clutch finish, was still thoroughly ugly, and K.C. didn’t help itself with some costly penalties and special teams gaffes. For now, it’s probably safer to bet on another team in the AFC South. Verdict: FALSE
On the Horizon: Week 4
We’ve still got a few games to round out Week 3, but here’s how we’d rank the best of next week’s matchups:
3. Rams at 49ers: Jimmy Garoppolo gets to debut as Trey Lance’s replacement (and reprise his own QB1 role) in prime time to close Week 3, and then he’s back under the bright lights for a Monday night rematch of the 2021 NFC Championship.
2. Chiefs at Buccaneers: A rematch of Super Bowl 55, when Brady and the Bucs rolled over the Chiefs, this one will be a rebound spot for both contenders, after Kansas City stumbled over itself against the Colts.
1. Bills at Ravens: Firepower. You can’t get much better than Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson, and the latter should be motivated to show up at home after Allen’s Bills beat the Ravens to advance to the AFC title game in 2020.
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Beyond Meat suspends operating chief Doug Ramsey after arrest for alleged nose biting
Douglas Ramsey
Source: Washington County, Arkansas
Beyond Meat said its operating chief Doug Ramsey has been suspended, effective immediately, after he was arrested Saturday evening for allegedly punching a man and biting his nose.
The company said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon that Jonathan Nelson, the company’s senior vice president of manufacturing operations, will oversee Beyond’s operations activities on an interim basis.
Ramsey, 53, was charged with terroristic threatening and third-degree battery and booked in the Washington County jail after allegedly assaulting a driver in a parking garage near Razorback Stadium.
Ramsey allegedly punched through the back windshield of a Subaru after it made contact with the front tire of Ramsey’s car, according to a preliminary police report obtained by CNBC. The Subaru owner then got out of his car, and Ramsey allegedly started punching him and bit his nose, “ripping the flesh on the tip of the nose,” according to the report. The victim and a witness also alleged that Ramsey told the Subaru owner he would kill him.
Ramsey has been Beyond Meat’s chief operating officer since December. The news of his arrest after a University of Arkansas football game brought more scrutiny to the vegan food company, which has been struggling with disappointing sales and investor skepticism over its long-term growth prospects. The stock has fallen 75% this year, dragging its market down to $1.02 billion. Just three years ago, the company was valued at $13.4 billion.
Prior to joining Beyond Meat, Ramsey spent three decades at Tyson Foods, overseeing its poultry and McDonald’s businesses. Beyond Meat was relying on his experience to help the company successfully pull off big launches, particularly with fast-food companies like Taco Bell owner Yum Brands and McDonald’s.
Ramsey did not respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
Jacksonville Jaguars running back James Robinson should play opener, Doug Pederson says
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars running back James Robinson should play in Sunday’s season opener against the Washington Commanders, coach Doug Pederson said Monday.
Robinson’s return comes less than nine months after he suffered a torn left Achilles tendon in a loss to the New York Jets on Dec. 26. He had been limited to individual work throughout much of training camp but did participate in team drills during the team’s joint practices with the Atlanta Falcons on Aug. 24 and 25.
It’s uncertain how much Robinson will play against the Commanders; Pederson has said throughout camp that he wanted to be careful with Robinson and not risk reinjury.
Since he also hasn’t appeared in any preseason games, it’s safe to assume Robinson won’t have his normal workload.
Second-year player Travis Etienne, who missed his rookie season with a Lisfranc injury, has been the Jaguars’ No. 1 back in camp and the preseason, and rookie fifth-round draft pick Snoop Conner has worked as the No. 2.
Robinson has rushed for 1,837 yards and 15 touchdowns and caught 80 passes for 566 yards and three touchdowns over two seasons with the Jaguars.
In 2020, Robinson posted the most scrimmage yards (1,414) and second-most rushing yards (1,070) by an undrafted rookie in the common draft era.
Doug Mastriano campaign blames ‘default Facebook setting’ for deleted videos, ignores other questions
Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor, is sounding the “fake news” alarm over a Monday Inquirer article about his disappearing Facebook videos, claiming that they were removed due to a “default Facebook setting” that automatically deleted the videos after 30 days.
His campaign did not address why the most recent video cited in the story — recorded in late June — had already disappeared within about a week, or why many videos that are older than 30 days have not been deleted.
Jenna Ellis, a Mastriano legal adviser and former attorney for Donald Trump who was involved in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, on Monday tweeted a statement attributed to an unnamed spokesman for the Mastriano campaign.
“The biased mainstream media is trying to manufacture a scandal, but they haven’t done their homework,” the statement said.
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The Mastriano campaign did not respond to a request for comment prior to publication of Monday’s Inquirer story. Nor did it respond to the New York Times when it later asked similar questions about why some videos remained and others vanished.
The Inquirer reported on Monday that at least 14 videos have disappeared from the Mastriano campaign Facebook page in the last three months. In them, he claims that global warming is based on “pop science,” theorizes that Republicans who don’t support him secretly “disdain veterans,” and reiterates his position that “life starts at conception.”
In the past, Mastriano has deleted tweets promoting the Qanon conspiracy theory, and other potentially problematic content. His Senate website has also been scrubbed of a plan he proposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic to lift medical privacy restrictions so the government could disclose the names and locations of people infected.
Since Monday’s article published, Mastriano has been criticized by Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee for governor, and other Democrats who accused him of trying to moderate his positions for the general election after prevailing in a cutthroat Republican primary in May.
“Doug Mastriano spends every day trafficking conspiracy theories and reminding voters his top priority is banning abortion with no exceptions,” Manuel Bonder, a campaign spokesman for Shapiro, told the New York Times. “No amount of clicking the delete button can change the fact that Mastriano is the most extreme, dangerous candidate in Pennsylvania history.”
The Mastriano campaign did not respond Tuesday to a request for comment.
Opinion | Doug Ford’s win in Ontario must be a wake-up call against complacency
So what went wrong? It’s easier to ask what went right, because the answer is nothing, unless you’re Ford. In that case, the answer is two terrible opposition parties that spent the election fighting one another for second place; an antidemocratic and unconstitutional law passed by the premier to silence his critics by limiting third-party advertising and advocacy (and kept in place by a constitutional override); and a PC campaign that got away with shoving protesters and hiding from the public and media.
Ford met the material and class interests of many voters, with low taxes and an emphasis on small government and being “open for business.” For others, Ford satisfied their misguided symbolic and cultural needs. As Clifton van der Linden, assistant professor of political science at McMaster University and creator of the Vote Compass tool noted, Ford capitalized on opposing issues including statue removal, diversity and inclusion policies, anti-racism and colonialism education policy, medical treatment related to gender transition and supervised injection sites. The culture war in Ontario played a notable role in returning Ford, a fact that went unnoticed by many. In truth, this election was a battle over a dangerous and growing politics of race, class and gender grievance.
The polls barely moved throughout the campaign, save for a PC surge at the end and a Liberal dip. More than two years into the pandemic — with the country sliding deeper into an affordability crisis, weathering the increasingly heavy effects of climate change and witnessing an uncertain geopolitical realignment — people are scared, anxious and angry. The opposition parties failed to speak to and mobilize them — hence the low turnout that was central to the Ford win. The failure to capitalize on Ford’s missteps and get voters to the polls is especially damning for the NDP, who dropped 800,000 votes from its 2018 tally and lost 9 seats. The ostensible party of the workers didn’t show up for the class they’re meant to represent above all.
A majority of voters preferred a government not run by Ford. While the PCs won 40.8 percent of the popular vote, that was good enough for 83 of the legislature’s 124 seats — a rare second majority that was actually bigger than the first. The New Democrats and Liberals managed just 39 seats combined with their shared total of 47.5 percent of the votes. The PCs understood the assignment: to win more with less. Call it vote efficiency if you like. It’s cynical but, in a world where strategy and results trump what’s best for democracy, you get what you get.” type=”text” originalidx=”6″ itid=”lk_inline_manual_10″ index=”8″ paragraphidx=”5″>
counterpointDoug Ford’s sweeping win in Ontario is a model for populist Republicans
counterpointDoug Ford’s sweeping win in Ontario is a model for populist Republicans
The electoral system in the province didn’t help matters. A majority of voters preferred a government not run by Ford. While the PCs won 40.8 percent of the popular vote, that was good enough for 83 of the legislature’s 124 seats — a rare second majority that was actually bigger than the first. The New Democrats and Liberals managed just 39 seats combined with their shared total of 47.5 percent of the votes. The PCs understood the assignment: to win more with less. Call it vote efficiency if you like. It’s cynical but, in a world where strategy and results trump what’s best for democracy, you get what you get.
Where does the opposition movement go from here? The future leaders of the NDP and Liberals should be furious. They ought to be angry about workers getting a raw deal, people not being able to afford to live, disabled folks living in legislated poverty. Angry about a crumbling health-care system. Angry about overstuffed schools. Angry about climate inaction. They must be capable of connecting with Ontarians and providing leadership that recognizes public suffering — and must commit to structural change.
The NDP in particular should be attentive to this anger and should make it their core mission to empower the party’s grass roots to build a pan-province movement of unabashedly leftist politics. They ought to move like lives depend upon it — because lives do depend upon it. There’s no time left for waiting.
This election must be a wake-up call for a complacent province and the uninspired opposition parties who have done nothing to break that complacency. The status quo cannot be allowed to hold. But that change is a way off, if it is to arrive at all.
For now, Ford and his government will have the run of the legislature with a huge majority and effectively no opposition to keep them in check. Maybe that will lead Ford toward defeating himself with hubris. But it’s best not to count on that. Instead, Ontarians should get organized, choose better leaders and commit to grass roots, barnstorming politics aimed at transforming the province. And that work must start today.
Opinion | Doug Ford’s sweeping win in Ontario is a model for populist Republicans
Instead, Ford swamped his foes left and right. The PCs won 83 of the province’s 124 seats, a seven-seat gain from his 2018 landslide. His party carried virtually every seat in its rural southern Ontario heartland, losing only one riding to an independent running with the outgoing PC member’s endorsement. The PCs also dominated suburban Toronto and won two seats in suburban Ottawa. Republicans would love to emulate this level of success in uniting rural and suburban voters in this year’s midterm elections.
Ford’s success with ethnic minorities and working-class voters is even more important to understand. A pre-election poll found the PCs winning among the province’s “visible minorities,” a Canadian term that covers “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.” The PCs carried every seat in minority-dominated Brampton and Mississauga, gaining three seats from the center-left New Democratic Party, and won four seats in Scarborough, a district of Toronto where minorities make up nearly 75 percent of the population. The PCs also carried union-heavy areas, such as Windsor-Tecumseh and Timmins, which the New Democratic Party had long dominated. The PCs won the endorsement of eight traditionally anti-PC trade unions in the process.
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“Ford Nation,” it seems, is a very inclusive movement.
Ford’s success isn’t hard to break down. He governs from the center-right, not the hard right. He expelled three members from the PC caucus who refused to support covid lockdowns or be vaccinated, as per party policy. Two formed new parties — the New Blue and Ontario parties — but those protests fizzled, winning only 4.5 percent of the vote and no seats. Ford eschewed supply-side ideology and adopted targeted tax cuts for the working class instead. He pushed back against a carbon tax and a Liberal Party-backed plan to implement a school curriculum that discussed topics such as gender identity in early grades.
Ford has also not been afraid to spend money. His latest budget envisions large capital expenditures for infrastructure projects, such as widening and building roads and expanding the region’s extensive rail and subway network. That has produced large deficits, although those will likely be smaller than projected as the provincial economy roars back from the pandemic. The upshot, as conservative commentator Sean Speer told me, is that Ford’s success shows “there is a political market for his mix of economic populism and cultural conservatism.”
Ford’s personal touch also cannot be overlooked. “He’s the sort of guy you might want to have a beer with,” Speer says. “God, you might have actually had a beer with him!”
That’s not surprising for a man whose 2018 campaign featured a pledge to reduce minimum prices at the provincial-owned liquor stores and bring back “a buck a beer.” When Toronto was hit by a large snowstorm in January, Ford drove around his neighborhood personally helping stranded motorists dig out their cars and ferry them to appointments.
An American version of “Ford Nation” would likely govern considerably to the right. Ontario does not have a long southern border that hundreds of thousands of people try to cross illegally each month. The United States also has cultural conflicts over Big Tech and abortion that are not as pressing in Canada, and the stronger anti-government tradition among American conservatives would also have an effect. Those factors would make a U.S. version of Ford’s campaign more confrontational in tone. And it would offer more red meat to the right, much as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has done.
But American conservatives can learn from Ford’s willingness to shed conservative dogma to bring in new converts. Suburbanites tend to shy away from harsh religious rhetoric. And minorities and working-class voters tend to favor larger levels of government spending than traditional conservatives do. The GOP is sorely mistaken if it thinks it can take these people’s votes and discard their sentiments after the midterms.
Ford’s two landslide victories show it is possible to build a new, broad-based conservative majority. Anyone who wants to be the next Republican presidential nominee should take notes.
Trump leans toward endorsing Doug Mastriano for Pa. governor
Former President Trump is leaning strongly toward endorsing highly controversial Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano for governor, according to three sources familiar with his private deliberations.
Why it matters: Mastriano — who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — has gone beyond trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election. He’s proposed defying Pennsylvania’s popular vote outcome and spoke at an event last month that promoted QAnon conspiracies.
What we’re watching: Democrats are salivating because they see him as beatable in a general election even in a political environment that’s extremely favorable to Republicans. Leading Democratic candidate Josh Shapiro even ran an ad highlighting Mastriano in the primary contest.
- With time running out before Tuesday’s primaries, Republicans are panicking about the prospect of such a polarizing candidate with limited appeal leading the ticket and are mounting a last-ditch effort to stop him, as Politico first reported.
- Others in the Republican gubernatorial contest include former Rep. Lou Barletta, former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain and businessman Dave White.
Flashback: In the 2016 primary, then-candidate Trump won Pennsylvania after his more traditional Republican opponents split the remainder of the GOP vote.
Between the lines: Trump is worried about his endorsed Senate candidate Dr. Oz losing, according to two sources familiar with the situation, so his endorsement of Mastriano could be a way of hedging his bets on Tuesday.
- Republicans are also belatedly panicking over the previously unimaginable prospect that Kathy Barnette could win their party’s nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, as Axios reported.
Doug Emhoff: Second gentleman tests positive for Covid-19
“Earlier today, the Second Gentleman tested positive for Covid-19,” said Sabrina Singh, deputy press secretary for Vice President Kamala Harris. “Out of an abundance of caution, the Vice President will not participate in tonight’s event. The Vice President tested negative for Covid-19 today and will continue to test.”
Emhoff’s positive test is the first known case of Covid-19 among the first or second families since President Joe Biden and Harris took office in January 2021.
“I tested positive for COVID. My symptoms are mild and I’m grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted,” Emhoff said on Twitter Tuesday night. “If you have yet to get vaccinated and boosted, please don’t wait.”
A White House official told CNN that Emhoff was “not experiencing symptoms ahead of his morning events,” but having “mild symptoms this afternoon.”
“He took an antigen test and tested negative. Out of an abundance of caution he then took a PCR test, and tested positive,” the official told CNN.
Harris was set to participate in an Equal Pay Day event at the White House Tuesday evening that began just as Emhoff’s test results were released. In a potential sign of how last minute the vice president was pulled out of the event, there was an empty chair for her on stage for the Equal Pay Day event. The White House Twitter account had also advertised upcoming remarks from Harris in a message posted at 6 p.m. ET, just before the event was to begin.
Biden addressed Harris’ absence at the event, saying, “Kamala chose not to take a chance since he tested positive — by the way, he’s fine, but out of an abundance of caution, she decided not to join.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said earlier this week that the President was last tested on Sunday and tested negative. CNN has asked the White House for more information on when the President will be tested next.
The vice president attended an event with Biden at the White House earlier Tuesday as he signed a $1.5 trillion government funding bill into law. Harris stood by Biden’s side as the President gave remarks, and later stood in the crowd of lawmakers who attended the signing ceremony.
Neither Harris nor Biden wore a mask at the event. Inside the White House, in accordance with federal public health guideline changes in recent weeks, officials and visitors have not been required to wear masks or socially distance. Covid-19 cases in Washington have precipitously declined since their peak in early January, when the country was facing a wave of Omicron variant cases.
Earlier Tuesday, Emhoff visited a communal garden in the nation’s capital for an event. The second gentleman gardened outside during the event.
CNN has asked the White House for comment on when the last time Emhoff was in contact with Biden and for more information on his test. A White House official said Biden is not considered a close contact to the second gentleman.
Harris has previously had a close brush with Covid-19. The vice president tested negative last summer after a meeting with Texas House Democrats, several of whom later tested positive for the coronavirus.
According to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, fully vaccinated people can “refrain from quarantine following a known exposure if asymptomatic.” Harris is fully vaccinated and boosted, as is her husband.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
CNN’s Paul LeBlanc contributed to this report.