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J.K. Dobbins frustrated by lack of carries in Ravens’ playoff loss
CINCINNATI — An extremely frustrated J.K. Dobbins said he believes it would have been a different result had the Ravens given him the ball — and not quarterback Tyler Huntley — on a crucial fourth-quarter play near the goal line in Baltimore’s 24-17 wild-card loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday night.
Huntley made the game’s most critical mistake when he fumbled with the score tied at 17, losing the ball on a leap toward the end zone and having his turnover returned 98 yards for a touchdown by Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard. The Ravens went from being on the verge of taking a touchdown lead to falling behind by seven points with 11:39 remaining.
“He should have never been in that situation,” Dobbins said of Huntley. “I don’t get a single carry. I didn’t get a single carry. He should never have been in that situation. I believe I would have put it in the end zone, again.”
The Ravens running back was upset that he was limited to 62 yards on 13 carries and didn’t receive another red zone touch after powering his way to a 2-yard touchdown in the second quarter. In that critical fourth-quarter series, Baltimore ran three plays inside the Bengals’ 3-yard line, and Dobbins didn’t get the ball once.
“I’m a guy who feels like I should be on the field all the time,” Dobbins said. “It’s the playoffs. Why am I not out there?”
This isn’t the first time Dobbins has vented about his desire to get the ball more. On Friday, he told reporters he wanted the game “on my back.” Following Sunday’s defeat, Dobbins mentioned that he told coaches on the sideline he wanted to be more involved.
“I should be the guy. I’m tired of holding that back,” said Dobbins, who had averaged 6.9 yards per carry in four games since having a knee scoped. “I’m a playmaker. I’m a guy that my teammates feed off me when I’m on the field.”
Ravens coach John Harbaugh was asked whether there was any discussion of giving the ball to Dobbins or running back Gus Edwards instead of going with the quarterback sneak.
“We felt like we had a good call; it was a push-sneak play. It wasn’t executed just the correct way,” Harbaugh said. “Tyler went over the top. That’s a ‘burrow’ play; he has to go low on that. That’s the way the play is designed. We felt like that was the best call; we just didn’t execute it right.”
Many Ravens players said they didn’t think about whether they would have won if their quarterback had been Lamar Jackson instead of Huntley, who also threw an interception on the opening drive. Jackson missed his sixth straight game with a sprained posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Baltimore cornerback Marlon Humphrey estimated that Jackson is 50 percent to 60 percent healthy.
“I just don’t think he really was healthy enough to really go out there,” Humphrey said of Jackson. “There was a lot of speculation with him not having the contract. I don’t even know if I should say this, but he’s like limping around the facility. That’s kind of the crazy thing that people don’t see. Obviously, we knew that he wasn’t going to be out there with us, but hopefully, we sign him to a big-term deal and he’s a Raven with me forever.”
Dobbins didn’t hold back on how much the return of Jackson would’ve impacted Sunday’s playoff game, either.
“If we’d have had Lamar, we’d have won too,” Dobbins said.
McCarthy commits to key concession in call with frustrated House Republicans
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House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy outlined some of the concessions that he has agreed to in his campaign for speaker on a Sunday evening conference call – including making it easier to topple the speaker, according to multiple GOP sources on the call. But McCarthy could not say whether he would have the votes for the speakership, even after giving in to some of the right’s most hardline demands.
The California Republican told his members that after weeks of negotiations, he has agreed to a threshold as low as five people to trigger a vote on ousting the speaker at any given time, known as the “motion to vacate” the speaker’s chair, and pitched it as a “compromise.” CNN first reported last week that he was supportive of that threshold.
But there’s still uncertainty whether this will be enough to clinch McCarthy the gavel.
Some moderates – who fear the motion to vacate will be used as constant cudgel over McCarthy’s head – pushed back and expressed their frustration during the call, sources said.
Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota said he wasn’t happy with the low threshold McCarthy agreed to, though he indicated he would swallow it, but only if it helps McCarthy win the speakership. Other members made clear that the rules package that was negotiated will be off the table if McCarthy’s critics end up tanking his speakership bid.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida pressed McCarthy on whether this concession on the motion to vacate will win him the 218 votes. But he did not directly answer, though McCarthy said earlier on the call that people were “slowly” moving in the right direction.
However, later in the call, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz – one of the five “hard no” votes for McCarthy – said they would not back McCarthy, despite all the concessions.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida then repeated Diaz-Balart’s question, asking McCarthy to answer it. McCarthy’s response, according to sources, was that they have a couple days to close the deal, and they need to close.
Rep.-elect Mike Lawler of New York asked Gaetz if he would back McCarthy if he agreed to bring the motion to vacate threshold down to a single lawmaker, which is what it used to be before Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, changed the rules. Gaetz replied that McCarthy had refused to entertain that idea, but if he is making that offer now, than he would consider it.
McCarthy said he disagreed with Gaetz’s characterization, arguing that the rest of the conference can’t support the threshold as low as one person. “It’s not about me,” the California Republican said. However, he asked Gaetz if he could get to “yes” if McCarthy came down to a one-person threshold, to which Gaetz was still non-committal and said if it was a real offer, he would entertain it.
House Republicans are planning to release their final rules package, which will formalize a number of these concessions, later Sunday evening. But sources cautioned that nothing is truly final until the package is passed.
After the House elects a speaker and swears in members, lawmakers vote on the rules package, which governs how the House operates.
Travelers “beyond frustrated” by Southwest Airlines cancellations: “It’s been hell”
The winter storm that disrupted travel plans over the weekend and created an epic pile-on of flight cancellations for Southwest Airlines left the carrier’s passengers “beyond frustrated,” as one put it to CBS DFW. Thousands of families were stranded, with some waiting days to board planes.
Southwest customers at Dallas Love Field expressed disappointment, frustration and anger Monday after facing multiple flight delays and cancellations since before Christmas.
Talia Jones, a Southwest Air customer, told CBS DFW she was “beyond frustrated and hurt because I can’t see my dad. So yeah, it’s very disappointing.”
As of 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, Southwest was responsible for an overwhelming majority of U.S. cancellations for the new day, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.com: 2,495 out of 2,809 for all carriers.
Two-thirds of Southwest’s flights had been canceled as of Monday afternoon, according to FlightAware.
On Monday afternoon, the board at Dallas Love Field, showed every single arrival had been canceled, according to reporter Kelly Laco.
At Chicago’s Midway International Airport – where Southwest is the main carrier – the wait times were high, and patience was running low Monday night, CBS Chicago said.
The situation was described by one traveler as nothing short of a mess. In addition to long lines taking up space, hundreds and hundreds of bags were waiting to be claimed as the cancellations and delays kept piling up.
“It’s been hell,” said Denzil Smothers, whose flight was canceled.
The federal Department of Transportation on Monday said it would investigate the meltdown, saying it was “concerned by Southwest Airlines’ disproportionate and unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays as well as the failure to properly support customers experiencing a cancellation or delay.”
“As more information becomes available the Department will closely examine whether cancellations were controllable and whether Southwest is complying with its customer service plan as well as all other pertinent DOT rules,” the department said in a statement.
Traveler Michael Bauzon and his family planned on flying out of Orlando International Airport on Friday to return home to Indianapolis in time for Christmas on Sunday. Instead, the four spent the holidays in a hotel after their flight was canceled, Bauzon told CBS affiliate WKMG, and were back at the airport on Monday — where they continued to wait.
“This morning we got here at 4:30 for a 7:05 flight, we looked it up, and oh it had just been canceled,” he said, gesturing to a line snaking in front of the Southwest service counter. “It’s a four- to five-hour line … before they can get us on a flight — if they can get us on a flight,” he said.
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Widespread storm, outdated tech
In a statement Monday that opened with “heartfelt apologies,” Southwest said that its geography made it “uniquely” vulnerable to the storm, with half of the airports in which it flies affected by winter weather.
“We were fully staffed and prepared for the approaching holiday weekend when the severe weather swept across the continent, where Southwest is the largest carrier in 23 of the top 25 travel markets in the U.S. This forced daily changes to our flight schedule at a volume and magnitude that still has the tools our teams use to recover the airline operating at capacity,” the statement said.
“We anticipate additional changes with an already reduced level of flights as we approach the coming New Year holiday travel period,” it noted.
The company also blames a lack of technology. “Part of what we’re suffering is a lack of tools. We’ve talked an awful lot about modernizing the operation, and the need to do that,” CEO Bob Jordan said in an internal message on Sunday that was reported by several media outlets and the flight attendants’ union.
Jammed phone lines, systems
Southwest directed customers away from jammed phone lines, noting that it was experiencing “system issues” amid elevated demand.
Spokesperson Chris Perry said the airline’s online booking and check-in systems are still operating, but were also jammed because of “abnormally high” volumes of traffic on their site. “We are re-accommodating as many Customers as possible based on available space,” he told CBS News.
As Southwest blamed technological issues, the flight attendants’ union, Transit Workers Union 556, accused the airline of contributing to the problem by underinvesting in technology for years.
“The lack of technology has left the airline relying on manual solutions and personal phone calls, leaving flight attendants on hold with Southwest Airlines for up to 17 hours at a time simply to be released to go home after their trip, or while attempting to secure a hotel room or know where their next trip will be,” the union said in a statement. “While reroutes and rescheduling are understood to be a part of the job in the airline industry, the massive scale of the failure over the past few days points to a shirking of responsibility over many years for investing in and implementing technology that could help solve for many of the issues that plague flight attendants and passengers alike.”
The union and airline have been in contract negotiations for four years.
— With reporting by Zel Elvi, Kathryn Krupnik, Kris Van Cleave and Brian Dakss.
Frustrated Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Players Are Reportedly Getting Refunds
The ninth-generation games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have been out for a week now. They take the series in a bold new direction with open-world design but also suffer from serious performance issues and glitches.
It seems for some trainers, all of this (including Game Freak’s silence) has become too much, with many now requesting refunds. According to a story on VGC, players are having “mixed results” requesting Switch eShop refunds, but there are seemingly some success stories.
One thread that’s blown up on the Pokémon subreddit recommends other players get a refund while they can, as Nintendo apparently knows just how serious the issue is:
“I got a refund from the eshop last night of Violet after feeling the game is not in a state I feel acceptable for a AAA release. The rep actually told me that given the situation regarding the state of Pokemon S/V she would elevate my case to ensure the refund was approved…It was approved an hour later.
“The fact that the rep knew the issues I was talking about means it’s getting attention. This is one of the few things Nintendo/GF will be forced to notice.”
Separate player reports via social media platforms also recommend giving a refund “a go”. Some have even been advised to view “third-party review sites” to learn more about Nintendo titles in the future, and others don’t seem to be having quite as much luck.
Depending on your region, it seems like certain support teams are knocking back digital refund requests. Here’s part of one response Twitter user @Skeffi__ supposedly got from the Nintendo Contact Centre Europe Team:
“We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing difficulties with Pokemon Violet. We know that this won’t be the answer you were hoping for, but for a variety of reasons we are unable to provide refunds for Nintendo eShop content purchases. We tried to make sure this was clear before the transaction was made, both in agreement you accepeted as well as onscreen just prior to completing the transaction…read through the complete text of the agreement for all our current systems…”
Here on Nintendo Life, we enjoyed our time in the Paldea region but cited the “tech issues” as a setback. Digital Foundry also shared its own technical analysis video this week, noting how Scarlet and Violet were “technical failures” and well below the tech standards set by previous entries.
Then there have been all the glitches…both funny and horrifying:
Frustrated lawmakers want protection for their families as threats increase
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The increase in threats to US lawmakers over the last two years has also extended to family members, according to federal law enforcement officials, but a lack of federal protection for families is frustrating some members of Congress.
After the attack on Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger told CNN in an interview on Friday that the threats against his own family included one that mentioned killing his young child.
But when he asked US Capitol Police for additional security, they essentially told him to “get in line,” Kinzinger said.
Like other lawmakers, Kinzinger’s security detail does not protect his family when he is not with them, and the lack of assistance provided by Capitol Police has meant his campaign would have to foot the bill for any additional security. “That usually ended up being private security,” he said.
Calls for violence against lawmakers online and elsewhere have referenced both elected officials and their families, according to sources familiar with the threat environment who told CNN that law enforcement agencies have been grappling with how to address those threats in the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
In the months following the January 6 insurrection, Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies worked to increase protection for members of Congress while they are in Washington, DC, and traveling back to their home districts.
However, the security detail for lawmakers, including Pelosi, does not protect their family members, including spouses, when the members of Congress are not with them, according to multiple sources. Some lawmakers have received additional security in their home districts from local police departments and private contractors.
The USCP declined to comment when asked Friday about security for the families of lawmakers.
A senior aide on Capitol Hill tells CNN that the Capitol Police is now assessing additional security options for the protection of families of congressional leadership.
Federal law enforcement agencies have consistently warned about the increasing threat of politically motivated violence after January 6, raising specific concerns about the likelihood that online calls for violence result in real-world attacks.
According to the most recent statistics, the Capitol Police tracked roughly 9,600 threats in 2021 against the people and places the department is charged with protecting. It’s unclear how many threats were made against family members.
Several lawmakers have sought additional protection from the Capitol Police after receiving threats to their families, but the agency largely lacks the resources and training to fill those requests, according to one source familiar with the matter.
Kinzinger, who sits on the House select committee investigating January 6, also told CNN that it was not lost on him that the intruder who broke into Pelosi’s residence overnight appeared to be looking for the House speaker – much like rioters who stormed the US Capitol in 2021.
CNN reported Friday that the intruder shouted “Where is Nancy?” prior to attacking her husband.
Pelosi was the target of several rioters who breached the Capitol on January 6. One Capitol rioter who has since pled guilty to charges stemming from their involvement in the attack, posted a video to social media that day where they also can be heard asking: “Where’s Nancy.”
Speaking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room,” Kinzinger said the attack on Paul Pelosi “is the kind of stuff that every Republican needs to speak out on, just like every Democrat and Republican should speak out when Steve Scalise was shot.”
“But to the Republicans not speaking out now, this is going to be visited on our side – not that it should actually matter what side you’re on, but speak out now,” he added.
Asked whether he thinks lawmakers and midterm election candidates will universally condemn the attack, Kinzinger said he’s “afraid they’re not going to.”
“I am afraid that they will use this as an opportunity with the election around the corner to make some snide reference to something,” Kinzinger said. “We have to start seeing each other as humans again. It’s really disappointing.”
Turks frustrated by ‘deliberate’ increase in number of European visa rejections
ISTANBUL, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Turkish sports presenter Sinem Okten was surprised to see her visa application to Europe’s Schengen area rejected twice, having visited often to cover matches and interview figures like Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon and Liverpool’s Juergen Klopp.
“I applied first to Germany then to France. Both rejected my application,” she said. “I’ve travelled abroad numerous times to follow and film matches and interview people, maybe 50-60 times. This is the first time I am having this problem.”
Turks applying for visas to the 26 Schengen countries are increasingly being rejected, data shows, and tours are being cancelled. Ankara said this week it was a deliberate effort to put President Tayyip Erdogan in a difficult position ahead of tight elections next year, a charge the European Union denies.
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According to data from schengenvisainfo.com, 16.5% of applicants from Turkey last year were denied a visa, up from 12.5% a year earlier. Schengen rejections were only 4% in 2015 and started ramping up in 2017 for Turks, it shows.
The visa costs – amounting to some 100 euros, or a third of Turkey’s minimum wage – are not refundable whether a visa is issued or not.
“Overall, the rejection rates for Schengen visa applications have increased worldwide…however, when compared to other countries like Russia, Turkey’s rejection rate growth is way bigger and consistent,” said Shkurta Januzi, editor-in-chief at SchengenVisaInfo.com.
Okten said the German embassy gave no reason for rejecting her application. A document from the French embassy, seen by Reuters, said it did not see enough evidence that the TV presenter could finance her stay in France or return to Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said he believed the lengthy processing times and an increase observed in rejection rates were deliberate, adding that he raised the issue in meetings with his counterparts.
“Unfortunately, the U.S. and some EU and non-EU western countries give our citizens visa appointments one year, 6-7-8 months later. They also increased the rejection rate. This is planned and deliberate,” he said on Tuesday.
Cavusoglu dismissed “excuses” related to coronavirus measures or personnel shortages, and said, without providing evidence, that the visa rejections were intended to give Erdogan a pre-election headache.
His ministry will warn ambassadors of some Western countries about the issue in September, he said. “If the situation does not improve after that we will take counter, restrictive measures.”
Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, head of the EU delegation to Turkey, told Reuters the Schengen applications are treated on their merits and not on political grounds, adding relatively more incomplete and potentially fraudulent applications are seen from Turkey.
“No decisions are taken on political grounds but rather on objective grounds,” he said, adding Turkey’s rejection rate last year was near the global rate of 13-14% for Schengen visas.
TOURS CANCELLED
Twenty-two of the 26 Schengen area members are EU states.
Turkey and the bloc enjoy good trade ties and decades of migration however relations are strained over issues including freedom of speech in Turkey and EU policies on refugees from Syria.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Schengen states received more than 900,000 visa applications annually from Turkey but that figure had dropped to around 270,000 in 2021.
Citizens from all Schengen countries are exempt from visas when visiting Turkey, most for up to 90 days, and some can enter with only their ID cards, according to Turkey’s foreign ministry website.
As more and more Turks are being rejected, tour operators have cancelled regular trips, Tur Andiamo chairman Cem Polatoglu said.
“We are having problems. Our tours are getting cancelled. We used to schedule tours to Italy every week, now we have to offer them every fortnight,” Polatoglu said.
At a visa application centre in Istanbul, 57-year-old Hikmet Dogan said it was easier to get a visa in his previous trips to see his son in Sweden.
“I travelled 2-3 times but this time it is harder, the costs jumped too…Unfortunately young people are trying to leave the country as the Turkish economy is getting worse,” Dogan said.
Beyond the Schengen area, the United States vowed on Wednesday to expand its visa processing capacity in Turkey after the foreign minister’s public complaints. read more
Okten, the sports presenter, said she would continue her efforts to secure a visa.
“The season started and I need to cover some matches on site. I need to be able to travel abroad to do my job…I will apply again and try my chance through Greece this time,” she said.
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Additional reporting by Ece Toksabay in Ankara and Jonathan Spicer in Istanbul;
Writing by Ezgi Erkoyun;
Editing by Daren Butler and Raissa Kasolowsky
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