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NBC Sports
5 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
AP removed "invalid" awards ballot, after the fact
The Associated Press issued the various 2024 NFL regular-season awards during Super Bowl week. Fifty media members vote on the awards. At some point after the awards were announced, one of the 50 ballots was dumped. 'AP removed an invalid ballot that was inadvertently included in its NFL Awards tabulation and adjusted its point totals to reflect 49 voters instead of 50,' an Associated Press spokesperson told PFT via email. 'The correction does not impact the winners or the list of finalists distributed by AP, and the change to the vote total was communicated to AP customers and readers.' It definitely wasn't communicated to the voters. I tripped over it on Wednesday while writing up a blurb about running back J.K. Dobbins visiting the Broncos. In an effort to refresh my memory as to where he finished in the comeback player of the year voting, I found the official AP article. At the bottom is this undated update: 'This story has been corrected to remove an invalid ballot that was inadvertently included in the tabulation. The AP has adjusted its point totals to reflect 49 voters instead of 50. This correction does not impact the winners or the list of finalists distributed by AP.' So we started digging. And here's what happened. During the tabulation of the 50 ballots, the ballot submitted by Diantee Lee of was counted twice, with the second ballot replacing the ballot assigned to Hall of Fame head coach and Football Night in America analyst Tony Dungy. After the AP noticed the error (which explains why Lee's and Dungy's ballots as released by the AP were identical), Dungy's ballot was removed. Dungy noticed the mistake because the ballots as disclosed by the AP incorrectly showed that he voted for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson for MVP. The AP then told him a couple of weeks later that it did not use his ballot at all. We'd hoped for a more thorough and transparent explanation from the AP as to how this happened. The awards are very important, especially since legal wagers are now placed on them. Any mistake should be fully and completely acknowledged and explained. For now, it's unclear why Dungy's ballot was simply rejected instead of replaced. It's possible that simply removing the second Diante Lee ballot changed nothing, but that removing it and replacing it with Dungy's actual ballot may have altered one or more of the outcomes, either as to the winner, the second-place finisher, and so on.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Chris Simms ‘would not be shocked' if Jaxson Dart is Giants' Week 1 starter
The Jaxson Dart buzz started to permeate last week when the Giants held rookie camp, and the first round pick had some impressive moments. That led NFL analyst Chris Simms to throw out the idea that Dart, the 25th overall pick, could end up being the Giants' Week 1 starter. Advertisement Simms tried to cushion the prediction a bit as he explained his thought process during an appearance on 'Up & Adams' on Monday, but the 'Football Night in America' analyst said he wouldn't be 'shocked' to see the rookie under center 'right away.' Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart Getty Images 'I don't expect the Giants to be a super team here,' Simms said. 'I'm not picking the Giants to go to the playoffs. The amount of money they're paying Russell Wilson does not guarantee him the starting quarterback job. Those are things I look at to go, if Jaxson Dart is phenomenal through training camp and OTAs and has a really good preseason. And Russell Wilson is just eh, just OK and doesn't look all that sharp, I don't think they'll be scared to start Jaxson Dart here.' The Giants head into this season with four quarterbacks, which includes Wilson, Jameis Winston, Dart and Tommy DeVito. Wilson is expected to start for the Giants. The expectation of Dart is for him to have all the time he needs to develop into a starter. Advertisement But Simms, the son of legendary Giants quarterback Phil Simms, could see that timeline moving up, especially with one big factor in his favor. Chris Simms sees a scenario where Jaxson Dart could start for the Giants in Week 1. Up and Adams/X 'By all due accounts, it sounds like the guy [head coach Brian Daboll] really wanted was Jaxson Dart,' Simms said. 'And when you got the head coach/playcaller in your corner and your his guy, he's going to make sure you succeed and go in the right direction. 'I wouldn't be shocked Week 1. I think it would be realistically, if you made me bet, I would say around Week 5 or 6 would be really the time I'd expect him.'
New York Post
12-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Chris Simms ‘would not be shocked' if Jaxson Dart is Giants' Week 1 starter
The Jaxson Dart buzz started to permeate last week when the Giants held rookie camp, and the first round pick had some impressive moments. That led NFL analyst Chris Simms to throw out the idea that Dart, the 25th overall pick, could end up being the Giants' Week 1 starter. Simms tried to cushion the prediction a bit as he explained his thought process during an appearance on 'Up & Adams' on Monday, but the 'Football Night in America' analyst said he wouldn't be 'shocked' to see the rookie under center 'right away.' Advertisement Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart Getty Images 'I don't expect the Giants to be a super team here,' Simms said. 'I'm not picking the Giants to go to the playoffs. The amount of money they're paying Russell Wilson does not guarantee him the starting quarterback job. Those are things I look at to go, if Jaxson Dart is phenomenal through training camp and OTAs and has a really good preseason. And Russell Wilson is just eh, just OK and doesn't look all that sharp, I don't think they'll be scared to start Jaxson Dart here.' The Giants head into this season with four quarterbacks, which includes Wilson, Jameis Winston, Dart and Tommy DeVito. Advertisement Wilson is expected to start for the Giants. The expectation of Dart is for him to have all the time he needs to develop into a starter. But Simms, the son of legendary Giants quarterback Phil Simms, could see that timeline moving up, especially with one big factor in his favor. Chris Simms sees a scenario where Jaxson Dart could start for the Giants in Week 1. Up and Adams/X Advertisement 'By all due accounts, it sounds like the guy [head coach Brian Daboll] really wanted was Jaxson Dart,' Simms said. 'And when you got the head coach/playcaller in your corner and your his guy, he's going to make sure you succeed and go in the right direction. 'I wouldn't be shocked Week 1. I think it would be realistically, if you made me bet, I would say around Week 5 or 6 would be really the time I'd expect him.'
NBC Sports
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
Cowboys locker room 'needs to embrace' Pickens
The Football Night in America crew analyze the Cowboys acquiring wide receiver George Pickens from the Steelers, discussing why the Dallas locker room needs to embrace Pickens and keep him focused.
Fox News
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Ex-NFL writer torches Bill Belichick over disastrous TV interview
Just when you thought he was out, Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson pulled him back in. Retired NFL writer Peter King announced his retirement in 2024 after decades as a columnist for Sports Illustrated and Pro Football Talk as well as a reporter on "Football Night in America" on NBC. But Belichick's book tour, which dominated the national conversation over the last week, brought him back into the media spotlight. King sounded off on Belichick's disastrous public relations campaign in a podcast interview. "This is a guy who owned every room he ever walked into, and now he's got a 24-year-old muse telling him what to do or trying to control situations that, quite frankly, she has nothing to do with or should have nothing to do with," he said on "Sports Media with Richard Deitsch." "Bill's got to get a hold of himself here. He's got to get a hold of this situation. This is embarrassing. It's totally embarrassing for a guy who's as great at his job as he is." King added that for Belichick to do an interview, like he did for CBS, he had to be a bit more interesting and the opposite of the kind of media personality he was when he coached the New England Patrots. "Bill Belichick, to promote a book, goes on Sunday morning television for however long it was, say 10 minutes, but goes on Sunday morning television with a sweatshirt on with a hole in it. Look at the video of it," King continued. "He's got a Navy sweatshirt on that has a hole in it. . . . Why does TMZ have him walking out of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, I think, in New York in a perfectly tailored blue suit? Why? Where's he going? And why is he on a national TV show looking like he's going to a press conference in Foxboro on no sleep, and then he walks out of a hotel going wherever he's going. . . . That was a terrible look in the first place. . . . "But in general, if you're going to be promoting a book or you're going to be doing interviews, you can't be the sullen, disinterested person that Bill Belichick was for CBS. You just shouldn't do it then. Why do it?" King said that anyone who saw the CBS interview may not be so keen to buy the book he promoted in the first place. Belichick broke his silence on the debacle Wednesday, defending his girlfriend and accusing CBS of creating a "false narrative" with "selectively edited" clips. "Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview. I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to keep the conversation centered on the book," the coach said. "After this occurred several times, Jordon, with whom I share both a personal and professional relationship, stepped in to reiterate that point to help focus the discussion. She was not deflecting any specific question or topic but simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track. Some of the clips make it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met, but we have been open about the fact that Jordon and I met on a flight to Palm Beach in 2021. "The final eight-minute segment does not reflect the productive 35-minute conversation we had, which covered a wide range of topics related to my career. Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from just a few minutes of the interview to suggest a false narrative — that Jordon was attempting to control the conversation — which is simply not true." CBS later responded with a statement of its own. "When we agreed to speak with Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview," the company said. "There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed repeatedly with his publisher before the interview took place and after it was completed." Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
