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8 hours ago
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Jaguars Dealt Concerning Trevor Lawrence Revelation Liam Coen Can't Fix
Jaguars Dealt Concerning Trevor Lawrence Revelation Liam Coen Can't Fix originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Forget for the moment about Trevor Lawrence's footwork. The real issue for the Jacksonville Jaguars $275-million quarterback has been the stability of the foundation on which his feet are scrambling. Advertisement Lawrence, the NFL's No. 1 overall draft pick in 2021, is beginning the 2025 season with his third head coach in five years. That man is Liam Coen, the quarterback whisperer and offensive wizard who turned the 2024 Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a balanced, touchdown-producing machine. Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence at EverBank Perrine/Florida Times-Union Coen's first priority, as Brent Martineau of The Brent and Austen Show podcast noted Monday morning, is to fix whatever's wrong with Jacksonville's quarterback. But ... is it really the footwork? Martineau was skeptical. 'Are you really going to fix something that you've been doing since you were six years old?' said Martineau. 'I don't know how simple this is, in terms of fixing, but if he's thinking about (footwork), he's not gonna play fast. That concerns me.' Advertisement Martineau noted that Jaguars fans don't want more excuses in 2025. They want touchdowns and actual wins on the field, despite the many obstacles Lawrence has had to overcome in his early career. 'Patrick Mahomes (the Kansas City Chiefs superstar quarterback) hasn't had to deal with any of the stuff that (Lawrence) has had to deal with in that way,' Martineau said. 'None of it. From the negativity, to the Urban Meyer, to the different offenses, he hasn't had to deal with any of it.' Lawrence began his NFL career under Meyer, who the Jaguars fired late the 2021 season after a 2-11 start. Martineau noted that Lawrence started out better under his second head coach, but … 'By the time he got used to the (Doug Pederson) offense, it looked like it had gone stale,' Martineau said. Advertisement Martineau's podcast partner Austen Lane said that top draft pick Travis Hunter, and the new head coach, will get some slack as it will be their first year in Jacksonville. Right or wrong, Lawrence will be expected to produce. 'For Trevor Lawrence, I understand it's another new offense and another new head coach, but … he has to play well right away, in my opinion,' said Lane. Lane said that Lawrence has got to be better than his 2025 ESPN fantasy draft projection: 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. 'Those numbers are not good,' Lane said. 'That can't be the case. I don't care what the other stats say.' Advertisement Jacksonville won't have the toughest schedule in the NFL this year, but it's far from the weakest. If the Jaguars are still in contention for a playoff spot after, say, 11 games, their schedule becomes more favorable. The Jaguars play the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans twice each, as well as the New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals, in their final seven games. So a strong start is crucial. 'Trevor Lawrence is the guy that has to be good right away,' said Lane. 'You can't have, in my opinion, any slow start, any of that, whoever it's on. For Lawrence, it's time to go.' Related: Trevor Lawrence Falls in QB Rankings, Eyes Big 2025 Comeback Related: Evaluating Trevor Lawrence's Role in the Jaguars Quest for 2025 Success This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 16, 2025, where it first appeared.
Vancouver Sun
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Electronic duo CHXMERAS sounds off on making music as unstructured as possible
CHXMERAS is the experimental electronic duo of U.K.-born musician Paul Finlay and nêhiyaw/Denesuline multidisciplinary artist Jarrett Martineau. Using a mix of custom-rigged modular synths, drum machines, live sound processing, field recordings, film samples and more sounds, the two improvise and jam their way to finished pieces heard on the group's latest EP, Second Sight. While the album's five new tracks flow together as distinct individual pieces, such as the leadoff track Sublimation, in performance these tracks are often launch pads to completely different final destinations. Both Finlay and Martineau have decades of music making to arrive at this kind of improvised beat science, and it makes for a varied and expansive sonic range on the new recording. Since forming in 2023, CHXMERAS has released four long-form single tracks, the debut album Terminal City, which has a deluxe edition, and the new EP. CHXMERAS talked about the new album and making music that is as unstructured as possible. Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Q: You both worked together in previous projects before this one didn't you? Jarrett Martineau : Paul and I first met decades ago when I was in a live rap group called the Front and our mutual friend Nigel Springthorpe, who runs Brassneck brewery, said we should meet. We did some shows together when Paul came from the U.K. and started trading music. Paul Finlay : Eventually, we put together a group when Jarrett was living in Berlin called Long Division, and then another thing called Damage Control with Ruby Singh which toured Europe. After that, they suggested I come back to Vancouver and CHXMERAS came about. Q: Can we say that CHXMERAS' music is the product of a long collaboration that gave you two the understanding to improvise? Martineau : We got together in a room to make sound with no plans. The freedom of that resulted in a ton of material in a very short time and that became our debut record, Terminal City. In the best case scenario, the two of us arrive somewhere we wouldn't get to otherwise as solo artists. Q: If the first album came from random jams, does Second Sight differ from that process? Finlay : It was more a result of playing live shows last year and taking live takes from the performances in studio and on stage and built the songs from that. So it is a much more planned final result. But both the songs Sublimation and Armour Up came out of the same 90-minute free jam we recorded in studio. Martineau : These are not live tracks. This is what came out of taking the scalpel to what we had to come up with something structured. Maybe we'll release those extra-long versions of the songs as a special edition of Second Sight later. Q: The sound of Second Sight reminds me of the early days of electronic music when it was far less computerized and more manual. Is that the case when you play live? Finlay : It's a pretty wild hybrid of combining stems from the computer with a customized modular synth and Jarrett's extensive amount of drum synths and pedals all being delivered to a multi-channel mixer that we blend with analog air horns and a lot of other instruments. It becomes a kind of live dub thing. Q: Any big tour plans coming with the release of the new record? Martineau : We are playing the Sled Island festival in Calgary, another festival in Montreal and then we are at the 5 Nights in Paradise series at Ocean Artworks for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival on June 27 at 10:30 p.m. Then we play Shambhala Music Festival in August, which should be pretty hilarious for what we do. sderdeyn@
Otago Daily Times
08-06-2025
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Peina bags all of team's points in hard-earned win
Rube Peina. PHOTO: ODT FILES It was an afternoon of individual achievement as the three leading teams in the Central Otago premier club competition all progressed safely on Saturday. A week after starring for Central Region in the Topp Cup, midfielder Rube Peina scored all 23 points for Wakatipu in their hard-earned 23-7 win over bottom team Matakanui Combined in frigid conditions in Queenstown. However, it was a good news-bad news outcome for Wakatipu because by scoring only two tries they missed the bonus point, which now leaves them six points adrift of second-placed Alexandra. Alexandra had no difficulty registering a bonus point, scoring six tries in a comfortable 41-14 victory over a struggling Arrowtown at Molyneux Park. Three of those tries went to flanker Sam Chapman, a former Fiji under-21 representative, giving him 10 for the season, the most by any individual. Meanwhile, Frenchman Ulysse Martineau bagged another couple of tries for front-runners Upper Clutha, giving him eight for the season, helping his team come from 10-0 down approaching halftime to win 29-13 at Anderson Park. Upper Clutha are fortunate to have recruited Martineau after losing fellow winger Welshman Thomas Jarman, who scored a remarkable 16 tries last season. Until Martineau sprang into action, Upper Clutha could not have performed less like a champion team. From missing a penalty attempt straight in front of the posts to blowing several potential try-scoring opportunities, the men from Wanaka thoroughly deserved to be on zero after 35 minutes. Then, amazingly, in the space of eight minutes, leading up to and immediately after halftime, Upper Clutha scored three tries and added a penalty goal and suddenly Cromwell found themselves 22-10 down, and that really was that. Cromwell desperately needed to win this contest if they were to contend for the top four, but there is now a significant gap between the top four teams and the bottom three. Matakanui Combined still sit at the bottom of the table but, fresh from a handsome victory over Arrowtown, they proved a worthy opponent for Wakatipu, challenging them at scrum time. Wakatipu had the slicker backs but handling lapses cost them more tries. — Bob Howitt
The Guardian
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Ravel: Complete Songs album review – fine performances for the composer's 150th anniversary
After collections devoted to Duparc, Fauré and Poulenc, pianist Malcolm Martineau adds Ravel to the surveys of French song he has curated for Signum, nicely timed for the composer's 150th anniversary this year. As before, Martineau is partnered by a lineup of mostly British singers, who tackle the songs as if determined to demonstrate that this repertoire should never be seen as the exclusive preserve of Francophone artists. The settings, 37 of them altogether, are arranged chronologically across the two discs, from the Ballade de la Reine Morte d'Aimer (Ballad of the Queen Killed by Love), which Ravel composed in 1893 when he was just 18 but already showing the fastidious ear for texture and colour that would characterise all his music, to the three settings that make up Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, originally commissioned for a film by Pabst starring the great Russian bass Chaliapin, but belatedly completed in 1934, three years before Ravel's death. Martineau is of course the common denominator through the discs, whether evoking the shimmering orchestral colours in the piano version of Shéhérazade (which does, though, recruit a flute for the second number, La Flûte Enchantée), the rustic humour of the Chants Mélodies Populaires Grecques, or the pictorial impressions of Histoires Naturelles, while the exquisite Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé are performed in Ravel's original instrumentation with the soprano partnered by two flutes, two clarinets and string quartet. For many, though it will be the one-off songs, those that do not form part of a well-known cycle or set, that are the big discoveries here, whether it's the early, bleak setting of Verlaine, Un Grand Sommeil Noir from 1895, or the touching little Tripatos from 1909, an arrangement of a Greek folk song that Ravel composed after his father's death. But among the better known numbers there are some fine performances, as well as a few disappointments: the soprano Paula Murrihy brings a real sultry intensity to Shéhérazade, and baritone Simon Keenlyside finds precisely the right light touch for the epigrammatic Histoires Naturelles, while the mezzo Julie Boulianne proves more convincing in the Mallermé settings than she is in Chansons Madécasses, perhaps the greatest of all Ravel's vocal works. In the end, though, there are far more treats here than disappointments. This article includes content hosted on We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Listen on Apple Music (above) or Spotify
