Arizona
Tom Brady delivers another comeback in the desert
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, is the positioning of certainly one of Tom Brady’s biggest comebacks. Tremendous Bowl XLIX towards the Seattle Seahawks, maybe most well-known because the “Malcolm Butler sport.”
Whereas Sunday evening’s tilt towards the Arizona Cardinals was not a Tremendous Bowl, and it didn’t come towards the Legion of Growth, it’s one other merchandise on the lengthy listing of the quarterback’s comeback efforts.
And it might need gone a great distance in the direction of preserving any Tremendous Bowl aspirations alive.
After Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell behind Hint McSorley and the Cardinals by a rating of 16-6 within the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay discovered a solution to get the sport tied, and after their protection compelled a punt from Arizona at first of time beyond regulation, Brady and the offense had been in a position to pull out the win in OT by a last rating of 19-16.
For the primary three quarters of the sport, Brady seemed misplaced, and the jokes had been flying on social media. The veteran QB threw a pair of interceptions, with Marco Wilson selecting his pocket on each performs, and the Buccaneers offense was struggling to get something going. In case you had been questioning, the working title for this piece was “Tom Brady got here again to lose to Hint McSorley? Actually?”
However earlier than we may refine that headline within the SB Nation slack, all the things modified.
Dealing with the ten-point deficit, the Buccaneers went into hurry-up mode, and immediately their offense confirmed indicators of life. Tampa Bay put collectively a seven-play drive that culminated of their first landing of the evening, a brief throw from Brady to rookie working again Rachaad White:
The large play on the drive, nonetheless, was the primary play. On this designed swing display to Leonard Fournette, the working again picks up a three-man convoy and rips off a 44-yard acquire, getting Tampa Bay deep into Cardinals’ territory:
Preserve this design at the back of your thoughts…
The White landing solely minimize Arizona’s result in 16-13, and that gave McSorley and the Cardinals likelihood to maybe ice the sport with a textbook four-minute drive on offense. However with Arizona going through a third and 1, the Tampa Bay protection took benefit of an offensive miscue, getting Brady the soccer again:
McSorley pitches the ball to Keaontay Ingram, however the ball hits the turf at State Farm Stadium. William Gholston pounces on the free ball, giving Brady and the offense nice beginning place for his or her ensuing possession. Sadly for Tampa Bay, their subsequent drive sputtered simply exterior the crimson zone. Ryan Succop managed to transform from 42 yards out to knot the sport at 16, however there was time left for Arizona to maybe pull out the win within the closing minutes.
Tampa Bay’s protection stood tall once more, forcing a three-and-out on the following Cardinals possession. The stage was set for an additional Brady game-winning comeback.
Tampa Bay took over on the 34-yard line after the Arizona punt, and after an incompletion, Brady linked with rookie tight finish Cade Otton on an out route for a even-yard acquire. That arrange a crucial third and three. With maybe the best quarterback in NFL historical past on the helm, the Buccaneers…handed the ball to Fournette.
Who was stopped wanting the first-down marker.
Arizona took their last timeout with 55 seconds left, giving themselves one more likelihood to steal the win in the long run. A completion to James Conner — that includes a formidable run after the catch from the RB — acquired the Cardinals in place for a a Hail Mary, however McSorley’s desperation heave was intercepted, and the groups headed to time beyond regulation.
Arizona received the toss, and elected to obtain. McSorley opened the additional body seeking to throw off of a boot-action design, however his try was almost intercepted. A loss on second down pushed the Cardinals into a third and lengthy.
Brady might need began to get able to take the sector, however he can be power to sit down again down for a minute. McSorley linked with Marquise Brown to maneuver the chains. McSorley’s throw was low, however Brown was in a position to put it in whereas diving to the turf, and the Cardinals had a recent set of downs.
Forcing Brady again into spectator mode.
Nonetheless, that solitary first down is all of the Cardinals may handle on offense. Arizona finally punted, and the Buccaneers took over on their very own 12-yard line, needing only a Succop subject purpose to drag out the win. The Buccaneers picked up a primary down, and that’s when Byron Leftwich dialed up the large shot play.
Do not forget that swing display to Fournette from the fourth quarter?
Brady pumps on the faux swing display to Fournette — displaying Arizona the large play from earlier within the sport — earlier than wanting deep. The receivers launch slowly off the road, as if they’ll block as they did earlier within the sport, however then break vertically. The QB seems to Russell Gage and places the throw on the cash, and Gage hangs on via contact for the massive acquire.
That was not the one huge play from Brady and the offense. A couple of performs later the veteran quarterback put one other throw on the cash, this time to Mike Evans on a deep out route alongside the proper sideline:
Brady and Gage would join once more, on a fast display, to get the ball down into the crimson zone. A penalty and two runs put the soccer in the course of the sector, and Todd Bowles despatched Succop onto the sector for a 40-yard subject purpose.
Succop cut up the uprights.
The win put the Buccaneers in place to win the NFC South by defeating the Carolina Panthers subsequent week, clinching a playoff spot. It was in no way fairly, and the Buccaneers have some flaws, however they discovered a solution to win.
The victory mirrors two earlier wins from the Buccaneers this season, victories over the Los Angeles Rams and the New Orleans Saints. On each events, as with tonight, the Buccaneers seemed mortal — at greatest — for an enormous portion of the sport. However when trailing, the offense shifted into hurry-up mode, and immediately began clicking.
Now, the reply to all their woes on offense can not merely be “simply run with out a huddle,” however there are actually three video games of proof pointing to that philosophy as one thing that may work in spurts for the Buccaneers. Tampa Bay has struggled all through this season to search out any consistency on offense, and appear to maneuver the ball extra effectively when working with out a huddle.
Doing it on Christmas evening put them in place to not simply win a sport, however clinch the division subsequent week with a win over the Panthers.
And it added one other merchandise on Brady’s listing of comeback victories.
Arizona
Interstate near Arizona-New Mexico line reopens after train derailment as lingering fuel burns off
LUPTON, Ariz. — Interstate 40 was reopened in both directions Sunday as fire crews continued watch over a controlled burn of remaining fuel from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, a local fire chief said.
Earlier evacuation orders have now been lifted.
“It’s all under control,” said Fire Chief Lawrence Montoya Jr., of McKinley County, New Mexico. “Our hazmat team is on site, along with our well-trained firefighters.”
Montoya, the incident commander at the scene, said the controlled burns were still consuming remaining fuel on some cars. He said no one was hurt in the Friday derailment of the BNSF Railway train near Lupton, Arizona, which occurred on the New Mexico side of the tracks, or during the subsequent firefighting operation.
For a time, the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 were closed around Holbrook, Arizona, and the westbound lanes of the interstate were closed at Grants, New Mexico.
The New Mexico Department of Transportation reported Sunday that motorists should continue to expect heavy smoke in some areas, as well as long delays that could require them to seek other routes or postpone travel to the area.
Montoya said firefighters continued to remove debris from the area and that repair of the tracks was under way.
In this photo provided by David Yellowhorse, a freight train carrying fuel derailed and caught fire, Friday, April 26, 2024, east of Lupton, Ariz., near the New Mexico-Arizona state line. Authorities closed Interstate 40 in both directions in the area, directing trucks and motorists to alternate routes. Credit: AP/David Yellowhorse
The cause of the derailment remained under investigation Sunday, said Montoya. He said investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and other federal agencies were at the scene.
Arizona
Oregon Republicans to visit Arizona-Mexico border to learn about security issues – Salem Reporter
Sixteen Republican lawmakers and legislative candidates from Oregon plan to visit the Arizona-Mexico border on Monday, arguing that lax security around the southern border exacerbates the drug crisis in Oregon, 1,000 miles north.
The group, which includes about one-third of the Republican lawmakers in the Oregon Legislature and three candidates, plans to visit Yuma, Arizona, and meet with Arizona lawmakers in Phoenix. They’ll pay for the trip with personal or campaign funds, and a spokeswoman for Senate Republicans who will join the trip plans to use vacation time to attend.
Many of the lawmakers attending the border tour signed a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year praising his standoff with the Biden administration over border issues. Abbott has put up razor wire on the border, bused tens of thousands of undocumented migrants to Democratic cities far from the border and blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing some land.
Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, said the Oregon lawmakers’ letter to Abbott led to more connections with their colleagues in Arizona and Texas, resulting in an invitation to visit the border in Arizona. Despite Oregon’s distance from the southern border, he said Oregonians should be concerned about illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
“We know that there are drugs coming over the border, and those end up in probably all states, but certainly in the western states,” he said. “We’ve obviously seen some crime impact from people who have come in illegally. I think all of us want legal immigration, and recognize the need, but we also want to know who’s in the country and right now, we don’t, and that there’s significant danger there.”
Crime and immigration have been increasingly linked in Republican rhetoric, but researchers say immigrants of all sorts are less likely to commit crimes than American-born residents. Federal law enforcement reports that, while the southern border is a significant drug smuggling route, most of the drugs are brought by “highly organized and compartmentalized” Mexican organized crime groups, not immigrants and asylum seekers.
Knopp, who led Senate Republicans’ six-week 2023 walkout over abortion and transgender health care legislation, can’t return to the Legislature next year because voters approved a constitutional amendment barring lawmakers who miss 10 or more days of floor sessions from reelection. He said he expects Oregon Republicans to introduce bills related to border security, immigration and crime – though what effect they could have when the federal government controls immigration policy and Democrats control Oregon’s legislative and executive branches remains to be seen.
The Oregon Republicans will participate in a tour of the border in Yuma led by Jonathan Lines, a Yuma County supervisor and former chairman of the Arizona Republican Party.
His itinerary for the Oregon Republicans includes walking along the border itself and seeing the different barriers erected on the orders of past administrations. He’ll also take the visitors to meet with nongovernmental organizations and groups in Yuma, including visiting a local hospital and food bank. They’ll meet with leaders from Amberly’s Place, a local child welfare center and hear from former Arizona Democratic state Sen. Amanda Aguirre, who leads the Regional Center for Border Health.
“For many people, this is not real,” he said. “They see images.”
Who’s going to the border?
Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend
Sen. Fred Girod, R-Silverton
Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson, R-Prineville
Sen. David Brock Smith, R-Port Orford
Sen. Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer
Rep. Greg Smith, R-Heppner
Rep. Court Boice, R-Gold Beach
Rep. Virgle Osborne, R-Roseburg
Rep. Boomer Wright, R-Coos Bay
Rep. Lucetta Elmer, R-McMinnville
Rep. Christine Goodwin, R-Canyonville
Rep. Dwayne Yunker, R-Grants Pass
Bruce Starr, Senate candidate from Dundee
Michael Summers, Senate candidate from Redmond
Keri Lopez, House candidate from Redmond
Lines told the Capital Chronicle he has fielded many requests from elected officials and candidates – most of them Republicans, though Democrat-turned-independent candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. participated in one – to tour the border. Some come just to get campaign photos and videos and others are there to learn, he said, but he shares the same information with both groups.
Rep. Greg Smith, R-Heppner, said he’s joining the trip because he wants to hear from Arizonans about how Oregon can help “try and keep the bad guys out while allowing legal immigration to occur.” He hears frequently from voters about border concerns, and he’s trying to figure out the connection between the southern border and the limited authority held by lawmakers in Salem.
“What I do know is we’ve heard testimony at the Capitol about drug cartels,” he said. “In my small little town of Milton-Freewater, I’ve got Highway 11, and four months ago in December, I had over 200 people in a room, asking me,the state police and ODOT to create a safety corridor because they were concerned about drug cartels driving through and human trafficking cartels coming through.”
Smith said he also hopes to meet with Arizona lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, to deliver an Oregon flag and discuss issues that matter to them. Sen. David Brock Smith, R-Port Orford and no relation, also hopes to double-dip on the trip by connecting with Arizona lawmakers: He wants to build a coalition of western legislators who can work together on fire policy and exert pressure on Congress to provide resources to prevent and respond to the infernos that blaze across the Western U.S. each year.
He said illegal drugs, many of which law enforcement suspects make it across the southern border, are a top concern in his southern Oregon district.
“There’s basically three ways to get drugs to Portland and two of them, two of those highways come through my district,” Brock Smith said.
Earlier this month, for instance Oregon State Police reported that they stopped a Phoenix man driving north of Roseburg with 62 pounds of methamphetamine and 22,000 fentanyl-laced pills that police said the man was taking to Portland.
Democrats panned the visit as a campaign stunt. Hannah Howell, executive director of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, FuturePAC, said Democrats are staying in Oregon to fix Oregon’s problems and Republicans are welcome to join them.
“It’s honestly baffling,” Howell said. “While Oregonians are worried about rising prices and safety and homelessness, Republicans are inventing a reason to bring divisive national problems – that they don’t even know how to solve – to our state.”
Howell’s counterpart at the Senate Democratic Leadership Fund, Oliver Muggli, added “Oregonians expect their elected officials to be focused on our people in our state, not playing MAGA politics a thousand miles away. This is a cheap election-year stunt that does nothing except show how deeply out-of-touch Republican politicians are with Oregon priorities.”
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Julia Shumway is deputy editor of Oregon Capital Chronicle and has reported on government and politics in Iowa and Nebraska, spent time at the Bend Bulletin and most recently was a legislative reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix. An award-winning journalist, Julia most recently reported on the tangled efforts to audit the presidential results in Arizona.
On Thursday, the Arizona Cardinals selected Marvin Harrison Jr. with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft — a move that experts and fans alike have predicted for several months.
However, one Cardinal in particular has seen this coming for an entire year.
“Right when I got drafted, I literally went to Marvin and I was like ‘dude, you know you’re a Cardinal, right?’” Cardinals offensive tackle, and former Ohio State teammate of Harrison, Paris Johnson Jr. told Arizona Sports’ Cardinals Corner in March.
“He said he wanted to be a Cardinal,” Johnson reflected.
Johnson and Harrison played two seasons together in Columbus, helping the Buckeyes go 11-2 in both the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
After hearing his name called at the draft on Thursday, Harrison reminisced on the conversation he had with Johnson just a year ago.
“I just really loved the Cardinals,” Harrison told Arizona Sports. “Watching them growing up … Larry Fitzgerald being one of the best receivers in the league for a long period of time … The Cardinals always caught my eye.”
Harrison is excited to have the chance to suit up with Johnson once again.
“It’s crazy how it’s all come full circle,” he said.
Back in March, Johnson reflected on his time at Ohio State and how he was always surrounded with NFL-caliber receivers. For example, Jets’ Garrett Wilson, Saints’ Chris Olave, and Seahawks’ Jaxon Smith-Njigba are some recent Buckeye receivers to thrive at the next level.
However, Johnson had some high praise for the Cardinal’s newest rookie.
“I truly think he’s the best receiver that I’ve seen at Ohio State with my own two eyes,” Johnson said. From his point of view as a teammate, it’s the time that Harrison puts in outside of practice that make him one-of-a-kind.
“It’s the work you don’t see,” Johnson said. “He works and he works. That’s why I respect him so much.”
What will Harrison’s impact look like in Arizona? To Johnson, it’s pretty simple.
“I think he’s going to be the one X receiver,” Johnson said. “Just throw it up, he’s down there somewhere. That’s his impact.”
Now that the Ohio State duo is reunited in Arizona, Johnson and Harrison will put in the work throughout the offseason so they can take the field together in August.
Even Johnson’s mom, Monica Daniels, is excited for the former Buckeyes’ reunion.
Congratulations to you, @MarvHarrisonJr , and your family! It’ll be like old times. See you all in the Desert 🏜️. Buckeyes ➡️ Cardinals Great Day to be a Cardinal! #GoBucks #BirdGang @ParisJohnsonJr @Mike_CoachD pic.twitter.com/Bm1nYjn3FK
— Monica Daniels 💕💚 (@MonicaCLDaniels) April 26, 2024
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