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Bill Belichick again highlights ‘ManningCast’ during Falcons vs. Eagles

Even if the interest is reportedly waning, the Manning brothers were back for ‘ManningCast’ and there was plenty of good ol’ banter mixed in with football talk.

The alternate viewing option of ‘Monday Night Football’ featuring Peyton and Eli Manning was a hit for ESPN when it debuted in 2021, but the season premier of the 2024 edition featured an all-time low viewership. There’s no exact reason why, but seeing that the ratings for the regular broadcast of the 49ers vs. Jets game were great for ESPN, it could be viewers are tired of the siblings or would rather listen to veterans like Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.

Regardless, the Mannings carry on. It wasn’t a star-studded group like during Week 1 joining the crew, but it still was a solid one. In addition to regular guest Bill Belichick, there was also the person on the other side of that 28-3 Super Bowl in Matt Ryan. Also on the broadcast was diehard Eagles fan, actor Miles Teller.

There was much to say about Belichick’s debut on the show, notably on how he seemed to talk over both Mannings frequently. This time the flow of conversation was much smoother, with few interruptions coming from the soon-to-be Hall of Fame coach. He surely is having fun too, even showing off his signature bluntness and disses into his analysis.

Here are some highlights of the Week 2 ‘ManningCast.’

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Bill Belichick calls Philadelphia ‘sometimes the city of unbrotherly love’

It’s no secret Philadelphia fans are some of the wildest in sports. Belichick certainly knows it since he played in two Super Bowls against them — one won and another lost. When asked about what it was like being inside Lincoln Financial Field ahead of Monday’s game, Belichick put it bluntly.

‘It’s sometimes the city of unbrotherly love,’ he said. ‘But they were nice to me tonight.’

Belichick recalled the first Super Bowl matchup he had against Philadelphia — Super Bowl 39 — and how he didn’t believe Terrell Owens would be a major threat because of his injured ankle. He said the team doctor said Owens wouldn’t be able to run so they just needed to make sure he was covered. But the Patriots found out quickly Owens could play after a big reception in the first quarter.

”Can’t run? He looks like the best player on the field” Belichick recalled, adding his team had to change their entire defensive game plan for Owens.

Of course, couldn’t forget to mention Belichick’s three Super Bowl losses — two to Eli Manning and one to Nick Foles.

The younger Manning asked Belichick if he had any dart boards in his house with Foles’ face on it. Belichick said he has three: two of Eli Manning and one of Foles.

Bill Belichick looks back at Super Bowl 51

With the Falcons playing, Belichick was asked about the 25-point comeback in Super Bowl 51.

The former Patriots coach remembered when Julio Jones made a spectacular catch in the fourth quarter, he thought it was déjà vu to the David Tyree and Mario Manningham catches the Giants add to win their Super Bowls. After the game, Belichick saw a replay of the game was on in his hotel and he said he had to watch it to make sure his team won.

‘Maybe that was just a dream,’ Belichick said.

There were no questions about the Super Bowl to Ryan. Maybe the pain is still fresh.

Miles Teller flipped off Eli Manning?

As part of the diehard Eagles fanbase, Teller probably has said something about Eli Manning when he was with the Giants.

As proof of Teller’s distaste to the Giants, the brothers showed a (real) picture of Teller giving the double bird to Manning.

‘That’s a real photo. I wish I had four hands,’ Teller said.

Matt Ryan correctly guesses touchdown

Anyone could’ve said the Eagles were going to run the tush push at the one-yard line, and that’s what Matt Ryan did to get his spot on the coveted perfect predictions panel. Peyton Manning said his brother was forcing it but Eli Manning said he did guess it right.

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Tate Ratledge injury update: Georgia OL out with leg and knee injury

Georgia football lost a key member of its offensive line on Saturday in its SEC opener win at Kentucky in senior Tate Ratledge.

And according to several reports on Monday, Ratledge is expected to miss a handful of games following an MRI, which showed a sprained MCL in his left knee and a sprained left ankle. It was first reported by Rusty Mansell of DawgsHQ.

Ratledge sustained his injury in the second quarter of the Bulldogs’ 13-12 win over the Wildcats this past week.

Ratledge is in his third season starting for the Bulldogs. Last season, Ratledge was part of a Georgia offensive line that ranked first in the Southeastern Conference and seventh in the country in sacks allowed at 0.93 per game, and fifth in the nation in total offense at 496.5 yards per game.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart is set to participate in the SEC’s coaches call tomorrow.

Here’s the latest on Ratledge’s injury as Georgia heads into its bye week:

Tate Ratledge injury update

Ratledge is currently out with a sprained MCL in his left knee and sprained left ankle.

The Bulldogs’ 6-foot-6 offensive lineman went down in the second quarter with a leg and knee injury in Saturday’s game vs. Kentucky. Per Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald, Ratledge grabbed his left leg once he went down and signaled over to the Bulldog’s sideline for help. He was then helped off the field by Georgia’s training staff.

‘I was told ankle and knee but I don’t know which is worse or how bad it is,’ Smart said after Georgia’s 13-12 win at Kentucky on Saturday. ‘I don’t know much about it.’

Ratledge was seen in street clothes and a walking boot with crutches as he walked off the filed Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky following Georgia’s win.

How long is Tate Ratledge out?

Per Weiszer, Ratledge should be back in time for Georgia’s Nov. 2 game vs. Florida at Sanford Stadium in Athens.

Following its Week 4 bye, Georgia is set to play No. 4 Alabama, Mississippi State and No. 2 Texas over the next three weeks. The Bulldogs have their second bye week in Week 8 on Oct. 26.

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Watchdog group launches legal probe into NASA emails over ‘Space Czar’ Harris as astronauts linger in orbit

A conservative watchdog group launched a Freedom of Information Act probe against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeking documents relating to the situation that has left two U.S. astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) for several more months.

The Oversight Project’s executive director told Fox News Digital on Monday he and his group have legally sought emails between NASA political appointees and the White House, including the office of Vice President Harris, who also holds the title of chair of the National Space Council.

The filing by Mike Howell, head of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, also demands outgoing emails to Harris’ presidential campaign. Just as Harris was tasked with assuaging the root causes of illegal immigration as the so-called border czar, her role as vice president makes her essentially the lead adviser on space policy in that regard.

‘This looks like to me and other experts that Kamala Harris, the space czar, chose politics over our astronauts,’ Howell said, inferring that there may have been a political calculation against bringing astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams home as planned.

‘It’s very bizarre that the mainstream media seems not to care about this massive scandal. We’re going to continue to investigate this and get Americans the answers they deserve.’

The National Space Council (NSpC) had originally been organized in a slightly different manner under former President George H.W. Bush before it was disbanded and reorganized under former President Trump.

Trump himself unveiled the first new branch of the military in decades, the U.S. Space Force, at a 2018 NSpC meeting.

In its filing, the Oversight Project seeks to compel NASA to share correspondence from agency chief of staff Bale Dalton III, Associate Administrator James Free and five other senior officials. It also seeks communications between NASA and officials in the commercial crew program at Boeing, the company that manufactured the Starliner capsule that took Wilmore and Williams to the ISS this summer.

A source close to the matter pointed to the stipulated responsibilities of the NSpC chair, as outlined by Trump in his 2021 executive order establishing the council.

‘The Chair shall serve as the President’s principal advisor on national space policy and strategy …’ the first stipulation reads.

The chair of the NSpC, therefore, has substantive advisory authority over NASA’s decision-making, the source said.

In an August press briefing, a NASA official said there was a ‘little disagreement in terms of the level of risk’ between the agency and Boeing after the capsule suffered propulsion issues and elemental leaks. Ultimately, the Starliner craft safely returned to Earth unmanned on Sept. 7.

A few weeks prior, Boeing officials said in a statement they remained confident in Starliner’s ability to return safely with crew aboard: ‘We continue to support NASA’s requests for additional testing, data, analysis and reviews to affirm the spacecraft’s safe undocking and landing capabilities. Our confidence is based on this abundance of valuable testing from Boeing and NASA.’

‘The data also supports root cause assessments for the helium and thruster issues and flight rationale for Starliner and its crew’s return to Earth,’ the statement reads.

On X, formerly Twitter, Howell listed the curriculum vitae of a handful of NASA hires made while Harris has led the NSpC, including a veteran of New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, another from the Jacksonville Symphony and an individual whose ‘scientific’ major was ‘political science.’

‘Space is serious business. Kamala Harris obviously has no business running the National Space Council… They’re lost in space right now. Part of the reason they’re lost in space is that our NASA has been turned into another woke-DEI, dismal excuse for a government agency,’ he said.

Howell also shared a copy of a document showing ‘strategic objectives’ of the ‘NASA DEIA Strategic Plan.’ 

‘The fact is that Vice President Kamala Harris’ record as Border Czar is as awful as her record as Space Czar,’ Howell said Monday.

Howell said it is important that the public see any such correspondence of a political nature between NASA, the vice president’s camp and/or Boeing because other nations like China are watching for such ‘sign[s] of weakness.’

‘It seems that Harris signaled a willingness to cede America’s space superiority in the name of an effort to ‘save democracy,’’ he said, suggesting the DEIA priority may jeopardize national security. ‘When is enough, enough?’

The astronauts, however, took their extended trip in stride.

‘I love being in space. This is my happy place,’ Williams said.

Wilmore will miss his daughter’s final year of high school but notably requested his absentee ballot Friday so that he would be able to vote from orbit.

Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’ governmental office and the Harris campaign but did not receive a response. 

In a response to Fox News Digital regarding the FOIA, a NASA spokesperson stated that Harris and NSpC staff ‘received frequent updates on the Starliner Crewed Flight Test.’

‘While the National Space Council works closely with civil, national security, commercial, and international partners to advance the nation’s space priorities, it does not make operational spaceflight safety recommendations or decisions,’ the spokesperson wrote.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Gov Sanders hits campaign trail as top surrogate for Trump in key battleground state: ‘Going full-speed ahead’

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the current Republican governor of Arkansas and a former White House press secretary during the Trump administration, is ramping up her presence on the campaign trail for former President Donald Trump and is taking a more prominent role as a ‘top surrogate’ in the coming weeks. 

‘President Trump is a fighter, and nothing – not the political establishment, not political prosecution from the Left, not even two would-be assassins – can keep him from making America great again,’ Sanders told Fox News Digital. ‘The President Trump I know is going full-speed ahead, and I’m excited to join him on the campaign trail this week to speak directly to the American people.’

Sanders, the daughter of former presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, traveled to Ohio on Monday to campaign with Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno to meet with voters and attend fundraisers across the Buckeye State.

On Tuesday, two days after the former president survived an assassination attempt for the second time in two months, Sanders will be in Flint, Michigan, with Trump for a town hall event. 

Sanders will also be campaigning in Pennsylvania to help GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick unseat Democrat Sen. Bob Casey in a race that will have major implications on which party controls the Senate in November.

‘Our country is at a tipping point: four more years of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s failures, or four years of success with President Trump and a Republican-led Senate,’ Sanders said.

‘Our party is on a mission to return to the America President Trump built, where our prices were low, our border was secure, our enemies feared us, and our allies respected us,’ Sanders said. ‘I’m proud to stand with my friend and old boss, Donald J. Trump, and Senate Republican candidates to make America great once again.’

Sanders told the crowd at the Republican National Convention in July, shortly after the first assassination attempt against Trump’s life, that ‘never have I been more proud than to stand with him right now tonight.’

‘Not even an assassin’s bullet could stop him. God almighty intervened because America is one nation under God, and he is certainly not finished with President Trump. And our country is better for it.’

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UN ambassador criticizes Israeli military, calls for ‘fundamental changes’

The United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations is expressing frustration with the Israeli military following strikes that killed multiple UN-aligned personnel in the region.

Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke out at the U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday, where she lamented the ‘preventable’ loss of life caused by the conflict.

‘We will continue to raise the need for Israel to facilitate humanitarian operations, and protect humanitarian workers and facilities, such as the UNRWA school targeted by the IDF last week in Nusseirat,’ Thomas-Greenfield said.

UNRWA refers to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. 

She continued, ‘We have also been unequivocal in communicating to Israel that there is no basis – absolutely none – for its forces to be opening fire on clearly marked UN vehicles, as recently occurred on numerous occasions.’

A former school converted into a UNRWA civilian shelter was struck last week by the Israeli Defense Forces, killing 18 people. Six of those killed were UNRWA personnel.

The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, previously rebuked criticism of the strike on the UNRWA shelter, asserting that the entire agency has become overrun with terrorists and terrorist sympathizers — including personnel at the destroyed shelter.

‘How long will the U.N. continue to bury its head in the sand and ignore the fact that Hamas terrorists have taken over UNRWA?’ Danon asked this week. ‘Those who were killed yesterday (Wednesday) in the IDF strike were nine terrorists with blood on their hands, and some of them participated in the barbaric massacre on October 7.’

Danon provided a list of names ostensibly connecting known Hamas terrorists to the civilian shelter.

When approached by Fox News Digital, Juliette Touma, a UNRWA spokesperson, claimed that ‘Israeli authorities have not requested UNRWA officially to provide them with the list of staff killed in yesterday’s attack on the UNRWA school.’ She added, ‘The names that appear on today’s statement from the Israeli Army have not been flagged to us before by the Israeli authorities in previous occasions prior to today.’

The U.S. ambassador did note on Monday the ongoing threat of Hamas embedding its members within civilian agencies.

‘At the same time, we continue to see Hamas hiding in, and taking over, and otherwise using civilian sites to conduct operations and pose an ongoing threat,’ said Thomas-Greenfield. ‘There’s no clearer evidence of Hamas’ total indifference to Palestinian civilians in Gaza. For their sake, and the sake of innocent people on all sides of this conflict – this must stop.’

Nine individuals were fired by UNRWA last month after it was found they likely participated in the Hamas slaughter of 1,200 people, including more than 30 Americans, on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.

‘For nine people, the evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved in the 7th of October attacks,’ Farhan Haq, spokesperson for the U.N. secretary general said during a press briefing.

Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.

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Amazon workers must return to office full time, CEO says

Amazon is requiring its workers to return to the office full time.

In a note published Monday by the e-commerce giant, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who took over from founder Jeff Bezos in 2020, said the move to end the company’s hybrid model was designed toward ‘being better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers and the business.’

He noted that the company’s three-day-a-week policy, instituted in 2023, had only reinforced the view that a full return was necessary.

‘When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant,’ Jassy said.

The change will take effect starting in January 2025. The company will still respect extenuating circumstances, like caring for a sick child, and pre-approved work-from-home or hybrid arrangements.

Amazon joins a growing list of major U.S. firms returning to a five-days-a-week office policy, including Boeing, JP Morgan Chase and UPS.

However, according to data from FlexIndex, a firm that tracks company office policies, a majority of U.S. firms still offer hybrid arrangements.

The data does show bigger companies leading the way in pushing for more in-office full-time policies.

But notably, Jassy said he wants Amazon to operate as if it were ‘the world’s largest startup’ — a sentiment Bezos, Amazon’s founder, often stressed.

“That means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers,’ Jassy said, ‘strong urgency (for most big opportunities, it’s a race!), high ownership, fast decision-making, scrappiness and frugality, deeply-connected collaboration (you need to be joined at the hip with your teammates when inventing and solving hard problems), and a shared commitment to each other.”

Jassy also announced a move to reduce ‘bureaucracy’ within the firm, hinting at unintended consequences from Amazon’s aggressive hiring following pandemic reopenings — and possibly opening the door for layoffs. Jassy asked employee units to ‘increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers’ by at least 15% by the end of Q1 2025.

‘As we have grown our teams as quickly and substantially as we have the last many years, we have understandably added a lot of managers,’ Jassy said. ‘In that process, we have also added more layers than we had before. It’s created artifacts that we’d like to change.’

An Amazon spokesperson did not respond to a follow-up request for comment.

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Falcons knock off Eagles on MNF with last-minute touchdown

The Atlanta Falcons earned their first win of the season in hard-fought battle in Philadelphia.

Falcons came from behind to win a 22-21 ‘Monday Night Football’ thriller over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Atlanta was down by six points with 1:39 left in the fourth quarter and Kirk Cousins engineered a game-winning 70-yard touchdown drive. Wide receiver Drake London caught the game-winning TD that had the Philadelphia crowd stunned.

The Eagles had a final opportunity to retake the lead late in the fourth quarter, but Jalen Hurts’ long pass intended for wide receiver DeVonta Smith was intercepted by Falcons safety Jessie Bates, which sealed the ballgame.

The back-and-forth game had six lead changes.

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Philadelphia had an opportunity to put the game away up 18-15 late in the fourth quarter. However, running back Saquon Barkley mishandled what would’ve been a first-down catch on third-and-3. The Eagles had to settle for a short field goal that left the window open for Atlanta with less than two minutes to play.

Cousins had 241 passing yards and two touchdowns in the win. Falcons running back Bijan Robinson tallied 122 yards from scrimmage.

Hurts had 183 passing yards, one touchdown, one interception, 85 rushing yards and one rushing touchdown in the loss.

Falcons vs. Eagles highlights

Kirk Cousins led a late-game touchdown drive as the Falcons stunned the Eagles on ‘Monday Night Football.’ The Falcons trailed by six with no timeouts and 1:39 remaining, yet drove 70 yards in six plays in just 65 seconds for the winning score.

Falcons vs. Eagles final stats

Team stats:

Total yards: Falcons 385, Eagles 365
First downs: Falcons 22, Eagles 22
Third-down conversions: Eagles 6-13, Falcons 2-9
Red zone: Eagles 2-5, Falcons 1-3
Turnovers: Eagles 1, Falcons 0

Passing:

Kirk Cousins: 20-29, 241 yards, 2 touchdowns
Jalen Hurts: 23-30, 183 yards, 1 touchdown, 1 interception

Rushing:

Bijan Robinson: 14 carries, 97 yards
Saquon Barkley: 22 carries, 95 yards
Jalen Hurts, 13 carries, 85 yards, 1 touchdown
Tyler Allgeier, 9 carries, 53 yards

Receiving:

Darnell Mooney, 3 receptions, 88 yards, 1 touchdown
DeVonta Smith: 7 receptions, 76 yards, 1 touchdown
Drake London: 6 receptions, 54 yards, 1 touchdown
Ray-Ray McCloud: 3 receptions, 42 yards
Dallas Goedert: 3 receptions, 38 yards
Bijan Robinson: 4 receptions, 25 yards
Britain Covey: 6 receptions, 23 yards
Kyle Pitts: 3 receptions, 20 yards

Falcons vs. Eagles score

Falcons: 22
Eagles: 21

Second quarter

Falcons field goal (11:22) — Younghoe Koo, 39 yards

Eagles touchdown (5:15) — DeVonta Smith, 7-yard pass from Jalen Hurts (Jake Elliott extra point)

Falcons field goal (0:06) — Younghoe Koo, 22 yards

Third quarter

Falcons field goal (10:12) — Younghoe Koo, 34 yards

Eagles field goal (4:28) — Jake Elliott, 29 yards

Falcons touchdown (1:21) — Darnell Mooney, 41-yard pass from Kirk Cousins (two-point conversion attempt no good)

Fourth quarter

Eagles touchdown (6:47) — Jalen Hurts, 1-yard run (Saquon Barkley two-point conversion run)

Eagles field goal (1:39) — Jake Elliott, 28 yards

Falcons touchdown (0:34) — Drake London, 7-yard pass from Kirk Cousins (Younghoe Koo extra point)

Falcons seal victory with interception

Atlanta has stunned Philadelphia. 

The Eagles just needed a field goal to win, but when Jalen Hurts tried to find DeVonta Smith to get in field goal range, Jessie Bates sprung forward to intercept the ball and give a shocking win to Atlanta. — Jordan Mendoza

Falcons 22, Eagles 21: Falcons take last-minute lead

Atlanta has stormed back.

With no timeouts, the Falcons went 70-yards in just over a minute to take the lead with 34 seconds remaining. Kirk Cousins found Drake London for a 7-yard touchdown to tie the game.

After the touchdown, London was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct, backing the extra point 15 yards and making it a 47-yard try. Younghoe Koo wasn’t fazed and drilled the extra point right down the middle to make it a 22-21 game. — Jordan Mendoza

Eagles 21, Falcons 15: Eagles add field goal after Saquon Barkley drops first down catch

The Eagles were so close to sealing a win.

On third down and the Falcons with no timeouts, Philadelphia ran a pass from Jalen Hurts to Saquon Barkley just like the touchdown catch earlier. However, Barkley couldn’t hold onto the catch and dropped it as he moved toward the first down marker. 

Falcons stuffed on fourth down

Atlanta went for a fourth down but C.J. Gardner-Johnson didn’t let it happen.

Eagles 18, Falcons 15: Philly regains lead after Tush Push TD

The lead changed for the fifth time after the Eagles went on a long 17-play, 70-yard touchdown drive that took nearly 10 minutes.

Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley led the way during Philadelphia’s go-ahead touchdown drive.

Hurts capped off the drive when he got in the end zone on the Eagles’ signature Tush Push from 1 yard out. Then Barkley ran up the middle for a successful two-point conversion to give Philadelphia a 18-15 lead with 6:12 left in the fourth quarter.

Falcons 15, Eagles 10: Darnell Mooney eludes defense for long TD

The Falcons picked a good time to score their first touchdown.

Falcons head coach Raheem Morris made a gutsy call by going for it on fourth-and-4 from their own 47-yard line. Kirk Cousins tossed an 11-yard pass to WR Ray-Ray McCloud to keep the chains moving. On the ensuing play, Cousins threw a strike to WR Darnell Mooney running a skinny post. Mooney caught the ball, broke a tackle and ran it in for a 41-yard touchdown to give Atlanta a 15-10 lead with 1:21 left in the third quarter.

Eagles 10, Falcons 9: Philly retakes lead with field goal

Philadelphia again faced a fourth down inside the 10-yard line, but this time took the field goal and now lead 10-9.

Jalen Hurts hasn’t thrown the ball much, but his arm got the Eagles right down the field. He perfectly placed a ball to DeVonta Smith for a 19-yard catch in the best throw of the game. On a third and three, Hurts tried to find Smith again, this time in the end zone, and while his hands were on the ball, Atlanta’s Jessie Bates knocked it right out to prevent the touchdown.

Falcons 9, Eagles 7: Atlanta retakes lead

The Falcons opened up the second half with a nine-play, 54-yard field goal drive.

Running back Bijan Robinson had 37 yards from scrimmage during Atlanta’s scoring drive that ended in another Younghoe Koo field goal.

The Falcons now have a 9-7 lead with 10:12 on the clock in the third quarter.

Eagles 7, Falcons 6: Younghoe Koo adds another field goal before halftime

Falcons kicker Younghoe Koo’s hit both his field goals in the first half.

Koo connected on a short 22-yard field goal after the Falcons failed to reach the end zone on third and goal at the end of the first half.

The field goal ended a 15-play, 82-yard drive for the Falcons. It was the team’s longest drive of the night.

Eagles 7, Falcons 3: Jalen Hurts shows off dual-threat ability on TD drive

Jalen Hurts led the Eagles on an 11-play, 70-yard touchdown drive midway through the second quarter to lift the team to a 7-3 lead.

Hurts had 46 rushing yards during the drive that ended in a 7-yard touchdown catch by wideout DeVonta Smith.

Falcons 3, Eagles 0: Younghoe Koo gets game’s first points

The Falcons scored the first points of the ballgame in the second quarter.

Atlanta went on an eight-play, 52-yard drive that ended with a successful 39-yard field goal by kicker Younghoe Koo to give the club a 3-0 lead at the 11:22 mark in the second period.

Eagles turn ball over on downs in red zone

The Eagles were 9 yards away from the end zone, but couldn’t punch it in.

Philadelphia’s promising 10-play, 55-yard drive ended when Jalen Hurts’ pass to tight end Dallas Goedert fell incomplete on fourth-and-4 from the 9-yard line with 4:38 on the clock in the first quarter.

Eagles fans not happy with first series

PHILADELPHIA — Time of first boo: 8:19 p.m. ET. 

Home cooking for Eagles

Bill Belichick sighting at Lincoln Financial Field

PHILADELPHIA — Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was seen roaming the sidelines before kickoff. Alongside him was his former protégé and former Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia.

Belichick’s new role on Monday nights has been joining Peyton and Eli Manning on the ‘ManningCast’ as the six-time Super Bowl champion head coach navigates his first football season away from a NFL sidelines in five decades. — Chris Bumbaca

What time is Falcons vs. Eagles 

Falcons at Eagles will kick off at 8:15 p.m. ET from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Falcons vs. Eagles TV channel

TV channel: ESPN | ESPN2

ESPN again is the broadcast home of ‘Monday Night Football.’ The longtime team of Joe Buck (play-by-play) and Troy Aikman (color) will be on the call, with Lisa Salters adding reports from the sideline.

Viewers can also tune to ESPN2 for the ‘ManningCast’ featuring Peyton and Eli Manning, as well as Bill Belichick.

Falcons vs. Eagles live stream

Live stream: ESPN+, Fubo TV

For cord cutters looking for a live stream for the matchup, you can turn to Fubo TV. Fubo TV carries NBC, as well as CBS, FOX, NFL Network and the ESPN family of networks, meaning you can catch NFL action through the remainder of the season.

ESPN+, the proprietary streaming service of ESPN, will also carry the game.

Jason Kelce beefs up ESPN’s star power

PHILADELPHIA — Jason Kelce definitely qualifies as a “personality hire.” 

It’s why ESPN coveted his broadcasting services for the 2024 NFL season after all. 

“He kept asking ‘What do you expect from me? What do you want?’ And we’re like, ‘We just want you to be you,’” ESPN vice president of production, Seth Markman, told USA TODAY Sports.

Kelce joined the network’s “Monday Night Countdown” desk alongside host Scott Van Pelt and fellow analysts Marcus Spears and Ryan Clark. Every company that airs the NFL lined up meetings to convince the former Philadelphia Eagles center to join their shop because of his engaging personality.  — Chris Bumbaca

MNF theme song – ‘In The Air Tonight,’ performed by Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg and Cindy Blackman Santana

No NFL broadcast is complete without an opening theme song.

In September 2023, the league ruffled some feathers announcing the program’s new theme song performed by an unlikely trio: Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg and Cindy Blackman Santana, who recorded a cover of the 1981 Phil Collins classic ‘In The Air Tonight.’ — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer

Falcons vs. Eagles inactives: A.J. Brown out (officially)

A hamstring injury is keeping Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown from playing against the Falcons on ‘Monday Night Football.’

Falcons’ inactive players:

RB Jase McClellan
CB Antonio Hamilton Sr.
DL Brandon Dorlus
OG Jovaughn Gwyn
OT Brandon Parker
DL Ruke Orhorhoro

Eagles’ inactive players:

QB Tanner McKee
WR A.J. Brown
CB Eli Ricks
LB Devin White
OL Darian Kinnard
OG Trevor Keegan
DT Byron Young

Falcons at Eagles: Predictions, picks and odds

The Eagles are favorites to defeat the Falcons, according to the BetMGM NFL odds. Looking to wager? Check out the best mobile sports betting apps offering NFL betting promos in 2024.

Spread: Eagles (-5.5)
Moneyline: Eagles (-250); Falcons (+200)
Over/under: 45.5

Jarrett Bell: Eagles
Chris Bumbaca: Eagles
Nate Davis: Eagles
Tyler Dragon: Eagles
Mike Middlehurst-Schwartz:  Eagles
Lorenzo Reyes:  Eagles

Eagles vs. Falcons series history

Monday night’s matchup is the 38th all-time matchup between the Eagles and Falcons, including playoff games.

The Eagles hold a 21-15-1 series edge — including a 3-1 record in postseason matchups — in a series that dates back to the Falcons’ inaugural season of 1966. For you NFL history buffs out there, the head coaches for that first Eagles-Falcons matchup were Joe Kuharich (Eagles) and Norb Hecker (Falcons), and the starting quarterbacks were Norm Snead (Eagles) and Randy Johnson (Falcons).

The biggest matchup between the two franchises occurred in the 2004 NFC championship game, a 27-10 Eagles win that ended a three-year losing streak in conference championship games. In the 2017 playoffs, the Eagles defeated the Falcons in the divisional playoffs en route to winning Super Bowl 52.

For those who enjoy testing their NFL wits with Pro Football Reference’s immaculate grids, there have been a number of notable players who played for both teams. Pro Football Hall of Famer Claude Humphrey played 10 years with the Falcons and then his final three NFL seasons with the Eagles, including as a member of the Philadelphia team that advanced to Super Bowl XV. Quarterback Michael Vick was the Falcons’ quarterback in that aforementioned 2004 NFC title game, but also started a playoff game for the Eagles during the 2010 season. Seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Julio Jones played a decade in Atlanta, and had his final season (2023) in Philadelphia. — Jim Reineking

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Who is the highest-paid NFL player?

The NFL’s top 18 players in average annual salary are all quarterbacks, according to OverTheCap.com. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott became the league’s highest-paid player on the season’s opening Sunday, agreeing to a four-year, $240 million deal. Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson is the first non-quarterback on the highest-paid list after striking a four-year, $140 million contract extension this offseason. 

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Second fan dies from shooting at Lions tailgate party

A second victim has died in a shooting at a tailgate party before for Detroit Lions game near Ford Field at the Eastern Market on Sunday, Detroit police confirmed Monday afternoon.

Detroit Police Chief James White said yesterday that two people were shot from the gunfire that erupted after a fight between two men escalated at one of the buildings known as Shed 6 at the outdoor market.

A Detroit man in his 40s was killed. A second man in his 20s was critically injured and later died from his injuries, said Dayna Clark, a spokesperson for the police department. She didn’t say exactly when the man died.

White said officers arrested a man from the who is in his 30s and is licensed to carry a gun.

Eastern Market is a popular tailgate destination for Detroit Lions fans. Hundreds flock to the market during home games. On Sunday, the Lions hosted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 1 p.m.

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“Tailgating, drinking and guns. They don’t mix,” White said.

White said a fight between two men escalated about 4:30 p.m. They put up hands in preparation to fight when the suspect pulled out a gun and fired at least two rounds, White said.

Victims’ loved ones will hold a vigil at 7 p.m. on Monday at Shed 6, one of the Eastern Market’s buildings where the shooting happened.

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Simone Biles’ Netflix doc is part of Jordan Chiles’ medal appeal

If Jordan Chiles gets to keep her Olympic bronze medal, she might have teammate Simone Biles − and her Netflix documentary − to thank.

Court documents released Monday reveal that the video footage at the center of Chiles’ appeal efforts was provided by director Katie Walsh and production company Religion of Sports, who received special permission to film in Bercy Arena as part of Biles’ latest documentary project, ‘Simone Biles: Rising.’ The first two episodes of the docuseries were released prior to the 2024 Paris Olympics and two more are still to come later this year.

The footage could prove to be the proverbial smoking gun in Chiles’ fight to hold onto her bronze medal, because it undercuts a key factual finding in the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling − showing that the American gymnast’s appeal of her score, known as an inquiry, had been submitted well before the 60-second deadline.

‘Inquiry for Jordan!’ Chiles’ coach, Cecile Landi, is heard saying on the documentary footage precisely 49 seconds after Chiles’ score in the floor exercise final was announced. She also repeats ‘inquiry for Jordan’ and ‘for Jordan’ prior to the 60-second deadline.

The CAS ruling appeared to hinge on the timing of that inquiry, which placed Chiles ahead of two Romanian gymnasts and earned her a bronze medal. The inquiry was accepted in the moment, but the Romanian Gymnastics Federation later argued that it had been submitted four seconds too late and should be nullified. CAS agreed, issuing a ruling that effectively dropped Chiles back to fifth and elevated Romania’s Ana Barbosu into bronze medal position.

One day after CAS’ ruling, however, USA Gymnastics announced that it had received new video evidence that would prove Chiles’ inquiry had been submitted on time by Landi, who is both Chiles’ personal coach and was the coach of the U.S. team in Paris. It sent the video to CAS but declined to publicly reveal any details about the footage or its source.

CAS rejected the video, saying it couldn’t be submitted after its decision had been issued.

Then, on Monday, Chiles formally appealed the CAS ruling to the Swiss Federal Tribunal. The documents submitted by her attorneys not only disclose the source of the new video footage, which spans nearly 7 minutes, they even include a hyperlink to it. Chiles’ attorneys also argued that CAS erred in not accepting the video.

According to the documents, Chiles’ team learned of the footage when Walsh, the docuseries’ director, texted Landi a message of condolences about the situation.

‘We aren’t letting this go so easily and will keep looking for video and stuff,’ Landi replied.

Landi then realized that Walsh’s team might have additional video and audio beyond what had already been published by NBC and the Olympic Broadcasting Services, a subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee that distributes footage of competition to media outlets around the world.

According to the documents, Walsh’s team had three cameras positioned in Bercy Arena as well as access to audio from Landi, who coaches both Biles and Chiles and was wearing a microphone for the documentary. At Landi’s request, Walsh passed along the footage to the coach and then later to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and USA Gymnastics. Landi also passed it along to Chiles’ mother, Gina.

‘This shows it was done!!’ Gina Chiles replied to Landi on Facebook on Aug. 11.

‘I keep listening to it. They didn’t even try to find the facts!!! This is clear. This shows it was submitted in time.’

Walsh and Netflix have not replied to multiple messages seeking comment.

While the video is the most compelling evidence in Chiles’ appeal, the filing Monday details several other errors that undercut the CAS decisions.

Wrong email addresses

For three days, CAS sent information about the case to wrong or outdated emails at USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee – including to someone who had left the USOPC almost a year earlier. This despite CAS being in contact with the USOPC during the Paris Games about U.S. figure skaters receiving their gold medals from the team competition at the Beijing Olympics in 2022.

The skaters received their medals, which had been held up by legal wranglings over the eligibility of a Russian skater, during an Aug. 7 ceremony in Paris. That event was a day after CAS sent its first emails to the wrong addresses.

CAS ignored error messages about the email addresses and did not follow up when it did not hear from the USOPC or USAG, so it wasn’t until the morning of Aug. 9 that contact was finally made with Chris McCleary, the USOPC’s general counsel. It was McCleary who then brought Debbie Shon, USA Gymnastics’ chief legal officer, into the chain of correspondence with CAS.

That left Chiles, USAG and USOPC officials less than 24 hours to find legal representation, and for that person to then read the entire case file, prepare and file a response and get ready for the CAS hearing. The time change – Paris is six hours ahead of the East Coast of the United States – and Chiles no longer being in Paris presented additional challenges.

What Paul Greene, the attorney hired by USA Gymnastics, did not know before the hearing, and wouldn’t know until several days after it, was that the Americans had not been given a key piece of information about the hearing.

Arbitrator had ties to Romania

The president of the CAS arbitration panel was Hamid G. Gharavi, a lawyer based in France who has represented the Romanian government at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes since 2016. It’s work that could generate millions of dollars for Gharavi and his firm, and he has at least one open case currently.

When he was named to the panel, Gharavi submitted a declaration disclosing his work for the Romanian government and pledging his independence. But while the declaration was sent to other parties in the case, none of the Americans received it. It also was not included in the document file that was sent to McCleary, the USOPC’s general counsel, once he finally learned of the case.

Gharavi did ask at the beginning of the CAS hearing if there were any objections to the panel. But he did not mention his work for the Romanian government again and Greene did not know to raise a complaint because the Americans hadn’t received Gharavi’s declaration. 

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Obama makes TikTok appearances to push for voter registration: report

Former President Obama will make appearances on TikTok to push for voter registration, a report says. 

As part of a broader Democratic initiative to reach approximately 30 million potential voters through non-traditional means on National Voter Registration Day, Obama conducted a series of interviews with 25-year-old TikTok influencer and non-profit director Carlos Espina for TikTok, Axios reported. 

Espina, who has 10.5 million followers on the Chinese-owned platform, has made appearances with President Biden and Vice President Harris on the app in recent months. Playing into the traditional Democratic advantage among young Americans under 30, Obama is trying to move the dial for Harris in encouraging TikTok viewers to visit IWillVote.com, register and make a plan for Election Day. 

The Harris-Walz campaign is also planning to target young Americans with voter registration initiatives online and on campuses in key battleground states for National Voter Registration Day, Axios reported. 

The Biden campaign and the Harris campaign afterward have called on Obama in the past to help raise money among wealthy donors and small-donor party activists. The Harris campaign also pulled a portion of Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention during which he used a suggestive hand gesture while discussing former President Trump’s ‘crowd sizes’ to use in a recent campaign video. 

The voter registration push comes a day after attorneys for TikTok faced off with the U.S. government in federal court in Washington, D.C., arguing a law that could ban the platform in a few short months is unconstitutional, while the Justice Department said the app needed to eliminate a national security risk. 

Attorneys for both sides – and content creators – were pressed on their best arguments for and against the law that forces TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance to break ties by mid-January or lose one of their biggest markets in the world. 

Biden signed the measure in April as the culmination of a years-long saga in Washington over the short-form video-sharing app, which the U.S. government has said is collecting vast swaths of user data, including sensitive information on viewing habits, that could fall into the hands of the Chinese government. 

Officials have also warned the proprietary algorithm that fuels what users see on the app is vulnerable to manipulation by Chinese authorities, who can use it to shape content in a way that is difficult to detect.

Trump, who first raised national security concerns about TikTok in 2020, warned allies in March that now banning the platform would benefit Meta-owned Facebook, which Trump has claimed hampered his 2020 re-election bid.

Biden’s campaign joined TikTok in February with a Superbowl-themed video. After Biden discontinued his re-election campaign in July, Harris took to TikTok stating, ‘Thought I would get on here myself.’ 

Trump joined TikTok in June with a video showing him waving to fans at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight in Newark, New Jersey. UFC CEO Dana White declared ‘the president is now on TikTok,’ to which Trump replied, ‘It’s my honor,’ as the song ‘American Bad A–‘ by Kid Rock played. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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