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The Detroit Lions defense is in serious trouble, but Dan Campbell isn't pointing fingers at coordinator Kelvin Sheppard after another rough Sunday night, this time against Carolina. Campbell and his players circled the wagons publicly, refusing to throw their second-year coordinator under the bus — but the pressure is real and the losses are mounting.
Shifting to baseball, the Atlanta Braves pulled off something wild in NLDS Game two out in Los Angeles. Twenty-one-year-old Didier Fuentes, a rookie out of Colombia, took the mound in the sixth inning and was absolutely untouchable — nine up, nine down across three perfect frames against the defending champs. His bosses were debating his workload while he was still out there dealing. The Braves steal game two with a bullpen special nobody saw coming.
And in Formula One, Mercedes is in a tough spot heading into the next race weekend. Young driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli admitted the team's long-awaited upgrade package may have actually made the car slower. After Max Verstappen took a historic rain-delayed victory at Sepang, Mercedes needs answers fast — and right now they don't have them.
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