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Dre Greenlaw had some words for his old boss Sunday, and none of them were suitable for air. The San Francisco linebacker got in Sean Payton's face after the Niners and Broncos wrapped up, turning a postgame handshake line into something far more combustible. Greenlaw played under Payton in New Orleans, so this one had some history behind it.
Speaking of history, Minnesota is making some. The Vikings are sitting at four and zero, and to find a team that got there the same way, you'd have to dust off the record books all the way back to the nineteen thirty-four Detroit Lions. It's a legitimately remarkable start, and Sam Darnold is somehow at the center of it. Nobody saw this coming, and that's what makes it worth talking about.
And the flag situation in the NFL this season has officially reached a breaking point. Officials are throwing more penalties than at any recorded point in the league's history, and fans are feeling it. Games are being stretched, momentum is being killed, and the conversation around officiating has never been louder or more urgent inside league circles.
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