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Jahmyr Gibbs is not playing coy. The Detroit Lions running back says he is "for sure" chasing LaDainian Tomlinson's single-season touchdown record, and with the way this offense is humming, nobody in the NFC should feel comfortable. Gibbs has the talent, the touches, and apparently the ambition to rewrite history.
Shifting to the NFC West, a failed fourth-down conversion in the forty-niners-Seahawks game is reigniting the conversation around digital field mapping technology in the NFL. The play came down to inches, and the league's spot-and-measure system is once again under the microscope. Accuracy at the line of gain isn't a luxury anymore, it's a necessity, and teams are paying the price when the tech falls short.
And over in the ALCS, the Cleveland Guardians travel to Tampa Bay to face the Rays in Game One, with Drew Rasmussen taking the mound for a well-rested Rays squad that appears to hold nearly every early advantage. Cleveland has been scrappy all postseason, but walking into Tropicana Field against a locked-in ace is about as tough a draw as you can get in October baseball.
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