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The Denver Broncos could have avoided the quarterback quagmire they got stuck in over the weekend had they only embraced the notion of a ”quarantined QB” that was championed by the likes of the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles last summer. Coach Vic Fangio deemed as overkill that pandemic precaution back in training camp.

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A look at the exchange between Metcalf and Schwartz and how Metcalf turned a compliment into motivation.

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Taz Sherman was struggling with the adjustment to college basketball. The high-scoring junior college all-American was brought in to hit shots and stretch opposing defenses but struggled to find his footing in his new surroundings at West Virginia. After averaging just short of 26 points per game and shooting close to 40-percent from three at Collin College, Sherman had only connected on 29-percent from deep in his first 24-games last season.

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Despite its extraordinary detail and intrinsic link to the real world, Football Manager remains one of the finest fantasy video games there is. How else is it that I can create a glorious alternate reality in which –instead of my beloved Watford being miserably relegated at an empty Emirates Stadium in the midst of a global pandemic– Norwegian wunderkind Erling Braut Haaland instead fired my Hornets to a spectacular domestic double double in front of thousands of fans? The Champions League remained elusive, alas, as I escaped into the previous Football Manager as a glorious respite from real world travails both on and off the pitch. What’s striking about Football Manager 2021 is that developer Sports Interactive needed to deal with these particular issues on an altogether more profound level. Covid-19 not only led to the brunt of the game’s development being done remotely, but changed the face of football as we know it. So where to go with that? A conundrum the game’s director Miles Jacobson addressed by (rightly) saying: “people have always used FM to create their own fantasy world and now, more than ever, they need something to take them away from reality… not to remind them of it.” What a fine job it does. Coronavirus exists only as a ghost in FM21; fans pile into stadiums, squads are not ravaged with illness or periods of self-isolation, press conferences notably take place in packed media rooms rather than on Zoom (more on that later). But a dedication to realism remains, with the fixture list shunted back to our current melee and many clubs facing the harsh realities of the financial impact. Depending on your choice of club; budgets may not be what you are used to. And so it was I found myself yet again in charge of Watford, facing the double-whammy of relegation to the Championship, a non-existent transfer budget and a clutch of players looking to move on. Any thought that the lack of Covid might strip FM21 of its latent realism was put to one side as I had to revisit the (very real) stress of will he/won’t he transfer sagas involving Ismaila Sarr and other star players. The bewildering balancing act of trimming the wage budget, keeping antsy players happy and retaining a squad strong enough for a promotion push.

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The other four hopefuls will be revealed throughout Tuesday on the BBC’s various platforms.

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