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Boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage
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Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle facility, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.
Hundreds of parts from that Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) were secretly pulled from that cage and installed on aircraft that are currently plying the world's skies. Among them, sections 47/48 of a 787 – the last four rows of the plane, along with its galley and rear toilets. As Moe Tkacik writes in her excellent piece on Boeing's lethally corrupt culture of financialization and whistleblower intimidation, this is a big ass chunk of an airplane, and there's no way it could go missing from the MRSA cage without a lot of people knowing about it:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-30-whistleblower-laws-protect-lawbreakers/
More: MRSA parts are prominently emblazoned with red marks denoting them as defective and unsafe. For a plane to escape Boeing's production line and find its way to a civilian airport near you with these defective parts installed, many people will have to see and ignore this literal red flag.
The MRSA cage was a special concern of John "Swampy" Barnett, the Boeing whistleblower who is alleged to have killed himself in March. Tkacik's earlier profile of Swampy paints a picture of a fearless, stubborn engineer who refused to go along to get along, refused to allow himself to become inured to Boeing's growing culture of profits over safety:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Boeing is America's last aviation company and its single largest exporter. After the company was allowed to merge with its rival McDonnell-Douglas in 1997, the combined company came under MDD's notoriously financially oriented management culture. MDD CEO Harry Stonecipher became Boeing's CEO in the early 2000s. Stonecipher was a protege of Jack Welch, the man who destroyed General Electric with cuts to quality and workforce and aggressive union-busting, a classic Mafia-style "bust-out" that devoured the company's seed corn and left it a barren wasteland:
https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis
Post-merger, Boeing became increasingly infected with MDD's culture. The company chased cheap, less-skilled labor to other countries and to America's great onshore-offshore sacrifice zone, the "right-to-work" American south, where bosses can fire uppity workers who balked at criminal orders, without the hassle of a union grievance.
Stonecipher was succeeded by Jim "Prince Jim" McNerney, ex-3M CEO, another Jack Welch protege (Welch spawned a botnet of sociopath looters who seized control of the country's largest, most successful firms, and drove them into the ground). McNerney had a cute name for the company's senior engineers: "phenomenally talented assholes." He created a program to help his managers force these skilled workers – everyone a Boeing who knew how to build a plane – out of the company.
McNerney's big idea was to get rid of "phenomenally talented assholes" and outsource the Dreamliner's design to Boeing's suppliers, who were utterly dependent on the company and could easily be pushed around (McNerney didn't care that most of these companies lacked engineering departments). This resulted in a $80b cost overrun, and a last-minute scramble to save the 787 by shipping a "cleanup crew" from Seattle to South Carolina, in the hopes that those "phenomenally talented assholes" could save McNerney's ass.
Swampy was part of the cleanup crew. He was terrified by what he saw there. Boeing had convinced the FAA to let them company perform its own inspections, replacing independent government inspectors with Boeing employees. The company would mark its own homework, and it swore that it wouldn't cheat.
Boeing cheated. Swampy dutifully reported the legion of safety violations he witnessed and was banished to babysit the MRSA, an assignment his managers viewed as a punishment that would isolate Swampy from the criminality he refused to stop reporting. Instead, Swampy audited the MRSA, and discovered that at least 420 defective aviation components had gone missing from the cage, presumably to be installed in planes that were behind schedule. Swampy then audited the keys to the MRSA and learned that hundreds of keys were "floating around" the Charleston facility. Virtually anyone could liberate a defective part and install it into an airplane without any paper trail.
Swampy's bosses had a plan for dealing with this. They ordered Swampy to "pencil whip" the investigations of 420 missing defective components and close the cases without actually figuring out what happened to them. Swampy refused.
Instead, Swampy took his concerns to a departmental meeting where 12 managers were present and announced that "if we can’t find them, any that we can’t find, we need to report it to the FAA." The only response came from a supervisor, who said, "We’re not going to report anything to the FAA."
The thing is, Swampy wasn't just protecting the lives of the passengers in those defective aircraft – he was also protecting Boeing employees. Under Sec 38 of the US Criminal Code, it's a 15-year felony to make any "materially false writing, entry, certification, document, record, data plate, label, or electronic communication concerning any aircraft or space vehicle part."
(When Swampy told a meeting that he took this seriously because "the paperwork is just as important as the aircraft" the room erupted in laughter.)
Swampy sent his own inspectors to the factory floor, and they discovered "dozens of red-painted defective parts installed on planes."
Swampy blew the whistle. How did the 787 – and the rest of Boeing's defective flying turkeys – escape the hangar and find their way into commercial airlines' fleets? Tkacik blames a 2000 whistleblower law called AIR21 that:
creates such byzantine procedures, locates adjudication power in such an outgunned federal agency, and gives whistleblowers such a narrow chance of success that it effectively immunizes airplane manufacturers, of which there is one in the United States, from suffering any legal repercussions from the testimony of their own workers.
By his own estimation, Swampy was ordered to commit two felonies per week for six years. Tkacik explains that this kind of operation relies on a culture of ignorance – managers must not document their orders, and workers must not be made aware of the law. Whistleblowers like Swampy, who spoke the unspeakable, were sidelined (an assessment by one of Swampy's managers called him "one of the best" and finished that "leadership would give hugs and high fives all around at his departure").
Multiple whistleblowers were singled out for retaliation and forced departure. William Hobek, a quality manager who refused to "pencil whip" the missing, massive 47-48 assembly that had wandered away from the MRSA cage, was given a "weak" performance review and fired despite an HR manager admitting that it was bogus.
Another quality manager, Cynthia Kitchens, filed an ethics complaint against manager Elton Wright who responded to her persistent reporting of defects on the line by shoving her against a wall and shouting that Boeing was "a good ol’ boys’ club and you need to get on board." Kitchens was fired in 2016. She had cancer at the time.
John Woods, yet another quality engineer, was fired after he refused to sign off on a corner-cutting process to repair a fuselage – the FAA later backed up his judgment.
Then there's Sam Salehpour, the 787 quality engineer whose tearful Congressional testimony described more corner-cutting on fuselage repairs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0xhIe1LFE
Salehpour's boss followed the Boeing playbook to the letter: Salehpour was constantly harangued and bullied, and he was isolated from colleagues who might concur with his assessment. When Salehpour announced that he would give Congressional testimony, his car was sabotaged under mysterious circumstances.
It's a playbook. Salehpour's experience isn't unusual at Boeing. Two other engineers, working on the 787 Organization Designation Authorization, held up production by insisting that the company fix the planes' onboard navigation computers. Their boss gave them a terrible performance review, admitting that top management was furious at the delays and had ordered him to punish the engineers. The engineers' union grievance failed, with Boeing concluding that this conduct – which they admitted to – didn't rise to the level of retaliation.
As Tkacik points out, these engineers and managers that Boeing targeted for intimidation and retaliation are the very same staff who are supposed to be performing inspections of behalf of the FAA. In other words, Boeing has spent years attacking its own regulator, with total impunity.
But it's not just the FAA who've failed to take action – it's also the DOJ, who have consistently declined to bring prosecutions in most cases, and who settled the rare case they did bring with "deferred prosecution agreements." This pattern was true under Trump's DOJ and continued under Biden's tenure. Biden's prosecutors have been so lackluster that a federal judge "publicly rebuked the DOJ for failing to take seriously the reputational damage its conduct throughout the Boeing case was inflicting on the agency."
Meanwhile, there's the AIR21 rule, a "whistleblower" rule that actually protects Boeing from whistleblowers. Under AIR21, an aviation whistleblower who is retaliated against by their employer must first try to resolve their problem internally. If that fails, the whistleblower has only one course of action: file an OSHA complaint within 90 days (if HR takes more than 90 days to resolve your internal complaint, you can no have no further recourse). If you manage to raise a complaint with OSHA, it is heard by a secret tribunal that has no subpoena power and routinely takes five years to rule on cases, and rules against whistleblowers 97% of the time.
Boeing whistleblowers who missed the 90-day cutoff have filled the South Carolina courts with last-ditch attempts to hold the company to account. When they lose these cases – as is routine, given Boeing's enormous legal muscle and AIR21's legal handcuffs – they are often ordered to pay Boeing's legal costs.
Tkacik cites Swampy's lawyer, Rob Turkewitz, who says Swampy was the only one of Boeing's whistleblowers who was "savvy, meticulous, and fast-moving enough to bring an AIR 21 case capable of jumping through all the hoops" to file an AIR21 case, which then took seven years. Turkewitz calls Boeing South Carolina "a criminal enterprise."
That's a conclusion that's hard to argue with. Take Boeing's excuse for not producing the documentation of its slapdash reinstallation of the Alaska Air door plug that fell off its plane in flight: the company says it's not criminally liable for failing to provide the paperwork, because it never documented the repair. Not documenting the repair is also a crime.
You might have heard that there's some accountability coming to the Boeing boardroom, with the ouster of CEO David Calhoun. Calhoun's likely successor is Patrick Shanahan, whom Tkacik describes as "the architect of the ethos that governed the 787 program" and whom her source called "a classic schoolyard bully."
If Shanahan's name rings a bell, it might be because he was almost Trump's Secretary of Defense, but that was derailed by the news that he had "emphatically defended" his 17 year old son after the boy nearly beat his mother to death with a baseball bat. Shanahan is presently CEO of Spirit Aerospace, who made the door-plug that fell out of the Alaska Airlines 737 Max.
Boeing is a company where senior managers only fail up and where whistleblowers are terrorized in and out of the workplace. One of Tkacik's sources noticed his car shimmying. The source, an ex-787 worker who'd been fired after raising safety complaints, had tried to bring an AIR21 complaint, but withdrew it out of fear of being bankrupted if he was ordered to pay Boeing's legal costs. When the whistleblower pulled over, he discovered that two of the lug-nuts had been removed from one of his wheels.
The whistleblower texted Tkcacik to say (not for the first time): "If anything happens, I'm not suicidal."
Boeing is a primary aerospace contractor to the US government. It's clear that its management – and investors – consider it too big to jail. It's also clear that they know it's too big to fail – after all, the company did a $43b stock buyback, then got billions in a publicly funded buyback.
Boeing is, effectively, a government agency that is run for the benefit of its investors. It performs its own safety inspections. It investigates its own criminal violations of safety rules. It loots its own coffers and then refills them at public expense.
Meanwhile, the company has filled our skies with at least 420 airplanes with defective, red-painted parts that were locked up in the MRSA cage, then snuck out and fitted to an airplane that you or someone you love could fly on the next time you take your family on vacation or fly somewhere for work.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa
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#pluralistic#mrsa#Material Review Segregation Area#787#dreamliner#swampy#faa#marking your own homework#monopolies#AS9100#Cynthia Kitchens#Sam Salehpour#737 max#ntsb#David Calhoun#boeing#whistleblowers#aviation#safety#John Barnett#maureen tkacik#Patrick Shanahan
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Get ready football fans because the stage is set for an epic showdown! The San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs will face off in what promises to be an unforgettable Super Bowl, held for the first time ever in Las Vegas. The excitement is palpable as both teams vie for the ultimate prize, but its the 49ers who came in as slight favorites.
San Francisco is on a mission to claim their first Super Bowl Victory since 1995 and their sixth overall, putting them in elite company alongside the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers for the most championships in NFL history. This is their chance to solidify their place among the all-time greats.
The Kansas City Chiefs, on the other hand, have their sights on a different kind of glory. With a win on Sunday, they can solidify their status as the NFL's newest dynasty, having already won the championship twice in the past five years. This would also elevate their star quarterback, Patrick Mahomes to rarefied levels of greatness at the young age of 28. If Mahomes secures his third Super Bowl ring, he will join the esteemed group of legendary quarterbacks including Tom Brady, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, and Troy Aikman.
Now let's take a look at how these teams reached the pinnacle of the sport. San Francisco had a strong regular season, finishing with a record of 12-5 and securing the NFC's top seed. They showcased their resilience and determination by coming from behind in both the playoff games against the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions, ultimately punching their ticket to the Super Bowl.
Meanwhile, the Chiefs, known for their consistency during the Mahomes era, faced some challenges in the regular season. They finished with an 11-6 record, but still managed to clinch the AFC West and secure the third seed in the playoffs. With their form peaking in January, they defeated the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and Baltimore Ravens to earn their spot in the big game.Now let's talk about how to catch all the action. The Super Bowl will be televised on CBS and Nickelodeon, bringing you a unique viewing experience for fans of all ages.You can also stream the game on Paramount+, ensuring that you don't miss a minute of the excitement. Kickoff is set for 6:30pm Eastern Time. Get your snacks ready, gather your friends and family, because this is a Super Bowl that is not to be missed. Get ready for an intense battle as the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs go head-to-head for football supremacy.
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2023 best of
best parts
Cyrus Bennett - HUF FOREVER / Johnny's Vid / 7 Ball
Patrick Praman - Three Seasons / REAL pro
Miles Silvas - City to City
Donovan Piscopo - Pawnshop x Nike 'Old Soul'
Bobby de Keyzer - 2411-Q02 HD24 (HARD DREAM)
Mason Coletti - Viva Mexico / Back to My World
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Leo Romero - SKATER
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Joey O'Brien - Alien Workshop / Thunder
John Shanahan - DOUBLE UP / Double Down
Jahmir Brown - BETA BLOCKERS
Ryuhei Kitazume - Meet You There / LENZ III / Nike x Tightbooth
Akwasi - Sci-Fi Fantasy / TOTAL ACTUAL COMFORT
Hermann Stene - Lille Rotta
Conor Charleson - Slight Inclination
Antonio Durao - Johnny's Vid
Max Palmer - Johnny's Vid / "Spiked Off" / LIMO / Atlantic Drift
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best full-lengths
HUF - FOREVER
Foundation - Whippersnappers
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Scumco - STRIKING DISTANCE 2
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SK8MAFIA VIDEO 2023
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Cabinet Endorsements
One thing that's flown a bit below the radar in this election is that former cabinet members haven't been acting like they usually do. Normally, former cabinet members will automatically endorse their former boss for re-election, but Trump's have not been doing that.
This is of particular interest because, while we, the voters, get to see the President give speeches and the like, we don't actually work with him. Presumably a cabinet member is someone who agrees with the president and who the president trusts and who gets to work closely with the president, so their opinion of the president is an important benchmark.
With that in mind, let's take a look at the 44 former cabinet members of the Donald J. Trump administration and the 2 former cabinet members of the Joseph R. Biden administration. I'll put an (E) next to the ones that have endorsed their former boss, an (H) next to the ones who haven't yet, and an (R) next to the ones who have outright refused to do so.
Cabinet Members of the Donald J. Trump Administration
(R) VP Mike Pence
(H) Sec. State Rex Tillerson
(H) Sec. State/CIA Director Mike Pompeo
(E) Sec. Treasury Steven Mnuchin
(R) Sec. Defense James Mattis
(H) Sec. Defense Patrick Shanahan (nominated)
(R) Sec. Defense Mark Esper
(H) Sec. Defense Christopher Miller (acting)
(H) AG Jeff Sessions
(R) AG William Barr
(H) AG Jeffrey Rosen (acting)
(E) Sec. Interior Ryan Zinke
(H) Sec. Interior David Bernhardt
(H) Sec. Agriculture Sonny Perdue
(E) Sec. Commerce Wilbur Ross
(H) Sec. Labor Andrew Puzder (nominated)
(H) Sec. Labor Alex Acosta
(H) Sec. Labor Eugene Scalia
(H) Sec. HHS Tom Price
(H) Sec. HHS Alex Azar
(H) Sec. HHS Pete Gaynor
(E) Sec. HUD Ben Carson
(H) Sec. Transporation Elaine Chao
(H) Sec. Transportation Steven Bradbury (acting)
(H) Sec. Energy Rick Perry
(H) Sec. Energy Dan Brouillette
(H) Sec. Education Besty DeVos
(H) Sec. Education Mick Zais (acting)
(H) Sec. VA David Shulkin
(E) Sec. VA Ronny Jackson (nominated)
(H) Sec. VA Robert Wilkie
(R) Sec. HS John Kelly
(H) Sec. HS Kirstjen Nielsen
(H) Sec. HS Chad Wolf (nominated)
(E) US Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer
(H) DNI Dan Coats
(H) DNI John Ratcliffe
(H) UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
(H) OMB Directory Mick Mulvaney
(E) OMB Director Russel Vought
(H) CIA Director Gina Haspel
(H) EPA Admin. Scott Pruitt
(H) EPA Admin. Andrew Wheeler
(H) SBA Admin. Linda McMahon
(H) SBA Admin. Jovita Caranza
Cabinet Members of the Joseph R. Biden Administration
(E) Sec. Labor Marty Walsh
(E) OMB Director Neera Tanden (nominated)
(H) Office of Science and Tech. Director Eric Lander
The first thing we notice, obviously, is that there are a whole lot more former Trump cabinet members. This is partially because Biden is still in office so his 23 current cabinet members are not counted (it'd be a huge surprise if they didn't endorse him and they probably wouldn't still be working for him if they didn't), but it's also because Trump had way above average turnover for cabinet officials, 19 in the first four years not including the 5 who resigned due to his handling of the 2020 election results (not included because Biden hasn't reached that point in his first term yet), while Biden has had far below average turnover, only 3 so far.
So a lot more people shuffling in and out of the Trump administration, but we also notice a ton more H's than E's there. Heck, there's almost as many R's among Trump's people as there are E's (5 to 7). Meanwhile, Biden's shooting 2 for 3 and the third one hasn't (at least not that I could find) ruled out endorsing him.
Keep in mind, endorsing the nominee of your party is pretty much the bare minimum that any party operative needs to do. Imagine if you applied for a job somewhere, the first question was "do you think this company should be in business", and you answered "no". You probably wouldn't be getting a job there. In other words, refusing to endorse has some big consequences for the people doing it, not just costing them a job in the potential next Republican presidency, but locking them out of the party entirely, and yet a good deal of the people who worked for Trump disliked working with him so much that they're doing it anyways.
As I said, this tends to fly below the radar because it's kind of a formulaic ritual; of course members of the President's party who are closely tied to him are going to endorse him for re-election! That's why you should pay attention now that most of the people who've worked with Trump aren't doing so. It says something, something big.
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who are your favorite retired players? you dont have to do one a team unless you want lol
i definitely won't be able to do one a team but by god will i try. manipulating this all a little bit so that im literally just picking anyone iconic who was on that team at one point, not how they were when they were on that team specifically
bruins: can't say i didn't really like patrice bergeron tbh
panthers: pavel bure!! that one photo of him that was in the newspaper and then they had to print more copies of the newspaper because he was Just That Sexy.... anyway
maple leafs: ... so many options... borje salming
lightning: nope
red wings: steven. steve gregory yzerman. stevie y. The Captain.
canadiens: kennifer dryden
sabres: alex mogilny!!
senators: jason spezza...
rangers: nope
hurricanes: activating the HARTFORD WHALERS CLAUSE to say gordie. my beloved gordie...
islanders: mike bossy pour one out for mike bossy
flyers: nope
devils: nope
penguins: JAROMIR JAGR
capitals: SERGEI FEDOROV
blue jackets: nope
jets: dustin "big buff" byfuglien
avalanche: nope
stars: soft spot for mike modano tbh
predators: pekka
blues: brendan shanahan the handsome sonofabitch
coyotes: nope
wild: nope
blackhawks: nope
canucks: IGOR LARIONOV
not including the golden knights or kraken because they're too young to have anyone on them of note who's retired lmao
kings: nope
oilers: grant fuhr actually i don't know who wayne gretzky is and i don't care
flames: jarome iginla
ducks: i was gonna say fedorov here actually lmao. saying fedorov twice
sharks: joe thornton and patrick marleau because i believe in old man yaoi
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Did the 49ers give the Super Bowl away to the Chiefs?
As Super Bowl LIV ends and fans reflect upon its outcome, many remain perplexed about whether the San Francisco 49ers gave Kansas City Chiefs enough of an advantage in order to lose.
Many fans of the red and gold are left confused as they try to understand why their team let go of the Lombardi Trophy so easily. Some point the finger at quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo while others point the finger at Kyle Shanahan for making decisions which led them astray.
But one factor cannot be overlooked; that being the performance of 49ers jerseys on the field. At times during the game, their defense wreaked havoc for Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs offense; yet in crucial moments of fourth quarter play they seemed to loose their edge, giving up big plays that led directly to game-winning touchdowns for Chiefs offense.
Perhaps their mental toughness let them down in crucial situations; or maybe it was Mahomes and his Chiefs that proved too powerful a matchup for San Francisco to handle.
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No matter the cause of their defeat, one thing remains certain for San Francisco 49ers‘ players: as they reflect upon what could have been and review missed opportunities from this season, they will need to refocus and reset goals for next season.
As 49ers fans mourn and look toward the future, one thing remains certain – they will continue wearing their 49ers jerseys with pride as an expression of support through thick and thin. After all, true fans understand that winning and losing are part of life’s cycle and winning a championship is never simple!
So did the 49ers give away the Super Bowl to Kansas City? Perhaps, but one thing is certain: They will return hungry and determined to win it back – with their loyal fan base standing by wearing 49ers jerseys with pride on game day!
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CONCERNING KYLE SHANAHAN
CONCERNING KYLE SHANAHAN
I feel sorry for Kyle Shanahan. I too had a barrier that to me was absolutely necessary to break through but seemed insurmountable. It almost destroyed me, but I broke through. My barrier also, as Shanahan's may well do too, involved the figure of a father -- not a successful one like Kyle's father, Mike, but one who resented and could not handle my success (getting a Ph D and being called "Doctor") at some level in his psyche.
Some things need to be spelled out and we need to figure out how we can deal with them in the best, perhaps only, way possible.
1. we need to win a SB in the next couple of years, otherwise the great legacy of the 80s and 90s will be lost. Even though we went 5-0, we still have twinges about the NFC title game v the New York Giants that we lost before they went on to beat the Buffalo Bills and started that terrible legacy for them we seem to be getting to close to ourselves for comfort.
2. we need to do this without the absolute buy in of Jed York who is just happy with a winning season
3. we cannot go to another SB and lose. Kyle Shanahan cannot go to another SB and lose, it will be bad for us but very very bad for him. We cannot allow him to get to the SB and not win. Going to SB LVIII and losing was not good. Losing how he did (hello deja vu) was worse, going there embarrassingly unprepared was worst of all -- but also made it as clear as day that to win with Kyle, an intervention needs to be made, because ...
4. Kyle Shanahan is not going anywhere. Colin Cowherd shocked me by saying he thought Shanahan managed the game really well and made the right play calls! Such is his aura with some pundits and analysts, that they just miss-see things.
5. Kyle Shanahan is not going to win us a 6th SB if left to his own devices. This is as plain as day. And he will most likely get us to another SB, and if not Mahomes it will be against another top top AFC quarterback (who beat Mahomes en route).
6. If Shanahan is helped to win himself a first SB and give us our 6th, you would not be wise to rule out a 2nd/7th and more to follow.
7. There is a sense in which Shanahan is both 0-3 at the SB, but also, in a peverse way 3-0. Did he lose to Andy Reid twice, or lose to himself twice? So if he lost to himself twice, he won twice. Same story with the Atlanta 28-3 fiasco. The other Kyle who beats the one we see losing in finals is that split-off self he needs to integrate. We need to help him to do this. We need to help him to change. Let's think about how this bad cycle started. What got lost in the 28-3 disaster v the Patriots was that he was destroying Brady and the Patriots, the supreme SB winning team organization 28-3 going into the third quarter. Would he ever coach/co-ordinate/play call with such confidence and so innovatively/positively/aggressively in a SB (or NFC title game, for that matter, again)? What were our fears going into SB LVIII regarding Kyle's coaching and game management? Were we scared he would disregard risk and go aggressive, using our known strengths in pushing the envelope, going full on Napoleon at Austerlitz against Andy Reid? Or were we scared he would be inhibited, risk-averse and err on the side of conservatism and all things vanilla (with a few over-thought tricks thrown in)? You cannot go conservative against Patrick Mahomes, but you also need to be blend what is innovative and will take by surprise with what works for us, with what we are good at. A sign of how this conservatism fails is that it produces initial dominance, the dominance fails to produce points on the board, it gets countered by the opponent, they put crucial points on the board and it is all over and we are the team of what ifs.
8. The 49ers, judging by social
media, are becoming despised by opposing fanbase because of us losing and droning on about what ifs. We are starting to surpass the Cowboys as the team America loves to hate. This is not good at all. Suddenly, out of nowhere we have extended existing rivalries and developed new ones. And yet we have nothing to feel absolutely good about, and our rival fans, especially the all-new bitter ones (the Eagles fans) know this. The downfall from this unwarranted confidence bordering on pn arrogance has delighted rival fans and been a boon for therapists getting hired to address the horrible feeling Niners fans have that their team are not going to win anything that matters (and in the NFL, unlike in English and World football, there is only one trophy that matters, in terms of which everything gets evaluated). If the team loses then inevitablg fans are to see it as a mirror of their own life failures.
9. Kyle has to change. For us and for himself. Change his practice and change his mindset. Otherwise this marriage is going to go off the rails completely.
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Super Bowl 2024: Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers, la sfida è servita.
Il Super Bowl 2024 si avvicina e la tensione sale tra i fan del football americano. La 58esima edizione della finale del campionato NFL vedrà sfidarsi i Kansas City Chiefs, campioni in carica, e i San Francisco 49ers, reduci da una rimonta storica. Chi si aggiudicherà il prestigioso trofeo Vince Lombardi? E chi si esibirà nell'attesissimo Halftime Show? Scopriamolo insieme in questo articolo.
Quando e dove si gioca il Super Bowl 2024
Il Super Bowl 2024 si terrà nella notte tra domenica 11 e lunedì 12 febbraio, con il kick off previsto alle ore 00.30 (ora italiana). La sede dell'evento sarà l'Allegiant Stadium di Paradise, nei pressi di Las Vegas (Nevada), uno stadio inaugurato nel 2020 e capace di ospitare fino a 65.000 spettatori. Si tratta della prima volta che il Super Bowl si svolge a Las Vegas, dopo che lo sport americano ha superato le ombre dei demoni della città delle tentazioni e del gioco.
Chi sono i protagonisti del Super Bowl 2024
I protagonisti del Super Bowl 2024 sono due squadre con una grande tradizione e una forte rivalità: i Kansas City Chiefs e i San Francisco 49ers. I Chiefs sono i detentori del titolo, avendo vinto il Super Bowl 2020 contro i Philadelphia Eagles. Si tratta della quarta finale in cinque anni per la squadra guidata dal quarterback Patrick Mahomes, considerato uno dei migliori giocatori della lega. I Chiefs hanno dominato la stagione regolare, vincendo 14 partite su 16, e hanno eliminato i Buffalo Bills nella finale della AFC.
I 49ers sono invece la sorpresa di quest'anno, essendo partiti con poche aspettative e avendo raggiunto il Super Bowl grazie a una rimonta incredibile contro i Detroit Lions nella finale della NFC. La squadra allenata da Kyle Shanahan ha mostrato una grande determinazione e un gioco equilibrato tra attacco e difesa. I 49ers hanno inoltre una storia gloriosa, avendo vinto cinque Super Bowl tra il 1981 e il 1994, ma non sollevano il trofeo dal 1995.
Cosa aspettarsi dal Super Bowl 2024
Il Super Bowl 2024 si preannuncia come una partita avvincente e ricca di emozioni, con due squadre che hanno stili di gioco diversi ma efficaci. I Chiefs puntano sulla potenza e la velocità del loro attacco, guidato dal fenomenale Mahomes e dai suoi ricevitori Tyreek Hill e Travis Kelce. I 49ers invece si affidano alla solidità della loro difesa, capitanata dal rookie Chase Young, e alla versatilità del loro running back Christian McCaffrey, che può correre, ricevere e lanciare. Il match potrebbe essere deciso dai dettagli, come i calci, le penalità e i turnover.
Chi si esibirà nell'Halftime Show del Super Bowl 2024
L'Halftime Show del Super Bowl 2024 sarà affidato a Usher, una delle star più famose e apprezzate della musica pop e R&B. Usher ha venduto oltre 80 milioni di dischi in tutto il mondo e ha vinto otto Grammy Awards. Tra i suoi successi più noti ci sono "Yeah!", "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" e "OMG". Usher non è nuovo allo spettacolo del Super Bowl: nel 2011 si esibì con i Black Eyed Peas e Slash, chitarrista dei Guns N'Roses. Si attende una performance spettacolare e coinvolgente, con ospiti speciali e coreografie mozzafiato.
Come vedere il Super Bowl 2024 in Italia
In Italia il Super Bowl 2024 sarà trasmesso da Mediaset, con la diretta che prenderà il via nella notte di domenica 11 febbraio alle ore 00.30 su Italia 1, mentre sarà disponibile in contemporanea streaming sulla piattaforma Mediaset Infinity⁵. Per chi non vuole perdersi neanche un minuto della partita, ci sarà anche la possibilità di seguire il live blogging su Sky Sport, con commenti, statistiche e curiosità. Il Super Bowl 2024 è un evento da non perdere per tutti gli appassionati di sport e di spettacolo, che potranno vivere una notte indimenticabile.
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La Super Bowl 2024 -de la temporada 2023 de la NFL- decide campeón entre el equipo más completo y la dinastía con el mejor jugador. Será un Super Bowl para la eternidad
EUGENIO MUÑOZ FERNÁNDEZ
Existe mucha mística con las finales. Tienen historia e historias, por descontado. Pero la Super Bowl LVIII de esta noche (00:30 horas, Movistar+) reúne todos los ingredientes para ser un choque para la eternidad. La complejidad de la National Football League suele impedir esos duelos, pero en el Allegiant Stadium de Las Vegas se citarán Kansas City Chiefs y San Francisco 49ers.
El equipo campeón, en construcción de una dinastía a la altura de los Patriots de Brady o los Bulls de Jordan y con el mejor jugador del mundo en sus filas -Patrick Mahomes-, los Chiefs.
Y el más completo del curso, SanFra. No hay mejor batalla. All-Star.
La reedición de la de 2020, pero mucho cambia respecto al primer anillo del proyecto de Andy Reid. Mahomes lidera, desde el quarterback, un equipo para la eternidad, que se codea numéricamente con los New England Patriots de Tom Brady. En sus seis primeras campañas tiene más victorias (14 a 12) en post-temporada y podría igualar los tres anillos en esa etapa. Del conjunto joven, con todo por demostrar, a uno experimentado y confiado. Y sería su título de más complejidad, pues tumbó a Buffalo Bills y Baltimore Ravens ¡fuera de casa! para llegar al estadio del Strip de la ciudad de Nevada.
La Super Bowl de Taylor
Más allá de la batalla entre Chiefs y 49ers, la Super Bowl es la final de Taylor Swift. Es la gran protagonista del curso al mantener una relación con Travis Kelce, 'tight end' de Kansas City y su pasión emociona. Viajará a Las Vegas tras una 'odisea', pues tiene un concierto de su 'Eras Tour' en Japón horas antes. Debería llegar aprovechando las 17 horas de cambio.
Taylor Swift, en su concierto en Japón.
LAPRESSE
Kansas es Kansas, chicos
Travis Kelce
Uno de los caminos al título más legendarios. Ante el MVP (Lamar Jackson)y un equipo en crecimiento (Buffalo). "Nunca dudé de ellos. Esto va de cómo afrontan las cosas", contó Andy Reid, el gran gurú del banquillo de Arrowhead. "Kansas es Kansas, chicos", añadió Travis Kelce, la otra gran estrella.
PURDY Y SAN FRANCISCO
Pero los Niners son un tiro y no los de 2020. Allí estaba Jimmy Garoppolo de quarterback, todo lo contrario a una pieza segura y élite. Y el equipo crece exponencialmente. Van de la mano de Brock Purdy, el señor irrelevante. Fue drafteado el último de su clase (número 256) en 2022 y su historia rompe fronteras. De la nada, al todo. A un partido de ser la mayor historia de todos los tiempos en el deporte americano.
Hay más. Purdy es seguro y se complementa en un ataque espectacular. Christian McCaffrey es un corredor imparable (18 touchdowns en este curso) y en la recepción se suma el talento de Deebo Samuel y Brandon Aiyuk.
Aunque la defensa viajará con alguna duda: permitió 386 yardas por partido en los Playoffs y sin el milagro ante los Lions la historia pudo ser diferente. Remontaron 17 puntos (24-7) a Detroit, igualando la mayor de un partido de campeonato. Raro para un cuerpo contrastado, con Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw, Chase Young o Nick Bosa.
Merecerá la pena. Nadie, realmente, recuerda quién perdió la Super Bowl.
John Lynch
En su cabeza está la palabra venganza (el recuerdo de 2020) junto a merecimiento. "Merecerá la pena. Nadie, realmente, recuerda quién perdió la Super Bowl. Si quieres ser recordado aquí tienes tu oportunidad", relató John Lynch, su director general. Es su hora tras cursos de construcción junto al libro de estilo de Kyle Shanahan.
MAHOMES, 'EL VILLANO'
La labor fundamental de la defensa será cazar al genial Mahomes. "El esfuerzo no es negociable. Son cosas que se han abordado y me sorprendería si volvemos a verlas", explicó Lynch sobre los últimos problemas defensivos de la franquicia californiana. Un aviso.
Porque el 15 de Kansas City no perdona. No tiene un cuerpo de receptores
a la altura -el novato Rashee Rice es el preferido-, pero junto a Travis Kelce conforma una dupla estelar. Suman 17 touchdowns en post-temporada, batiendo los 15 de Tom Brady y Rob Gronkowski y los 12 de Joe Montana y Jerry Rice.
Mahomes llega quizá desde el papel de villano, pues todos les daban por eliminados... y aquí están. "Hablad ahora", repitió Mahomes en sus redes tras la clasificación. Y, claro, mira a Brady. Otro anillo elevaría la discusión a cotas gigantes. De mitos del deporte USA.
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The Four Keys to Super Bowl LVIII
The matchup is set between the 49ers and Chiefs. But how will Kyle Shanahan’s and Andy Reid’s game plans—as well as the ever-important Patrick Mahomes factor—dictate the outcome in Las Vegas?
Jan 29, 2024 "Of course, Brock Purdy’s $1 million salary cap hit is part of what has made the collection of all-world talent possible, while Patrick Mahomes’s $450 million deal has forced his front office to cut costs elsewhere."
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NO HAY QUINTO MALO
Andy Reid puso su nombre en una selecta lista dentro de la NFL, al convertirse en el cuarto entrenador en llegar a cinco o más Super Bowls
El entrenador de Jefes ya es un histórico de la Liga al codearse con nombres de la talla de Bill Belichick, Don Shula y Tom Landry, referentes que marcaron una época desde el banquillo y quienes pueden presumir una manita de apariciones en duelos por el título.
El primero en lograr esta hazaña fue Landry, coach reconocido por llevar a los Vaqueros a cinco Super Bowls en los 70 (1971, 1972, 1976, 1978 y 1979), en los que se llevó el anillo de campeón dos veces.
En esa década se unió a la conversación Don Shula, quien se metió a nada menos que a seis Super Bowls comandando primero a los Potros de Baltimore y luego a los Delfines de Miami.
Shula se coronó dos veces con los Delfines, en 1973 y 1974, pero cayó derrotado con los Potros en 1969 y con Miami en 1972, 1983 y 1985.
Casi dos décadas después llegó el hombre que cambiaría la historia y destrozaría cualquier cantidad de récords en la NFL: Bill Belichick.
Entre el año 2002 y el 2019 Belichick tuvo presencia en nueve Super Bowls, ganando seis y convirtiéndose en el head coach con más apariciones en el juego por el título y con más anillos.
Ahora es el turno de Reid, quien arribó a su primer Super Bowl en el 2005 con Filadelfia y ha forjado una dinastía con Kansas City, franquicia en la que, junto a Patrick Mahomes, ha llegado al duelo por el trofeo Vince Lombardi en cuatro de las últimas cinco temporadas, incluida la actual.
Además, en caso de ganar ante San Francisco, Andy se convertiría en el tercer entrenador en jefe con al menos tres anillos de Super Bowl, junto a Bill Walsh y Joe Gibbs.
Pero, sea cual sea el resultado, nada ni nadie podrá quitar a Reid como uno de los referentes históricos de la NFL.
Super Bowl XXXIX
Águilas vs Patriotas
Andy Reid tuvo su primera experiencia en un Super Bowl en la temporada 2004-2005 con Filadelfia.
Pero no fue una primera vez grata, pues a pesar de contar en su equipo con el talentoso mariscal Donovan McNabb, las Águilas fueron derrotadas 24-21 por los Patriotas de Nueva Inglaterra de Bill Belichick y Tom Brady.
Super Bowl LIV
Jefes vs 49ers
Pasaron 15 años para que Reid volviera a disputar el trofeo Vince Lombardi, esta vez con Kansas City en la campaña 2019-2020.
Con Patrick Mahomes en los controles, los Jefes se impusieron 31-20 ante San Francisco en Miami, luego de remontar una desventaja de 10 puntos de cara al último cuarto.
Super Bowl LV
Jefes vs Bucaneros
Los Jefes, Mahomes y compañía buscaban el bicampeonato de la NFL, pero no contaban con que volvería a aparecer el verdugo que le arrebató a Reid su primer Super Bowl: Tom Brady.
Esta vez con Tampa Bay, Brady se volvió a coronar a costa del head coach, apaleando a Kansas City con marcador de 31-9.
Super Bowl LVII
Jefes vs Águilas
En la campaña anterior Andy Reid consiguió su boleto para su cuarto SB, en el que enfrentó a un viejo amor: Filadelfia.
El experimentado entrenador venció 38-35 a su ex equipo para llevarse su segundo anillo junto a Patrick Mahomes, con quien en este 2024 buscará repetir como campeón de la NFL.
Conózcalo:
Andrew Walter Reid
Lugar de nac.: Los Angeles, California
Fecha de nac.: 19 de marzo de 1958
Edad: 65 años
Estatura: 1.91 m
Peso: 120 kg
Equipos: Filadelfia (1999-2012) Kansas City (2013-presente)
Más apariciones en SB:
9 Bill Belichick
6 Don Shula
5 Andy Reid (2024), Tom Landry
4 Marv Levy, Bud Grant, Joe Gibbs, Dan Reeves y Chuck Noll
Más anillos de SB:
6 Bill Belichick
4 Chuck Noll
3 Bill Walsh y Joe Gibbs
2 Andy Reid, V. Lombardi , T. Landry, D. Shula, M. Shanahan, J. Johnson, B. Parcells, T. Coughlin, T. Flores y G. Seifert.
(Jaime Ugarte / Agencia Reforma)
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NFL Divisional Round Review, Recap And React
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1. Baltimore Raven 34-10 Houston Texans
Yeah, Baltimore made this look good at the end but according to my guy, Lamar Jackson, there was a bunch of expletives exchanged at halftime, after the Raven only managed 10 points in the 1st.
Still it was a more than notable performance by the Ravens defense, they absolutely blanketed the Houston recievers and Stroud holding on to the ball until eventually pressured.
However, the 2nd half basically came down to the reason I thought the Ravens would win in the first place, and that's Lamar's otherworldy level of play which is what pushed them over the hump. 2 passing touchdowns, and 15 yard russing touchdown put Lamar's stamp on the game and gave the Ravens the dub.
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2. San Francisco 49ers 24-21 Green Bay Packers
Okay, so for like the 4th year in a row, Kyle Shanahan's team made me look bad once again. My vendetta against the 49ers, has really cost me dearly over the years, as far as picking games is concerned, and if you've ever lost money because of me, I'm sorry.
The thing with this game that nakes it bad, is how the 9ers actually won this game.
The 9ers were down by a touchdown, going in to the 4th and they were confronted by a Green Bay defense that were not going to make this easy, holding them to just 2 touchdowns for the game up to that point.
But Brock Purdy's slow start and the fact that he never found a rhythm all game, will have the Packers feeling like they let this one go. Christian McCaffery's touchdown run to take the lead was followed by agut wrenching incerception on the Packers final drive of the game, and that was it.
The 9er defense should pat themselves on the back for yet another memorable playoff performance, that 21-0 halftime lead would have bee worse had it not been for some key early defensive stops.
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3. Detroit Lions 31-23 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Ladies and gentlemen, dreams do come true.
The 2023 Detroit Lions story continues and will see them play in this year's NFC Conference Championship game , and this is the greatest year in the history of thier franchise since 1991, which was the last time they won a playoff game.
For the Bucs this will be remembered as a game of missed opportunities, because Baker Mayfield played about as well as you can possibly expect out of him, but the idea that Rachaad White only had 9 carries for 55 yards is a wild stat definitely shows how the Bucs lost control of this game, because they were tied goin in to the 4th quarter.
But in the end Jared Goff attempting 43 passes, and literally having 0 interceptions or turnovers, will be the most memorable offensive stat of the game.
Jahmyr Gibbs had the td run that gave the Lions the lead in the 4th, but Goff's td pass to Amon-Ra to seal the game, was emblematic of who he has been all season and the calm that he's brought to this offense.
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4. Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 Buffalo Bills
I picked the Bills to win this game because I'm a sucker for pain, and because I forgot that Patrick Mahomes is literally immortal.
At this point, I don't know what the Buffalo Bills have to do to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
They had a stellar defense. They had the running back, and more importantly the run game itself to provide needed balance, but the biggest thing they had was Josh Allen playing at a near MVP level, which he woud surely win in any other season if not for Lamar.
It was just a cascade of everything going wrong for the Bills. The fake punt was another moment that just foreshadowed and this was all cruelly ended by the missed field goal that would have tied the game and sent it in to overtime.
To have the Chiefs come in to Buffalo and even have a narrow 4 point lead going in to the 4th only to watch it evaporate and the Bills scoring exactly 0 points for the entie 4th quarter.
Tough break for the Bills.
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A Bronx construction company failed to prop up a concrete slab that crushed two workers, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration found.
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"Unveiling the Shocking Departure: What Made Spirit AeroSystems CEO Tom Gentile Vanish Overnight?"
In a recent development, the renowned aerospace supplier announced the appointment of Patrick Shanahan as the interim CEO, effectively taking over the reins of the company. Shanahan, who also holds a position on the company’s board, has assumed this pivotal role to lead them through the present transitional phase.
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