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Sportswire via Getty ImagesWhen free agency came to an end in early May, only a
handful of players to finish the 2018 season on the New England Patriots’ 53-man
roster were still left unaccounted for. One of the six men remaining on the open
market was Albert McClellan: the veteran would remain unsigned until this
weekend, when the New York Jets brought him on board to add depth after the team
lost starting linebacker Avery Williams to a season-ending injury.McClellan
originally joined the Patriots one week after the Baltimore Ravens released the
core special teamer and rotational linebacker midway through his ninth season
with the club. New England signed him to bolster a special teams coverage unit
that had been inconsistent up until that point — a move that paid off quickly
from the organizations’s perspective as McClellan proved his value in the
kicking game right away.In only his third game for New England, McClellan became
the first player in fifteen years to block two punts in one game — his biggest
performance of the year, but far from the only positive impact he had. Despite
his limited defensive contributions as the fourth linebacker behind Dont’a
Hightower, Kyle Van Noy and Elandon Roberts, McClellan was a valuable member of
the Patriots’ championship roster as a member of all four kickoff and punt
units.All in all, he appeared in ten games for the club — seven during the
regular season plus all three in the playoffs — and was on the field for 64.6%
of special teams snaps and 1.5% on defense. Despite his success in the kicking
game, however
Rob Gronkowski Jersey , the now-33-year-old was not re-signed by New England entering free agency. Instead, he has now joined one of the Patriots’
division rivals and if he makes the team will face his ex-club twice this
year.McClellan, who joins fellow ex-Patriots Harvey Langi and Darryl Roberts in
New York, will not count towards the compensatory draft picks formula: with free
agency already closed, New England will not gain anything from the Jets picking
him up. However, the team is already expected to be awarded the maximum four
additional draft picks anyway after losing Trey Flowers, Trent Brown, Malcom
Brown and Cordarrelle Patterson earlier this offseason. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) —
The New England Patriots‘ competitive but action-starved Super Bowl victory over
the Los Angeles Rams was seen by 100.7 million people on television and
streaming services
Womens Elandon Roberts Jersey , the smallest audience for football’s annual spectacle in a decade.A boycott by disgruntled New Orleans Saints fans, a
campaign by fans of quarterback Colin Kaepernick and a game with only one
touchdown combined to shrink the audience. On CBS alone, the game was seen by
98.2 million people, compared to 103.4 million who watched on NBC last year,
according to the Nielsen company.Since reaching a peak of 114.4 million viewers
for the Patriots’ 2015 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, the Super Bowl
audience has slipped each year since. The Super Bowl is traditionally the
most-watched television event of the year in the U.S., and its audience hadn’t
dipped below 100 million since the Pittsburgh Steelers–Arizona Cardinals game in
2009.CBS dealt with a city that held a major grudge. Many fans in New Orleans,
where the hometown Saints were victimized by a blown referee’s call toward the
end of its loss to the Rams in the NFC championship, skipped the game entirely.
Preliminary ratings from New Orleans showed that Super Bowl viewership this year
was half what it was in 2018.New Orleans’ Times Picayune newspaper printed a
mostly blank front page on Monday with the words
http://www.patriotslockerroom.com/authentic-devin-mccourty-jersey , “Super Bowl?” What Super Bowl?”The newspaper asked, “you think the NFL is sad
that the Saints weren’t in it to spice up the night?”There was also a campaign
on Twitter by people who said they would not watch the game because of
Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who hasn’t been able to
land a job in the NFL since leading demonstrations in protest of police
treatment of minorities.After a season of offensive fireworks and conference
championships that both went into overtime, Sunday’s game was a defensive
struggle where the teams were tied 3-3 entering the fourth quarter. That’s a
tough slog for the casual fan, and the Super Bowl draws millions who don’t watch
football regularly.At one point CBS commentator Tony Romo said, “this is hard to
watch.” Others were blunter still. The website The Ringer said that “the
historically boring Super Bowl sent football back to the Stone Age.”Cindy Boren
of The Washington Post wrote that it was “a snore of a Super Bowl.” The New York
Times headlined a story: “How boring was the Super Bowl? The punts got
exciting.”The words “boring” and “Super Bowl” appeared in the same tweets more
than 70,000 times in the past 24 hours. The words “worst” and “Super Bowl” were
matched more than 50,000 times.If anything, football fans have been spoiled by a
string of competitive Super Bowls after many years in which big game blowouts
became commonplace. This year the game’s outcome was in doubt until the final
seconds
Kevin Faulk Jersey , but it had only one touchdown and few scoring threats.The one growth area for CBS was streaming. The network said an average
of 2.6 million people streamed the game, up 31 percent over last year.CBS did
achieve its goal of having a large audience sample its new talent show, “The
World’s Best.” Nielsen said 22.2 million people watched the show’s debut, the
most-watched entertainment show since the Oscars last year and the biggest
entertainment premiere on TV since “Undercover Boss” debuted after the Super
Bowl nine years ago.
