And we have our answer with Coach Smith...

Desert Ridge High School in Arizona needs a new football coach.

Miles Smith resigned recently, and I have to wonder if he basically up and told the school district they have no business fielding a football team anymore...

Ohhhh... Shit. This would explain it!

I was wondering, yesterday, as the news came out regarding the firing of former Tennessee Titan Jordan Elliott, what could cause Elliott to be fired out of an $8 million contract for an "incident" at the team facilities.

Try the classic "I'm pissed off with you and I'm going to get my gun!" situation.

Elliott was stopped at his car from getting his firearm to take care of a situation with a Titans teammate!

And coach Robert Saleh is saying this morning it's NOT a criminal act?  This may cost Saleh his job too!

FURTHER Week Six Supplemental Discipline Blotter Against The Bills

Could we be looking at a de-push here?

It's bad enough about Gardner-Johnson getting suspended, but word this morning that the league has also suspended special-teams captain Sam Franklin Jr. for the same spitting offense, this one late in the game.

This is also multiple league sanctions this year, including, like Gardner-Johnson, a strike against the Points of Emphasis, his for a blindside block.

The Bills have their bye week this week.  The suspensions will be served in a home game against Baltimore November 1.  Pre-week odds on Draft Kings have Baltimore a 2.5 point underdog.

Unsolicited advice?  Nom.

After Further Review: Jake the Awake, Week 6

Here we go again.  And, remember, Jake does NOT cover the officiating.  That's where his emphasis and mine greatly differ, even though it does largely come from the same "professional wrestling" motif.

Overlay:  Chargers-Chiefs, and Mahomes running for his life.  Throwing into the endzone into triple coverage for the pick.  Of course, what was happening probably would've been called intentional grounding otherwise against any normal quarterback.

10) Jaguars-Texans in London.  7-0 halfway through the second for Houston.

Two whiffs and a probable block in the back -- touchdown, Jacksonville, the first of two for Bhayshul Tuten.

9) Same game.  Next drive, game is 7-7.

Houston pass, receiver shakes off the first defender, and then the imaginary flag-football hits for Jake again this week.  Double-whiff by #4 AND #51, the former looked like he was going after a flag instead of a tackle.  Gain of 33.  Sets up a Houston field goal.

8) Bills-Raiders.  Buffalo with the ball inside the Raider 15 after a Las Vegas turnover.  16-13 Buffalo, past the midpoint of the 3rd.

Josh Allen, with a clean pocket, decides to unclean the pocket, rush up near the line, flip the ball, and Keon Coleman is five yards wide open in the end zone (with the two closest players being other Bills receivers) for the touchdown.

Remember, Josh Allen is being pimped right now for MVP of the league.

7) Saints-Giants in New York.  Saints ball inside the Giants 5, 10-3 Giants (but not for long), last play of the second quarter.

And Jake makes the very "professional wrestling" statement I inferred above (before I got to this part of the video).  And he infers that, same vein as putting "professional" in front of "wrestling" makes it fake, the same thing with American football.

Two Giants defenders are immediately identified.  They can't figure out who is covering Bryce Lance, he slips right through the pair, wide open in the end zone, and it's 10-10 going into the half.

6) Rams-Cardinals.   15-9 Arizona, about 8 1/2 minutes to go in the game.

Two plays here.  First one, a non-contact fumble by Matthew Stafford which appears to be a turnover, but the Cardinals can't convert it, as the ball goes back to Stafford.

Second down:  Completion to the tight end -- HE gets the ball taken out of his hands for a fumble, and this time, three Cardinals are nearby for the turnover.  (After the guy who picked it up fumbled it himself -- out of bounds.)

Jake believes it's all scripted.

5) Speaking of professional wrestling, Jake uses a particular pro wrestler for this segment every week.  It's Return of the Doink!!!  Three more this week for 14 for the year -- in SIX WEEKS.

1.  Carolina-Philly.  First Carolina drive ends in a field goal attempt from 47.  Carolina's kick from Fitzgerald glances off the right upright -- but Jake almost missed it in his count.  Not only did it glance off the right upright, it went through for the successful field goal afterward!  3-0 Carolina.

2.  49ers-Commanders Monday night -- and Jake notes another problem with his count.  This one wasn't in the highlights.  So he couldn't find it or include it.  And whatever it was, it was made, so no way to tell where it was.  The viewers pointed it out to Jake.

But I found it pretty quickly (an extra point to pull Washington to 23-10 near the end of the third quarter):

🚨 WE HAVE A DOINK IN SAN FRANCISCO 🚨 Drew Stevens PAT is GOOD off the doink #NFL #Commanders #RaiseHail #49ers #FTTB #WASvsSF https://t.co/FdEwQL4IIL

— Dom (@ZeroChillSports) October 20, 2026

3.  Seattle-Denver, Thursday night.  14-3 Denver, 8 1/2 to go in the third.

And a Myers 47-yard attempt finds the right upright.  The kick looks straight and true to go through, then doesn't even kink to the right, it just gets there.

HIT HIS MUSIC!!!

4) Cowboys-Packers Sunday night, and it's another apparent scripted Dak Prescott interception, Jake believes his second of the night, and even worse than the first!  So this one makes the list.  10-0 Green Bay, Dallas has the ball inside the Packers 30, first play after the 2:00 warning.

Ceedee Lamb falls down about to make the cut -- no contact.  And Prescott is believed to throw another scripted interception on back-to-back drives in the second quarter.  Long (and quick) TD drive later, it's 17-0 going into the half.

Jake goes after the fanboys again, the "slipped and fell" argument.  Frame by frame:  Lamb didn't slip.

3) Here's the one he previewed with.  Chiefs-Chargers, ball inside the Chargers 5 after a Chargers interception.  9-3 Kansas City, nearly halfway through the second quarter.  See above.

And, of course, with Mrs. Kelce in the stadium, the target was Mr. Kelce, but three Chargers had him pegged.

2) Back to Saints-Giants, Extra Phony Rigaroni With A Side of Baloney.  10-10, first drive of the second half, 2nd and 8 for the Saints, Giants 31.

Flare pass out to Alvin Kamara.  Two missed tackles, a failed punch-out, and Kamara gets all the yards after catch for 17-10.

1) Chicago-Atlanta, and a punt takes the honors.  14-7 Chicago, 2:00 warning first half.

And it's Take Me Down To Muff Punt City for the top honors this week.

Chicago punts, Jake mixes his metaphors ("Axl" doing "Muff Punt City" this week like "Welcome to the Jungle" rather than "Paradise City" at first, then he breaks out "Paradise City".)

Muffed at the 9 by Zachariah Branch (one of two fumbles lost on the day!) -- with no business even trying to catch it that badly misjudged.  Picked up by Chicago, score it!  Except he can't advance it, so it takes three more plays to get the touchdown.

FOOBAW MAN Strikes Again!!!

In these two examples, not the players...

• First, FloriDUH Man from the Free State of Florida (as long as you are a White Male Landowner).  Kade McClendon was a computer assistant with the Florida Bar.  Fired today after sending racist and homophobic messages to Miami's Damon Wilson II -- after a win that got Wilson's Hurricanes to #1 in the country!  Do I need to ask what race McClendon is?  Wilson is Black.
• Terry Ward is a 64 year-old "man" in Richmond, Virginia.  He wanted to watch the football game.  He wanted to watch the football game in peace.  His wife had other ideas.  Ward BOUND HIS WIFE into a chair in the basement so he could watch the game in peace.  He's in jail today, admitting to multiple misdemeanors.

After Further Review: More evidence Monday night was rigged...

And no, two bobbled receptions commonly making the rounds on the Net aren't that evidence.

This helmet hit, however, IS...

Missed Call: The #Commanders should have been in scoring position after this nasty hit. Clearly, a defenseless Stefon Diggs. #49ers helping the refs at home https://t.co/WSgmAFZE9r

— FirstDownMedia (@FirstDownMediaa) October 20, 2026

And NO PRETENSE WHATSOEVER AT IT...

I’m guessing that wasn’t penalized. I didn’t get to see the game cause I was at work. But if that wasn’t flagged, the NFL can kiss my ass …… the officiating is hot garbage @nfl

— AZSkinsFan🌵🏜️☀️ (@SkinsFanInAZ) October 20, 2026

Odds and Sods, October 20, 2026

• The LA Rams are the third outright Super Bowl favorite in 50 years to start the year at best 2-4.
• The Green Bay Packers have the worst rushing attack in the league by nearly 20 yards, and the third worst in 20 years.
• In a move that I think White Right America will LOVE snork, Roc Nation head Jay-Z has tapped himself to be the Super Bowl halftime entertainment this season.
• The Tennessee Titans fired Jordan Elliott for an incident at the team facilities last Thursday.  He was a reserve defensive tackle.
• Auburn has cut/fired Xavier Atkins, a star defensive back for the War Eagle before he was suspended from the team this week for undisclosed reasons.  Atkins has declared for the portal when the time comes.  Apparently a number of teammates had problems with Atkins.  I can think of about 1,000,000 reasons why Atkins was an issue.
• Even though they are the top teams in each league, both the Brewers and Rays are significant sportsbook liabilities, according to ESPN -- the Rays so much so that, should they win, they will tie the 1991 Minnesota Twins as the longest shots on the board to win the championship at 80-1 to start the season.