Your Monday Morning Roundup

Good morning. Sam Pagano and George Clooney make me feel inadequate as a man.

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The roundup:

Don Tollefson will mount his defense today. His opening statement last week went off the rails pretty quickly…

… so we’ll look forward to what he has to say today

Cody Parkey is going to the Pro Bowl. Somewhere, Alex Henery weeps atop a sack of sad somethings.

Hannah Storm swats away a makeup artist.

Urban Meyer wants to be more like the unofficial Chip of the NFL:

The Buckeyes wanted to become “the Philadelphia Eagles of college football,” Sports Illustrated wrote in August. So, music blares at practice, hydration is monitored, and each step is tracked at practice.

The Eagles “took a next step as far as player welfare, as far as the hydration, nutrition . . . They do GPS tracking,” Meyer said Saturday. “They do a phenomenal job on nutrition [in] teaching them and educating them.

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They have also learned from Kelly’s communication. Coombs said Meyer came back with ideas about running special-teams meetings from how the Eagles do it. Buckeyes cornerback Eli Apple, a Voorhees native, said Meyer is always explaining the “why” – a Kelly hallmark.

House of Cards Season 3 trailer.

Email from reader John:

I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all….

but isn’t it worth wondering of Christie’s folks reached out to heavily GOP FOX (News) and asked them to “cut our guy a break – no more reax shots?” I mean… has there EVER been a Cowboys game that didn’t have umpteen Jerry Jones reax shots?

So… what explains no shots yesterday?

My thoughts exactly.

Cowboys fan and noted blowhard Skip Bayless has a bit of a Twitter meltdown yesterday (with good reason), and of course his position differed from the one he had in 2011 when a similar thing happened to Calvin Johnson: