NFL’s looming Black Monday brings Yankees comparisons for title-less Aaron Boone
NY Post
As Black Monday approaches in the NFL, three situations make me think about … the Yankees.
Two are tied together. The Ravens play the Steelers in the final regular season game Sunday night with the immediate pertinence being an elimination game for the AFC North crown. But hovering over this — notably for the loser — is the future of the coaches, Mike Tomlin completing his 19th season with Pittsburgh and John Harbaugh 18 with Baltimore.
The stability and accomplishments are stark. Each has won a title, but for more than a decade now, the success has been limited to the regular season. The Steelers have not won a playoff game since January 2016 and the Ravens are 4-7 in the postseason with one conference championship trip since winning Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013.
Remind you of any franchise that last won a title in 2009 and has since had terrific regular season success followed by postseason fizzles?
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Where were the grownups for Team USA?
The Rangers reconvened after the Olympic stoppage wanting to find some successful combinations that had been largely absent through much of a disappointing last-place season.
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If Isaiah Likely was the most … er … likely former Raven to follow head coach John Harbaugh to the Giants, Patrick Ricard wasn’t far behind.
The deal that brought Aidan Thompson to the Rangers didn’t create the ripple effects that the Artemi Panarin trade did because of who departed the organization. That was only Derrick Pouliot, a 32-year-old defenseman more than two years removed from his last NHL game. It didn’t create the waves like one for, say, Vincent Trocheck, would have because of current NHL players or draft capital the Blueshirts received in return, either.