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swerte 999 Green Bay (9-4) at Seattle (8-5) Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EST, NBC BetMGM NFL Odds: Packers by 3 Against the spread: Green Bay 7-6, Seattle 6-6-1 Series record: Green Bay leads 15-9 Last meeting: Nov. 14, 2021, Packers win 17-0 at Lambeau Field. Last week: Packers lost 34-31 to the Detroit Lions. Seahawks beat the Arizona Cardinals 30-18. Packers offense: overall (6), rush (5), pass (11), scoring (7) Packers defense: overall (13), rush (9), pass (21), scoring (9) Seahawks offense: overall (13), rush (27), pass (3), scoring (15) Seahawks defense: overall (18), rush (21), pass (10), scoring (11) Turnover differential: Seattle -0.3 (22) Packers player to watch Josh Jacobs, who signed a four-year, $48 million deal with the Packers in the offseason, looks to be matching his 2022 All-Pro form. That year he rushed for 1,653 yards with 12 TDs for the Raiders. This season he’s run for 1,053 yards and 11 scores. He’s on a roll, with three-touchdown games in two of his past three and he’s scored eight times total over four games. Seahawks player to watch Zach Charbonnet had a career-high 134 yards rushing and two touchdowns in the victory over the Cardinals last week. Carbonnet was pressed into starting duty with Kenneth Walker sidelined by ankle and calf issues. Charbonnet needs 63 yards rushing to surpass his total last year (462) as a rookie. He needs three more rushing scores to become the first Seahawks player with at least 10 since Marshawn Lynch in 2014. Key matchup The Packers offense overall appears to have the upper hand with the steady leadership of quarterback Jordan Love, so Seattle’s chances may hinge on how Green Bay’s pass defense holds up against Geno Smith and the Seahawks passing offense, ranked third in the league. Smith has thrown for 3,474 yards and 14 touchdowns this season, but he’s also got 12 interceptions. Key injuries Packers tight end Luke Musgrave participated in individual drills this week. CB Jaire Alexander (knee), who has missed the past three games, and WR Romeo Doubs (concussion), who has missed the past two, practiced this week and appear close to returning. LB Edgerrin Cooper (hamstring), who missed the past three games, also returned to practice this week. Seattle’s Kenneth Walker III missed the game against the Cardinals because of an ankle/calf injury. He’s run for a team-best 542 yards and seven TDs this season. He was listed as questionable for the game. Cornerback Tre Brown, who was inactive against the Cardinals because of a hamstring injury, is also questionable. Series notes The Seahawks have won the past three at home, but the Packers have won four of the past five since 2015. Three of those victories came at Lambeau Field, including the latest one on Nov. 14, 2021. Green Bay blanked Seattle 17-0. The Packers have not visited Seattle since 2018. Stats and stuff The Seahawks, coming off a 30-18 road win over Arizona, have won four straight and are atop the tight NFC West. ... The Packers can technically clinch a playoff berth this weekend but it involves two unlikely scenarios. According to the NFL, the Packers can clinch with a win in Seattle, a loss or tie by the Atlanta Falcons and a tie between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers. ... The Packers’ most recent win in the series against the Seahawks was 17-0 at Lambeau Field in 2021. That’s the only shutout during coach Matt LaFleur’s six-year tenure. ... LaFleur has won 10 in a row against the NFC West. ... Over the course of a four-game winning streak heading into Sunday night’s game, the Seahawks have allowed an average of just 15.5 points a game. ... The Packers are No. 1 with 97 points off turnovers while Seattle has the eighth-most giveaways. ... Green Bay’s 34-31 loss to Detroit last Thursday night averaged 17.29 million viewers, making it the most-streamed NFL regular-season game in history and Amazon Prime Video’s most-watched game since exclusively taking over the prime-time package in 2022. ... Seattle receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba needs 89 yards for his first career 1,000-yard season. ... The Packers have won 10 consecutive regular-season games against NFC West foes. ... The Packers have won seven of their past nine games. ... Seattle QB Geno Smith needs one 300-yard game to tie Russell Wilson for single-season franchise record with five. ... Green Bay has two wins against teams with winning records: the Texans (8-5) and Rams (7-6), both of which were reeling from injuries, while losses have come against Detroit (12-1; twice), Minnesota (11-2) and Philadelphia (11-2). Fantasy tip Seattle receiver Tyler Lockett didn’t have a reception against the Cardinals — his first game without a catch since Dec. 2, 2019, against Minnesota. Lockett could be fueled by the end of his streak. He remains two touchdowns away from passing Marshawn Lynch for third place on Seattle’s touchdowns list with 67. ___ AP NFL:

Brighton frustrated in goalless draw with BrentfordThe effect of quantum entanglement on the emission time of photoelectrons has been calculated by physicists in China and Austria. Their result includes several counter-intuitive predictions that could be testable with improved free-electron lasers. The photoelectric effect involves quantum particles of light (photons) interacting with electrons in atoms, molecules and solids. This can result in the emission of an electron (called a photoelectron), but only if the photon energy is greater than the binding energy of the electron. “Typically when people calculate the photoelectric effect they assume it’s a very weak perturbation on an otherwise inert atom or solid surface and most of the time does not suffer anything from these other atoms or photons coming in,” explains Wei-Chao Jiang of Shenzhen University in China. In very intense radiation fields, however, the atom may simultaneously absorb multiple photons, and these can give rise to multiple emission pathways. Jiang and colleagues have done a theoretical study of the ionization of a helium atom from its ground state by intense pulses of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light. At sufficient photon intensities, there are two possible pathways by which a photoelectron can be produced. In the first, called direct single ionization, the photon in the ground state simply absorbs an electron and escapes the potential well. The second is a two-photon pathway called excitation ionization, in which both of the helium electrons absorb a photon from the same light pulse. One of them subsequently escapes, while the other remains in a higher energy level in the residual ion. The two photoemission pathways are distinct, so making a measurement of the emitted electron reveals information about the state of the bound electron that was left behind. The light pulse therefore creates an entangled state in which the two electrons are described by the same quantum wavefunction. To better understand the system, the researchers modelled the emission time for an electron undergoing excitation ionization relative to an electron undergoing direct single ionization. “The naïve expectation is that, if I have a process that takes two photons, that process will take longer than one where one photon does the whole thing,” says team member Joachim Burgdörfer of the Vienna University of Technology. What the researchers calculated, however, is that photoelectrons emitted by excitation ionization were most likely to be detected about 200 as earlier than photons detected by direct single ionization. This can be explained semi-classically by assuming that the photoionization event must precede the creation of the helium ion (He + ) for the second excitation step to occur. Excitation ionization therefore requires earlier photoemission. The researchers believe that, in principle, it should be possible to test their model using attosecond streaking or RABBITT (reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transitions). These are special types of pump-probe spectroscopy that can observe interactions at ultrashort timescales. “Naïve thinking would say that, using a 500 as pulse as a pump and a 10 fs pulse as a probe, there is no way you can get time resolution down to say, 10 as,” says Burgdörfer. “This is where recently developed techniques such as streaking or RABBITT come in. You no longer try to keep the pump and probe pulses apart, instead you want overlap between the pump and probe and you extract the time information from the phase information.” The team also did numerical simulations of the expected streaking patterns at one energy and found that they were consistent with an analytical calculation based on their intuitive picture. “Within a theory paper, we can only check for mutual consistency,” says Burgdörfer. How long does the photoelectric effect take? The principal hurdle to actual experiments lies in generating the required XUV pulses. Pulses from high harmonic generation may not be sufficiently strong to excite the two-photon emission. Free electron laser pulses can be extremely high powered, but are prone to phase noise. However, the researchers note that entanglement between a photoelectron and an ion has been achieved recently at the FERMI free electron laser facility in Italy. “Testing these predictions employing experimentally realizable pulse shapes should certainly be the next important step.” Burgdörfer says. Beyond this, the researchers intend to study entanglement in more complex systems such as multi-electron atoms or simple molecules. Paul Corkum at Canada’s University of Ottawa is intrigued by the research. “If all we’re going to do with attosecond science is measure single electron processes, probably we understood them before, and it would be disappointing if we didn’t do something more,” he says. “It would be nice to learn about atoms, and this is beginning to go into an atom or at least its theory thereof.” He cautions, however, that “If you want to do an experiment this way, it is hard.” The research is described in Physical Review Letters . 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The 20-year-old TikTokker posted a video to Instagram on Saturday in which she danced up a storm in a racy outfit, as she told fans she was going to a 21st birthday party. Sopha appeared to have spent some time putting her barely there outfit together, confirming she did not attend Tammy's wedding to Matt Zukowski in Byron Bay. The social media star made no mention of Tammy's big day on her Instagram page, and instead excitedly told fans she was getting ready for a festival themed birthday party. She looked to be in great spirits as she danced up a storm in a racy bikini top and a transparent white mini-skirt, while wearing a yellow and black scarf around her head. The shocking post suggests that Sopha was uninvited to Tammy's big day, after she shared a photo of the wedding invitation to social media in June. Controversial influencer Sopha Dopha (pictured) has all-but confirmed she was uninvited from Tammy's Hembrow's wedding, after she posted a photo of the invitation online Leaked photos of the wedding invitation, shared by several influencers who made the guest list, show the couple requested the ceremony and wedding reception to remain 'child free', despite Tammy being a mother of three young kids - son Wolf, nine, and daughters Saskia, seven, and Posey,... Jimmy BriggsMoney, Gun Violence, Hate Crimes: Poll Reveals Top Worries at the End of 2024

But, in this instance at least - these people - the ones in the social media spotlight on the global stage - are children. And while they seemingly want to be in the public arena - can they really consent to this at such a young age? In a time when these young girls are probably first encountering the terror that is tween school drama, how can they possibly be mentally equipped to take on the social media comment commune? No longer just in... Eilidh Dorgan

Republican senator blocks promotion of general involved in Afghanistan withdrawalOpenAI whistleblower death: Parents want to know what happened to Suchir Balaji after apparent suicideThese days, those of us old enough to remember our history might be forgiven for having a terrible feeling of deja vu. The last time martial law terrified the South Korean people was in 1980, when General Chun Doo-hwan seized power through Korea’s second military coup and crushed the resisting people ruthlessly. Those of us who are over 50 now vividly remember those nightmare days when curfew was imposed, people were arrested without warrant and military tanks and armored vehicles were loudly rolling down the streets. Forty-four years have passed and South Korea is no longer under a military dictatorship. Instead, Korea has become an advanced country of liberal democracy, economic prosperity and cultural attractions. That was why many older Koreans were appalled and stunned when President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law on Dec. 3. Yoon claimed that he imposed emergency martial law in order to “eliminate anti-state elements, to protect the freedoms and safety of the people, and pass on a stable nation to future generations.” He also argued that martial law was necessary to maintain constitutional law and order, and to stop the opposition party’s sabotage of the government’s bills, policies and budgets. However, the foreign press has pointed out that Yoon’s surprise declaration of martial law, perhaps unwittingly, ended up being a grave threat to South Korea’s democracy and freedom, and enacted a heavy, if not fatal, blow to its rising fame as the home of the Korean Wave. Furthermore, they reported that imposing martial law could be unconstitutional and might result in passing on an unstable nation to future generations. For example, under the title, “K-pop and autocrats: jolt to democracy lays bare South Korea’s two sides,” The Guardian discusses how severely the recent martial law has damaged the image of the kingdom of Hallyu. Importantly, it also stated that the reverse of martial law showed the resilience of Korean democracy to the world. According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the timing of Yoon’s declaration of martial law was not good at all. It writes, “Yoon should never have chosen to announce martial law, but he did so at the most precarious moment of his presidency and amid mounting external challenges.” As a result, the Korean people are now witnessing “a rapid erosion in Yoon’s remaining authority and influence as president” amid “massive political struggles and realignments within the ruling and opposition parties.” As for South Korea’s external crises, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace predicted “significant external ramifications of a weakened South Korean government. Just as Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House in January 2025, North Korea’s nuclear threats worsen, more North Korean soldiers join the fight alongside Russia in the Ukraine war, and the potential for worsening US-China trade wars that will have critical ramifications for the South Korean economy.” CNN and BBC, too, have supported, not Yoon, but the demonstrators who demand his early step-down because they think the demonstrators are fighting for democracy. We all knew that Yoon had compelling reasons for declaring emergency martial law. Still, the foreign press pointed out that it was a mistake and a hasty decision, calling it a “martial law fiasco.” At the same time, however, we cannot blame Yoon alone. We all know that the opposition party, too, is responsible for the unfortunate incident. Therefore, the opposition Democratic Party of Korea should reflect on its past wrongdoings that have paralyzed the government by controlling the National Assembly. Indeed, our political milieu must change now. Yoon’s declarations of martial law surprised the whole world. Fortunately, President Yoon reversed his hasty decision and everything is returning to normal now. Presently, the international community is closely watching South Korea’s future path. In order to recover from our psychic wounds and show the world our strengths, we should not use this unfortunate incident for political gain. Martial law was possible four or five decades ago, but it is no longer valid in the 21st century, especially in an advanced country such as South Korea. We are now living in an era of smartphones and social media. Those who are living in an advanced country with cutting-edge technology will no longer tolerate such tyrannical measures. The Korean people do not want their political leaders to be possessed by the specters of the past. Instead, they want their politicians to foresee the future and prepare for the worst-case scenario in upcoming global crises. That is why the UK newspaper The Guardian recently wrote that Korea’s ruling party faces “a stark choice: embrace the will of the people or retreat into South Korea’s dark past.” In a NATO press conference, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said that he welcomed President Yoon’s withdrawal of martial law. Then, he added that in the last few decades, “Korea's been an extraordinary story, an extraordinary success story.” We strongly hope that South Korea’s “extraordinary success story” continues. Kim Seong-kon Kim Seong-kon is a professor emeritus of English at Seoul National University and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. The views expressed here are the writer’s own. -- Ed.

Shareholders in Matthew Moulding’s beauty and wellness business have voted in favour of a plan to spin off its Ingenuity ecommerce platform at a valuation of £90 million. THG, formerly known as The Hut Group, will press ahead with a divestment of its technology platform after 89 per cent of voting shareholders backed the plan at a general meeting on Friday. Ingenuity provides technology to support the online operations of retailers including Holland & Barrett, The Range and L’Oréal. The division has 13 distribution centres and employs about 3,500 people. THG launched a funding round to raise capital of £95.4 million to fund the transaction, and has secured debt funding of £55 million. The company has told investors the money will be used to fund

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For the Hollywood-centric, the holiday-of-your-choice festivities and the countdown to the New Year mean a different set of seasonal rituals: the accountants tally up the box office returns and the critics make up their Top Ten lists. The first has the advantage of mathematical precision, the second the satisfaction of taste-mongering, and together they neatly encompass the commerce and art that defines the topic at hand. In short, it’s time to cue up a montage of images from the past year and take stock of the big picture. In commercial terms, especially for the battered exhibition end of the business, the news from 2024 was, surprisingly, not bad. Total domestic box office revenue appears to be heading toward around $8 billion, down from 2023’s exhilarating post-COVID turnaround of $9 billion, but the National Association of Theatre Owners prefers to , attributing the dip to a shortage of product due to the labor strikes and taking encouragement from the renewal of the movie habit. Whether because of cabin fever, Nicole Kidman, or the late-year release of films that people really wanted to see, going out to the movies seems to have returned as a swipe-right option on the entertainment menu. Predictably, and distressingly since it portends more of the same, the films that drew the biggest crowds fed off the allure of pre-sold properties. Every single one of the top ten box office hits of 2024 was a sequel, a remake (was a sequel or a remake?) or a prequel. The by-the-numbers formula is certified by the digit after the title, with no extra effort expended on thinking up a subtitle ( , ), not that explanatory subtitles helped or . wisely stayed on brand with the Roman numeral. Interestingly, or thankfully, the cinematic universes of Marvel, DC, and failed to expand: except for , not one of the huge hits came from a comic book franchise or a galaxy far, far away. The good news for the theater chains is tempered by the bad news when you get there — not the film but the audience. The moviegoing experience of 2024 cannot be rewound without a curmudgeonly screed against the incursions from the moviegoers who see the movie screen as a distraction from the screen in their hands. According to anecdotal reports from regular moviegoers, that is, me, a plague of lit screens, texting, and talking has increased alarmingly, compounded this year by a fresh hell: the brazen from the screen. One wonders if the interruptions from the smaller screens will be a permanent blight on the big screen theatrical experience. Of course, obnoxious, inconsiderate, and self-absorbed moviegoers have always been annoyances to those members of the audience attending to, you know, see the movie — hence, the slides projected on screen at the nickelodeons to remind ladies to remove their hats and gentlemen to refrain from expectorating tobacco juice. However, throughout the classical Hollywood era, audiences generally abided by a code of decorum that seems lifted from a Jane Austen novel. True, crowds were noisier and more raucous in audible expressions of engagement — hissing, cheering, applauding, with an occasional wisecrack shouted out — but the responses were collective and inspired by the story on screen. They enhanced the moviegoing experience rather than distracted from it. The exhibitor-oriented trade press — notably the monthly “Better Theatres” section in — devoted a good deal of attention to seeking ways to nurture an atmosphere conducive to pleasant night out. In those days, even small neighborhood theaters employed uniformed ushers to guide latecomers to their seats with a flashlight, patrol the aisles, and handle obstreperous customers. The escorts were issued strict instructions about how to behave on duty: “Keep obviously intoxicated persons outside,” “be tactful in quieting unruly patrons or children,” and “watch out for mashers, degenerates, and morons. Report them immediately to the management.” (Also: “never flirt with patrons.”) Even in the 1950s, when teenagers become the dominant audience, the good kids worked with local theater managers to police their own and discourage rowdy antics. “When we attend a theater, we must remember that we purchase the right to only one seat,” advised an editorial in a high school newspaper in 1952. “An inconsiderate person is one who spoils the picture for others by excessive noise. Movie manners are for everyone.” That same year, a teenage girl wrote Colbert Culbert in to ask whether it was appropriate to whisper to her boyfriend during the show. “It is extremely bad manners for a theater patron to keep up a conversation, either personal or critical during the performance,” replied Colbert. Against the ubiquity of hand-held technology and the breakdown in public manners (and don’t get me started on the oblivious scrollers planted on the Nautilus machines at the gym), exhibitors have limited options. Before the feature film unspools, most theaters now screen a PSA politely reminding moviegoers to silence their devices, but compliance is unenforceable. The problem is acute enough to have inspired one of the year’s best movie tie-ins: ’s “Silence Your Cell Phone” PSA, which delivered the message in laudably blunt terms. If only Wolverine could make good on his threat to deal with the offender in the manner proscribed. Certainly no responsible film critic would ever fire up an iPhone or laptop in a movie theater to take notes for what has been an annual duty of the profession for over a hundred years, the Top Ten List. The credit for originating the practice is contested by several claimants. In 1920, the National Board of Review, founded in 1909 and still on the job, organized a special Committee on Critique “to examine those film productions which seem to have unusual qualifications and to make selections from among those for a list of exceptional pictures.” Every month, the board designed a “Best Bet” in its publication . The first honoree: Reginald Barker’s , a seafaring adventure produced by Sam Goldwyn. The trade paper the , which operated from 1915 to 1970, also claimed to have initiated the practice in 1921. Though originally the selections were made in-house, the editors soon cast a wider net by soliciting contributions from newspapers, trade periodicals, and fan magazines, collating the results, and giving front page coverage to the finalists. “The poll has become a national event and is only made possible through the enthusiastic cooperation of some 400 newspaper folk throughout the country,” the editors boasted in 1930, when the top of the Top Ten was an easy call: Lewis Milestone’s epic adaptation of Erich Marie Remarque’s anti-war novel, . In 1923, film critic Mordaunt Hall winnowed down 10 titles from the over 200 films the paper reviewed that year. His list included Charles Chaplin’s comedy of manners , Ernst Lubitsch’s American debut , Thomas Ince’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s , and, to show he wasn’t overly sophisticated, crowd pleasers such as James Cruze’s epic western and Wallace Worsley’s . Once validated by , few metropolitan film critics dared to opt out of the year-end chore. “Along about Thanksgiving time, students of the cinema begin selecting the ten best pictures of the year,” declared George Gerhard of the in 1930. The studio ad-pub departments soon started to pay attention to the rankings and so did filmmakers. In 1935, David O. Selznick confided to that he hoped to produce “pictures that will be on the ten best’ list, both commercially and artistically.” MGM boasted that its 1938 line-up “has more winners on the individual nation-wide published lists of Film Critic’s Ten Best Pictures of the Year’ than any other company.” Today, the individual critic, film society, website, and at least one ex-president continues the tradition for the selfsame reasons of mutual advantage. The announcement of the list drives traffic to the critic while the film so honored accrues cachet and, it hopes, a bump in attendance. Almost always, the critics’ picks expose the gulf between the tastes of the credentialed, who get regular invitations to press screenings, and the ticket buyer, who must queue up at the mall. David O. Selznick’s aspiration remains the Platonic ideal: a film that makes both Top Ten lists and reaps the rewards of commerce and art: in 1946, in 1998, and (2023). This year, only the blockbuster and seem to have threaded the needle. The four critic’s darlings of 2024 arrive in matched pairs: the transgendered-themed and and the flesh-for-fantasy provocations of and . A genre than seldom makes it into a Top Ten but which had an exceptionally rich year was teen-targeted horror, energized by dynamic all-in performances by young female leads: Hunter Schafer in , Naomi Scott in , Maika Monroe in , and, of course, Mia Goth, who capped her trilogy of intergenerational terror with . By contrast, documentaries had almost no theatrical life, with one significant exception: Matt Walsh’s , a Michael Moore-ish take-down of the DEI bureaucracy. Ignored or trashed by critics, it was a textbook example of the divide between elite and popular tastes. Maybe not coincidentally, of all the films released in 2024, turned out to be the most reliable indicator of the shape of things to come — the zeitgeist shift in November that many in the motion picture industry pushed back against but could not stop. The story of the commerce and art of Hollywood in 2025 will be how well it connects culturally with an audience that it is often out of synch with politically. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter

NoneFormer Bulldog D-Coordinator Nick Toth Will Not Return. WR Josiah Freeman Leaves.ORCHARD PARK — The Los Angeles Rams equipment staff probably didn’t have to use extra rinse for Matthew Stafford’s jersey. Stafford entered Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills having been hit more times than any quarterback in the NFL this season. The Bills managed to hit him three times, pressure him five times and generate zero sacks. The Bills have expended a lot of capital — financially and in the draft — on their defensive line, and in return, the scheme asks them to produce an awful lot. The defensive line has moments of being impenetrable and others when they are undesirable . For the first time this season, the Bills did not record a sack against the Rams, and unsurprisingly, also didn’t register a takeaway for the first time . In eight games the Bills have at least two sacks, have allowed 299.4 yards and have 18 turnovers, compared to games with one sack or fewer, they have 383 yards and six takeaways. Because the Bills primarily use four pass rushers to apply pressure on quarterbacks, games in which they don’t get pressure are usually rough days for the defense. “They set the table,” Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “The line of scrimmage has to be set usually by the defensive line, but also not just them. In this case, it’s linebackers, safeties, corners, it takes all 11. So I think there’s been some really good moments, and I think there’s some things for sure that need to be better.” The #Bills and #Sabres had a forgettable weekend. @billhoppe.bsky.social and I get into Allen's historic game, McDermott's tough day and postgame comments, the Sabres' skid and Kevyn Adams's press conference. fireside.fm/episode/sMvb... [image or embed] The player taking the brunt of the blame along the defensive line is Ed Oliver. After signing a $68.5 million extension last season, Oliver had a breakout year with career-highs of 14 tackles for a loss and 9 1⁄2 sacks, but this season he’s got just two tackles for a loss and one sack. Against the run, Oliver’s numbers can be deceiving. On the field for 21 running plays against the Rams, Oliver was double-teamed 13 times and the Rams averaged just 2.2 yards per carry. On the eight plays he wasn’t doubled, the Rams ran away from him five times and all three runs in his direction were stopped for no gain. “Sometimes what gets hidden in some of that is some of the factors that freed somebody else up,” McDermott said. “Could be him moving the quarterback off the spot and Greg (Rousseau) gets a sack. So there’s some things hidden in there. But overall, I think, there’s some things that he can do better, and then collectively we can do better as a whole.” Oliver though has a tendency to become frustrated when opponents run away from and he can become overly aggressive. At times, Oliver has overrun a play and it leaves a gaping hole for the offense, much like when Derrick Henry ran for 87 yards on the first defensive play against the Ravens. “I go back to the times, even when I was coaching the safeties here, you get really impatient,” Bills defensive coordinator Bobby Babich said. “The ball is not showing up. You just keep doing your job at a high level, and the ball will show up. So that’s the message to all our guys all the time. And if Ed just does that, does his job at a high level, when the ball shows up, make a play that’ll be productive football.” Oliver’s play in passing situations, however, is much different. He has eight quarterback hits after posting 44 in the previous three seasons combined, but he is not alone among defensive linemen. The Bills do not have a player who commands extra attention in pass-rush situations. It’s among the reasons Leonard Floyd was the first player in McDermott’s tenure to record double-digit sacks last season. Rousseau has some issues similar to Oliver. Rousseau is tied for third in the NFL in tackles for a loss (15), third in hurries (15) and eighth in quarterback knockdowns (12), but he has just 6 1⁄2 sacks. Bills coaches and players have minimized sack numbers because they pride themselves on collapsing the pocket or moving the pocket so the quarterback makes an uncomfortable throw. But in lacking a player with a quick first step as a rusher, the Bills can be exposed when quarterbacks get the ball out quickly or they can’t win one-on-one. Fifty-three percent of passing yards allowed have come when the ball is released 2.5 seconds or less and they have generated just one sack and four turnovers in 215 dropbacks. That’s compared to 28 sacks and 12 turnovers on 238 dropbacks of over 2.5 seconds. “I’m not pressing any panic button,” Bills defensive tackle DaQuan Jones said. “I’m confident. It’s going to start this week in practice. I’m not worried about taking a step back or being in a hole or anything like that.” NOTES: Due to driving bans in Orchard Park and the surrounding towns, the Bills conducted meetings virtually Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes fell Thursday following some potentially on . The S&P 500 slipped 0.5% for its fourth loss in the last six days. It’s a pause for the index, which has been rallying toward one of its . The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 234 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.7% from its record set the day before. A report early in the morning said more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. A separate update, meanwhile, showed that inflation at the wholesale level, before it reaches U.S. consumers, was hotter last month than economists expected. Neither report points to imminent disaster, but they dilute one of the hopes that’s driven the S&P 500 to : Inflation is slowing enough to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates, while the economy is remaining solid enough to stay out of a recession. Of the two reports, the weaker update on the job market may be the bigger deal for the market, according to Chris Larkin, managing director, trading and investing, at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. A surge in egg prices may have been behind the worse-than-expected inflation numbers. “One week doesn’t negate what has been a relatively steady stream of solid labor market data, but the Fed is primed to be sensitive to any signs of a softening jobs picture,” he said. Traders are widely expecting the Fed will ease its main interest rate at its meeting next week. If they’re correct, it would be a third straight cut by the Fed after it from a two-decade high. It’s hoping to support a after getting inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower rates would give a boost to the economy and to prices for investments, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. A cut next week would have the Fed following other central banks, which lowered rates on Thursday. The by a quarter of a percentage point, as many investors expected, and the Swiss National Bank cut its policy rate by a steeper half of a percentage point. Following its decision, Switzerland’s central bank pointed to uncertainty about how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory will affect economic policies, as well as about where politics in Europe is heading. Trump has talked up that could upend global trade. He rang the at the On Wall Street, Adobe fell 13.7% and was one of the heaviest weights on the market despite reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company gave forecasts for profit and revenue in its upcoming fiscal year that fell a bit shy of analysts’. Warner Bros. Discovery soared 15.4% after unveiling a new corporate structure that separates its streaming business and film studios from its traditional television business. CEO David Zaslav said the move “enhances our flexibility with potential future strategic opportunities,” raising speculation about a spinoff or sale. Kroger rose 3.2% after saying it would get back to buying back its own stock now that its . Kroger’s board approved a program to repurchase up to $7.5 billion of its stock, replacing an existing $1 billion authorization. All told, the S&P 500 fell 32.94 points to 6,051.25. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 234.55 to 43,914.12, and the Nasdaq composite sank 132.05 to 19,902.84. In stock markets abroad, European indexes held relatively steady following the European Central Bank’s cut to rates. Asian markets were stronger. Indexes rose 1.2% in Hong Kong and 0.8% in Shanghai as in Beijing to set economic plans and targets for the coming year. South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.6% for its third straight gain of at least 1%, as it pulls back following where its president briefly declared martial law. In the bond market, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to 4.33% from 4.27% late Wednesday. AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.DENVER (AP) — The Denver Broncos signed left tackle Garett Bolles to a four-year extension on Thursday, locking up a big piece to protect rookie quarterback Bo Nix. Bolles has spent his entire career with the organization after being drafted out of Utah with the 20th overall pick in 2017. He has a chance this season to help the Broncos into the postseason for the first time since they won Super Bowl 50 after the 2015 season. The Broncos (8-5) are currently in the seventh and final playoff spot in the AFC. They can put some distance between them and Indianapolis on Sunday (6-7) with a win over the Colts. After an up-and-down start in Denver, Bolles has developed into a dependable pass protector. He's allowed one sack and 24 quarterback pressures over 13 starts this season. What's more, his 4.9 percent quarterback pressure rate is the second-lowest mark among tackles with at least 200 pass blocking snaps this season, according to NextGen Stats. With time to scan the field, Nix leads all rookies in completions (277), yards passing (2,842), offensive touchdowns (22) and passing touchdowns (17). Bolles earned second-team Associated Press All-Pro honors after the 2020 season. On social media , Bolles posted: “Broncos Country, It’s been a great 8 years! Thanks for everything! And ... I’m not leaving. The show goes on!” Since 2017, Bolles has allowed the sixth-fewest sacks (36) among tackles with at least 3,100 snaps. The extension of Bolles means the Broncos have all five starting offensive linemen on board through next season. Guard Quinn Meinerz agreed to four-year contract extension in July. The Broncos also signed cornerback Patrick Surtain II to a four-year contract extension in September worth $96 million, including $77.5 million in guarantees. Linebacker Jonathon Cooper agreed to a four-year, $60 million extension in November. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

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