That sound you hear on the side of your home isn’t a bird or squirrel in your gutter. It’s Bijan Robinson still running past the Green Bay Packers’ defense.

Every year in the NFL, it feels like at least one team begins the season 0-2 and then pulls off a stunning Week 3 victory. And that’s exactly what the Falcons, who entered Week 3 at 0-2, did on Thursday night, dismantling the Packers in their home crib, 35-14.

After throwing an interception on the opening possession, Michael Penix Jr. — who was making his first start of 2026 after suffering a season-ending knee injury in Week 11 of last year — and the Falcons’ offense settled in, out-scoring the Packers 35-7 following Green Bay’s touchdown the second time it touched the ball. Through it all, Packers fans were consistently booing the home team, a sound that progressively grew louder.

Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was honest about the team’s prime-time disappointment.

“Three games in, certainly, we’re nowhere near where we need to be,” LaFleur said in his postgame press conference, according to WBAY-TV Sports. “We know it’s going to get loud. You got to ignore the noise and just focus on what we can do better. …

“It was a humbling night. We got to find solutions and just come back ready to work and try to figure out what we do well because, right now, I don’t know what we’re doing well offensively.”

Atlanta outgained Green Bay in total yards, 498-328, with the Packers rushing for just 22 yards. As for their own ground game, the Falcons got 194 yards and two scores on the ground from 2025 All-Pro Bijan Robinson, who rushed for 6.7 yards per carry. Meanwhile, Brian Robinson rushed for 50 yards and a score of his own in a combined 242-yard rushing performance for Atlanta, while wide receiver Drake London came down with nine receptions for 194 yards.

The Packers opened the season by blowing a 22-10 lead on the road to the Minnesota Vikings with 5:09 remaining in the third quarter, with Minnesota finishing the game on a 29-0 run. Then, Green Bay overcame a 10-point deficit on the road against the New York Jets with 11:04 remaining in the fourth quarter, going on to win in overtime, 20-17.

In all, the Packers’ offense is last in the NFL in rushing yards (48.7 per game), 20th in points (18.7 per game), 16th in total yards (315.3 per game) and sixth in passing yards (266.7 per game). Meanwhile, quarterback Jordan Love owns an 83.5 passer rating and has completed only 52.4% of his passes.

While LaFleur was blunt about the team faithful booing them on Thursday night, tight end Tucker Kraft had a different take on the matter.

“That’s pretty tough. Like, everyone pictures Lambeau Field and not boos. I don’t picture boos. I picture my home stadium. That’s tough. It’s pretty disappointing, especially for a home opener,” Kraft said in a postgame press conference, per NBC26. “It’s pretty disappointing. It’s not going to help us win. Like I don’t know what people think that’s going to rally us or something like that. But we’re grown men. We’re mentally strong enough, capable enough to get back on the field and play ball.

“But it’d probably be much easier with the 70,000 people behind us rather than opposing us.”

Kraft, who signed a four-year, $75 million extension with the Packers earlier this month, finished the Week 3 loss with four receptions for 26 yards and has just nine catches on the year.

The Packers and Falcons each have road tilts next week, with Green Bay playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta facing off against the NFC South-rival New Orleans Saints.

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Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders have dodged a bullet.

Commanders general manager Adam Peters said, in a Friday morning interview with 106.7 The Fan, that “surgery isn’t on the table” and the team “hasn’t discussed” placing Daniels on injured reserve due to the dislocated left elbow he suffered in the team’s Week 2 loss on the road to the Dallas Cowboys.

Daniels is considered “week to week,” with the two sides shooting for a quick return to action, per ESPN. In the meantime, veteran Marcus Mariota will be Washington’s quarterback for its Week 3 home matchup against the Seattle Seahawks (Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on FOX). Undrafted free agent signing Athan Kaliakmanis will be the backup.

Daniels suffered the elbow injury on the last play of the first half last week, as he was trying to brace for his fall. The third-year quarterback was carted off the field.

Jayden Daniels led the Commanders to the NFC Championship Game in his 2024 rookie season. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

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Daniels, the 2024 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, is coming off a 2025 campaign where he was limited to seven games due to knee, hamstring and elbow injuries, respectively. The elbow injury that Daniels had last season was also to his non-throwing one (left).

Through two games this year, Daniels has totaled 260 passing yards, 100 rushing yards, three passing touchdowns, zero interceptions and a 90.3 passer rating, while completing 56.9% of his passes.

As for the player who will be under center in Week 3, Mariota is in his third season with the Commanders and started eight games for them last season (2025).

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Over the eight starts and 11 appearances he made altogether in 2025, Mariota totaled 1,695 passing yards, 10 passing touchdowns, seven interceptions and an 86.1 passer rating, while completing 61.2% of his passes. He also rushed for 297 yards and one touchdown. Last week, Mariota completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards and one touchdown in place of Daniels.

The Commanders are 0-2 this season, losing to both the Cowboys (37-20) and Philadelphia Eagles (24-22) on the road.

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College Football Week 4 runs from Friday, Sept. 25 through Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. The week opens with two Friday night games, including Northwestern vs. No. 5 Indiana on FOX, continues with a ranked noon slate headlined by No. 1 Texas vs. No. 14 Tennessee, and closes with Minnesota vs. Washington on FOX.

Below is the top games schedule with kickoff times and TV networks.

This is a curated top-games schedule, not the complete national slate. Rankings reflect the FOX Sports schedule display in effect for Week 4 and are subject to AP Top 25 updates.

College Football Week 4 Top Games Schedule

Friday, Sept. 25

• Watch Howard vs. Rutgers – 7 p.m. ET (BTN)
• Watch Northwestern vs. No. 5 Indiana – 8 p.m. ET (FOX)

Saturday, Sept. 26

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How to Watch College Football Week 4

FOX carries four games in Week 4, including Northwestern vs. No. 5 Indiana on Friday night and Illinois vs. No. 7 Ohio State in the Saturday noon window. Fans can watch college football on FOX One, subject to the service and plan available in their market.

Ranked games on ABC, ESPN, ESPNU, SECN and ACCN are available through ESPN Unlimited via the FOX One and ESPN bundle. Games on CBS, NBC, Peacock, TNT and CW air on those networks.

Check the college football schedule for updates throughout the season.

Week 4 opens with two Friday night games, builds through a ranked noon slate headlined by No. 1 Texas at No. 14 Tennessee and Illinois at No. 7 Ohio State, and closes with primetime SEC matchups and a late FOX window in Seattle.

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Nick Bosa is dealing with another injury.

The San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa pulled his calf at practice Thursday and will miss “a few weeks,” ESPN reported on Friday morning. A decision whether to place Bosa on injured reserve hasn’t been made.

Through San Francisco’s first two games this season, Bosa, a five-time Pro Bowler, has logged seven combined tackles. The 49ers are 2-0, with wins against the Los Angeles Rams in Australia (27-7) and at home against the Miami Dolphins (35-13). The 49ers host the NFC West-rival Arizona Cardinals in Week 3 (Sunday at 4:05 p.m. ET on FOX).

Nick Bosa Injury History

Unfortunately for Bosa, injuries have been a recurring theme throughout his NFL career (2019-present).

Bosa’s current calf injury comes after his 2025 campaign ended in Week 3 due to a torn ACL. The year prior, he missed three games due to a hip injury. He also suffered a torn ACL two games into the 2020 season and was limited to three games in his final collegiate season with the Ohio State Buckeyes (2018) due to a core muscle injury.

Moreover, Bosa played through an ankle issue in the opening weeks of his 2019 rookie season.

Nick Bosa Career Accolades

When healthy, Bosa, whom San Francisco selected with the No. 2 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, has been one of the best pass rushers in the NFL. In 2022, he led the sport with 18.5 sacks and won both All-Pro and NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors. A year earlier, he totaled 15.5 sacks and four forced fumbles in the regular season and another four sacks in the postseason.

Bosa was also the 2019 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, racking up nine sacks and 47 combined tackles in the regular season and then four sacks in the 2019 postseason. He’s fifth in 49ers’ history with 64.5 recorded sacks and tied for seventh with 13 forced fumbles.

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Mother Nature prevails … again.

For the second time in two days, the Boston Red Sox are adjusting their schedule, moving the start of the second game of Friday’s doubleheader with the Chicago Cubs up by a half-hour because of concerns about an impending storm that’s expected to bring heavy rains and high wind gusts to the Boston area.

The first pitch for Game 2 is moving from 6:05 p.m. to 5:35 p.m. ET. The team says the change was made in consultation with Major League Baseball. Game 1 was originally scheduled for Sunday’s series finale, but it was moved up to beat the impending weather system. It is still set for a 1:05 p.m. start.

For now, the final game of the series is set for Saturday at 7:15 p.m ET. But that start time and location remain fluid, with the potential for the game to even be moved to a different venue.

Both teams have clinched postseason berths, but this final series will still determine both teams’ seeding.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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U.S. star Christian Pulisic made his first start and scored his first goal of the season with AC Milan on Sunday.

Pulisic scored in the 14th minute to help lead Milan to a 3-0 home win over Lecce in the Italian league.

Pulisic had made two other appearances with Milan this season in all competitions, coming off the bench in both at halftime.

Pulisic’s last goal for Milan had been in December 2025 in a league win over Verona.

“It hasn’t been an easy year,” he told DAZN. “I’m happy about the goal today, but right now all that matters is to keep winning.”

Milan had won only one home game since March and was booed off the field in a 2-0 home loss to Benfica in the Europa League on Wednesday.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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Spain has agreed to extend the contract of World Cup-winning coach Luis de la Fuente until 2032.

The Spanish soccer federation’s board of directors unanimously approved the contract extension on Monday, the federation said.

The new contract will keep De la Fuente in for the 2030 World Cup that Spain will co-host with Morocco and Portugal, and the 2028 and 2032 European Championships.

“We are looking for a project built on stability and trust,” federation president Rafael Louzán said. “It is a proposal based on confidence in Luis de la Fuente and the sporting project he leads, spanning a multi-year competitive cycle that includes major tournaments.

“We are talking about the most decorated coach in the national team’s history,” Louzán said. “After 14 years with us, a long-term future at the federation is something Luis de la Fuente deserves.”

De la Fuente led Spain to its second World Cup title in July. The win over Argentina in the final gave Spain a record 38-game unbeaten streak.

He took over the national team from Luis Enrique after the team’s elimination to Morocco in the round of 16 at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

De la Fuente has won 38 of his 50 games in charge of the main squad. He had been coaching Spain’s youth squads before taking over.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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Cole Palmer was among five players to withdraw from the England squad on Monday because of injuries, denying the Chelsea playmaker an opportunity to prove his worth again to coach Thomas Tuchel after a World Cup snub.

Marcus Rashford, Declan Rice, Tino Livramento and Kobbie Mainoo also were ruled out of upcoming Nations League games against world champion Spain, Croatia and Czech Republic (two) because of unspecified injury issues, the national team said.

Only two players have been called up as replacements: Everton midfielder James Garner and Nottingham Forest playmaker Morgan Gibbs-White.

Last week, Tuchel said Palmer would have “a point to prove” after his recall, having been a high-profile absentee from the England squad that went to the World Cup and reached the semifinals before losing to Argentina.

Palmer played the full game in Chelsea’s last outing, a 3-0 loss at Brentford on Friday.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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Bristol Motor Speedway (Bristol, Tenn.) — Carson Hocevar’s reaction to Ryan Blaney confronting him following the Cup race Saturday night appeared both natural and symbolic for Spire Motorsports.

Hocevar didn’t let Blaney get the first punch. Instead, once Blaney grabbed him, Hocevar started swinging.

Spire Motorsports has had to do a lot of that lately, trying to fight back against perceptions and allegations.

Carson Hocevar (L) and Ryan Blaney took their beef from the track to pit road after Bristol on Saturday night. 

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The organization started in the 2019 season after the company — then a driver management and sponsor broker firm — bought the Furniture Row Racing charter. Its first years were lean, as they had to pay off the loan they got for the charter.

They steadily built and got an influx of cash after TWG Global purchased a majority stake in the organization but with Jeff Dickerson remaining as the operator of the team. It has increased to a three-charter organization.

It has put two drivers (Hocevar and Daniel Suárez) in The Chase for the first time this year but not without controversy. 

It hired Chris Gabehart away from Joe Gibbs Racing (where he was competition director), and all sides are embroiled in a bitter lawsuit with JGR, alleging Gabehart has given trade secrets to Spire and is violating his non-compete clause.

Chris Gabehart, seen here during his JGR days, is now an integral part of Spire’s success.

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On Wednesday before Bristol, JGR filled several exhibits to support motions where it asked the court to hold Spire and Gabehart in contempt for violating the non-compete clause. 

JGR had obtained a restraining order keeping Gabehart from performing similar duties at Spire that he had at JGR.

Spire has indicated that Gabehart’s role is more motorsports-driven than Cup-focused, as Spire has teams in trucks and late-model dirt racing, as well as Cup. 

JGR counters that Gabehart took photos of several JGR documents when he knew he was leaving for Spire. Gabehart no longer has the images — photos that he claims he created while in his JGR role.

“The evidence establishes … he was using JGR trade secrets to analyze the performance of Spire’s cars at Cup Series races and providing input on a Spire car’s setup, disclosing JGR trade secrets in the process,” JGR’s filing states.

A couple of days after the filing, Dickerson put out a statement refuting the allegations. 

“JGR once said that this case was about its ‘crown jewels,’” the statement said. “Now, JGR is talking about stray comments at a few meetings and a debrief form.

“JGR does not get to control what other race teams do through court cases. JGR does not own tire pressures, JGR does not own race strategy, JGR does not own the people who work in this industry, and JGR does not own Spire. … Months of discovery have shown that Spire Motorsports has done nothing wrong.”

Carson Hocevar introduced himself as a Joe Gibbs Racing driver at Bristol.

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Hocevar, who is not shy in professing his bond with Dickerson that allows him to be his free-spirited self, doubled down on the lawsuit drama. He introduced himself to the crowd at Bristol as a Joe Gibbs Racing driver.

Dickerson told me he didn’t know Hocevar was going to do it.

“I did not know [about it],” Dickerson said. “I thought that was an incredible troll. He did that on his own.”

If Hocevar is good at something beyond going fast in a race car, it’s trolling. He ran a 12-hour promotion of 12 percent off his merchandise following the fight with Blaney, whose number is 12.

When asked if his hand hurt after the punches, Hocevar didn’t skip a beat.

“I don’t know if my hand’s supposed to hurt or not, but [competition director] Matt McCall — we fist bump each other pretty hard and prep,” Hocevar said to me and other reporters Saturday night. “So I must have my knuckles worn.”

His unapologetic nature — which is reminiscent of Dickerson — certainly has not helped him get along better with competitors. 

But it seems that the fans find it endearing. 

“We get the full story, and we get to be in the highlight reel, I guess,” Hocevar said. “That’s, of course, everything I want to be a part of.”

In some ways, be careful what you wish for. But so far it’s working for Spire. 

And so far, Spire is backing Hocevar, who has a deal for several years to remain at the organization and whose wreck with Blaney could easily be viewed as a racing incident if looked at in a silo and not amid a few years of Hocevar having more than his fair share of dust ups. 

“I don’t want to tell people the stop sign is blue, right?” Dickerson said. “That one [with Blaney], I didn’t know we were going to have to defend anything. … It’s just Bristol.”

Brake Issues

The fallout of five drivers having brake failures at World Wide Technology Raceway (Gateway) a week ago had drivers and teams talking with NASCAR.

Gateway has been notorious for brake issues because the heat cycles put on them during the event.

The lack of sustained green-flag runs also likely contributed to the problem because that even increased the temperature range of the brakes throughout the event.

The question for NASCAR and the teams is whether, with the increased horsepower and now 50 minutes of practice, the teams are doing more wear and tear on the brake rotors and pads than they are designed to handle.

Chase Elliott said teams noticed a higher wear on the pads after that practice. 

Teams are not allowed to change brake pads once practice begins and until the race begins (theoretically, they could replace them during a race, costing themselves laps) and can only change brake rotors if they can show a problem.

Chase Elliott is one driver who’s concerned about the wear on brakes at certain tracks.

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Elliott told me Friday that he has concerns about the upcoming races at Phoenix and Martinsville.

“When we go to these tracks and we don’t have 25-minute practices at a high brake pressure track, I do think that some of those things probably need to be thought about a little bit and addressed,” Elliott said.

“Or we’re just going to limit how much we run. However, we need to go about that to better our chances of not having a problem.”

Ryan Blaney, who had a brake issue, indicated it isn’t a new problem as far as race teams grappling with the best set up to go fast but not break equipment. Brakes and tires are among the areas where teams have single-source suppliers but how they use them (brake cooling, tire cambers) can impact the performance and reliability.

“We operate on the edge all the time, and we were just on the other side of that edge,” Ryan Blaney told me and other reporters on Friday. “It’s just one of those things that happens when you’re trying to get everything you can.

“So that’s motorsports.”

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The Craftsman Trucks Series will get a new name in 2027.

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— Legacy Motor Club named engineer Chais Eliason as crew chief for its No. 42 Cup car driven by John Hunter Nemechek. Eliason will remain as crew chief for next season when Josh Berry takes over that ride. Former crew chief Travis Mack is no longer with the team.

— NASCAR has adjusted its rules for racing in damp conditions on ovals. All cars must start the race on the tires designated by NASCAR and once they take the green (assuming the conditions are damp), teams can change tires when they want. The previous rule had NASCAR dictating which tires they must be on for an oval. If it rains during a race, NASCAR would throw the yellow flag so teams would have the option to put on rain tires. NASCAR, if pit road is damp, could go to non-competitive pit stops under caution in these situations.

— FedEx Freight will replace Craftsman as the entitlement sponsor for NASCAR’s truck series beginning next year. The company will also be NASCAR’s official freight partner. NASCAR has not had an official shipping partner since UPS left the sport in 2014 and that category remains open.

— NASCAR announced that its postseason awards will be Nov. 10, two days after the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It will be held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Stock Rising

Tristan McKee made history at Bristol.

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Spire Motorsports development driver Tristan McKee won the ARCA East Series title at Bristol and then became the youngest driver (16 years, 1 month, 14 days) ever to earn a top five in a NASCAR national series with a fifth-place finish in the truck race.

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“I’ve seen enough of these. I’m just going to start swinging and see what happens.”
— Carson Hocevar on his fight with Ryan Blaney

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Aaron Glenn is sticking by the late-game decisions that helped contribute to the New York Jets’ frustrating loss to the Green Bay Packers.

No second-guessing himself. No regrets. Well, other than the end result: a 20-17 overtime defeat in a game the Jets led by 10 points in the fourth quarter.

“We have to make sure we can close the door and finish those types of games,” Glenn said Monday. “That’s something I have to make sure that I get our team into a position to be able to do that. And I understand that. I take that and it’s something I would never run from.”

But some of his play calls and clock management, especially in the fourth quarter, backfired and seemingly prevented the Jets from their first 2-0 start since 2015.

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The Jets had a fourth-and-1 from the 50 with 1:20 left and Glenn went for it. Braelon Allen was stuffed for no gain, turning the ball over on downs and giving the Packers time and good field position with the game tied at 17.

“Man, we were going to try to win the game,” Glenn said. “Listen, I do not regret that decision, not one bit.”

After Christian Watson was tackled following a completed pass, the Packers faced fourth-and-5 from the Jets 45 with 1:05 left. Glenn declined to call a timeout — he had two left — and instead Green Bay let the clock wind down. The Packers were called for delay of game, resulting in a 10-second runoff, and then took a timeout for a Hail Mary try with 2 seconds remaining. Glenn finally called a timeout to set up the defense, which sacked Jordan Love to send it to overtime.

Glenn reiterated Monday what he said after the game, explaining that he and the Jets’ game management and analytics staffs discuss those types of scenarios. He pointed out the Packers had two remaining timeouts, which could’ve been used if the Jets found themselves deep in their own territory if Green Bay had punted.

“If you put yourself in a backed-up situation and things don’t go as planned, I think you give the other team an opportunity to go down there and be able to make a play,” Glenn said. “I felt like that was the right decision to do at that point.

“We actually wanted to play for overtime when it came to that.”

The Jets won the toss, took the ball and could do nothing on offense. They punted and Green Bay drove for the winning field goal.

“There’s always going to be decisions (you reconsider),” Glenn said. “I think when the clock got to 11 seconds (in the fourth quarter), I could have easily called a timeout there and forced a punt, but I don’t think one play determined the outcome of the game. We ended up getting a sack on the play.

“There are other plays in that game that, to me, determined the outcome of that game.”

Perhaps the call on fourth-and-1 from the Packers 9 with just over 11 minutes remaining. The Jets tried to draw the defense offside, then took a delay-of-game penalty and opted for a field goal to go up 17-7.

“I was willing to go up two scores just with the way the defense was playing at that time,” Glenn said. “I felt like that was the smart thing for us to do.”

But Green Bay marched down the field for a touchdown on its next possession. The Packers tied it with 2:59 left on a drive set up by Skyy Moore’s 63-yard punt return.

“It was a very winnable game and the defense gave us so many opportunities to capitalize on it,” left tackle Olu Fashanu said. “For myself and the offense, we weren’t able to capitalize.

“So I think that’s why this game hurts a little bit more than others.”

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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