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Saturday Authentic Calvin Ridley Jersey , there were only two Power 5 head coach openings: the jobs at Maryland and Kansas. The Terps fired DJ Durkin on Halloween, and Kansas fired David Beaty (effective at the end of the season) days later. Durkin and Beaty lost their jobs for drastically different reasons. Durkin lost his because he was credibly found to have built a culture that made players fear to speak out for their own safety (and, more directly, because of massive public backlash after Maryland power-brokers decided they didn’t care that much and wanted to keep Durkin anyway). Beaty lost his job because Kansas has been exceedingly terrible over four seasons in charge. On Saturday, a report connected Durkin with Kansas. Rivals reported Durkin wasn’t a candidate but had talked with AD Jeff Long about the job: It’s totally believable that Durkin, a recently fired head coach, would reach out to the only athletic director currently looking for a coach at another Power 5 school. I don’t have any reason to doubt that reporting. But a Durkin hire won’t happen Authentic Devonta Freeman Jersey , because ...Long was unusually public about distancing Durkin from the job, though.First, without naming Durkin: Then, not subtly at all: A coach (or agent) and an AD talking informally about a job wouldn’t be surprising at all, but there are a few reasons to believe Long’s suggestion that Durkin won’t get anywhere close to the Kansas job.The most obvious and biggest one: Durkin just lost his job in disgrace a week and a half ago, after he was a primary subject of a damning 192-page investigative report. Another one: Durkin’s getting more than $5 million in buyout money from Maryland, so he doesn’t have to take a job right now. His Maryland contract doesn’t include a duty to look for other work to offset the buyout Authentic Julio Jones Jersey , not that he’d need to take this job even if it did. And another: Durkin’s coached all over the Midwest, Southeast, and mid-Atlantic, but he has no experience in or around Kansas — most notably not in Texas, where any KU coach needs to do a really good recruiting job to succeed.Durkin makes no sense for Kansas, and Kansas doesn’t even make much sense for Durkin. It’s safe to rule this out as a fit.Also, Long doesn’t follow Durkin on Twitter Authentic Deion Jones Jersey , the truest measure of whether someone’s a candidate for this job or not.Falcons-Steelers post-game injury report: Takk McKinley exits game with “cramping” It was a rough day for the Atlanta Falcons. It’s hard to digest a loss like that. A playoff berth seems like a real long-shot at this point. And given that we’re only in week 5, we likely have several miserable months ahead of us. But alas, there were injuries. Let’s break them down, Falcoholics. Julio Jones had a pretty rough day. Steve Sarkisian struggled to get his star wide receiver involved. On one of his first targets, Jones got a little dinged up. Probably just your typical Julio playing hurt scenario, but it’s something to keep an eye on. Takk McKinley left the game late in the second quarter with what was described as “cramping.” It looked much more serious initially because he was grabbing at his right hamstring. He earned a “questionable” designation but got back in the game during the third quarter. Desmond Trufant left the game momentarily during the second half, making a quick trip to the medical tent. He got banged up trying to take down James Conner Black Brian Poole Jersey , but he quickly returned.Matt Ryan was pulled late in the game under circumstances that give us pause. He was sacked six times today, the most this season and the most in a single game since 2014. He was seen exiting the x-ray room at Heinz Field after the game. And the Falcoholic’s Allen Strk, who was in the locker room after the game, noticed that Ryan had a patch covering his left elbow. Losing Ryan would be catastrophic, so let’s hope that’s not where this is headed. Your thoughts?