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Social networks don’t define our lives anymore. They run them. That reality has placed the UNLV football career of junior wide receiver Phillip Payne in a tenuous position, the reported result of his Twitter account producing negative comments about a first-year coaching staff led by Bobby Hauck.
If it seems the NFL has been turned upside down, everything is as it seems. The New Orleans Saints are no longer on top, and Drew Brees just lost to an undrafted rookie quarterback.
On his way to becoming the United Football League’s most celebrated benchwarmer — four carries, 7 yards in the Omaha Nighthawks’ 22-10 loss to the Locomotives on Friday night — Maurice Clarett learned the pen is mightier than the sword. And Kevlar body armor.
No football coach is above criticism, and many in the NFL beg to be second-guessed for game-management and personnel decisions only a buffoon would think reasonable. But Bill Belichick is a little different.
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