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Virginia star Kyle Guy made three free throws with 0.6 seconds remaining to send the Cavaliers to the NCAA tournament title game with a 63-62 win against Auburn on Saturday at the Final Four.

The last No. 1 seed left, Virginia led by 10 points late in the second half before it went more than 5 minutes without scoring. Auburn's Bryce Brown hit four 3-pointers in the game to help the rally. But Guy's clutch performance at the foul line pushed the Cavaliers to one win away from their first national title.

Virginia-Auburn: Score, live updates for Final Four on Saturday

Virginia-Auburn: Time, TV channel for Final Four

The two play at 6:09 p.m. ET on CBS on Saturday, April 6, from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can follow live stats here.

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Both Virginia and Auburn survived overtime thrillers to make it to Minneapolis. For Virginia, it got by Carsen Edwards and Purdue 80-75 in overtime to make the Final Four for the first time since 1984. For Auburn, the Tigers' 77-71 win against SEC rival Kentucky moved it to the Final Four for the first time since. ever.

Auburn shoots 1.5 percentage points worse than Virginia (37.9 to UVA's 39.4), but that tells only part of the story. Thanks to pace playing a huge role, the Tigers have attempted 403 more 3-pointers than Virginia.

Auburn's 3-point shooting has come in a deluge, too:

• 12-for-31 (38.7 percent) against New Mexico State
• 13-for-30 (43.3 percent) against Kansas
• 17-for-37 (45.9 percent) against UNC
• 7-for-23 (30.4 percent) against Kentucky

That's 49 3-pointers in four games, good for 12.3 on average. Virginia, however, has allowed only 6.3 3-pointers per game on 28.7 percent shooting.

How can @AuburnMBB's Jared Harper gain an edge against Virginia?

The numbers say that battle on the 3-point line could be where to watch.

Virginia is fourth the nation in 3-point percentage defense (28.7 percent); Auburn leads the nation in made 3-pointers (445) and is second in attempts (1,173).

Virginia	Statistic	Auburn
33-3 (16-2 ACC)	Record (Conference)	30-9 (11-7 SEC)
No. 1 South	Seed	No. 5 Midwest
71.3	Points per game	80.2
55.4	Points against per game	68.9
No. 2	KenPom Offense	No. 6
No. 5	KenPom Defense	No. 38
47.4	FG percentage	45.1
38.4	FG percentage defense	43.5
39.4	3-point percentage	37.9
28.7	3-point percentage defense	34.4
34.8	Rebounds per game	34.2
9.2	Offensive rebounds per game	11.7
5.7	Steals per game	9.4
3.8	Blocks per game	4.8
Kyle Guy 15.2	Points leader	Bryce Brown 16.0
Braxton Key 5.2	Rebounds leader	Chuma Okeke (injured) 6.8
Ty Jerome 5.4	Assists leader	Jared Harper 5.8
W, No. 16 Gardner-Webb, 71-56 W, No. 9 Oklahoma, 63-51 W, No. 12 Oregon, 53-49 W, No. 3 Purdue, 80-75 (OT)	Road to the Final Four	W, No. 12 New Mexico State, 78-77 W, No. 4 Kansas, 89-75 W, No. 1 North Carolina, 97-80 W, No. 2 Kentucky, 77-71 (OT)

Auburn will probably want to get out and run — or at least not let UVA dictate pace. The Cavaliers play sloooow, ranking last in Division I in tempo. The Tigers are "only" No. 153, but they torpedoed Kansas out of the tournament and then hit 17 3-pointers against top seed UNC because it fired up transition 3-pointers in the fastbreak.

"They like to speed it up a little bit offensively and defensively, so just taking care of the ball, trying to limit silly mistakes and turnovers, not allowing offensive rebounds, that’s going to be the key to winning this game," UVA guard Braxton Key said on Friday.

The Tigers will be without super sophomore Chuma Okeke, who sustained a serious knee injury in the Sweet 16 win against UNC.

Virginia had an injury scare, too, as Kyle Guy hurt his ankle late in the first half against Purdue. At that moment, he was only 4-for-25 on 3-pointers in the NCAA tournament.

Well, apparently the ankle is fine. Guy shot 5-for-9 from distance in the second half and overtime.

If Guy can shoot near that percentage on Saturday, Virginia will be in great position to advance to Monday's title game. For Auburn, it's about making UVA play at a quicker pace and hope the 3s continue to fall.

Can you Infect the World?

Ndemic Creations

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• • 4.8, 101.4K Ratings

• • $0.99
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Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation.

Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!

◈◈◈ #1 top game globally with well over a billion games played ◈◈◈

Plague Inc. is a global hit with almost a million 5 star ratings and features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!

The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game!

▶ “The game creates a compelling world that engages the public on serious public health topics” – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
▶ “Best Tablet Game” - New York Daily News
▶ “Plague Inc. will snag your attention in all the right ways and keep it there” - Touch Arcade
▶ “No denying Plague Inc.'s high-level of quality” - Modojo
▶ “Plague Inc. should not be as much fun as it is” – London Metro
▶ “Will leave you hoping to destroy the world, all in the name of a bit of fun” – Pocket Lint
▶ “Plague Inc.'s gameplay is infectious” - Slide to Play
▶ Winner – “Overall Game of the Year” – Pocket Gamer
▶ “Killing billions has never been so fun” – IGN

Features:
● Stunning retina graphics with a highly polished interface (Contagion guaranteed)
● Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management)
● Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful)
● 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?)
● Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!)
● 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve and thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved)
● Full game support for scoreboards and achievements
● Expansion updates add the mind controlling Neurax Worm, the zombie producing Necroa Virus, Speed Runs and real life Scenarios!

Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Russian. (more coming soon)

P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references!

Special sale price to celebrate being one of the most popular paid iPhone games ever!

Царское дело

Исаакиевский собор в Петербурге, один из самых посещаемых городских музеев, до конца года будет передан в безвозмездное пользование РПЦ — официально решение пока, кажется, не объявлено, но информация по всем каналам передается как проверенная. С такой просьбой Санкт-Петербургская епархия обратилась к правительству города еще летом 2015 года, но получила отказ. Теперь вдруг решение пересмотрено.

Справедливость восторжествовала, церкви возвращают отобранное большевиками имущество, и в храме теперь снова будут идти богослужения, не так ли? Нет, не так. Совершенно верно, что в здании храма должны проходить богослужения. Но они идут и сейчас почти ежедневно, как и во многих других храмах-музеях в мире и в России. Много прихожан они не собирают, ведь в центре Петербурга достаточно храмов. Их не хватает в спальных районах на окраинах города или в области, но там, конечно, нет таких престижных и роскошных соборов.

Кроме того, собор никогда церкви не принадлежал.

Храмы обычно находились в собственности тех, кто их строил, в случае с Исаакием это было государство, что, конечно, никак не мешало его использовать по прямому назначению.

И сегодня, как ни удивительно это покажется для многих, кафедральный собор Москвы, храм Христа Спасителя, церкви не принадлежит — им официально владеет город, а управляет особый фонд. Так даже удобнее: нынешнее здание храма — многофункциональный комплекс, и далеко не все его помещения предназначены для богослужений. Точно так же есть храм, например, при Третьяковской галерее, где каждый может помолиться перед Владимирским образом Богородицы и другими знаменитыми иконами — но при этом они хранятся в музейном режиме.

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Наконец, можно задать вопрос, является ли Московская патриархия, созданная как структура заново в 1943 году, единственным правопреемником дореволюционной церкви, которая иначе управлялась и даже называлась иначе: Православная кафолическая греко-российская церковь. Но это отдельная тема, и сейчас мы не будем ее рассматривать.

В любом случае, понятие реституции, отсутствующее в нашей юридической практике, к этой ситуации неприменимо — да и почему реституция должна быть такой избирательной? Почему не вернуть отнятое когда-то у дворян и крестьян, купцов и мещан их потомкам — нам с вами?

Ну, в общем-то, по одной-единственной причине: прошло слишком много лет, слишком мало сохранилось и той собственности, и документов на нее. Поэтому передача собственности, в том числе и такой, как храмовые здания, может определяться не ее былой принадлежностью (повторяю, Исаакиевским собором к тому же владело государство), а нынешней целесообразностью.

Казалось бы, разница невелика, но вопрос в расстановке приоритетов.

Музейщики могут обеспечить такой режим, при котором экспонаты сохраняются в неприкосновенности. Но захочет ли обычная свечница исключить стеарин из своего ассортимента?

Сейчас она обязана всё согласовывать с директором музея, а тогда, наоборот, музейные сотрудники будут на любой шаг брать благословение настоятеля. Разница огромна.

Наконец, налогоплательщики подозревают, что содержание собора останется на плечах городского бюджета, а вот доход от продажи билетов (за прошлый год — 800 млн рублей) епархия оставит себе. Церковные финансы ведь в принципе непрозрачны.

Но интересно другое: а что изменилось за последние два года? Почему власть изменила свою позицию и пошла навстречу епархии? Рискну высказать одну догадку.

В наступающем году нас ждет череда юбилейных мероприятий на тему национального величия и примирения: самая лучшая в мире империя, пройдя через период смуты (или, в другой версии, самой великой в мире революции), обновилась и стала еще лучше.

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Часть из них будет так или иначе связана с императорской семьей, расстрелянной большевиками в 1918 году и канонизированной РПЦ в 2000-м.

С поиском и захоронением их останков связана целая детективная история. Говоря вкратце, в девяностых были обнаружены скелеты, которые при помощи генетической экспертизы были идентифицированы как принадлежащие членам царской семьи (кроме Алексея и Марии) и захоронены в Петропавловском соборе Петербурга летом 1998 года по инициативе Бориса Немцова и при личном участии президента Бориса Ельцина. Затем, в двухтысячные, были обнаружены еще два скелета, и новые экспертизы определили их принадлежность той же семье. Их захоронение уже было назначено на осень 2015 года, но не состоялось и по сей день.

Дело в том, что церковь результатов всех этих экспертиз не признала и не признает. Думаю, что дело не столько в недоверии к генетикам, сколько в нежелании следовать чужому сценарию: как это подлинность мощей будут определять археологи и генетики? Как это Немцов нам будет диктовать, какую гробницу почитать? Нет, это дело исключительно церковной иерархии. Собственно, вопрос в той же расстановке приоритетов: музей или исследовательский центр должны быть при храме, а не наоборот.

Хоронить новомучеников безо всякого церковного участия могли дерзнуть Ельцин и Немцов в лихие девяностые, но никак не нынешняя власть. Провести эту торжественную церемонию при участии патриарха и многочисленного духовенства в юбилейном 2017 году — это был бы красивый способ поставить точку в истории смуты (она же — великая революция) и объявить о полном единении нации.

Иными словами, новомученики внесли ценный вклад в успехи социалистического строительства.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Auburn's locker room should have been the site of the biggest celebration anywhere in the country Friday night. The Tigers not only advanced to the Elite Eight for the second time in program history; they routed top-seed North Carolina in the process.

But the mood was subdued, the players quiet. Eight minutes and eight seconds before the final horn sounded on that historic 97-80 victory, Chuma Okeke went down underneath the basket after his left leg buckled underneath him.

The sophomore power forward immediately grabbed his leg with one hand and slammed the other into the floor, shouting in pain and frustration. Three athletic trainers and a doctor rushed onto the floor to tend to him, along with Bruce Pearl. His teammates gathered around him in prayer. Members of the Tar Heels jogged over to offer words of encouragement as he was helped off the floor.

“I just hated to see my brother go down," senior Bryce Brown said. "I seen how much pain he was in. It didn’t only hurt me; it hurt the whole team. You could see it on all of our faces. We got in here after the game and prayed twice, just because God is the only person that’s going to be able to fix those problems with Chuma.”

Hate to see Okeke go down. They’ve played so well, but that knee didn’t look good #SweetSixteenpic.twitter.com/NIuGF3nb5k

UPDATE (Saturday): Auburn's worst fears were realized on Saturday, when an MRI revealed that Okeke suffered a torn ACL in his left knee and would be sidelined for the remainder of the NCAA Tournament. He will stay with the team in Kansas City before returning home to undergo surgery with Dr. James Andrews on Tuesday.

"Nobody was celebrating," guard Samir Doughty said. "Everyone was running to Chuma, honestly, trying to see how he’s doing. It wasn’t even about the win no more. It was bigger than just the win. That’s one of our brothers right there, and he went down. Nobody wanted to see that. Nobody, especially from a humble guy like him. Everybody just wanted to be a helping hand with one of our better players.”

Okeke was in the midst of perhaps the best game of his career when he went down. He had a double-double in just 25 minutes on the floor, scoring 25 points on 8-for-11 shooting (3 for 5 from 3) with 11 rebounds two assists, two steals and a blocked shot.

After the game, Pearl told everyone in the locker room that "We lost the best player on the floor tonight." He said not one of them disagreed.

“We’re glad that we won, but we have that feeling like we lost, just knowing that we lost our most valuable player," point guard Jared Harper said.

"We’re a very close team. I think I say that, and people don’t understand how much of a close team that we are. We’re really close. We all love one another. When people saw that he got injured, some people were even crying, just that hurt for our teammate. We know Chuma wants to be out there just as much as everybody and do all the things that he’s able to do and provide for his team. It hurt us."

Amazing sportsmanship from UNC's players to greet Chuma Okeke as he made his way off the court pic.twitter.com/cAMeBjZsAK

An Auburn lead that had grown to as large as 19 points shrunk to 11 moments after Okeke was helped off the floor. But his teammates responded for him. Horace Spencer hit a jumper to end a 7-0 Tar Heels run, Danjel Purifoy sunk his fourth 3, Harper hit a layup and two free throws, and Bryce Brown hit a 3, recorded a steal and threw down a dunk. The Tigers closed the game on a 21-15 run.

"It was hard, but I tried to focus on the time frame, because we had a job to do," Spencer said. "Winning the game, it means more, because it's bigger than basketball now. You feel me? My brother went down, and we did what we had to do to pick him up."

After a brief celebration on the court, Doughty said players flocked immediately to Okeke's side, as did his mother and brother, who were in attendance at the Sprint Center. Pearl got choked up talking about Okeke during a postgame interview on CBS.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - MARCH 29: The Auburn Tigers bench celebrates against the North Carolina Tar Heels during the 2019 NCAA Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional at Sprint Center on March 29, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Getty Images

Chuma Okeke was helped off the court Friday night and into the bowels of Sprint Center, and with him limped off Auburn’s best chance at a run to the Final Four.

Okeke, the Tigers’ reluctant superstar, sustained a left knee injury late in the second half of Auburn’s 97-80 win against top-seeded UNC in the Sweet 16. The extent of the injury was not known late Friday night, but coach Bruce Pearl said they “think it’s serious” and that Okeke would undergo an MRI on Saturday.

Okeke is expected to miss the Elite Eight against second-seeded Kentucky on Sunday (1:20 p.m. CT on CBS), and he could be out longer depending on the severity of the injury. Regardless, it puts Auburn in a tough spot amid the deepest NCAA Tournament run in program history, as the team’s best player is relegated to the role of spectator.

“He’s one of our best players, if not our best player, on the court at all time with his defensive and offensive presence, so losing a guy like him definitely hurts,” center Anfernee McLemore said. “Right now, we got to think next-man-up and keep winning for him, because we knew he wouldn’t want us just moping around right now.”

It’s a large void to fill, to be sure, for Auburn. Okeke — who had 20 points and 11 rebounds against UNC at the time of his injury — averages 12 points and a team-leading 6.8 rebounds while playing upward of 29 minutes per game.

While he doesn’t lead Auburn in scoring, often deferring to Bryce Brown and Jared Harper, he is the team’s best all-around player — a versatile offensive weapon shooting at a 38.7 percent clip from 3-point range and one of the best defensive players in the SEC — and the program’s most promising pro prospect.

“He’s got a future in the NBA,” Pearl said. “He absolutely was planning on testing the waters this year and had a chance to get drafted in the first round. That’s how good he is.”

Auburn players were “heartbroken” about Okeke’s injury after the game, but the Tigers were resolute, knowing they have unfinished business to tend to as they continue to chase history. So, with a familiar foe in Kentucky standing between Auburn and its first-ever trip to the Final Four, how do the Tigers plan to cope with the loss of their promising young star?

The refrain that was echoed throughout the locker room Friday night was modest: Next man up.

“We still have nine,” Pearl said. “Now, we’re going to have to reshuffle the deck. I’ve got to find — we will reshuffle the deck. It’ll mean more Austin Wiley. It’ll be more Horace Spencer, more Anfernee McLemore, more Danjel Purifoy. We still have four guys on the frontline, and we’ll have to reshuffle the deck.”

It’s a somewhat familiar situation for Auburn, which late last season dealt with the loss of McLemore following a gruesome leg injury against South Carolina. While that loss derailed Auburn’s postseason hopes, Pearl was more optimistic about his team’s ability to compete without Okeke simply because of the Tigers’ improved depth. Whereas last season Auburn was in “survival mode” while shorthanded in the postseason, this time around Pearl feels confident in the remaining nine players in the team’s rotation and, specifically, the four-man frontcourt.

That will come into play against the Wildcats, with backups Spencer, Wiley and Purifoy all being thrust into more prominent roles — and one of them, Spencer or Purifoy, expected to be inserted into the starting lineup at the four-spot.

Purifoy was by far the most effective of that foursome against UNC. He scored 12 points, all during a 5 ½-minute span in the second half, on 4-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc. Purifoy also played aggressive defensively, pulled down two rebounds and added an assist in 12 minutes off the bench.

“That’s a great stretch for anybody to do against North Carolina,” guard Samir Doughty said. “That’s tough, but he stepped up in the moment.”

It was the best stretch of basketball from Purifoy since his freshman season and a shooting display he ranked behind only his 27-point performance (with 4-of-7 from deep) against Boston College in Madison Square Garden in 2016. He has not played more than 20 minutes in a game this season, reaching that mark only once since his return from an NCAA suspension, but his role should expand further with Okeke sidelined.

McLemore and Wiley will continue to split time at center, while Spencer will continue to provide depth in the front court. McLemore has been a staple in Auburn’s starting lineup and should stay there, but Wiley will certainly be leaned on more against the Wildcats.

Since his return from a lower-right leg injury earlier this month, Wiley has not logged more than 13 minutes in a game. He played six minutes against UNC, finishing with one point, five rebounds and a block while helping Auburn largely keep pace with the Tar Heels on the glass.

“Without Chuma, it’s going to be tough,” Harper said, “but I think we’re going to be able to pick our areas.”

The loss of Okeke dealt a considerable blow to Auburn’s Final Four chances. The Tigers, who have been the hottest team in the country and own the nation’s longest active win streak at 11 games, opened as 2.5-point underdogs against the Wildcats.

Yet while the odds are against them, the Tigers’ confidence heading into the Elite Eight is not wavering. They just take this adversity — that feeling of being “underestimated” and disrespected — and try to turn it into a catalyst.

“I just think it gives us another extra motivation,” Harper said. “I think coming to this game (against UNC) — not that we were necessarily looking at the stuff; we were counted out — we were supposed to lose by double-digits and people just thought we didn’t have the firepower, the depth, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff. We don’t let it affect us too much.

“That’s just another motivation for us to go out, but with Chuma probably being out, that’s going to be an even extra motivation, so I know we’re going to be ready.”

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

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NFL Week 6: New York Jets defeat Dallas Cowboys, 24-22

The Jets have spent been relying on their rookies early this season – and particularly over the last couple weeks.

Most of the team’s five first-year players have quickly carved out important roles, either due to their own talent or injuries that have pressed them into action.

Either way, it’s worth taking a moment to evaluate how the rookie crop has fared so far, now that we’re five games into the season.

We’ll be honest – these players are being graded on a curve. Expectations matter. A first-round pick gets judged differently than an undrafted free agent.

That being said, here’s a breakdown of how all five players have looked in the early going this year:

DL Quinnen Williams

Has Williams gotten off to the same sort of start as 49ers edge rusher Nick Bosa, who went No. 2 in the draft? No. But the No. 3 pick gets some leeway because he missed two games due to injury. Still, he needs to start popping up with some more plays in the backfield. He’s started making his impact felt over the past two weeks and is getting more disruptive on the interior, but breaking through for those game-changing plays is the next step. He looks like he’s on the right track, though, which is a positive. And he started to show up in the highlight reel a bit against the Cowboys, when he came up with a big fourth-down stop. All in all, not bad, but still plenty of room for growth.

Edoga beat out Brandon Shell for the right tackle job in Week 5 and held onto it in Week 6. So, the third-round pick has earned enough trust from the coaches to get thrown into the fire. That’s good. Now, it’s about refining his technique and minimizing the errors. He’s been beaten for two sacks and six hurries in two games, but that’s not abnormal on this Jets offensive line; if anything, it’s slightly above average as the group goes. His run blocking could improve too, but again, that’s par for the course with this front. Edoga has been an improvement over Shell, but he hasn’t completely fixed that spot. Still, he’s laying down a solid baseline and giving the Jets hope that he could be a real contributor in the years to come, if he continues to improve.

The Jets haven’t had starting tight end Chris Herndon all season – and Wesco still can barely buy a snap. It’s no big surprise that veteran Ryan Griffin is ahead of him in the pecking order, but the fact that Wesco has only seen the field for about 15 percent of the Jets’ plays is worrisome. This team’s tight end spot is thin right now; he should be a bigger factor. Equally problematic is the Jets’ willingness to use backup offensive linemen, like Jonotthan Harrison, as a fullback, instead of putting Wesco there. Why? Because Wesco played a ton of fullback in college. He’s supposed to be a blocking specialist, but right now the Jets don’t trust him to get that job done.

When training camp opened, the fifth-round pick was supposed to be a depth piece and a potential coverage specialist. That would’ve been a decent role for a guy picked that late in the draft. Instead, he’s spent four games in the starting lineup, due to injuries. The biggest compliment you can pay Cashman is that he’s mostly blended in; he hasn’t looked out of place during this pinch-hitting assignment. That’s impressive in it’s own right. His insane motor is another big positive; the guy never quits on plays and flies around on every snap. He still has plenty of work to do before becoming a legitimate week in, week out starter in this league – he’ll be back on the bench once C.J. Mosley returns – but these early reps can only help him moving forward in his development.

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Phillips has been a shining light for the Jets. This guy came out of nowhere as a UDFA, but has since turned a strong training camp and preseason performance into a legitimate role on the defensive line. He’s played nearly half the snaps up front and has given defensive coordinator Gregg Williams good production, too; he’s logged seven pressures and four quarterback hits, plus 11 tackles. If the Jets decide to trade Leonard Williams at the deadline, Phillips’ emergence will probably be a key reason why they feel comfortable dealing him.

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