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03-07-2025
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Is Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes' No. 1 QB Status In Jeopardy?
Is Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes' No. 1 QB Status In Jeopardy? originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is considered the best quarterback on the planet, and the consensus is it isn't even close. Advertisement The AFC championships, the Super Bowls, MVPs and all the highlight plays make it an easy choice... but not for former NFL player Chris Canty. Despite winning the Super Bowl and then reaching the penultimate game last year, Mahomes hasn't posted swashbuckling numbers over the past two seasons, not playing to his usual high standards. Canty said on "UnSportsmanLike" that he thinks Mahomes is another "down" year away from potentially losing his status as the No. 1 quarterback in football. "Mahomes is incredibly accomplished, and he is the best player in this sport bar none," Canty said. "We are one more average season by the numbers from Mahomes, from having a conversation about who the best quarterback in the NFL is. Not who has the best resume, but who the best quarterback in the NFL currently is." Advertisement Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes hasn't performed statistically well the past two J. Rebilas-Imagn Images That is some statement. Given that Mahomes has dominated the AFC for the best part of eight years, and considering that despite his down stats in the past two seasons, he's still 25-7 and has won the AFC championship in recent years as well. But as Canty points out, Mahomes' numbers aren't what they used to be. A little over 4,000 passing yards in 2023, and under that in 2024, with a combined 53 touchdowns and 25 interceptions. Looking at the last two seasons, among other quarterbacks, Mahomes ranks fourth in yards, 11th in completion percentage, seventh in yards per game and touchdowns, second in interceptions, 18th in passer rating and third in wins. Advertisement So, Mahomes hasn't been great, but he hasn't been bad either. However, this is what happens when you've been great for so long: high standards are expected. Could another poor statistical season really put Mahomes' No. 1 quarterback status at risk? I don't see it, but that's quite the conversation starter. Related: Kelce Speaks Out With Six-Word Review of Chiefs vs. Eagles Super Bowl Failure Related: Chiefs' Travis Kelce Receives Prestigious Award This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 2, 2025, where it first appeared.
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26-06-2025
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ESPN Super Bowl Winner Rips Aaron Rodgers' Steelers Selfishness
ESPN Super Bowl Winner Rips Aaron Rodgers' Steelers Selfishness originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to be a distraction and doesn't want to be in the news and doesn't want people to look at him ... Advertisement And he said so during a Tuesday appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show" on ESPN on national TV as part of the $1 million contract that pays him to ... Be looked at. Be in the news. And maybe to be a distraction. Rodgers, 41, said he is "pretty sure" that he will retire following the 2025 season; that's his call to make and it's his call as to when to decide to announce it. But as he went on to trash the media and the fans who hunger for the very information he was offering - and the media/fan spotlight that had created a reported net worth for him of $220 million - he jumped offsides, in the view of another ESPN host. Advertisement During Wednesday's edition of the ESPN Radio "Unsportsmanlike" program, former NFL defensive lineman and Super Bowl champion Chris Canty took a poke at Rodgers regarding the much-watched "McAfee Show" segment. "It is the definition of self-serving with the timing of Aaron Rodgers doing this," Canty said (h/t Steelers Depot). "Everything we heard him say on the 'McAfee Show' had nothing to do with helping the Pittsburgh Steelers compete for a championship. It all had to do with him saying he wants to come back for the love of the game." Among Rodgers' rants? "The entitlement to information about my private life is so (expletive) ridiculous and embarrassing,"Rodgers said. "Like, hey, do what you've got to do, but try and leave me out of a conversation, sports world, for a month. Try and just leave me out, my personal life, my professional life, try not to talk about me ... for the next six weeks, five weeks, whatever it is. Advertisement "Just see if you can do that." From the highs in Green Bay (where he won four MVPs) to the lows in New York (when he tore his Achilles in the first quarter of his first game with the Jets to last season when he recorded an empty total of 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns on the way to a 5-12 season) to now (when he is a pivot point of the Steelers' playoff hopes) ... no, Aaron. We cannot do that. And Chris Canty and ESPN can't do that, either. The media does its thing. The fans do theirs. And the Steelers hope Rodgers does his ... while keeping "selfish distractions'' to a low roar. Related: Aaron Rodgers Trashes Fans And Media As '(Expletive) Entitled, Ridiculous and Embarrassing' This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 26, 2025, where it first appeared.
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08-06-2025
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Ex-New York Giants DT Chris Canty accused of 'bullying' renter
Former New York Giants defensive lineman Chris Canty is allegedly playing hardball with the lone tenant of a Manhattan townhouse he has owned since 2020. Canty, now an ESPN Radio host in New York City, has one tenant remaining in the Upper West Side building, which is reportedly worth $5.2 million. From the New York Post: The 6-foot-7-inch, 380-pound defensive end wants to transform the nine-unit West 89th Street building into his own luxury townhouse — but 5-foot-6 data analyst Stuart Kalmenson stands in his way. Kalmenson, 59, has lived in his two-bedroom apartment just steps from Central Park for 19 years, paying $2,600 a month rent when Canty, who works out of NYC for ESPN and has a home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, bought the building. Kalmenson has spent more than two years without utilities, made it through the winter without heat or hot water; and lives with floors so rotted and chewed through by mice he's been force 'to 'block off' about one-third of the living room for safety reasons,' he claimed in court filings. Legal action has been filed on both sides and is ongoing. The issue is still unresolved. 'If I'm entitled to a rent-stabilized lease. I don't need to get bullied out of my own home by some guy just because he happened to be a football player,' Kalmenson representatives claim since the building is a co-op, it is not subject to rent stabilization. All of the other tenants who resided in the building when Canty bought it moved out when their leases expired, allowing renovations to begin. This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: Ex-Giants DT Chris Canty accused of 'bullying' renter
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07-06-2025
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Super Bowl champ Chris Canty accused of letting tenant go without utilities for 2 years in ‘appalling' campaign against renter: ‘Wants to destroy me'
Former star New York Giant defensive lineman Chris Canty has gone on offense — against his Upper West Side tenant. The Super Bowl champ and co-host of ESPN Radio's 'Unsportsmanlike' has been accused of unnecessary roughness as he tries to oust the last remaining resident of a five-story, $5.2 million townhouse Canty owns, according to court records. The 6-foot-7-inch, 380-pound defensive end wants to transform the nine-unit West 89th Street building into his own luxury townhouse — but 5-foot-6 data analyst Stuart Kalmenson stands in his way. 'I had the choice of either getting bullied, or fighting the good fight,' Kalmenson said. Kalmenson, 59, has lived in his two-bedroom apartment just steps from Central Park for 19 years, paying $2,600 a month rent when Canty, who works out of NYC for ESPN and has a home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, bought the building. But his longtime home has become a house of horrors. Kalmenson has spent more than two years without utilities, made it through the winter without heat or hot water; and lives with floors so rotted and chewed through by mice he's been force 'to 'block off' about one-third of the living room for safety reasons,' he claimed in court filings. He kept warm with a space heater and washes his clothes in the bathtub, alleged Kalmenson, who told the court the condition of his home was 'truly appalling and unsafe,' records show. 'He just wants to destroy me,' Kalmenson, who has traded multiple legal blows with Canty, told The Post. The rest of the tenants moved out as their leases expired, about three months after the 2011 Super Bowl winner bought the building in March 2020, Canty said in court papers. Around the same time, Kalmenson — who had lost his job during the pandemic — had planned to move into a friend's basement, but the arrangement fell through at the last minute, he said. After that, he negotiated with Canty's real estate management company and became a month-to-month tenant, invoices provided by Kalmenson showed. But by July 2020, Canty filed in housing court to give Kalmenson the boot. The proceeding is ongoing. Then in November 2020, a construction crew started work, stripping the halls and other units to the studs with Kalmenson and his Spaniel, Charles, inside. Canty denied wrongdoing. 'Mr. Kalmenson's allegations are without merit,' said Canty's lawyer, William M. Moran. The former NFL-er was fined $20,000 by the city Buildings Department in 2021 for falsely claiming the building was empty when the work began, and not having a 'tenant protection plan' in place for Kalmenson, according to DOB records. That same year, Canty began eviction proceedings against Kalmenson, accusing him of overstaying his lease. At the same time he accused the tenant in a separate Manhattan lawsuit of 'a campaign of intimidation and harassment' against him and of filing 'spurious claims with the Department of Buildings.' In October 2021, Canty offered Kalmenson $45,000 to move out — but the tenant said he chose to stay, because he'd just been approved for emergency pandemic rental relief which allowed him to stay in his home another year. The construction stopped in April, after Kalmenson counter-sued Canty in Manhattan Supreme Court. The city Department of Housing Preservation and Development has also slapped the former lineman with 410 violations since2022 and sued him twice for the violations — ultimately settling for a total of $8,000, records show. Kalmenson insisted in court papers that prior landlords violated the law by treating the building as a co-operative, when it should have been rent stabilized — a move which would have allowed the residents to stay after Canty purchased it. Canty, who is also being sued by the city and state for allegedly evading more than $1 million in taxes related to his purchase of the property, claims the building is still a co-op and should not be deemed rent stabilized, legal papers show. 'If I'm entitled to a rent stabilized lease. I don't need to get bullied out of my own home by some guy just because he happened to be a football player,' Kalmenson said. Canty spent 11 years in the NFL as part of the Giants, the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens before retiring in 2015. He began working in radio in 2021, when he joined 98.7 FM's DiPietro, Canty & Rothenberg weekday morning show. A rep for Canty didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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01-06-2025
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Browns QB Joe Flacco is being questioned by Chris Canty ... who has a perch at ESPN and who is also a former Flacco teammate.
Browns QB Joe Flacco is being questioned by Chris Canty ... who has a perch at ESPN and who is also a former Flacco teammate. originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Cleveland Browns employ more "name'' QBs than any team in the NFL. Advertisement Deshaun Watson. Shedeur Sanders. Dillon Gabriel. Kenny Pickett. And the guy who figures at age 40 to mentor all of them, Joe Flacco. One problem: Flacco, the elder statesman of the group, has balked a bit at that concept, emphasizing that his goal is to start, not to teach. And now Flacco is being questioned by Chris Canty ... who has a perch at ESPN and who is also a former Flacco teammate. "Mentoring a young player is only going to make that player better, which makes the team better," Canty said. "You're only as strong as your weakest link.'' Canty, who spent three seasons as Flacco's teammate with the Baltimore Ravens from 2013–2015, continued on ... Advertisement "It's stupid to not consider trying to do everything that you can to coach these other guys up," Canty said. "Nobody is saying you have to do your job at a lesser level in terms of performing on the field, but if you can happen to impart some wisdom onto those guys who you're spending 16 hours a day with in training camp, why wouldn't you do that?" We think that Flacco's remarks are now being spun wildly out of control. The facts? Flacco has over his lengthy career worked with a huge number of younger guys ... the Ravens' Lamar Jackson in 2018 and with Drew Lock in 2019 and with Jets Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson from 2020–2021 and last year with the Colts' Anthony Richardson. ... and many more. We find it ridiculous to think he didn't help his QB teammates. Advertisement It's probably Flacco's fault for not saying the by-rote thing about mentorship. At the same time, we bet it's so self-evident to him that he'll be "big-brothering'' guys - no matter where he ends up on the depth chart - that he wants to make sure he's thought of as a first-team candidate. In that sense, this is a tempest in a teapot. Flacco, entering his 18th NFL season with a Super Bowl trophy to his credit, has never been accused of being a bad teammate or of being "stupid.'' And this is no time to start that. Related: Examination Reveals Shedeur Sanders' Thrilling Practice Numbers Misleading This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
