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Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota already are the best quarterback duo drafted 1-2 in NFL history.Both players have their teams in playoff contention in only their second season.Winston led Tampa Bay (6-5) to an upset win over Seattle on Sunday and the Buccaneers are one game behind Atlanta in the NFC South. Mariota had his eighth straight multiple TD game to lead Tennessee (6-6) over Chicago and the Titans are a half-game behind Houston in the AFC South.In 2015, Winston and Mariota were the sixth set of QBs to be selected first and second overall in the draft since 1967. This year, it happened again when the Rams took Jared Goff at No. 1 and the Eagles selected Carson Wentz at No. 2.Other QBs going 1-2 were: Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III (2012); Tim Couch and Donovan McNabb (1999); Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf (1998); Drew Bledsoe and Rick Mirer (1993); Jim Plunkett and Archie Manning (1971).Injuries derailed Griffins career. Couch and Leaf were busts. Mirer was a full-time starter for only three seasons.The Plunkett-Manning combination was the most successful of them all. Plunkett was a Super Bowl MVP and Manning was a two-time Pro Bowl pick despite playing for the lowly Saints.So Winston and Mariota have a long way to go.Here are other overreactions following Week 12:OVERREACTION: The Browns (0-12) wont lose next week.REALISTIC REACTION: They have a bye .---OVERREACTION: Seattles loss to Tampa Bay proves the Seahawks (7-3-1) arent on the same level as Dallas (10-1).REALISTIC REACTION: Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman and Co. still have the best chance to knock off the Cowboys in the playoffs.---OVERREACTION: The Raiders (9-2) are on course to meet the Patriots (9-2) in the AFC title game.REALISTIC REACTION: Oakland might not make it out of the AFC West where the Chiefs (8-3) and Broncos (7-4) have superior defenses.---OVERREACTION: Tom Brady is the best blocking QB in the NFL.REALISTIC REACTION: The Jets defense showed incredible mercy avoiding Brady as he led the way on LeGarrette Blounts 10-yard run.---OVERREACTION: Adam Gase is Coach of the Year. His Dolphins (7-4) have won six in a row and are right in the mix for a wild-card berth.REALISTIC REACTION: Jack Del Rio, Dirk Koetter and Bob McAdoo each make a strong case to win it.---OVERREACTION: No Andrew Luck means no playoffs for the Colts (5-6).REALISTIC REACTION: Luck should return from a concussion next week and Indianapolis is only one game out of first place.---OVERREACTION: Playing for the win instead of a tie will cost the Broncos (7-4) the playoffs.REALISTIC REACTION: Theyre tied in the standings with Miami and have five games left. Too much season left.---OVERREACTION: The Cardinals (4-6-1) are the biggest busts of the season.REALISTIC REACTION: Theyve got competition from Green Bay and Carolina (4-7).---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Rob Maaddi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP-RobMaaddiAnthony Miller Jersey . 10 VCU 85-67 on Thursday night at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. 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Thinking back on it, that was probably his way of telling me I was in the team, because he was always very dry. John was very much a mans man: he had that old-school toughness and was really comfortable in those sorts of environments. The best thing about him was his sense of humour, because hed listen to things for a long time and then come in with perfect timing. In that respect he was always very good to me.Van Wyk spent the three days prior to his Test debut, in Dunedin against the South Africans in March 2012, flat on his back with a bad case of gastroenteritis. I lost 5kgs and really wasnt in the best of shape, he says. By the time it came to the Test itself he was, however, back in the saddle - slightly lighter but ready to pounce should the South Africans forget he was there and lapse into some ill-advised vloeking (swearing) or off-the-cuff analysis in Afrikaans.Far from the South Africans giving him shit, the Test passed off reasonably amicably. Van Wyk had grown up with players like Jacques Rudolph and AB de Villiers and the verbals were restricted to a good-natured trickle. Chris Martin nipped [Jacques] Kallis and [AB] de Villiers out on the first day and we led on the first innings by 40-odd, van Wyk remembers. They batted well in the second innings [with hundreds to Kallis, Smith and Rudolph], and then at close on the fourth day we were about 140 for 2, with Brendon [McCullum] and Ross [Taylor] at the crease; we needed 300 runs to win with eight wickets standing on a flat track on the final day. Kane [Williamson] was due to come in at five. I think we could have been in for a very exciting final day of cricket, except that it rained on the fourth night and that was it.By his own admission, van Wyk wasnt ready for international cricket when he arrived in New Zealand. He was there because Dave Nosworthy, his former coach at Titans (in South Africa), had been recruited by Canterbury and the South Island outfit needed a wicketkeeper. Mark Boucher wasnt going to relinquish the gloves for South Africa anytime soon and the opportunity seemed like a godsend. This was a chance to reinvent himself, have an adventure and subsume himself in the New Zealand cricketing way.I think we play a boring brand here in South Africa - were one-dimensional, he says. The Kiwis ingenuity is something theyre really proud of. If they need to pick three spinners in a World T20 to beat India in India, theyre going to do that. Theyre really proud of their ingenuity. [Brendon] McCullum and [Mike] Hesson were always prepared to be brave, and thats absolutely great.While the stereotype of the canny Kiwi can be overplayed, theres no doubt that their mentalité, as the French would call it, is to put everything they have to the best posssible use - in terms of being prepared to lose as they gamble for a win.dddddddddddd Van Wyk says he loved this approach, the idea that they were exhausting every available opportunity to improve themselves, and found himself growing exponentially as a cricketer.He played nine Tests, being knocked off his perch by BJ Watling, but there is no sign of regret. Indeed, you rather feel that his sojourn turned out far better than he ever had reason to expect. Here, after all, was the boy from Wolmaransstad, a veritable Wagga Wagga of the veld. He was too small for rugby and didnt like disappearing into the wastes of the outfield, so became a wicketkeeper. His entire career was a story of scaling heights he didnt naturally reach. Van Wyk and his young family (one boy, one girl) returned to South Africa in December 2015, after nine years in New Zealand, and he became director of cricket at the Assupol Tuks Cricket Academy at the University of Pretoria. Hes hoping to back up words with deeds by inculcating a far more adventurous brand of cricket, saying that hes frequently gobsmacked at the conveyor belt of talent that the African sunshine and good facilities seem to almost carelessly produce. You have to allow players to grow outside of a structure or a game plan, to keep challenging them in different ways. Id say its a state-of-mind thing rather than a technique or set of techniques.Van Wyk has an opportunity to see what Tuks can do when they defend their Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals title in Sri Lanka early next month. In preparation for the event, van Wyk has been hard at work simulating the kinds of conditions he expects to find in Sri Lanka, roughing up wickets, underpreparing them and leaving them bereft of grass. Twenty-over cricket provides players with the opportunity to be reckless - and youve got to allow them that freedom and license.Prior to the New Zealanders hopping up to Zimbabwe, they spent a week at Tuks Pretoria facility where van Wyks boys were able to rub shoulders with the tourists. It was great, he says, for his left-arm quicks to swap notes with Trent Boult or his fast bowlers to bask in the presence of, say, Tim Southee.Unlike the South Africans, who havent played much recent Test cricket, the visitors look well-grooved. Kingsmead, the venue for the first Test, has been known to be unkind to home sides in recent years, and the New Zealanders will probably be closer to where they want to be than the hosts. Its increasingly tempting, in fact, to see the two teams as different sides of the same ball: South African cricket is in the midst of blithely frittering away its riches (some of those riches heading for New Zealand), its Test outfit less successful than it should be. By contrast, New Zealand make best use of what they have, proud to innovate and bold enough to try. Its the very shift Van Wyk is trying to initiate with his young charges.Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Football Jerseys Wholesale Basketball Jerseys Wholesale Baseball Jerseys ' ' '