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Lire l'article complet sur stephaneLarue.com La présidence française a vivement réagi ce mercredi 21 janvier depuis Paris aux affirmations du président américain tenues à Davos, qualifiant de « fausse information » une supposée hausse des prix des médicaments imposée par Washington. C’est une riposte diplomatique 2.0 qui s’est jouée entre la Suisse et la France....

For the first time since 2014, the Kansas City Chiefs didn’t make the playoffs and watched Wild Card weekend from home just like the rest of us. Hopefully, there are lessons to learn from this year’s postseason that the Chiefs can apply to their in-house philosophies. Here are two takeaways I had from the second round of the NFL postseason. 1. Throwing the ball downfield mitigates turnover variance Defenses have changed over the past few years. As the NFL has become more pass-happy, teams have countered by employing nickel or dime personnel against anything the offense offers. The best defenses in the NFL, like the Seattle Seahawks or Houston Texans, never play base defense, choosing to solve problems with lighter personnel. Both of those defenses succeed because they can excel from light boxes.  From a coverage standpoint, teams have used more defensive backs to gain an advantage. Those defenses prefer “umbrella” zone coverages in order to play top-down to everything, focused on limiting explosive plays.  There are a few schools of thought on how to counter this through the passing game: There’s the idea of throwing underneath into that open space and being surgical. Some quarterbacks and schemes can maximize that. However, football is a sport of variance. If you try to draw out 10-play drives consistently, you’re eventually going to have a negative play happen against you. It can be a penalty, sack, or a tackle for loss that gets you behind the chains. It’s a hard way to live and limits your scoring opportunities. The other way to attack these defenses is by throwing one-on-one downfield. If you can bleed the coverage and open shots downfield, you can create space and limit variance. A 30 or 40-yard completion is like eliminating three or four first downs. If you’re throwing underneath, you need to be precise on six to eight plays to get to 40 yards. It’s extremely valuable to get all of that in one play. As these defenses do a better job at stopping quick game from these coverages, the counter will be teams getting more focused on pushing the ball downfield. We saw that this weekend. The New England Patriots‘ offense was bad on Sunday. The Patriots had 13 first downs and averaged under 4.0 yards per play. They went 3/14 on 3rd down. The unit had few counters to one of the best defenses in years. However, when the offense scored, it was through downfield shots to receivers like Kayshon Boutte. Quarterback Drake Maye lived and died by explosive throws, but eventually, the ones that hit got them enough points to win. To converse this, the Buffalo Bills are a good example. Buffalo’s offense ran the ball very well and moved the ball efficiently, but the unit was subjected to turnover variance via fumbles. It wasn’t able to make up for the turnovers because the Bills couldn’t create explosive throws downfield, which is a byproduct of having poor receivers. The Chicago Bears are another team that believes in throwing downfield. Head coach Ben Johnson is a huge believer in explosive plays. So, despite quarterback Caleb Williams having a low completion percentage, the Bears’ ability to hit on a big play mitigates some accuracy errors and keeps their offense efficient. The Los Angeles Rams have built the entire playbook around getting wide receivers Davante Adams and Puka Nacua open downfield. For the Chiefs, this is the way to improve the offense. It has become a dink-and-dunk unit to the team’s detriment. To counter, there needs to be fear of downfield throws, and acquiring a strong, vertical receiver who can win at the catch point would go a long way. 2. Pocket crushing from all angles limit scrambling quarterbacks My favorite thing about football is the pass rush. As a kid, my favorite Chiefs players to watch were edge rushers Justin Houston and Tamba Hali. Sacks are cool, but nothing is better than a strip sack. I love watching an offense completely crumble under pressure. My football philosophy is centered…

En 2024, en France, les couples sont majoritairement propriétaires. Les familles monoparentales sont quant à elles plus souvent locataires du parc social (36 %, contre 17 % de l’ensemble des ménages). Les personnes de moins de 65 ans vivant seules sont également plus souvent locataires, mais dans le parc privé (42 % contre 23 % de l’ensemble des ménages).Les propriétaires ont des logements en moyenne plus grands que les locataires, qu’ils vivent dans une maison ou dans un appartement.9,0 % des ménages vivent dans un logement surpeuplé. Les couples avec trois enfants ou plus, les jeunes et les locataires sont plus concernés.Un tiers des ménages déclarent avoir des difficultés à chauffer leur logement et un quart à le rafraîchir l’été. Les locataires déclarent plus souvent des défauts dans leur logement que les propriétaires. Un tiers des locataires considèrent que leur logement est trop cher.Près d’un quart des ménages a emménagé dans son logement actuel il y a moins de quatre ans. Parmi eux, un tiers ont acheté leur logement. Les jeunes ménages sont les plus mobiles.

Remember the 2018 season? It was an entire calendar year that served as the coming-out party for Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and put the entire NFL on notice that a changing of the guard was imminent— the old being the New England Patriots, the new being the Chiefs, led by head coach Andy Reid. The Patriots did not go quietly into that good night; the dynasty raged, and thanks to an offside penalty courtesy of Chiefs edge rusher Dee Ford, New England went on to win one last Super Bowl, before the all-time run faded into the history books. The Patriots ended the 2018 season on a red zone efficiency heater. New England scored touchdowns on 76.92% of red zone opportunities over their last three games that year. The only teams that fared better over that span of time were the Dallas Cowboys, the Chiefs, and the Detroit Lions. Overall, the Patriots finished in the top half of the league, scoring touchdowns on 62.86% of red zone possessions. Here’s the importance of the trip down memory lane: the Chiefs’ newest coaching addition, wide receivers coach Chad O’Shea, held the same position in New England, along with leading the responsibility of red-zone game plans that year. At the time, Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels praised O’Shea for his insights and attention to detail. “Chad’s unbelievable. He’s one of the best assistant coaches I’ve ever had the chance to work with,” McDaniels said. “His players are always incredibly well prepared. He’s very detailed. They love playing for him. He’s got a great personality. He’s a good communicator. He’s incredibly responsible for any and all of our success in the red zone. He does a lot of that work and prepares us well for that situation in the game…” Former Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman recently expanded on this during his podcast, Games With Names. In this clip, Edelman explains in great detail the effort O’Shea put into making sure his wide receivers were prepared for any situations they might encounter throughout the game. “He’d (O’Shea) have individual 30-play cuts up of each corner,” said Edelman. “Like highlighted examples of what their strengths were. Highlighted examples of what their weaknesses were, or what they struggled with. So, say like you have a corner, and he was a really big guy, he’d show his offhand jam, how this guy did it three or four times, he would look at his stance… so you’re looking individually at that specific guy with the receiver coach.” Then, throughout the week, Edelman said O’Shea would focus on specific downs and distances each day. Fridays were dedicated to red zone, two-minute drill, and situational football. “I always leaned on Coach O’Shea,” Edelman shared. “That’s how you determined if you had a great coach… they always gave you great cut-ups that helped you with your game.” This isn’t an isolated season: since 2007, on 10 different occasions, O’Shea assisted with a top-10 offense in terms of red-zone scoring percentage. Under offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, the Chiefs’ red-zone scoring has been a point of frustration: Kansas City failed to crack the top 10 in red-zone conversion rate in each of the last three seasons. Now, no one is saying O’Shea has a magic wand that will make all of the Chiefs’ red-zone woes disappear, but one thing is certain: he will make sure the wide receivers are ready for the moment when it arrives.