No. 1 UCLA women beat No. 8 Ohio State, set program-record win streak

• February 6, 2025

LOS ANGELES — The top-ranked UCLA women’s basketball team took control in the fourth quarter to beat No. 8 Ohio State, 65-52, and set a program record with its 22nd consecutive win on Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA (22-0 overall, 10-0 Big Ten), which remains the only unbeaten team in Division I, eclipsed a 21-game win streak set during the 1977-78 season.

“We needed a game like that,” UCLA coach Cori Close said. “Chaos, disappointment. We looked tired at times and we had to find a way to buckle down and do it with toughness and rebounding and defense. I’m thankful for a team that’s willing to win gritty and not pretty.”

The Buckeyes’ Elsa Lemmilä, a 6-foot-6 freshman center, created an interesting one-on-one matchup with UCLA’s 6-7 Lauren Betts, but the Bruins’ center was able to use her athleticism to score 19 points to go with 14 rebounds and three blocked shots. It was her 12th double-double of the season.

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Gabriela Jaquez added 17 points, Kiki Rice scored 12 points and Angela Dugalic pulled down 10 rebounds.

UCLA outrebounded Ohio State (20-1, 9-1) by a wide margin (49-33), but a season-high 23 turnovers hurt the Bruins.

“We were frustrated with our turnovers and we let it affect our purpose and talk and transition D,” Close said. “I didn’t think it was that they got steal-scores, it’s that we were playing one-on-one defense instead of team transition defense, building our wall, talking about right-hand drivers, who are the shooters. How do we help each other and rotate? And that’s tough to do against a team like that.”

UCLA was visibly frustrated in the fourth quarter, as Ohio State diligently chipped away to tie the score at 44-all just 34 seconds into the period. The Bruins countered with a 19-1 run that included nine points from Jaquez. The Bruins outrebounded Ohio State 13-2 in the fourth, with Jaquez grabbing three of her six.

“(Practice) is really tough every day,” Betts said. “Once it happened in this game, we were kind of ready for it. We hold each other accountable and sometimes it’s hard, but we just take it and just move on. And I think that poise is just what we work on every single day.”

A Betts layup gave UCLA a five-point lead, then a Jaquez layup, a Rice steal and jumper and a Janiah Barker jumper made it 56-45 with 5:47 left. Jaquez added a layup off an offensive rebound, then a 3-pointer and another layup to complete the surge for a 63-45 lead with 3:18 left.

UCLA looked as though it could pull away from the Buckeyes when Betts made a layup in the first 30 seconds of the second quarter to give the Bruins a 20-6 lead. Their timing and passing were off, however, which limited the offense.

Rice missed a teammate with a pass but was able to grab a steal almost immediately afterward to make a layup. It wasn’t the prettiest play, but UCLA put together an 8-2 run for a 30-24 lead at halftime.

“Ohio State’s a really good defensive team,” Jaquez said. “In the first half, we were playing their game and they won the style of play. Coming out in the second half, we just really needed to reset.”

The Bruins struggled to fully separate themselves to begin the second half. The third-quarter scoring run that has become a signature part of UCLA’s offense was missing and the turnovers kept on coming.

A series of long passes from Elina Aarnisalo to Betts to Jaquez and another long pass from Barker to Jaquez resulted in back-to-back layups and a 38-31 lead with 4:30 left in the third quarter.

UCLA used speed to combat Ohio State’s press defense and rushed forward any time there was open space. The Buckeyes effectively defended for most of the first quarter and scored eight points off of UCLA’s eight turnovers in the period.

“Credit to Ohio State,” Close said. “That’s the first team that made us play that way. And they really were the more aggressive team for a long time but it forced us to go to another level of toughness to get the win.”

The Bruins gained a two-point edge at the end of the frame after Angela Dugalić tied the score at 16-all. Ohio State shot 0 for 5 and couldn’t manufacture a point for the final 2:47.

Betts had 13 points and 10 rebounds in the first half, the first time in the junior’s career she had a double-double by halftime.

Jaloni Cambridge had 21 points to lead the Buckeyes, who shot a season-worst 29.4% from the field. Cotie McMahon added 14 points.

“Going into this game, you know they’re the number one team in the country and it’s exciting,” McMahon said. “This was the first time everybody was on the same page, locked in and just ready to play. We just fell short. Our effort was not a problem in this game.”

UP NEXT

UCLA plays at Oregon on Sunday at 1 p.m. before traveling to the Galen Center to take on USC next Thursday (Feb. 13) at 7 p.m.

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Suit alleges sexual violence by Chino prison gynecologist, says state failed to prevent it

• February 6, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Six women and the California Coalition of Women Prisoners have filed suit in Los Angeles against the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a prison gynecologist, and various officials with responsibility for overseeing the doctor, alleging ongoing sexual violence, according to court papers obtained Wednesday.

The lawsuit filed this week in federal court contends that Dr. Scott Lee’s history of sexual harassment was well known throughout the California Institution for Women while he was the sole women’s health specialist on staff.

Lee allegedly routinely made sexualized comments to patients and used his power as a health care provider to sexually assault patients, including requiring them to undress in front of him, fondling their breasts, and molesting them, according to the lawsuit.

“While we are unable to comment on personnel matters, Dr. Scott Lee no longer has direct in-person contact with patients,” a spokesperson on behalf of the CDCR and California Correctional Health Care Services told City News Service in a statement Wednesday.

In one of Lee’s exams, a patient alleges in the complaint, “I told him, `You’re hurting me.’ I remember holding my stomach, and I was just praying, `God, please let this be over, please let this be over, please let this be over.’ I felt like he was raping my baby. When he took his hand out, it was covered in blood.”

Patients who were seen by Lee also report that he would insist on doing unnecessary pelvic examinations, excessive Pap smears, and require patients to allow him to view and touch their genitals before he would give them medications that had already been prescribed to them by other medical providers, the suit alleges.

Attorney Jenny Huang of Justice First, one of three civil rights law firms involved in the lawsuit, stated, “CDCR has a long history of neglecting basic human needs at its women’s prisons, while prioritizing the needs of the male population. For too many years, Dr. Lee’s patients complained about his predatory behavior but no one listened, no one cared.”

For seven years, Lee was the only full-time gynecologist at the CIW, a high-security prison facility in Chino, according to the suit. The complaint accuses the prison’s leaders and other staff of failing to stop Lee despite past complaints.

In September, the U.S. Justice Department announced it had launched an investigation into conditions at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women.

Lawsuits have been filed by hundreds of current and former female prisoners in the state prison system since the passage of Assembly Bill 1455 describing numerous instances of sexual assault by correctional officers overseen by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Most of the plaintiffs in those cases are current or former inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility and the California Institution for Women.

AB1455 extended the statute of limitations for victims of sexual assault by police and correctional officers to sue their assailants in civil court.

The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin contributed to this story.

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Sebastien Boydell extends Corona del Mar’s tight end legacy, signs with Fresno State

• February 6, 2025

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Orange County high school football has a reputation for producing standout tight ends. Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez, for example, played at Huntington Beach High. But one school has been working especially hard to extend the pipeline of prospects.

Look no further than Corona del Mar.

The Sea Kings had yet another tight end sign on National Signing Day on Wednesday as Sebastien Boydell made it official with Fresno State.

Boydell joins a legacy of Corona del Mar tight ends that includes fellow Class of 2025 signee Zach Giuliano, who signed with Stanford in December.

The program’s other tight ends the last few years include Scott Giuliano (Harvard), Mark Redman (Washington, San Diego State, Louisville), TaeVeon Le (Stanford) and Scott Truninger (Yale).

Boydell, who is 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds, said the tradition impacted his rise as a collegiate recruit.

“I’m super grateful and fortunate not just to be able get advice from guys playing at the next level but also to compete everyday with some of the best tight ends in the county,” he said Wednesday. “(It) definitely helped me get better so just super grateful to my teammates and my coaches.”

Boydell was a long-time Fresno State commit. He didn’t sign during the early period in December as the Bulldogs transitioned under new coach Matt Entz.

On Wednesday, Fresno State also signed Edison running back Julius Gillick, The Register’s offensive player of the year, and JSerra defensive back Elisha Canales.

As for the next tight end to watch at Corona del Mar, Boydell points to Finn Grimstad, a 6-foot-6, 240-pound junior who played mostly defense this past season.

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No. 7 USC women bounce back from loss, rout Wisconsin

• February 6, 2025

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer

MADISON, Wis. — The USC women’s basketball team regrouped before leaving the Midwest and heading back home.

Kiki Iriafen scored 15 points to lead a balanced attack as the seventh-ranked Trojans bounced back from a rare loss and never trailed in an 86-64 victory over Wisconsin on Wednesday night.

USC (20-2 overall, 10-1 Big Ten), which had 17 steals while forcing 24 Wisconsin turnovers, was finishing a two-game trip after its 15-game winning streak ended Sunday with a 76-69 loss at Iowa.

USC’s JuJu Watkins, who entered the game averaging 24.7 points to rank third in Division I, was held to a season-low 14 points in 26 minutes. Avery Howell also scored 14, Talia von Oelhoffen had 11 and Kayleigh Heckel added 10.

After shooting a season-low 35.4% from the floor against Iowa, USC returned to form Wednesday by shooting 50.7%.

Serah Williams scored 19 points and Carter McCray and Tess Myers added 12 each for Wisconsin (11-12, 2-10), which lost for the 10th time in 11 games to drop below .500 for the first time this season.

Williams, the Big Ten’s third-leading scorer behind Watkins and UCLA’s Lauren Betts, did everything she could to keep Wisconsin competitive. After shooting 0 for 7 in the first seven minutes, she was 8 for 13 the rest of the way.

After falling behind 13-3 early, Wisconsin trailed just 23-20 when Ronnie Porter missed a potential tying 3-pointer with less than four minutes left in the second quarter. That’s as close as the Badgers would get.

Watkins made the game’s first basket but didn’t score again for more than 18 minutes. She scored five points during a 10-4 run over the last 1:39 of the second quarter to give USC a 39-28 halftime lead.

USC stayed in command the rest of the way, leading by as much as 24 points. The Trojan reserves outscored their Wisconsin peers 33-8.

USC had a 44-26 advantage in points in the paint and a 22-6 margin in fast-break points.

UP NEXT

USC hosts No. 8 Ohio State on Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Reports: Warriors acquire Jimmy Butler from Heat in multi-team trade

• February 6, 2025

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer

Jimmy Butler got what he wanted. He’s being traded out of Miami and got a new contract in the process.

The Heat and the Golden State Warriors have agreed on a deal that sends Butler to the Bay Area, multiple media outlets reported on Wednesday night. Butler helped carry the Heat to the NBA Finals twice, long before a hostile breakup that saw him suspended three times by the team in January.

Golden State is making it happen by moving Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson, Lindy Waters and first-round draft compensation out in the deal, a source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade has not gotten league approval.

Wiggins and Anderson are headed to Miami; it’s unclear if Anderson will be staying with the Heat. Schroder is getting moved to Utah – where the Warriors, coincidentally, were Wednesday night – and Josh Richardson is heading from Miami to Detroit along with Waters. Also on the move: P.J. Tucker, who was just traded from the Clippers to Utah on Saturday and now is set to return to Miami, where he played in 2021-22.

“My brother, man. I’m going to miss him, for sure,” said Heat forward Nikola Jovic, who looked up to Butler. “I think a lot of guys here will. He’s someone who did a lot for this franchise.”

The Heat will get a protected first-rounder from Golden State; for now, that is a pick in this year’s draft though that could change based on final terms. And ESPN reported that Butler has already agreed on a two-year extension with the Warriors, one that would be worth around $113 million.

“I’m really happy that he got what he wanted,” Jovic said. “That bag’s kinda really big.”

Mark down March 25: Golden State at Miami, the first time Butler could play again in South Florida.

Golden State becomes Butler’s fifth team, after stints in Chicago, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Miami. His arrivals were celebrated in all four cities, and his departures weren’t exactly smooth in any of them.

With the Warriors, he joins Steph Curry and Draymond Green – two players who were part of all four recent Golden State championship teams and have hopes of getting back to title contention again.

The Warriors had a closed-door meeting in the locker room Wednesday as news of the trade was getting out; Coach Steve Kerr met with the team during the period that the room is typically open to reporters before games. Golden State wound up falling to Utah, 131-128.

“Our guys were in the locker room getting ready to play and all of a sudden we’re saying goodbye,” Kerr said.

Butler’s breakup with the Heat brewed for months. The primary issue was money; he was eligible for the two-year, $113 million extension and the Heat never offered it, largely because he missed about 25% of the team’s games in his Miami tenure.

The relationship was broken beyond repair at the end. When Butler said he didn’t expect to find on-court joy with the Heat again in early January, he was suspended for seven games as the last straw on a list of what the team called detrimental conduct.

It kept getting worse: Butler was suspended three times in January alone, the second a two-game ban for missing a team flight, the last an indefinite one that followed him leaving shootaround early after learning he wasn’t going to start a Jan. 27 game against Orlando. That was the end.

“There was a lot said by everybody, except for me, to tell you the truth,” Butler said after his first game back following the first suspension. “We’ll let people keep talking. … The whole truth will come out.”

The Heat said Butler asked for a trade, which caused them to changed course from team president Pat Riley’s December vow not to trade him; when the first suspension was announced, the Heat said they were trying to make a trade happen.

Butler is averaging 17 points per game this season. He had one of the best statistical games in Heat history against Detroit on Dec. 16 – 35 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists.

It was never the same again. In his six appearances following that Detroit game, including one where he departed in the first quarter with illness, Butler averaged 9.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists.

Wiggins, the No. 1 pick in the 2014 draft, has averaged 18.5 points in 11 seasons – first with Minnesota, then Golden State. He is someone that Kerr has raved about at times this season, and when Wiggins was good the Warriors were usually really good. Golden State was 8-3 this season when Wiggins scored at least 23 points, and he was a contributor for the 2022  title team.

“Wiggs is one of my favorite players I’ve ever coached,” Kerr said. “Just a beautiful soul, just a wonderful human being. And we don’t hang that (championship) banner in ’22 without him. Everything he brings every single day, the laughter, the smile, the joy, just a wonderful human being. And so, I’m going to miss him.”

Butler joined Miami in 2019 to fill Dwyane Wade’s spot as the star of the team, the face of the franchise. He was an All-Star twice in Miami, helped the Heat to the NBA Finals in the bubble in 2020 and then as a No. 8 seed in 2023 and turned in some epic postseason performances. There have been 18 40-point games in Heat playoff history; Butler is responsible for eight of them, including a team-record 56 against Milwaukee in 2023.

The last time Butler spoke publicly as a Heat player was at a padel tournament on Jan. 25. “I love this city with everything that I have,” he said that day.

Two days later, he was suspended by the Heat for the third and final time.

AP sports writer Janie McCauley in San Francisco and AP writer John Coon in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.

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Esperanza boys wrestling dominates Centennial to win CIF-SS Division 2 dual meet title

• February 6, 2025

ANAHEIM – Esperanza’s boys wrestling team closed out strong, with three pins and a technical fall in the final five bouts, to wrap up a 54-7 romp over Corona Centennial for the CIF Southern Section Division 2 dual meet championship.

“It feels good,” said Esperanza freshman Chris Arreola, who recorded a second-round technical fall at 136 pounds. “I’m happy our team got it done. We kind of shut them out, and everybody did their part.”

The Aztecs, ranked 10th in the state by Calgrappler, won the first five matches for a 22-0 lead.

The match started with the 144-pound match, and the Aztecs started strong. Mateo Centeno set the tempo when he opened with a quick takedown and near-fall, and led Rocco Godinez 9-0 after one round. He recovered from being put on his back in the second round and rolled to a 14-4 victory.

Esperanza’s Dimetry Molina beat Pablo Hernanzez 13-5 at 150, then the Aztecs’ Maddox Herrera recorded the first of four falls with a second-round pin of Centennial’s Jesse Jimenez.

Esperanza’s James Holiday followed with a 3-minute, 18-second pin at 165 pounds. The Aztecs’ Sammy Sanchez (106) got a takedown and near-fall in the final minute of the first round, then got his fall with a second left. Gianini Sanchez needed just 36 seconds to pin Gavin Salas at 113.

Arreola went after Aiden Verrick of Centennial like a hungry dog, taking him down twice with near-fall points en route to a 16-2 first-round lead. One more takedown ended the bout 43 seconds into the second round.

“I like scoring points in the match, but I’d rather get the pin for the team points,” Arreola said.

The match was the latest stop in Arreola’s comeback. He missed a month of the season with a broken left wrist, he said.

“I missed a couple of duals, and a couple of tournaments that could have gotten me higher in the rankings,” Arreola said. “After this, we’re going to go win our league title, we’re going to go win another Masters title, and we’re going to get it done at state.”

The Aztecs seem to be poised for a run at state. They have seven wrestlers in the state rankings; those seven include four sophomores and three freshmen.

Centennial had rolled into the final with two lopsided victories, but had nothing to cheer about until 190-pounder Keshaun White overpowered Aiden Shahrestani 13-3.

The Huskies’ other victory came at 285, when Angel Rodriguez outlasted Brody Aguilar 4-1, getting a takedown with one second left in the third round.

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One of California’s new ‘trailer bills’ has origins in Capitol’s long history of closed-door politics

• February 6, 2025

As required by law, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget staff this week posted initial drafts of 59 bills they say would be needed to implement the 2025-26 state budget that Newsom proposed a few weeks ago.

That’s a polite fiction.

While many of the bills do relate to the budget, others have little or no connection but are designated as “trailer bills” merely to make them easier to enact. Those should properly be studied and debated on their own, rather than be secreted in the budget package.

One proposed measure that needs explanation and examination would delay for four years a crackdown on street racing, so-called “sideshows” and other forms of extreme driving that police officials say pose a serious threat to roadway safety. The Legislature approved the tougher penalties on dangerous drivers almost unanimously in 2021, and they were to take effect this year.

If the trailer bill is enacted, the law would be delayed until 2029.

Another proposed trailer bill, while quite innocuous in its effect, has an interesting and seamy backstory. It would extend a long-standing program of providing special devices that allow deaf people to use telephones for another nine years, financed by adding a few pennies to telephone bills each month.

Few would quarrel with a program aimed at overcoming the isolation that deaf and hard-of-hearing people may experience, but its creation nearly a half-century ago illustrates the wheeling and self-dealing that dominated the Capitol in the 1970s and 1980s.

Terry Goggin, a Democratic assemblyman from San Bernardino, carried legislation to create the program but it sounded fishy to Vic Pollard, a reporter for the San Bernardino Sun who had often written about Goggin’s many schemes.

Pollard revealed that the seemingly benign legislation benefited Goggin’s longtime friend and sometime business partner, Dennis Krieger, who was underwriting a stock sale for a company that made the only devices Goggin’s legislation would finance. After Pollard reported on that connection, Goggin was fined by the Fair Political Practices Commission.

I also added a chapter to the Goggin saga. At one point in the late ’70s, during one of California’s periodic gasoline supply crises, Goggin introduced a bill to prohibit oil companies from owning service stations. I reported for the Sacramento Union that his measure exempted one company that had employed Goggin’s father and Krieger’s father as top executives.

After my story published, Goggin dropped the bill.

Pollard later revealed to me that Goggin, who lost his Assembly seat in 1984, had once told him, “Somebody is going to make money off of everything we do up here, and it might as well be our friends.”

Pollard added, “He also tried once to hire me to get me off his back.”

Goggin’s political defeat was not the end of his saga, however.

After his old friend, Willie Brown, the legendary speaker of the state Assembly in the 1980s and 1990s, became mayor of San Francisco in 1996, Goggin moved to the city and began practicing law and lobbying city government. Eight years later, after Brown’s mayoralty ended, he and Goggin teamed up to propose a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign for the state’s bullet train project.

That gambit fell through and Goggin went into the coffee shop business, operating four concessions in Bay Area Rapid Transit stations while seeking investors to expand the chain.

That also backfired when federal prosecutors alleged that he had lied to potential investors about finances of the chain, which later went bankrupt. Then 78 years old, he pleaded guilty in 2019 to money laundering and two years later was sentenced to one year and one day behind bars.

Dan Walters is a CalMatters columnist.

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Super Bowl: Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo is mad scientist of pass rush

• February 6, 2025

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

NEW ORLEANS — Every once in a while, when an unsuspecting offense is least expecting it, Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid will inch his way toward the line of scrimmage, then take off like a thunderbolt toward the quarterback the moment the ball is snapped.

It looks so simple, the way Reid blitzes, as if all he’s doing is timing up the QB’s cadence.

It turns out it is far more complicated.

The timing is a big part of it, of course, but so is the way defensive linemen tie up the offensive line. The way the rest of the defensive backfield disguises coverage. The way pass rushers stunt or otherwise provide pressure on the quarterback from the outside, making him move to the exact point on the field where Reid expects to meet him.

The mad scientist pulling all of those strings is Steve Spagnuolo, the Chiefs’ defensive coordinator, whose job in helping Kansas City get back to the Super Bowl had him interviewing with several clubs last week for another shot at being a head coach.

“He’s incredible,” Reid said ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl rematch with the Philadelphia Eagles. “My first year here, like, the amount of pressures and cover-zeros and simulated pressures – the sheer volume of it was a little bit like, ‘Wow, this is really deep.’ But as you get a ton of reps at it and start to get a feel for the defense, you’re almost hungry for it. Like, ‘Let’s put in more, put in something else nobody has ever seen.’”

It’s hard to believe there is something left to invent.

But that deep, complicated defensive playbook and all those exotic blitzes that “Spags” has developed over the years are a big reason why the Chiefs are back facing the Eagles on the NFL’s biggest stage.

“I love this defense, man. Spags, we’ve always trusted him and everybody that plays under him,” Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said. “They’re so sound and they play their tails off, and they throw their heart out there on the field every single week.”

In the early years of their dynastic run, the Chiefs’ defense was a liability, and it was up to Patrick Mahomes and the rest of a high-powered offense to bail it out. But that changed when Spagnuolo arrived, and General Manager Brett Veach began investing free-agent money and draft capital into upgrades on that side of the ball. The result has been a defense among the NFL’s best in scoring the past few years, and one that was particularly good against the run this season.

That could prove pivotal as the Chiefs try to slow down Eagles running back Saquon Barkley in the big game.

And when it comes to slowing down the passing attack, well, that’s where blitzes come into play. They can come from any level of the defense, at any point in time, and the only thing they have in common is the frequency in which they succeed.

“He doesn’t do it every down,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “Sometimes you get the stigma of being a ‘blitz guy.’ It’s when he does it and how he knows the protections or the run scheme, you know, for the run blitzes. How he understands the scheme and when to go about using it. I think that’s what makes him so unique and why they’re so successful.”

The success of the Kansas City defense coupled with Spagnuolo’s relatable personality have made him a fan favorite, and why the Jets and Jaguars were among the teams that interviewed him for their head coaching vacancies.

Spagnuolo had a chance with the Rams from 2009-11, going 10-38 as a head coach. But the deck was stacked against him; the team was unsettled at quarterback, the most important position in the game, and was in the midst of a major rebuilding effort.

Andy Reid would love to see his longtime friend get another chance. But in the meantime, he’s thankful Spagnuolo and so much of his defensive staff have remained intact for several years, providing consistency on that side of the ball.

“They know the scheme like the back of their hand. Spags has confidence in them and then the players have confidence in their coaches and Spags,” Reid said. “You have to stay focused during the meetings, you have to detail it at practice, you have to detail the walkthroughs that you do meetings on the field. Then, most of all, you have to execute it on game day. But there’s that trust, that whole foundation that you’ve built with the trust and these guys, they’ve got that.

“Then, likewise, I have the confidence in Spags and in certain situations. I don’t run over to him and go, ‘Hey, let’s not do that or this.’ I have enough confidence in him and been around him long enough to know he’s going to make the right call.”

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