A look at Thursdays NFL preseason matchups:NOW YOU SEE HIMThe Falcons latest hope for boosting their pass rush, defensive end Dwight Freeney, is expected to make his Atlanta debut against the Browns after reaching a deal on Aug. 2. The Falcons, last in the NFL with 19 sacks last season, have ranked no higher than 28th since 2012. Freeney, 36, is expected to play in nickel packages.He may make only a brief appearance on Thursday night -- or in any preseason game, for that matter.Falcons coach Dan Quinn joked I dont think hell lead the league in playing time this preseason.Freeney had eight sacks in 11 games with Arizona last season. No Falcons player had more than four sacks.---FAMILIAR FACEWhen the Detroit Lions lost Calvin Johnson to retirement in the offseason, they immediately signed receiver Marvin Jones.The Lions take on Jones old team when they host the Cincinnati Bengals. Jones had one catch in Detroits win over Pittsburgh last week.Cincinnati lost Jones and fellow receiver Mohamed Sanu to free agency. It signed Brandon LaFell and drafted Tyler Boyd in the second round, but LaFell has an injured right hand and didnt play last week against Minnesota.---TAKING RISKSFor Oakland quarterback Derek Carr, the preseason is the time to take some risks that he might normally try to avoid when the games count.I definitely do stuff that I want to work on in a game setting against live bullets, he said. I definitely do that, nothing that would go against hurting or anything. But, I want to see if we can get better. I want to see if, `Man if we can do that, that would help you know? So I definitely do that sometimes, he said.Carrs next chance to try that out will be Thursday night when the Raiders visit Green Bay, which hopes to give backup quarterback Brett Hundley the majority of snaps if his injured ankle allows it.---END OF A LONG WEEKAfter practicing together this week and enduring a couple of scrums and shoving matches, the Patriots and Chicago Bears will play at Foxborough, Massachusetts.It culminates a weeklong reunion between Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett and his former team, who traded him in March.He shared hugs and pleasantries with several of his former teammates and coaches during three days of joint practices. But the outspoken Bennett and his brother, Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett, made a couple of nasty comments about Bears quarterback Jay Cutler in the last month.Still, Chicago coach John Fox assured there is no ill will toward Bennett.Tom Brady may see some action for New England, but Jimmy Garoppolo will get the majority of the work.---PLAYOFF REMATCHSeattle and Minnesota are meeting for first time since the Seahawks beat the Vikings 10-9 in the playoffs last season.This is a playoff team, won the Super Bowl a couple years ago and the NFC championship game a couple years ago, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said of the Seahawks. So, our guys know the competition that theyre facing. I dont think they think of it as like this is the wild card round or anything like that, but I think itll be good competition.Seattle continues to lean toward undrafted rookie Trevone Boykin as its backup quarterback to Russell Wilson. Boykin completed 16 of 26 passes and threw a 37-yard touchdown to Tanner McEvoy on the final play of regulation to give the Seahawks 17-16 win.---PENNSYLVANIA SPECIALSteelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, running backs LeVeon Bell and DeAngelo Williams and wide receiver Antonio Brown will not play in the game against the Eagles.It remains to be seen whether the Eagles use new receiver Dorial Green-Beckham. He was acquired from Tennessee on Tuesday for offensive lineman Dennis Kelly.---Associated Press sports writers Charles Odum in Flowery Branch, Ga., Kyle Hightower in Foxborough, Mass., Josh Dubow in Napa, Calif, Noah Trister in Allen Park, Mich. Dave Campbell in Eden Prairie, Minn., Tim Booth in Renton, Wash. and Tom Canavan in East Rutherford, N.J. contributed to this report.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Buy Nike Off White Online . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at . 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Strong will be remembered as a good man and a great recruiter, one who has Texas well-positioned to compete for Big 12 titles again soon. He just wont get to lead that run.His bosses and players badly wanted Strong to succeed at Texas. He won huge games against Oklahoma, Baylor and Notre Dame that, for a moment, suggested his turning point was coming. He was fired, quite simply, because he didnt win enough games. Too many blowouts early in his tenure. Too many close losses late. Two completely inexplicable losses against Iowa State and Kansas.In the end, the results over three seasons were not there, university president Greg Fenves said in a statement. It was not clear the future was going to be at the levels expected of Longhorn football.He went 6-7, 5-7 and 5-7. You dont get to coach at Texas for long with those results. He will leave with the worst winning percentage of any coach in school history. The patience ran out when a season that started with so much promise ended up being more of the same.Strong left Louisville at the end of 2013 ready for a big challenge after a wildly successful rebuild of the Cardinals. At Texas, he stepped into an objectively messy situation, joining an athletic department in the middle of a major leadership transition.He was hired by Steve Patterson, the unpopular new athletic director whod be forced out 20 months into Strongs stint. Longtime UT president Bill Powers retired during his tenure. And, of course, Strong had to replace a legendary coach in Mack Brown whod let the proud program slip.Texas can be a hard place to coach, with the many cooks in the kitchen and the many factions to appease. Strong wasnt brought in to play the politician role like Brown. His job was to rebuild and win.Its difficult to contend that Strong was set up to fail, considering he put himself in trouble with the hiring decisions he made in his first 10 days on the job. He ended up demoting, firing or losing eight of the nine assistants he hired in 2014. He handed out in-season demotions to two coordinators -- Shawn Watson and Vance Bedford -- whod helped him build a contender at Louisville. His poorly handled hire of offensive line coach Joe Wickline led to an Oklahoma State lawsuit and regrettable depositions. Continuity eluded Strong throughout.Toward the end of his debut season, after clinching a bowl bid at 6-5, Strong promised a five-loss season will never happen in this program. Texas lost its next two games, including a 31-7 blowout against Arkansas in the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl, to finish 6-7.Strong was a year late on figuring out a real offensive direction in the high-scoring Big 12. After the Arkansas loss, he fired two coaches but kept Watson for the entire offseason. He asked Watson to redesign his West Coast-style offense into an up-tempo attack more similar to their conference foes.And when that new offense produced 3 points and 163 yards in a 35-point loss at Notre Dame to open 2015, Strong benched Watson and quarterback Tyrone Swoopes and Texas had to spend an entire season trying to survive offensively.When the Longhorns finally got that side of the ball right this season with offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert, the No. 1 rusher in college football (DOnta Foreman) and an exciting freshman QB (Shane Buechele), it was Texas play on defense that slipped.Strong responded with more change, putting himself in charge of the Longhorns defense four games into the season. The defense did improve. The results didnt change much.Strong operated the program with a steadfast belief that, once he brought in enough talent, a tuurning point would come soon that proved Texas was ready to get back on top of the college football world.ddddddddddddHe and his staff succeeded on the talent acquisition front with two loaded top-10-ranked recruiting classes. From his 2015 and 2016 classes, he added 29 ESPN 300 recruits. Hes an impressive relationship-builder who won over moms and dads with his low-pressure, education-first approach. And he was a confident closer, one who did his best work in January and February.And there were days when his team converted all that young talent into big statement wins. A 1-4 Texas team stepped up and stunned Oklahoma, a top-10 foe that would win the Big 12, in a 24-17 slugfest a year ago. The Longhorns finished that season in unexpected fashion with an upset of a quarterback-less No. 12 Baylor team in Waco.Strong believed the program was one big win away from finally taking off, and Texas got that win in a double-overtime thriller against then-No. 10 Notre Dame to open this season. His team jumped from unranked to No. 11 in the AP poll. The morning after knocking off the Fighting Irish, Strong vowed: This cant be a one-night wonder. It wont be. But it was fools gold, both for Texas and the 4-7 Irish.The difference with Strongs third season in Austin is that it wasnt undone by blowout losses. He endured nine of them by margins of 18 points or worse in his first two seasons. These setbacks occurred in big-time games (48-10 and 50-7 against TCU) and supposedly easier ones (24-0 at Iowa State). Five blowout losses in 2014, four more in 2015.Blowouts werent the problem in 2016. This season, it was close losses. He was 5-5 a week ago with four of those losses coming by margins of 7, 5, 3 and 4 points, respectively. Had Strong finished out 7-5, Texas president Greg Fenves and AD Mike Perrin likely wouldve been inclined to give Strong another year. A 7-5 season wouldve shown some growth.But Texas lost the one game it absolutely couldnt Saturday, blowing a 21-10 fourth-quarter lead and falling 24-21 in double overtime against a Kansas team that was 1-9 and hadnt won a Big 12 game in two years. By losing to Kansas, Strong lost his ability to prove hes making progress.During his first two years on the job, Strongs failures were met with finger-pointing at Brown about what he did or did not leave behind for his successor. Seven players that Brown left Strong are on NFL rosters today, while 10 were kicked off the team in Strongs first year. Strong never took part in that blame game and probably wouldnt indulge it today. He took on a big, hard job. He did things his way, to the best of his ability, and it didnt work out.Strongs lone legacy at Texas will ultimately be his young players. In all, 48 players on Texas roster are underclassmen who signed in the past two years. Twenty of them, led by players like Buechele and freshman All-Americans Malik Jefferson and Connor Williams, have started games this season.These players love Strong and respect him and bought in fully. Theyll take this coaching change hard, especially because theyre sick and tired of the constant tumult at Texas. As sophomore defensive end Breckyn Hager passionately argued midway through this season: We love him as a coach. Getting a new coach is just going to set the program back. Weve got one of the best in the business. Weve got to keep him.The amount of talent Strong brought in shouldve bought him more time and security. It didnt, but whoever replaces him is inheriting a lethal supply of young talent, enough to start winning a lot of games in 2017 and 2018. 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