#arnie rosen

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From Captain America Vol. 11 #001, “Beginnings”

Art by Jesús Saiz and Matt Hollingsworth

Written by J. Michael Straczynski

#captain america #steve rogers #mrs. rosen #mr. mueller #invisible woman #sue storm-richards #arnie roth #mr. kim #hyejin kim #travis lane #manuel castillo #arianna walters #marvel #comics #marvel comics

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DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS - Review

DATES: Sept. 4th, 2023 – Jan. 7th, 2024 COMPANY: Drew & Dane Productions THEATER: New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York City ACTORS: Jordan Boatman, Arnie Burton, James Daly, Ellen Harvey, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Kaitlyn Boyer and Sean-Michael Wilkinson. CREW: Director/Writer - Gordon Greenberg; Writer - Steve Rosen; Producers - Drew Desky and Dane Levens; Scenic and Puppet Designer - Tijana Bjelajac; Costume Designer - Tristan Raines; Lighting Designer - Rob Denton; Original Music and Sound Designer - Victoria Deiorio; Wig and Hair Designer - Ashley Rae Callahan.

(L-R) Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jordan Boatman, James Daly, Ellen harvey and Arnie Burton in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

SYNOPSIS: A pansexual GenZ Count Dracula is in the midst of an existential crisis. When he sets his sights on the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt, he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colorful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Percy Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum.

(L-R) Ellen Harvey, James Daly and Arnie Burton TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

REVIEW: Horror comedies come in only two flavors - good and bad. DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS is a sensational, decadent satire that is the perfect treat for the Halloween season.

Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's satirical and irreverent treatment of the Stoker novel resides somewhere in between “The Rocky Horror Musical” and a Monty Python film, with flares of the immortal Charles Ludlam. The tone is set right from the start as the cast tosses the novel and the hilarity begins. The previous productions of the play, including an adaptation of the piece as a radio play for The Broadway Podcast Network, clearly have sharpened the dialogue and wordplay to a razor sharp wordplay duel that had the audience laughing out loud within the first few moments. The writers have trimmed the novel down to a 90 minute tale that tries to incorporate key elements of the story, taking liberties with the novel’s climax to nicely dovetail with the themes of their play. The satire runs the spectrum from that of the novel, political, contemporary pop culture, and gender. Except for Dracula, the other actors have dual or multiple roles where the juggling of the characters adds to the merriment.

James Daly and Jordan Boatman in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

Gordon Greenberg’s direction is superb. It is a finely tuned choreography of dialogue and movement that harkens back to the golden era of silent films to the Marx Brothers. There are some delightful props, including puppets, that add yet another level of humor to the production. Greenberg turns up the energy right at the start and maintains it for 90 minutes, giving the audience little time to recover from the side splitting laughter.

James Daly and Andrew Keenan-Bolger in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

Tijana Bjelajac’s Scenic Design is a wonderful minimalist and still adds atmosphere to the production. Integrated into the set are nice visual and functional elements that are scaled down for an off-broadway production but are lavish enough, and easily would work for a Broadway staging. Tristan Raines’ costume designs are fabulous. The designs capture the period but also combine contemporary elements that highlight the performances.

Arnie Burton and James Daly in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS features an award worthy ensemble cast. The delivery of lines, the body language and facial expressions, their interactions are flawless, and if there were any misfires I didn’t notice. There was a fluidity to their performances that at times it felt like choreography. James Daly is outstanding as Dracula. He is as dynamic and enchanting as Tim Curry’s Dr. Frank-n-Furter, combined with the physique of Rocky. He delivers this multifaceted performance rich with comedic timing. Actor Arnie Burton steals the show as both Mina and Jean Van Helsing. He creates two unique performances that embodies the comedic prowess that is reminiscent of Milton Berle to Harvey Fierstein, with a dash of Bugs Bunny. In contrast, actress Ellen Harvey brings to life Wallace Westfeldt and Percy Renfield. She brilliantly effects switching between the two extremes that eventually becomes an uproarious gag in play. The cast does an astounding job of maintaining the energy level of the play for 90 minutes.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Jordan Boatman in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS is a side-splitting tour de force that would leave Bram Stoker and Mel Brooks rolling in the aisles, and maybe a bit envious. I’ve always advocated that there is a distinct bond between comedy and horror, and this is at its finest. Outstanding performances, fabulous production designs, brilliant directing, all deliver an energetic feel good and memorable theater experience. You must bring your friends for a night you’ll long remember as the perfect treat of this Halloween season.

James Daly in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

Opening night is September 18. Performances are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday at 7PM, Friday and Saturday at 8PM, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2PM. Tickets are $99 - $119. Premium seating is available. Tickets are now on sale at Telecharge.com, [phone]. For more information, visit www.DraculaComedy.com.

Review By: Joseph B Mauceri

Listen to our interview with director & co-writer Gordon Greenberg & co-write Steve Rosen on creating DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS – HERE

#Theater review #off-broadway #DRACULA #A COMEDY OF TERRORS #Gordon Greenberg #Steve Rosen #James Daly #Jordan Boatman #Arnie Burton #Andrew Keenan-Bolger #Ellen Harvey #dracula #bram stoker #comedy #joseph b mauceri #joseph mauceri

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DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS

Starring Jordan Boatman, Arnie Burton, James Daly, Ellen Harvey and Andrew Keenan-Bolger. 

Written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen.

Directed by Gordon Greenberg.

Playing at New World Stages – Stage 5 – 340 West 50th Street – New York. Run: Through January 7th, 2024.

A New Live Production, Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, Reveals A High Camp Side to this Story of The Undead Count

One thing you can count on every Halloween is an appearance of Dracula or, at least, some form of a vampire added to the mix. That could mean a re-run of the many classic films with the undead count such as Universal’s original version of Dracula (with Bela Lugosi) or Hammer’s The Horror of Dracula (with Christopher Lee). But this scary season doesn't necessarily require an appearance of the original bloodsucker himself. It could include some resurrection of his character in a movie, play or live visual presentation in some haunted house.

In 1897, when Irish author Bram Stoker published his long-wrought novel Dracula for just six shillings, he didn’t realize that he’d created one of the most iconic figures of all time. Though this story of an aristocratic, undead mastermind was popular in its day, little did Stoker know that his blood-drinking, soulless monster of the night would become the source of countless permutations, reinterpretations, and re-examinations of this creature and its implications. There’s even a Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin which celebrates the Gothic, the supernatural, the after-dark and Victorian as well as the Count himself.

Of course, along with Stoker’s horror classic, the inevitable humorous satires, parodies, and various send ups cropped up. From a tale of the ageless Count needing to leave his ancient homeland to resettle in England to tap fresh blood, the original gothic narrative has often been revised with sometimes hilarious results.

Now, through Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, this battle with the master of the undead receives an outlandish rethink. Enabled by a compact, five-person cast – Jordan Boatman, Arnie Burton, James Daly, Ellen Harvey, and Andrew Keenan-Bolger – this rapid-fire comedic reimagining of this archetypal tale garners guffaws and lots of snickering. 

Taking off from the original’s classic characters, they’re transformed into these versions: sweet Lucy Westfeldt, vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect consumer Percy Renfield, and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, among others. Here they find themselves in a faux British country estate which doubles as a free-range mental asylum. With its cast of slapstick, quick change comics who switch roles with the aplomb of fast handed pickpockets, this Dracula not only makes you scream, but it does it with laughter. The show also exposes a fundamental ridiculousness that illustrates just how resilient the original concept is: it can take jabs even at its core of terror and still retain a certain majestic-ness.

Through its compact 90-minute show, elements of goth, camp, and variant sexuality are thrown into a gender-bending, quick-change romp. With all the wacky characters, a pansexual Gen-Z Count Dracula tops the list of existentially challenged characters. 

As a buddy of notorious gay Victorian author Oscar Wilde, the actual Stoker was believed to be a closeted gay man in a repressive England, so his novel was rife with suggestive sexuality and gender reversals. Director/co-writers Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen’s send-up of this novel is meant to be viewed through a very contemporary lens. 

Just as the book transcended other Gothic horror of its day, this comedy rises above being simple holiday fare. Make your way to the Westside’s New World Stages for a comedic jab at the jugular.

Brad Balfour

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: November 8, 2023.

#Dracula A Comedy of Terrors #2023 #Theater Review #Jordan Boatman #Brad Balfour #Youtube

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Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen directed by Greenberg: I love a good transgression, and this farcical take on the classic vampire story delivers with cross-gender casting, quick changes and a staunchly bisexual Count. Five actors play at least 12 roles with transformations that reminded me of my own three-actor THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, though they’re most likely inspired by Charles Ludlam’s THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP. One switch was so quick and effective it even stopped the show. A lot of the humor is hit or miss. There are very funny references to vampire lore, but the deliberate anachronisms (the driver taking Jonathan Harker to Transylvania asks for a five-star review, for example) get tired after a while. Ultimately, the piece depends on the cast, and the good outweighs the bad. The most successful farceurs are Andrew Keenan Bolger as Jonathan Harker, Ellen Harvey (who looks like a prettier Edna May Oliver) as Dr. Westfeldt and Renfield and Arnie Burton as Mina and a female Van Helsing. Jordan Boatman’s Lucy is so classily British she’d make Lady Mary look like Eliza Doolittle, but her other character suffer from weak diction. And James Daly as Count Dracula is gorgeous and does great physical work, but it’s often hard to tell the logic behind his frequent dropping of the dialect. There are a few times it gets laugh, but at other times, it's just seems like a mistake. Overall, the show is a lot of fun, and seeing a woman playing a man in a love scene with a man playing a woman certainly tickled my queer fancy.

#queer theatre #dracula #andrew keenan bolger

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The Garry Moore Show written by Neil Simon

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50 Content Marketing Influencers and Experts to Follow 2019

Content Marketing World 2019 is upon us. As the largest content marketing conference in the world, CMWorld brings together a stellar array of talented professionals who are filled with curiosity for future trends, marketing knowledge, and aspirations for new successes. For the past 11 years leading marketers from all over the world have gathered in Cleveland, Ohio for one of the world's strongest content marketing event, and this year is set to be the biggest and best yet. Readers of our blog know we have a long history with the conference starting at the beginning, with nine years of speaking and attending along with seven years of partnering with the Content Marketing Institute to develop speaker and influencer content marketing campaigns. Our partnership resulted in a interactive digital experience filled with show-stopping insights from top marketers who will be taking the stage this week. If you haven't yet experienced it, have a look here: Another TopRank Marketing tradition that has been imitated in recent years but never truly duplicated, is our annual list of content marketing experts ranked according to their social influence, a helpful compilation derived from the excellent 200-plus #CMWorld speakers. List Methodology: For this list we utilize the Traackr influencer marketing platform to filter the content marketing experts who are speaking at the current year's Content Marketing World conference using a large number of criteria including the relevance of the individuals to the topic, the degree to which their networks engage, the size of their networks, and other factors. Online data is pulled from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SlideShare, Flickr and other platforms. The focus topic in question is most definitely "content marketing," and everyone included on this list is:

A speaker at #CMWorld 2019

Ranked in the top-50 for "content marketing" according to relevance, resonance, reach and audience metrics

People always thank me for including them in these lists and there's no thanks to be given other than to the people who worked hard sharing useful knowledge about content marketing to their social channels, in blogs, videos, and online in general. Many thanks go to ALL the people who are actively sharing knowledge about content marketing by engaging and helping others with helpful opinions, insights and expertise on the social web. This list is only a starting point to help expand your content marketing universe. In this year's list there are familiar faces and quite a few new entries. We plan to learn new lessons from these 50 content marketing influencers and hope you’ll do the same throughout the year and into 2020.

50 Content Marketing Influencers Speaking at CMWorld 2019

BIG congratulations to Pam Didner for the top spot and to the other three in the top spots: Christopher Penn, our CEO Lee Odden, and Heidi Cohen. Congrats AGAIN to Ann Handley for being the Most Engaging Content Marketing Influencer out of this year's group of speakers, based on Traackr's analysis. Pam Didner @PamDidner Author, Effective Sales Enablement Presenting: 5 Creative Ways Content Marketers Can Better Support Their Sales Team Presenting: How to Leverage Your Existing Marketing Programs and Content to Enable Your Sales Team Christopher Penn @cspenn Co-Founder, Trust Insights Presenting: AI for Marketing: Specific Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Enhance Your Marketing Campaigns Presenting: How AI Will Change Content Marketing Forever Lee Odden @leeodden CEO, TopRank Marketing Presenting: Content Marketing Fitness - 10 Exercises to Build Your Marketing Beach Body Presenting: How to Develop a B2B Influencer Marketing Program That Actually Works Heidi Cohen @heidicohen Chief Content Officer, Actionable Marketing Guide Presenting: The Continuous Content Distribution Playbook: How To Keep Your Best Content Visible and Viable While Saving Your Sanity Jay Baer @jaybaer Founder, Convince & Convert Presenting: Mouth Moves: How to Conquer the New Frontier of Voice Content, Alexa, and Smart Speakers Brian Fanzo @iSocialFanz Millennial Keynote Speaker, iSocialFanz Presenting: Press The Damn Button: How To Stand-Out From the Bad News and Fake News On Social Media Michael Brenner @BrennerMichael Keynote Speaker, Author & CEO, Marketing Insider Group Presenting: Content Marketing 101: Setting and Documenting Your Strategy and Building Your Team Andy Crestodina @crestodina Principal, Strategic Director, Orbit Media Presenting: Asking the Right Questions: How to Use Original Research for Valuable Content That Drives Business Results Presenting: How to Analyze Content Performance Using Google Analytics: From Basics to Advanced Presenting: Maximize the Value of Your Google Analytics Ian Anderson Gray @iagdotme Founder, Seriously Social Presenting: Strategies, Tools and Techniques to Level Up Your Impact and Authority Through Confident Live Video Christoph Trappe @CTrappe Chief Content Officer, AC Business Media Presenting: Publishing Forum: How Publishers Use Content Marketing to Monetize Their Audiences Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy CEO, Express Writers Presenting: A Masterclass on Creating & Publishing Authority-Building SEO Blogs Bernie Borges @bernieborges CMO, Vengreso Presenting: Why You Need Content for Effective Sales Enablement Viveka Von Rosen @LinkedInExpert Chief Visibility Officer, Vengreso Presenting: A Whole New World - Reanimating your Desiccated Company Page on LinkedIn: Building Your Brand, Encouraging Employee Advocacy and Inviting Engagement with LinkedIn Pages. Ann Handley @MarketingProfs Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs Presenting: What Do We Want? CONTENT. When Do We Want It? ASAP. Your Strategic Approach to Sane + Sustainable Success Erika Heald @SFerika Consultant, Erika Heald Consulting Presenting: Community Rx: The Proper Care and Feeding for a Highly Successful Online Community Presenting: How to Define and Document Your Brand Voice Dennis Shiao @dshiao Marketing Consultant, Dennis Shiao Consulting Presenting: Community Rx: The Proper Care and Feeding for a Highly Successful Online Community Drew McLellan @DrewMcLellan Ad Agency Owner & Consultant, Agency Management Institute Presenting: Agency Edge 2019: How and Why Clients Around the World Choose Their Agencies Robert Rose @Robert_Rose Chief Strategy Advisor, Content Marketing Institute Presenting: Welcome to Content Marketing World 2019 Presenting: Content Marketing Strategy For Agencies – How To Create, As Well as Deliver, Content Marketing Strategy To Clients Presenting: Technology Forum A. Lee Judge @ALeeJudge Global Digital Marketing Manager, Hexagon Geosystems Presenting: Content Marketing for the Robots (Search Engine Marketing) Andrea Fryrear @AndreaFryrear President and Lead Trainer, AgileSherpas Presenting: Failure is Feedback: How to Succeed at Agile Marketing by NOT Doing These Things Andrew Pickering & Pete Gartland @AndrewAndPete Co-Founders, Andrew and Pete Presenting: The Secret Rule for Getting Massive Content Marketing Results in a Fraction of the Time Katie Martell @KatieMartell Executive Director, Boston Content Presenting: Trust Fail: How Brands Can Earn Back the Trust of Skeptical Buyers Tom Martin @TomMartin President, Converse Digital Presenting: Turning Conversations Into Customers Jay Acunzo @jayacunzo Founder, Marketing Showrunners Presenting: Creativity Impossible: How to Avoid Stagnation and Consistently Exceed Expectations Juntae DeLane @JuntaeDeLane Founder, Ditgital Branding Institute Presenting: Why Your Brand Works In The “Real World” But Fails When Online Cathy McPhillips @cmcphillips Vice President of Marketing, Content Marketing Institute Presenting: Getting the Most From CMWorld 2019 George Stenitzer @GeorgeStenitzer Founder & Chief Content Officer, Crystal Clear Communications Presenting: How to Use AI to Unlock Secrets Inside Questions Matt Heinz @HeinzMarketing President, Heinz Marketing Inc Presenting: Customer Engagement Benchmarks: How Today’s Top B2B Brands Increase Action, Intimacy, Conversion & Loyalty Scott Monty @ScottMonty CEO & Principal, Scott Monty Strategies Presenting: Curate Your Way to More Subscribers Kristina Halvorson @halvorson CEO, Brain Traffic Presenting: How to Conquer Content Chaos Donna Moritz @SociallySorted Visual Content Strategist & Founder, Socially Sorted Presenting: Travel/Tourism/Hospitality Forum - The World's Biggest Visual Content Team: How to Leverage Key Visual Storytellers, Strategies and Tools to Better Manage and Share Your Destination Experiences Kathy Klotz-Guest @kathyklotzguest Founder, Keeping It Human Presenting: 185 Comics Walk into a Storytelling Bar… Tom Augenthaler @taugenthaler Consultant, 551 Media LLC Presenting: What the ... Influencer Marketing! Amy Higgins @amywhiggins Content Strategist, Salesforce Presenting: Charting the Course to a Career in Content Marketing Joe Lazauskas @JoeLazauskas Head of Marketing, Contently Presenting: The Content Marketer of the Future: 5 Big Traits You Need to Thrive in the Coming Marketing Revolution Aaron Orendorff @AaronOrendorff Founder, iconiContent Presenting: How Connecting Content and Commerce Is the Future (And Can Drive 1,447% B2C Growth) Arnie Kuenn @ArnieK Founder & CEO, Vertical Measures Presenting: Should You Fire Your Chief Marketing Officer? My Farewell Gift Learned From 13+ Years of Being CEO of a Digital Agency Leslie Carruthers @LeslieCarruther President, The Search Guru Presenting: Retail & eCommerce Forum Berrak Sarikaya @BerrakBiz Integrated Marketing Specialist, Yesler Presenting: So You Think You Want to Start an Online Community? What to Know Before You Open the Doors Joe Pulizzi @JoePulizzi Founder, Content Marketing Institute Presenting: Getting the Most From CMWorld 2019 Presenting: Keynote - MKTG 2030 Ardath Albee @ardath421 CEO, Marketing Interactions, Inc. Presenting: Personalization that Drives Profitable Engagement: Activate, Don’t Alienate Andrew Davis @DrewDavisHere Author, Brandscaping & Town, INC. Presenting: Loyalty Loop: How Small Content Adds Up to Big Business Presenting: Video Marketing Makeover: Transforming Boring Case Studies and Testimonials Into Stories That Inspire Action Ashley Zeckman @azeckman Senior Director of Agency Marketing, TopRank Marketing Presenting: Guardians of Content Vol 1: How to Scale B2B Influencer Content to Save the Galaxy Amber Naslund @AmberCadabra Senior Content Marketing Evangelist, LinkedIn Presenting: Disrupting Thought Leadership: What It Really Takes To Create a Personal Content Platform That Works Ian Cleary @IanCleary Founder, RazorSocial Presenting: A Strategic Step-By-Step Approach to Drive More Traffic and Conversions From Your Existing Content Presenting: Content Optimization & Distribution Strategies Amy Balliett @AmyBalliett Founder and CEO, Killer Visual Strategies Presenting: How to Achieve a 70% Conversion Rate Using Interactive Content John Hall @johnhall Co-Founder and President, Calendar.com Presenting: Maximize Your Time To Focus On What's Most Important For Your Company's ROI Buddy Scalera @BuddyScalera Associate Director, Social Media Safeguarding and Solutions, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Company Presenting: We Can Do Better: How to Be a More Effective Marketing Professional Marcus Sheridan @TheSalesLion Keynote Speaker, Author and Partner, IMPACT Presenting: The Perfect Content Marketing Organization: 7 Essential Qualities of the World's Most Successful Content Marketing Companies Amanda Todorovich @amandatodo Content Marketing Director, Cleveland Clinic Presenting: How to Transform Your Corporate Blog into an Owned MEDIA Platform Presenting: #CMWorld Cleveland Clinic Health Summit

Spread the Content Marketing Wisdom & Love

Statistical analysis, no matter how deep and well-researched, can only go so far in finding the people who you'll find the most helpful and influential in your daily professional marketing lives, which is why we'd love it if you'd please share the name of content marketers that influence you most in the comments section below. To further your own content marketing expertise, here's a bonus list of some of our best recent posts about content marketing:

Your Interactive Guide to Creating Showstopping Content with Insights From Top #CMWorld Speakers

Wow Your Crowd: The Recipe for Creating Exceptional Content Experiences

How Influencers and Media Integrations Can Add Pizzazz to Your Content Act

Content Marketing Interview: Margaret Magnarelli on Applying Journalistic Integrity to Content Strategy #CMWorld

How Content Marketers Can Create Powerful Audience Connections

How Content Planning Sets the Stage for Unforgettable Experiences

Content Marketing Planning: How to Build Your Editorial Calendar

Cooked to Strategic Perfection: The Layers of a Deliciously Integrated Content Marketing Lasagna

How to Refocus on Your Audience for Better Content Marketing Results

If you'd like to learn more about creating a successful B2B influencer marketing campaign and boosting your content marketing fitness, you're in luck! Both our CEO Lee Odden and senior director of digital strategy Ashley Zeckman will be presenting at Content Marketing World on the topics. Here are the details: Tuesday, September 3th – 1:00pm – 4:00pm Workshop with Lee Odden & Amisha Gandhi, vice president of influencer marketing and communications at SAP Ariba How to Develop a B2B Influencer Marketing Program That Actually Works Wednesday, September 4th – 2:00pm – 2:45pm Solo Presentation with Lee Odden Content Marketing Fitness – 10 Exercises to Build Your Marketing Beach Body Friday, September 6th – 8:00am – 8:45am Solo Presentation with Ashley Zeckman Guardians of Content Vol 1: How to Scale B2B Influencer Content to Save the Galaxy Along with our TopRank Marketing teammates Kelly Hogan, Susan Misukanis, and Joshua Nite, we hope to see you at the Content Marketing World conference. Check out what we're looking forward to most at CMWorld and be sure to follow us on Twitter at @toprank for real time updates during the conference and this blog for live-blogging coverage of select presentations.

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50 Content Marketing Influencers and Experts to Follow 2019

Content Marketing World 2019 is upon us. As the largest content marketing conference in the world, CMWorld brings together a stellar array of talented professionals who are filled with curiosity for future trends, marketing knowledge, and aspirations for new successes. For the past 11 years leading marketers from all over the world have gathered in Cleveland, Ohio for one of the world's strongest content marketing event, and this year is set to be the biggest and best yet. Readers of our blog know we have a long history with the conference starting at the beginning, with nine years of speaking and attending along with seven years of partnering with the Content Marketing Institute to develop speaker and influencer content marketing campaigns. Our partnership resulted in a interactive digital experience filled with show-stopping insights from top marketers who will be taking the stage this week. If you haven't yet experienced it, have a look here: Another TopRank Marketing tradition that has been imitated in recent years but never truly duplicated, is our annual list of content marketing experts ranked according to their social influence, a helpful compilation derived from the excellent 200-plus #CMWorld speakers. List Methodology: For this list we utilize the Traackr influencer marketing platform to filter the content marketing experts who are speaking at the current year's Content Marketing World conference using a large number of criteria including the relevance of the individuals to the topic, the degree to which their networks engage, the size of their networks, and other factors. Online data is pulled from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SlideShare, Flickr and other platforms. The focus topic in question is most definitely "content marketing," and everyone included on this list is:

A speaker at #CMWorld 2019

Ranked in the top-50 for "content marketing" according to relevance, resonance, reach and audience metrics

People always thank me for including them in these lists and there's no thanks to be given other than to the people who worked hard sharing useful knowledge about content marketing to their social channels, in blogs, videos, and online in general. Many thanks go to ALL the people who are actively sharing knowledge about content marketing by engaging and helping others with helpful opinions, insights and expertise on the social web. This list is only a starting point to help expand your content marketing universe. In this year's list there are familiar faces and quite a few new entries. We plan to learn new lessons from these 50 content marketing influencers and hope you’ll do the same throughout the year and into 2020.

50 Content Marketing Influencers Speaking at CMWorld 2019

BIG congratulations to Pam Didner for the top spot and to the other three in the top spots: Christopher Penn, our CEO Lee Odden, and Heidi Cohen. Congrats AGAIN to Ann Handley for being the Most Engaging Content Marketing Influencer out of this year's group of speakers, based on Traackr's analysis. Pam Didner @PamDidner Author, Effective Sales Enablement Presenting: 5 Creative Ways Content Marketers Can Better Support Their Sales Team Presenting: How to Leverage Your Existing Marketing Programs and Content to Enable Your Sales Team Christopher Penn @cspenn Co-Founder, Trust Insights Presenting: AI for Marketing: Specific Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Enhance Your Marketing Campaigns Presenting: How AI Will Change Content Marketing Forever Lee Odden @leeodden CEO, TopRank Marketing Presenting: Content Marketing Fitness - 10 Exercises to Build Your Marketing Beach Body Presenting: How to Develop a B2B Influencer Marketing Program That Actually Works Heidi Cohen @heidicohen Chief Content Officer, Actionable Marketing Guide Presenting: The Continuous Content Distribution Playbook: How To Keep Your Best Content Visible and Viable While Saving Your Sanity Jay Baer @jaybaer Founder, Convince & Convert Presenting: Mouth Moves: How to Conquer the New Frontier of Voice Content, Alexa, and Smart Speakers Brian Fanzo @iSocialFanz Millennial Keynote Speaker, iSocialFanz Presenting: Press The Damn Button: How To Stand-Out From the Bad News and Fake News On Social Media Michael Brenner @BrennerMichael Keynote Speaker, Author & CEO, Marketing Insider Group Presenting: Content Marketing 101: Setting and Documenting Your Strategy and Building Your Team Andy Crestodina @crestodina Principal, Strategic Director, Orbit Media Presenting: Asking the Right Questions: How to Use Original Research for Valuable Content That Drives Business Results Presenting: How to Analyze Content Performance Using Google Analytics: From Basics to Advanced Presenting: Maximize the Value of Your Google Analytics Ian Anderson Gray @iagdotme Founder, Seriously Social Presenting: Strategies, Tools and Techniques to Level Up Your Impact and Authority Through Confident Live Video Christoph Trappe @CTrappe Chief Content Officer, AC Business Media Presenting: Publishing Forum: How Publishers Use Content Marketing to Monetize Their Audiences Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy CEO, Express Writers Presenting: A Masterclass on Creating & Publishing Authority-Building SEO Blogs Bernie Borges @bernieborges CMO, Vengreso Presenting: Why You Need Content for Effective Sales Enablement Viveka Von Rosen @LinkedInExpert Chief Visibility Officer, Vengreso Presenting: A Whole New World - Reanimating your Desiccated Company Page on LinkedIn: Building Your Brand, Encouraging Employee Advocacy and Inviting Engagement with LinkedIn Pages. Ann Handley @MarketingProfs Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs Presenting: What Do We Want? CONTENT. When Do We Want It? ASAP. Your Strategic Approach to Sane + Sustainable Success Erika Heald @SFerika Consultant, Erika Heald Consulting Presenting: Community Rx: The Proper Care and Feeding for a Highly Successful Online Community Presenting: How to Define and Document Your Brand Voice Dennis Shiao @dshiao Marketing Consultant, Dennis Shiao Consulting Presenting: Community Rx: The Proper Care and Feeding for a Highly Successful Online Community Drew McLellan @DrewMcLellan Ad Agency Owner & Consultant, Agency Management Institute Presenting: Agency Edge 2019: How and Why Clients Around the World Choose Their Agencies Robert Rose @Robert_Rose Chief Strategy Advisor, Content Marketing Institute Presenting: Welcome to Content Marketing World 2019 Presenting: Content Marketing Strategy For Agencies – How To Create, As Well as Deliver, Content Marketing Strategy To Clients Presenting: Technology Forum A. Lee Judge @ALeeJudge Global Digital Marketing Manager, Hexagon Geosystems Presenting: Content Marketing for the Robots (Search Engine Marketing) Andrea Fryrear @AndreaFryrear President and Lead Trainer, AgileSherpas Presenting: Failure is Feedback: How to Succeed at Agile Marketing by NOT Doing These Things Andrew Pickering & Pete Gartland @AndrewAndPete Co-Founders, Andrew and Pete Presenting: The Secret Rule for Getting Massive Content Marketing Results in a Fraction of the Time Katie Martell @KatieMartell Executive Director, Boston Content Presenting: Trust Fail: How Brands Can Earn Back the Trust of Skeptical Buyers Tom Martin @TomMartin President, Converse Digital Presenting: Turning Conversations Into Customers Jay Acunzo @jayacunzo Founder, Marketing Showrunners Presenting: Creativity Impossible: How to Avoid Stagnation and Consistently Exceed Expectations Juntae DeLane @JuntaeDeLane Founder, Ditgital Branding Institute Presenting: Why Your Brand Works In The “Real World” But Fails When Online Cathy McPhillips @cmcphillips Vice President of Marketing, Content Marketing Institute Presenting: Getting the Most From CMWorld 2019 George Stenitzer @GeorgeStenitzer Founder & Chief Content Officer, Crystal Clear Communications Presenting: How to Use AI to Unlock Secrets Inside Questions Matt Heinz @HeinzMarketing President, Heinz Marketing Inc Presenting: Customer Engagement Benchmarks: How Today’s Top B2B Brands Increase Action, Intimacy, Conversion & Loyalty Scott Monty @ScottMonty CEO & Principal, Scott Monty Strategies Presenting: Curate Your Way to More Subscribers Kristina Halvorson @halvorson CEO, Brain Traffic Presenting: How to Conquer Content Chaos Donna Moritz @SociallySorted Visual Content Strategist & Founder, Socially Sorted Presenting: Travel/Tourism/Hospitality Forum - The World's Biggest Visual Content Team: How to Leverage Key Visual Storytellers, Strategies and Tools to Better Manage and Share Your Destination Experiences Kathy Klotz-Guest @kathyklotzguest Founder, Keeping It Human Presenting: 185 Comics Walk into a Storytelling Bar… Tom Augenthaler @taugenthaler Consultant, 551 Media LLC Presenting: What the ... Influencer Marketing! Amy Higgins @amywhiggins Content Strategist, Salesforce Presenting: Charting the Course to a Career in Content Marketing Joe Lazauskas @JoeLazauskas Head of Marketing, Contently Presenting: The Content Marketer of the Future: 5 Big Traits You Need to Thrive in the Coming Marketing Revolution Aaron Orendorff @AaronOrendorff Founder, iconiContent Presenting: How Connecting Content and Commerce Is the Future (And Can Drive 1,447% B2C Growth) Arnie Kuenn @ArnieK Founder & CEO, Vertical Measures Presenting: Should You Fire Your Chief Marketing Officer? My Farewell Gift Learned From 13+ Years of Being CEO of a Digital Agency Leslie Carruthers @LeslieCarruther President, The Search Guru Presenting: Retail & eCommerce Forum Berrak Sarikaya @BerrakBiz Integrated Marketing Specialist, Yesler Presenting: So You Think You Want to Start an Online Community? What to Know Before You Open the Doors Joe Pulizzi @JoePulizzi Founder, Content Marketing Institute Presenting: Getting the Most From CMWorld 2019 Presenting: Keynote - MKTG 2030 Ardath Albee @ardath421 CEO, Marketing Interactions, Inc. Presenting: Personalization that Drives Profitable Engagement: Activate, Don’t Alienate Andrew Davis @DrewDavisHere Author, Brandscaping & Town, INC. Presenting: Loyalty Loop: How Small Content Adds Up to Big Business Presenting: Video Marketing Makeover: Transforming Boring Case Studies and Testimonials Into Stories That Inspire Action Ashley Zeckman @azeckman Senior Director of Agency Marketing, TopRank Marketing Presenting: Guardians of Content Vol 1: How to Scale B2B Influencer Content to Save the Galaxy Amber Naslund @AmberCadabra Senior Content Marketing Evangelist, LinkedIn Presenting: Disrupting Thought Leadership: What It Really Takes To Create a Personal Content Platform That Works Ian Cleary @IanCleary Founder, RazorSocial Presenting: A Strategic Step-By-Step Approach to Drive More Traffic and Conversions From Your Existing Content Presenting: Content Optimization & Distribution Strategies Amy Balliett @AmyBalliett Founder and CEO, Killer Visual Strategies Presenting: How to Achieve a 70% Conversion Rate Using Interactive Content John Hall @johnhall Co-Founder and President, Calendar.com Presenting: Maximize Your Time To Focus On What's Most Important For Your Company's ROI Buddy Scalera @BuddyScalera Associate Director, Social Media Safeguarding and Solutions, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Company Presenting: We Can Do Better: How to Be a More Effective Marketing Professional Marcus Sheridan @TheSalesLion Keynote Speaker, Author and Partner, IMPACT Presenting: The Perfect Content Marketing Organization: 7 Essential Qualities of the World's Most Successful Content Marketing Companies Amanda Todorovich @amandatodo Content Marketing Director, Cleveland Clinic Presenting: How to Transform Your Corporate Blog into an Owned MEDIA Platform Presenting: #CMWorld Cleveland Clinic Health Summit

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Statistical analysis, no matter how deep and well-researched, can only go so far in finding the people who you'll find the most helpful and influential in your daily professional marketing lives, which is why we'd love it if you'd please share the name of content marketers that influence you most in the comments section below. To further your own content marketing expertise, here's a bonus list of some of our best recent posts about content marketing:

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Content Marketing Interview: Margaret Magnarelli on Applying Journalistic Integrity to Content Strategy #CMWorld

How Content Marketers Can Create Powerful Audience Connections

How Content Planning Sets the Stage for Unforgettable Experiences

Content Marketing Planning: How to Build Your Editorial Calendar

Cooked to Strategic Perfection: The Layers of a Deliciously Integrated Content Marketing Lasagna

How to Refocus on Your Audience for Better Content Marketing Results

If you'd like to learn more about creating a successful B2B influencer marketing campaign and boosting your content marketing fitness, you're in luck! Both our CEO Lee Odden and senior director of digital strategy Ashley Zeckman will be presenting at Content Marketing World on the topics. Here are the details: Tuesday, September 3th – 1:00pm – 4:00pm Workshop with Lee Odden & Amisha Gandhi, vice president of influencer marketing and communications at SAP Ariba How to Develop a B2B Influencer Marketing Program That Actually Works Wednesday, September 4th – 2:00pm – 2:45pm Solo Presentation with Lee Odden Content Marketing Fitness – 10 Exercises to Build Your Marketing Beach Body Friday, September 6th – 8:00am – 8:45am Solo Presentation with Ashley Zeckman Guardians of Content Vol 1: How to Scale B2B Influencer Content to Save the Galaxy Along with our TopRank Marketing teammates Kelly Hogan, Susan Misukanis, and Joshua Nite, we hope to see you at the Content Marketing World conference. Check out what we're looking forward to most at CMWorld and be sure to follow us on Twitter at @toprank for real time updates during the conference and this blog for live-blogging coverage of select presentations.

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Make Time for These Six CMWorld Speakers

Yay! You’ve registered for Content Marketing World. (You did sign up, right?) You’re taking time off for a little professional development. Cancel your meetings and draft your out of office message.

Now, let’s fill up that calendar.

Wait, what? Didn’t I just say to clear your schedule?

Stay with me. With 17 workshops, over 30 tracks, and several day-long forums and labs, the CMWorld agenda is jam packed. Given your interests, role, and existing expertise, where will you spend your time? There are hard decisions to be made. It’s a good idea to choose in advance so you don’t find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place when you arrive.

When you’re plotting your conference schedule, take a look at the CMWorld agenda. There, you can search sessions by day, track, and speaker. Once you find a presentation you’d like to attend, add it to your schedule on the app. (This doesn’t guarantee you a seat in the session, but it’s a good visual way of laying out your game plan.)

Need a few suggestions for each day you’re in Cleveland? Want to know what you can expect? We asked speakers to brief us on their workshops and sessions. Here are a few you may want to add to your calendar.

Tuesday Andy Crestodina

Tuesday Pam Didner

Wednesday morning Arnie Kuenn

Wednesday afternoon Annalisa Nash Fernandez

Thursday morning A Lee Judge

Thursday afternoon Viveka von Rosen

Let’s be honest. Nothing is written in orange ink. You can always rearrange your agenda. It’s your calendar and your time. But a little planning can go a long way. Still haven’t found quite what you’re looking for? Need a few more session recommendations? Here are five more CMWorld speakers to watch.

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Make Time for These Six CMWorld Speakers

Yay! You’ve registered for Content Marketing World. (You did sign up, right?) You’re taking time off for a little professional development. Cancel your meetings and draft your out of office message.

Now, let’s fill up that calendar.

Wait, what? Didn’t I just say to clear your schedule?

Stay with me. With 17 workshops, over 30 tracks, and several day-long forums and labs, the CMWorld agenda is jam packed. Given your interests, role, and existing expertise, where will you spend your time? There are hard decisions to be made. It’s a good idea to choose in advance so you don’t find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place when you arrive.

When you’re plotting your conference schedule, take a look at the CMWorld agenda. There, you can search sessions by day, track, and speaker. Once you find a presentation you’d like to attend, add it to your schedule on the app. (This doesn’t guarantee you a seat in the session, but it’s a good visual way of laying out your game plan.)

Need a few suggestions for each day you’re in Cleveland? Want to know what you can expect? We asked speakers to brief us on their workshops and sessions. Here are a few you may want to add to your calendar.

Tuesday Andy Crestodina

Tuesday Pam Didner

Wednesday morning Arnie Kuenn

Wednesday afternoon Annalisa Nash Fernandez

Thursday morning A Lee Judge

Thursday afternoon Viveka von Rosen

Let’s be honest. Nothing is written in orange ink. You can always rearrange your agenda. It’s your calendar and your time. But a little planning can go a long way. Still haven’t found quite what you’re looking for? Need a few more session recommendations? Here are five more CMWorld speakers to watch.

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Make Time for These Six CMWorld Speakers

Yay! You’ve registered for Content Marketing World. (You did sign up, right?) You’re taking time off for a little professional development. Cancel your meetings and draft your out of office message.

Now, let’s fill up that calendar.

Wait, what? Didn’t I just say to clear your schedule?

Stay with me. With 17 workshops, over 30 tracks, and several day-long forums and labs, the CMWorld agenda is jam packed. Given your interests, role, and existing expertise, where will you spend your time? There are hard decisions to be made. It’s a good idea to choose in advance so you don’t find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place when you arrive.

When you’re plotting your conference schedule, take a look at the CMWorld agenda. There, you can search sessions by day, track, and speaker. Once you find a presentation you’d like to attend, add it to your schedule on the app. (This doesn’t guarantee you a seat in the session, but it’s a good visual way of laying out your game plan.)

Need a few suggestions for each day you’re in Cleveland? Want to know what you can expect? We asked speakers to brief us on their workshops and sessions. Here are a few you may want to add to your calendar.

Tuesday Andy Crestodina

Tuesday Pam Didner

Wednesday morning Arnie Kuenn

Wednesday afternoon Annalisa Nash Fernandez

Thursday morning A Lee Judge

Thursday afternoon Viveka von Rosen

Let’s be honest. Nothing is written in orange ink. You can always rearrange your agenda. It’s your calendar and your time. But a little planning can go a long way. Still haven’t found quite what you’re looking for? Need a few more session recommendations? Here are five more CMWorld speakers to watch.

  from https://www.contentmarketingworld.com/make-time-for-these-six-cmworld-speakers/

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Director and co-writer GORDON GREENBERG, and co-writer STEVE ROSEN, discuss DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS

Currently at the New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City is DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, a pansexual GenZ Count Dracula is in the midst of an existential crisis. When he sets his sights on the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt, he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colorful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Percy Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum.

(LtoR) Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jordan Boatman, James Daly, Ellen harvey and Arnie Burton in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, is directed and co-written by Gordon Greenberg, and co-written by Steve Rosen. GREENBERG laid the foundation of for his craft at Stanford, NYU Film, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ROSEN attended NYU/Tisch. The duo has worked together on several projects including on the musical adaptation of “The Secret of My Success,” “Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show,” and “Crime and Punishment - a Comedy.” Between the two of them, their awards are so numerous it would compromise the mantel they rest upon. I recently had the pleasure to chat with them about their collaboration on the hilarious off-Broadway production of DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS.

(LtoR) Playwrights STEVE ROSEN and GORDON GREENBERG. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. Photo by Maria Baranova.

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS is now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement through January 7 at New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City, thru January 7th, 2024. Vist www.DraculaComedy.com for more information and tickets.

The music heard in the background during this segment is an original composition by Victoria “Toy” Deiorio who composed some of the original music and did the sound design for DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS .

PART 2 with GORDON GREENBERG & STEVE ROSEN - Listen Here.

Read Our Review of DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS - HERE

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Earl Thomas injury could have ripple effects in Pittsburgh

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Earl Thomas injury could have ripple effects in Pittsburgh

Any hope of recalcitrant running back Le’Veon Bell returning to the field in the black and gold — or any other team’s colors — any time soon took a major hit when Seattle star safety Earl Thomas broke his lower left leg, illustrating the dangers of playing without the security of a long-term deal.

Thomas and Bell each held out this summer, but while Bell continued to work out on his own, Thomas returned to the Seahawks in time for the season opener without a trade or a new contract in hand.,

That move didn’t pay off financially or otherwise.

He got hurt in a game at Arizona, and when he was carted off the field at State Farm Stadium, he raised his middle finger toward the Seahawks’ sideline.

“Earl wanted an extension and at the end of the day he didn’t get that,” Seahawks defensive end Frank Clark said. “It sucks to see a guy who puts his heart into something, put his all into his team and he doesn’t get what he deserves.”

Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner said in an Instagram post, “If he doesn’t come then he’s not a team player. If he does come and gets hurt, then it’s ‘he shouldn’t have came.’ If I was him, I’d be (ticked) off.”

ESPN posted the quote and a photo of Thomas’ obscene gesture, and that’s when Bell chimed in , suggesting he wouldn’t be back on the field anytime soon.

“Smh, exactly …” wrote Bell. “Get right bro bro (Earl Thomas)! I’ll continue to be the ‘bad guy’ for ALL of us.”

Bell has refused to sign his $14.54 million one-year tender, concerned that he’d get overused in a contract year, either subjecting him to the risk of injury or to a devaluation of his talents.

NFL Network reported earlier Sunday that the Steelers were shopping Bell.

Trading him is a tricky proposition because Bell would have to first sign his tender. Because he can’t negotiate a long-term deal until after this season, he’d still be taking on the injury risk with a new team.

Bell can return in Week 10 and still accrue a full season to become a free agent in March.

Other takeaways from Week 4 include a fourth-down gamble that backfired on Colts coach Frank Reich, the “Big Four” rookie QBs going 0-4 Sunday after the hype meter cranked up to high last week and the Ravens tricking the Steelers and the officials on a trick play in their 26-14 win over Pittsburgh.

FIT TO BE TIED

Reich earned kudos from both his players and the Texans for his decision to go for it on fourth-and-4 from his 43 with 27 seconds left in overtime rather than punt, bury Houston deep and settle for the NFL’s third tie game.

“We’re not playing to tie,” Reich insisted after his decision led to a 37-34 overtime loss instead. “We’re going for that 10 times out of 10. That (play) has just got to work.”

It didn’t.

With his favorite target, T.Y. Hilton, on the sideline with a hamstring injury and a short week ahead with the New England Patriots on tap Thursday night, Andrew Luck bounced his pass to Chester Rogers.

The Texans took over and Ka’imi Fairbairn missed a 37-yard field goal as overtime expired. But wait! In yet another call that backfired, Reich had called timeout.

Fairbairn nailed the do-over to end the league’s longest losing streak at nine.

Reich’s only regret was calling timeout before the fourth-and-4 play after the Texans didn’t jump offside, he said.

Luck’s only lament was misfiring the pass, but he loved the bold call.

“It had my stamp of approval,” Luck said. “We did not execute well enough.”

COOL YOUR JETS

After a dominant debut against Detroit in the Jets’ opener, Sam Darnold has cooled off in three straight defeats, including a listless loss at Jacksonville on Sunday.

A week after being hailed as a hero for leading Cleveland to its first win since 2016 by rallying the Browns over the Jets in relief of an injured Tyrod Taylor, Baker Mayfield had four turnovers in his first NFL start, a 45-42 overtime loss to the Raiders.

Mayfield threw for 295 yards and two touchdowns but suffered a pick-6, got strip sacked, fumbled a snap and threw an interception in the final seconds of regulation.

“You don’t want to rein him in,” coach Hue Jackson said, “because I like the things he’s doing.”

Josh Rosen had a strong debut in his first start for Arizona but it wasn’t enough to keep the Cardinals from falling to 0-4 for the first time since 1986.

Josh Allen accounted for three turnovers in the Bills’ 22-0 loss at Green Bay a week after a stunning win at heavily favored Minnesota in his starting debut.

“I take this one on my shoulders,” Allen said. “We can only go as far as the quarterback goes.”

TRICK OR TREAT

Baltimore coach John Harbaugh was furious when the Patriots fooled the Ravens in the playoffs a few years ago with a trick play to an eligible receiver who looked like he was lined up as an offensive lineman.

The Ravens stole that idea from New England eight months later and unwrapped it again Sunday to fool the Steelers.

Tight end Maxx Williams lined up next to the center as the left guard but just far enough off the line of scrimmage to make himself an eligible receiver. He was wide open for a 22-yard gain that set up a field goal for a 23-14 lead.

Retired referee Terry McAulay, now an NBC Sports rules analyst, said Williams probably shouldn’t have been an eligible receiver on the play, but no flag was thrown.

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With contributions from AP Pro Football Writer Dennis Waszak Jr. and AP Sports Writer Michael Marot.

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Quarterbacks will dominate the 2018 NFL offseason

/February 8, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) —

Quarterbacks will rule the NFL’s offseason.

Beginning with Alex Smith going to Washington when the league’s new year starts next month and Jimmy Garoppolo agreeing to a record-breaking deal with San Francisco on Thursday , several quarterbacks will find new riches and many teams will land new QBs in 2018.

Tom Brady may have been denied another championship but not his coordinator, and some believe Josh McDaniels’ sudden change of heart this week in spurning the Indianapolis Colts was related to doubts about Andrew Luck’s health.

Either way, McDaniels is staying in New England to help the Patriots bounce back from their 41-33 loss to Philadelphia in Super Bowl 52 .

The Eagles aren’t just celebrating their first championship since 1960, but also an abundance of talent at the position in franchise QB Carson Wentz and Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles.

Should Wentz’s recovery from knee surgery go well, the Eagles will have a huge bargaining chip to help restock their roster.

Wentz’s injury rehab will be closely watched this offseason, just like Aaron Rodgers ‘ repaired collarbone in Green Bay and DeShaun Watson ‘s torn ACL in Houston.

Those teams figure to be contenders for Super Bowl 53 in Atlanta if their quarterbacks are healthy. A dozen other teams will either jockey for their next star or dole out big bucks to keep the one they have.

Kirk Cousins and Drew Brees lead an exceptionally large group of veteran quarterbacks lined up for big paydays and possibly new opportunities that includes the Minnesota Vikings’ trio of Teddy Bridgewater, Case Keenum and Sam Bradford.

Garoppolo, Brady’s longtime backup, got a five-year contract from the 49ers that will pay him a reported $137.5 million to keep him off the free-agent market without forcing the team to use the one-year franchise tag.

NFL Network first reported the terms of the contract, which is worth $27.5 million per season to top the previous record set by Detroit’s Matthew Stafford last year by $500,000 per year — but presumably will soon be surpassed by Brees or Cousins.

San Francisco acquired Garoppolo from New England before the trade deadline for a 2018 second-round pick. He led the 49ers to five straight wins to end the season, pushing his record as a starter to 7-0.

Teams that miss out on one of the prized free agents can look to the draft, which features Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, Lamar Jackson and Mason Rudolph.

The quarterback carousel began in the days before the Super Bowl when Kansas City agreed to trade Smith to the Redskins.

The deal, which cannot be finalized until March 14, spells the end of Cousins’ time in Washington and hands the Chiefs’ job to Patrick Mahomes III, the 10th pick in last year’s draft out of Texas Tech.

So, Smith, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 draft, moves on to his third team just as he’s coming off the best season of his 13-year career.

“I think Washington is getting a phenomenal player, a great leader,” Rodgers said last week while discussing the league’s current quarterback commotion.

“Now you’ve got Kirk Cousins, what’s going to happen with him? You’ve got probably five guys that are going to get drafted in the first round, Jimmy Garoppolo and his situation.

“There’s a lot of moving pieces.”

In the not-too-distant future, Rodgers could find himself one of them.

Rodgers, 34, has two years left on his contract and if he stays healthy in 2018, he’ll be in line for a mega payday that could obliterate any of the deals that will be signed.

Rodgers told the AP last week that he wants to play well into his 40s and might have to finish his career in another team’s uniform as Brett Favre did.

“I think you have to be humble enough to realize if it could happen to Brett, it can happen to you,” Rodgers said.

Among the teams looking for an upgrade are the Denver Broncos, who haven’t been back to the playoffs since Peyton Manning retired a champion two years ago.

Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller said he trusts general manager John Elway to fix that in the next few weeks: “We have a Hall of Fame quarterback running the show who’s going to get the right guy,” Miller said.

Miller has a tip for his GM, too.

“No disrespect to Trevor Siemian or Paxton Lynch, but I would love to play with Kirk Cousins,” Miller said. “When Peyton came to Denver, we just took off. Kirk’s an elite starter, too. I could roll with that.”

With eight trips to the Super Bowl and five rings, Brady is the gold standard of quarterbacks.

Yet, this time he was outdueled by Foles, who showed just how important it is for teams to also have depth at the position.

“To get in a shootout with that guy on the other team is probably not ideal for anyone — ever,” Eagles tight end Zach Ertz said. “The guy is the best quarterback to ever play the game. That team is phenomenal. They are coached amazingly.”

Yet, the Patriots were beaten by a journeyman QB who contemplated retirement not long ago after he kept losing his starting job with his employers in perpetual search of a better option.

Foles turned into a flawless fill-in after Wentz got hurt in December, stepping in to deliver Philadelphia its first Super Bowl title.

Foles has one year left on his two-year deal, and his Super Bowl performance bumped his name up on the long list of coveted quarterbacks.

“He’s amazing,” Ertz said. “The past three weeks he’s been playing out of his mind. People panicked when Carson went down. Nick, we had all the confidence in the world in him.”

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By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Pro Football Writer, By Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (Z.S)

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