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Laura Rutledge defends Sam Darnold over postgame confusion: 'Not what people thought it was'

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ESPN reporter Laura Rutledge has been in the middle of two separate awkward postgame interviews down the stretch of the NFL season. The first, after a last-second win by the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football in Week 14, came when Rutledge had to retrieve quarterback Justin Herbert from a crowd and push through a condensed set of questions. In that case, Rutledge explained that she felt bad for Herbert after a difficult game gutting t…
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Awful Announcing broke the news in on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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