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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Three decades ago, as Todd Bowles was winding up his final season as a defensive back at Temple, his young coach Bruce Arians had some advice.I actually told him: `I dont think youre going to be making it in the pros. You might want to start coaching, Arians recalled. He only played for about 11 years and got two Super Bowl rings.Actually, it was one Super Bowl ring in eight NFL seasons, but obviously, Bowles didnt take the advice.I had a broken wrist at the time and I couldnt do a pushup, he said. They told me Id have arthritis later on in life, and he was just being honest with me. At the time, I was too immature to probably realize he was being honest with me, but I realized that later on in life. But, I was hard-headed and wanted to play anyway.The two men grew to be great friends.It went from father-son to uncle-nephew to were almost like brothers now, Bowles said. Anything that he can help me with, he does. Anything I can help him with, I do. ... He taught me so much in life and in football. Words cant describe how I feel about him.The two will be on opposite sides of the field Monday night, when Bowles New York Jets face Arians Arizona Cardinals.Bowles was a team captain at Temple, one of the smartest players Ive ever seen, Arians said, and he seemed destined to be a coach.You knew right away because of the type of person he was and the type of player he was, Arians said, if and when he decided to coach, hed be a hell of a coach.Back in 1986, Bowles went undrafted, signed with the Washington Redskins, and played seven seasons there.Then came the coaching.Both men climbed through the ranks.Arians served as an assistant coach for 37 years. He was offensive coordinator with the Indianapolis Colts in 2013 when Chuck Pagano contracted leukemia and had to leave the team. Arians took over as interim coach, directed the Colts to an 8-2 record to become NFL Coach of the Year. At age 60, he was hired as head coach of the Cardinals.His first hire was Bowles as defensive coordinator.Bowles had come up the hard way, too. He spent two years in Green Bays player personnel department, had defensive coordinator gigs with Morehouse College and Grambling State before going to the NFL as defensive backs coach of the Jets in 2000.He and Arians were together on the staff of the Cleveland Browns for three seasons. From there, Arians went to the Pittsburgh Steelers, where he won two Super Bowl rings, before being forced out of the offensive coordinators job and going to Indianapolis.Bowles moved on to Dallas and Miami, where he served as interim head coach after the Dolphins fired Tony Sparano with three games left in the season.When Arians was hired in Arizona, Bowles was coming off a difficult season on Andy Reids staff in Philadelphia. Bowles began the year as secondary coach and was promoted to defensive coordinator when Juan Castillo was fired six games into the season. The Eagles finished 4-12 and Reid and his staff were out, just in time for Bowles to join his old friend and mentor in the desert.While Arians concentrated on the offense, Bowles took over the defense. He built an aggressive, blitzing unit and established a reputation for making the right adjustments at halftime.Arians was elated when Bowles got the Jets job.I take great pride in that phase of raising young coaches, Arians said. With the help of (Cardinals President) Michael (Bidwill), weve been able to start the Bidwill Fellowship program. Watching Daylon McCutcheon and Marcel Shipp (now Jets assistants) come here as interns and get full-time jobs.Bowles went to New York and the Jets were 10-6 in 2015, narrowly missing the playoffs. Arians Cardinals were 13-3 and made it to the NFC championship game.This year. both have had problems. The Jets are 1-4 and Arizona, expected to be a Super Bowl contender, is 2-3.Through it all, Bowles and Arians have kept in contact, mostly in the offseason, when Bowles has visited Arians lakeside retreat in Georgia. During the season, they still stay in touch.Well text back and forth, Arians said. Our wives talk more than we do, but Ill text him every other week or before games.The Jets slow start has put some pressure on Bowles in the media glare of New York. Bowles can take it, Arians said.Hes a Jersey guy and a Philly guy, Arians said. He doesnt get any tougher.---AP Sports Writer Dennis Waszak Jr. contributed to this report.---AP NFL website: Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! and Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . It was Kerbers third final of the year after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in Monterrey in April and to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic in Tokyo two weeks ago. 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NEW YORK -- The New York Rangers have signed free agent forwards Michael Grabner and Nathan Gerbe and defensemen Adam Clendening and Michael Paliotta.General manager Jeff Gorton announced the signings Friday as the Rangers used the opening day of free agency to improve their team speed and penalty killing and to add a little depth on defense.Grabner got a two-year contract worth $1.6 million annually while Gerbe got a one-year deal for $600,000. Clendening got a one-year, two-way contract that will pay him either $600,000 if he plays in the NHL or $300,000 in the AHL.Contract terms for Paliotta, who played last season in the AHL, were not available.Grabner played in a career-high 80 games with Toronto this past season, registering nine goals and nine assists. He ranked second among NHL forwards in short-handed ice time with 248 minutes, 29 seconds.The 28-year-old Austrian has skated in 397 career NHL games over parts of seven seasons with Vancouver, the Islanders and Toronto, registering 104 goals and 69 assists for 173 points. He is tied for fourth in the NHL in short-handed goals since the start of the 2010-11 with 12. Grabnerr has recorded at least 20 goals in a season twice in his career.ddddddddddddGerbe had three goals and four assists in 47 games with Carolina this past season. He has skated in 394 career NHL games over parts of eight seasons with Buffalo and Carolina, registering 58 goals and 80 assists. Gerbe has been on the ice for only 20 power play goals while logging 247:03 of short-handed ice time throughout his career.The Rangers finished 26th in the NHL on the penalty kill with a 78.2 percent rating.Clendening skated in 29 NHL games with Pittsburgh and Edmonton this past season with one goal and six assists. The 23-year-old has skated in 50 career NHL games over parts of two seasons (2014-15 and 2015-16) with Chicago, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, and Edmonton, registering two goals and nine assists.Paliotta, 23, skated in 68 games with the Lake Erie Monsters of the American Hockey League this past season, getting eight goals and 15 assists. He was drafted in the third round in 2011 and has played in two NHL games. ' ' '