I wrote about one takeaway I had from every team in Week 1.
Welcome to the 20th century New Orleans
Sam Darnold is...good?
How dead are the Packers if Jordan Love sits?
Other stuff too Im sure
One lucky bettor under the user name NotRidley18 will cash out $5,000 after placing a +10000 bet on Calvin Ridley's next team to be the Jaguars seemingly less than 2 hours ago.
Charbonnet ran poorly last week (-12 rush yards over expectation) but had a 98% snap share and was the only RB to get a rush
Top 10ish workload for the next few weeks
Joe Burrow learned his season was over on Friday, understood his responsibility, and went out and held a news conference. The job of a QB and face of the franchise.
The bad news is that the Lions traded an electric back to the best front office in football for pennies on the dollar, but on the other hand, they did manage to spend a first-round pick on a similar player only to park him behind David Montgomery.
Saints have emerged as the front runners to sign former Raiders’ QB Derek Carr and an agreement could be reached as early as today, per league sources.
Former
#Titans
coach Mike Vrabel is at the
#Falcons
' facility today to interview for the head coaching job, per source.
So, Vrabel and Ejiro Evero with Atlanta today. Jim Harbaugh was, and still is, tentatively set for a second meeting Thursday, along with Bobby Slowik.
2020 RB rookie comps after 4 sad weeks
Taylor - rashaad penny with more carries
CEH - rashaad penny with also more carries
Dobbins - rashaad penny
Swift - rashaad penny but somehow maybe less carries
Akers - rashaad penny but injured so actually just rashaad penny
Jaxon Smith-Njigba aDOT by week:
1
2.3
4.3
5.8
7.4
The world's slowest train is leaving the world's longest station, but it is indeed moving in the right direction.
Leonard Fournette streaming COD to 0 viewers on a Twitch knockoff while withering away on the back of all of my best ball rosters is not how I saw the season going for me.
Two years ago I was a 5'7" ugly boy/man with no friends and a useless degree that I wasted four years of my life to acquire. I'm still literally all of those things but I've also accepted a full-time position at
@NBCSportsEdge
LFG!!!
The Pro Football Hall of Fame requested Xavier Worthy’s cleats and jersey from his record setting 4.21 second 40 time at the NFL Combine and Worthy obliged. Worthy’s Combine moment now will be memorialized in Canton, Ohio.
If you took all of Treylon Burk's receiving yards from screens away, he'd still be the only D1 receiver prospect who hunts wild boar with a knife and his dogs.
Devonta Smith's draft position heavily depends on the stadium he'll be playing in. Sub-170lbs, he could easily be swept away like a plastic bag or tumbleweed in a windy stadium. Detroit is indoors but we could lose Smith to the elements entirely in a winter storm at Green Bay.
Dianna Russini asked about Mike Vrabel on The Athletic Football Show:
"I don't think there was a fit for him. I don't think he sat in front of any owner who thought that his style was going to work for what they were looking for...I had a GM at the Senior Bowl who mentioned
Jaylen Warren Weeks 1-9:
45% snap share, 31% of the Steelers' carries, 14% target share
*announced as the starter for the first time*
Weeks 10-14:
47% snap share, 36% of the Steelers' carries, 13% target share
Kyren Williams leads all RBs in expected fantasy points per game, touches per game, and trails only Christian McCaffrey in fantasy points per game. He's 23 years old and has only played two seasons in the NFL. What's to stop me from ranking him as the RB1 overall in dynasty?
Kyren Williams, Zack Moss, Joshua Kelley, and Jerome Ford all went mostly undrafted in 12-team leagues
They’re all consensus top-20 RBs in Week 3
The only undrafted wide receiver inside the consensus top-20 WRs in Week 3 is Puka Nucua
After Puka, it’s Tutu Atwell at WR40
The comparison for Butker is not Tyreek Hill and Deshaun Watson. The comparison is Colin Kaepernick, player who was blackballed for expressing his political views.
But what they did to Kaepernick was wrong. Doing it to Butker would be just as wrong.
With Evan Engram and Irv Smith picking up injuries, Adam Trautman losing snaps to a UDFA converted WR, and Anthony Firkser playing in a TE by committee, I'd like to congratulate the Kelce drafters on making the playoffs again this year.
Call me crazy, but maybe the wide receiver who has two 1,400 yard seasons after two years may actually be a lot better than the 28 year old with one such season.
Before he was released, the
#AZCardinals
and TE Zach Ertz reached an agreement for him to give up one game check — this week’s — to facilitate the move, source said.
The thinking: Give up a check now, land with a contender… probably make it up in January.
Basically all of these are horrific but I would note that Tank Dell was almost exclusively subbed out on running plays. still logged a route rate if 87% and PFF actually had him with one more route than Nico Collins. Easy buy low. These other guys are screwed though.
#Ravens
HC John Harbaugh on which player he expects to make a leap in 2024:
“I think Rashod Bateman’s gonna take a big step… The ball’s gonna get to him a lot more next year.”
Harbaugh sports an 85% reliability rating on usage/workload coachspeak
We’ll be drafting a good
The new RB dead zone is the clear backup running back archetype who gets pumped up to the ninth round because someone from The Athletic doesn't know how to do fantasy projections.
If the Chargers are playing 5D chess, trading the Bears a WR knowing you’ll be moving back to the Vikings’ spot at 11 and now the Bears don’t need a WR so you get Rome Odunze at 11 is a great move.
The best running back to draft in every round:
RD1: CMC or bust
RD2: Nope
RD3: Achane
RD4: nuh uh
RD5: not on your life brother
RD6: keep walking pal
RD7: almost there
RD8: Jaylen Warren
RD9: did warren fall?
RD10: you missed the Warren zone
Drake Maye throwing to KJ Osborn and "Pop Douglas" while J.J. McCarthy gets Justin Jefferson + Jordan Addison and Caleb Williams gets DJ Moore, Keenan Allen, AND Rome Odunze.
This doesn’t help at all.
The “demon” didn’t just crush a single business, he put a black mark on an entire industry.
People who scream “rigged” when they lose now have something real to point at.
Spare everyone the tears for this guy, and the blaming a “demon” nonsense.
As someone who is financially invested in the success of Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard lapping him three times over in fantasy points is easily the funniest outcome.
Source: The
#Falcons
have been fined $75,000 and head coach Arthur Smith $25,000 for violating the NFL Injury Report Policy prior to the club’s Week 7 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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