Imagine passing on Cam Newton and Jameis Winston for $1M so you could give up a fourth-round pick for Nick Foles AND guarantee him $21M only to keep starting Mitchell Trubisky. GM of the Year, Ryan Pace.
#Bears
Not only is the AAF for the players, it’s also an avenue for writers. If I were an aspiring beat writer, I’d do all I can to pick a team and cover it to best of ability just like an NFL writer does; inactives, practice reports, notable news, etc. The league is a breeding ground.
DeAndre Hopkins wanted a raise. Bill O’Brien said no. And decided to trade an underpaid legit No. 1 WR for two of the worst contracts in football — David Johnson and Brandin Cooks — who are severely overpaid and major injury risks.
#Texans
#Redskins
have led the entire game in all 6 of their wins. They've trailed the entire game in all 3 of their losses. They have never experienced a lead change through 10 weeks.
Some personal news, today was my last day at Rotoworld. Not by choice, but
#budgetcuts
ripped through NBC Sports today. Blindsided. Was an incredible 11 years, but really looking forward to the change and whatever is next. I have no idea what that is, but totally here for it. 💯
Tough world out there right now, but today I signed the line and landed my dream job as a Firefighter/Paramedic. You can’t wipe the smile off my face & I am beyond excited to start the best career in the world.
Treylon Burks is lining up wrong and running the wrong routes this summer after not being able to pass the conditioning test in the spring. Seems to be well behind Robert Woods, Nick Westbrook-Ihkine and even fellow rookie Kyle Philips on the
#Titans
' WR depth chart.
The reach of fantasy football is incredible. Had beers with
@einarmar_
last night, who is a native of Iceland, and knew me from the
@Rotoworld_FB
podcast. He reached out to me when he heard I was going to be in Reykjavik. Watching NFL with him & his fantasy leaguemates tomorrow.
As a fellow medic, this is terrifying. 34 years old. I go back on the ambulance Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. It hasn't hit MO as hard obviously (yet), but the anxiety is there. We need PPE. Praying like hell Christell & others. Shame on those not taking this seriously.
FDNY EMS paramedic Christell Cadet ― who shared her coronavirus struggle with the world last week from her hospital bed ― is now unable to breathe comfortably on her own and has been hooked up to a ventilator. She is 34.
Anthony Causi’s last Instagram post from March 22 is an even bigger gut-punch now after he died of COVID-19 on Sunday. So brutal.
This virus can get ANYONE. RIP.
Booger McFarland getting exponentially worse by the week at a rapid rate after I initially believed he was the best of this MNF trio. Turns out, they're all brutal.
I did a thing. I’ve always dreamed of becoming a firefighter-paramedic, decided to finally act on it. Been a wild 20 months, but I graduated medic school last night. Know I’ve been kinda absent in the Twitterverse lately, but I’m done just in time for NFL season. 🤙🏽🍻
Feel bad for
#Raiders
players, but this organization deserves all it is getting after bringing this crusty old neanderthal out of the broadcast booth and making him the NFL's richest coach/GM. Guy won with another coach's players. A glorified Jeff Fisher because he has a ring.
As many know, I was among Rotoworld’s layoffs & am a full-time firefighter. Still wanting to do fantasy football/NFL, I’ve set up “Red Line Football”, a place I will write year-round, including my in-season Start ‘Em or Sit ‘Em. Thanks for reading. More:
Travis Etienne's usage through Week 5:
-82% of the
#Jaguars
' RB carries
-81% of the RB targets
League-best 26 broken tackles as a runner. Second to Christian McCaffrey in yards after contact. Up to the fantasy RB8 in points per game after his huge game in London vs. BUF.
Watched Game 7 in Lima. Then hiked 75 miles (121 km) through the mountains across 5 days to Machu Picchu, ALL for this view. Had to rep the Stanley Cup champion
@StLouisBlues
at the final destination.
Donte Moncrief really couldn't have dreamed up a much better landing spot than the
#Steelers
. Love this flier for the team and player. My snap-reaction thoughts:
Alex Collins looked so good last night. Especially as a pass-catcher. Didn't convert his goal-line carry, but he was blasting through arm tackles and not quitting on his touches. Every time he'd make a good play though, the
#Ravens
would send in Buck Allen. Frustrating.
Reason 1A why you get an offensive HC who calls his own plays: Other coach-needy teams are always coming to mine those staffs for their own coach. Much better to have a McVay, Reid, Nagy, Pederson, etc. who calls his own plays. Then don't have to install a new system every year.
Lamar Jackson still having issues throwing the football. Several of his passes "wobbled through the air" at first week of
#Ravens
OTAs. "I feel like my hand is a little too high on the football and that makes the ball go out of whack a lot," said Jackson:
Wish the
#Colts
could somehow pull off a trade for Odell Beckham. Would love to see him play 9-of-16 games on fast dome tracks (IND, HOU) with T.Y. Hilton in slot and Andrew Luck throwing it. Colts have most cap space in NFL and hold Nos. 26, 34, and 59 picks in draft.
Jadeveon Clowney is (far) better than both Frank Clark & Dee Ford. And Clark got the
#Seahawks
a first-round pick from the
#Chiefs
. And Ford brought the
#Chiefs
a second-rounder from the
#49ers
. The
#Texans
get a late third and two bum LBs for Clowney. Maybe hire a GM, dinguses.
Appearing on NFLN, Zach Ertz admitted his stats are going to take a hit. “Obviously, we’ve added a ton of weapons. DeSean Jackson. Miles Sanders. Dallas Goedert taking another step. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna have 116 catches again.” Good luck to those taking Ertz in Round 3.
#Rams
deal makes no sense. Should have just paid Watkins & kept the first-rounder. Now have to pay Cooks & lost first-rounder. Also don’t have a second-rounder. Rare bad move by them this offseason.
Mike Tannenbaum on ESPN’s Get Up just now said Tua Tagavailoa has “elite arm strength like Tom Brady and Philip Rivers.”
Those are two of the weakest arms in the NFL right now.
Brandin Cooks is 9 months older than 2018 WR prospect Calvin Ridley; 2 months older than Mike Williams; 6 months younger than Michael Thomas; 10 months younger than Josh Doctson.
Truly awesome knowing how many of you read and relied upon my Start Em/Sit Em over the years. Eye opening & makes it all worth it. Tried to be original & different but to the point. Weird not writing it right now tbh & I will honestly miss blurbing Player News the most.
What. Is. Happening?
Trump is giving COVID19 just 15 days of respect and is then just moving on with business as usual and "opening up our country"? This guy is totally insane.
@evansilva
Why would you when you can build this one:
QB Eli Manning
RB Saquon Barkley > Wayne Gallman
FB Elijhaa Penny
WR Sterling Shepard > Alonzo Russell
WR Corey Coleman > Jawill Davis
TE Evan Engram > Rhett Ellison
Per
@MMehtaNYDN
, "word on the street" is Le'Veon Bell ballooned to 260 pounds -- up from his playing weight of 225 -- during his year off from football:
Pretty wicked symptoms on Day 1 yesterday. Woke up middle of night with 102.5 fever, chills, body aches, headache, dry cough. Started with dizziness & lightheadedness during the day along with fatigue. Can confirm COVID-19 is, in fact,
#real
.
VP of player personnel Alonzo Highsmith said Josh Allen was last on the
#Browns
' board among the first-round QBs. It was between Darnold and Mayfield. Mayfield "blew the team away" off the field with his intelligence and competitiveness.
Impossible to find anything negative on Curtis Samuel. Even
#Bills
beat writers called Samuel's "footwork a treat to watch" in joint practices with BUF this week. Samuel has routinely dusted CBs Tre'Davious White & Levi Wallace over the last couple days:
Damien Williams gonna single-handedly sink teams in the semifinals tonight, huh. By the looks of Twitter, people THIRSTFULLY chasing those random 2 TDs last week.
#Chiefs