🔵⚪️ | 🟢🟡 MIKE MCCARTHY HOSTS THE PACKERS
🔵🟡 | 🔵⚪️ MATTHEW STAFFORD RETURNS TO DETROIT
🔴🔵 | 🟠⚪️ TEXANS HOST BROWNS IN THE DESHAUN WATSON BOWL
Congrats to the NFL on an amazing script for the 2023 season! Great job all around, writers. Can’t wait to see how it ends!
@FieldYates
hey um field, not sure if you're aware, but there's no list here. it's just that you said there would be a list, and, well, there's no list.
AT THE HALF: Iowa 0, Northwestern 0
- 110 combined total yards
- 61 penalty yards
- 20.6 PPR fantasy points by all players combined
- Live over/under of 16.5
- Drive list: punt, punt, Missed FG, punt, INT, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, end of half
METS FANS: Watch the ESPN2 Statcast broadcast version, they’ll go more in-depth into players and it’ll feel more like SNY. It will also be stat-heavy and more catered for the superfan
My favorite NFL chaos scenario (still possible entering Monday):
- 9-way tie for 3 spots in AFC (Titans and Jags BOTH get in, + Raiders)
- 3-way tie for AFC 1 seed
- 5-way tie for 2 spots in NFC (Panthers and Bucs BOTH get in)
- 14 teams at 8-9 overall
- Only 8 teams over .500
@MikeSilvermanBB
@Buster_ESPN
owners: *lock out players one-sidedly*
players: *make an offer*
players: *make another offer*
owners:
owners:
owners:
owners:
players: “they’re not calling us back”
owners: “that’s not our fault”
I'm not telling you to watch Fantasy Football Now. But
@MatthewBerryTMR
has a Longshots segment where he picks largely-unrostered relative no-names to do well that week
W1: Scotty Miller 12.9 FPTS
W2: Mo Alie-Cox 16.1
W3: Andy Isabella 20.1
W4: Robert Tonyan 12.6 before halftime
Hi everyone! PLEASE watch the AL Wild Card game on ESPN2 and not ESPN.
We have a special Statcast, data-driven, research-heavy broadcast planned and I'm running the BottomLine coverage with lots of good nuggets included, including LIVE and updated content from the game itself!
You all wanted Thursday Night Football points, but you didn’t specify HOW those points had to come..
-Taysom Hill
-Keaontay Ingram
-Rashid Shaheed
-2 pick-sixes
On August 1-2, I'm completing a last-place fantasy football punishment that rivals the Waffle House challenge.
I'm flying from Hartford to Baltimore to Orlando to Dallas to LA to Vegas to Denver to Hartford in 36 hours. That's 16 hours in the air.
But it's ALSO for charity!
@MLB
@mookiebetts
Imagine 3 years ago learning that current Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts turns a double play at shortstop with Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, while on the Dodgers, to get Cubs’ (not Dodgers) Cody Bellinger out
PERSONAL UPDATE:
I officially have my first byline on ESPN!!
It’s currently the TOP story on the NFL page of the ESPN app!
Check it out now and let me know if you’re still betting into the Lions’ hype:
My fantasy football punishment starts NOW!
#SkyPulse
I'm flying from Hartford to Baltimore to Orlando to Dallas to LA to Vegas to Denver to Hartford in 36 hours.
I'm ALSO raising money for charity! 100% of your donations go to Fantasy Cares/V Foundation!
@CrappyFumes
@VUmander
Disney does paid maternity AND paternity leave, I believe it’s 12 weeks that you can take at any point within the first year after birth, and it includes adoption and same-sex households
I’m sure there’s a chicken-vs-egg debate to be had, but if you want to talk about “East Coast/SEC bias” in major college sports, you have to somehow get past this fact first
And it’s
@katienolan
with the first entertaining response to the company email reply-all madness this time. I believe this pays out at 5-1;
@minakimes
may have been the pregame favorite
At 9:09, ambulance is still on the field
At 9:14, Joe Buck says "looks like they're going to try to play.." and mentions a 5-minute warmup (rulebook says that's what happens after stoppages)
At 9:16, players are already headed to locker room
League, refs, no one said "go play"
@LBxSnarc
@kenpomeroy
His website posts his predictions for literally every single game for the entire season (including days, weeks and months ahead of time). And you can go back and see his predictions from any day this season too
Villanova ends the season with 5 straight Quad 1 games.
They still don’t have a Q1 win this season, but rattling off 5 in a row would put them in the NCAA tournament almost automatically. 4-1 would put them on the bubble.
(Yes I know how insane this sounds)
I’m always grateful that I have a job in sports. But there’s nothing like working with a team of great people, and
@MatthewBerryTMR
@FieldYates
and
@Stephania_ESPN
really are the best. They make the 4am Sunday wake up calls worth it every single week
#FFNOW
This is my favorite NFL chaos scenario that's still possible:
- 14 teams finish 8-9. Three make the playoffs!
- AFC & NFC both have a 7-way tie for the final wild card
- AFC: 4 teams at 11-6 - BUF/MIA/KC/CLE
- NFC: PHI/DAL tie, ATL wins the South
- 4-way tie for No. 1 pick!
🔥🔥
Browns clinch their first playoff appearance since 2002.
Last time the Browns won a playoff game was 1994, when Bill Belichick was Cleveland’s head coach and they beat the Patriots 20-13 in the Wild Card round.
.
@VUCoachJWright
has never met or talked to Tim Kurkjian before, but reached out and texted Tim to congratulate him on getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Two of the best class acts in sports.
That’s a wrap on my first season with the Fantasy Football Now team! This year was a blast, a blur, and a grind all rolled into one, but there’s no doubt that fantasy sports has become a passion and a calling.
@MatthewBerryTMR
@FieldYates
&
@Stephania_ESPN
are the best in the biz
With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos for a home run and so that’ll make it a 4-0 ball game.
Conference road games are a bear, but what Butler is doing to Villanova wouldn't happen to MSU or Duke. It's not Nova's resume is better than either of those teams, either. That Nova is No. 1 is an example of a trendy team getting votes. And once you're 1, no one looks closer.
Villanova and Murray State have not lost on the same day since November 26, 2010. That's the longest streak in Division I, per
@kenpomeroy
and a little additional digging
Unofficially got a 357 on the
@bracketproject
grading scale. My second best score ever.
- Got 67/68 teams in correctly
- Seeded 47 of 68 EXACTLY
- Seeded 62 of 68 within ONE seed line
Villanova is 1 of 4 Division I schools (out of 350) with undefeated men's and women's basketball teams. Kansas, Florida St and Mississippi St are the others. All 4 women's teams in action Sunday.
People who live outside of NYC: where do you go to get two Diet Cokes as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame.
Currently have the top headline on the Sports Betting tab on ESPN!
Come take a walk on the wild side as we root for Jaren Hall and Brett Rypien this week:
The record for most accurate bracket projection at
@bracketproject
was 376 points out of 408 possible, set last season.
I just dropped an unofficial 375 🔥🔥🔥
67/68 in the field
54/68 seeded EXACTLY!
66/68 seeded within 1 seed line!