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Pick of the Week: Kansas City (+14.5) at San Diego

The first two weeks of the season could not have gone worse for the Kansas City Chiefs. After winning the AFC West last season, and adding a few key pieces to the puzzle in the offseason, many had the Chiefs pegged to win the division once again. Some even had them making a serious run […]

NFL Genius vs the Spread, Week 3: Bad Idea Jeans edition

Bad ideas come in all shapes and sizes, whether it’s someone in Hollywood deciding to give Taylor Lautner his own “action movie,” or you going against your better instincts when it comes to picking football games against the spread. Often, there’s something so seductive about the bad idea that you can convince yourself it’s not […]

Detroit Lions: The Ultimate Underdog

The Detroit Lions are off to a 2-0 start. A team turning itself around from 6-10 is not unheard of in the parity-ridden NFL. The Lions, however, have defied parity. Since the dawn of the 16-game schedule in 1978, no franchise has won fewer games or had a worse winning percentage than the Lions. This […]

Move over Deon Grant: 10 Infamous acting jobs by NFL players

Deon Grant and the Giants attracted a lot of flak, and even a warning from the league office, for taking a dive to stop a drive by the Rams’ no-huddle offense. Frankly, the idea is time-worn, but the execution was terrible. It was the worst acting we’ve seen from an NFL player since Brian Bosworth […]

Circling the Drain: Five teams on the brink of a lost season

Two weeks into the season is time enough for some NFL teams to panic if their early performance is lower than expectations. Here is a quick look at teams that have one cleat on a banana peel and the other on the edge of a cliff. No fair taking potshots at hard luck teams like […]

Fantasy Football’s Missing In Action: Week 2

Every week, schemes and circumstances combine to take a fantasy sure thing and turn him into a wasted roster spot. Sometimes these can be foreseen, but sometimes injuries or unexpected matchups conspire to ruin what felt like a perfectly sound lineup decision. The key is to understand why it happened, and know what to do […]

NFL Week 2: Overlooked Storylines

Blaine Gabbert: Ready to start? While everybody is fawning over Cam Newton and Andy Dalton, there is a third rookie quarterback set to be handed the starting gig. After cutting starter David Garrard in the preseason, it was clear that Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio was prepping first round pick Blaine Gabbert to become the […]

DeMaurice Smith to NBA Players on Decertification: Don’t Do It!

What is the big difference between Gene Upshaw and DeMaurice Smith? One was a Hall of Fame NFL player. The other is a lawyer. When an angry, distrusting membership sought to defend income gains of the 2006 extension to the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, they picked high profile Washington lawyer Smith over former players Troy […]

Apocalypse Now: the Kansas City Chiefs’ season goes up in flames

Opponents traveling to Arrowhead Stadium will be greeted with a dead, still-smoking crater where once a football team was said to play. Men in red jerseys will be there, though whether colored red by design or by the blood of the fallen we cannot say. There’s an undeniable stench in the air, of a team’s […]

NFL Week 2 REACTOR: Afternoon Games Edition

Houston Texans 23 – Miami Dolphins 13 The Houston Texans continued their run to the top of the AFC South. Today they travelled to Miami and thoroughly dominated the Dolphins en route to a 23-13 victory. After a big Week 1 for Chad Henne and the ‘Fins offense against New England, they struggled getting going […]

NFL Week 2 Reactor: Early Games Edition

Buffalo Bills 38 – Oakland Raiders 35 A matchup of two of the league’s potential surprise teams might be the best game of the early shift. To recap: The Raiders outmuscle the Bills to a 21-3 lead. Game appears lost when Buffalo elects to kick on a 4th and 1 from the Oakland 7. Ryan […]

REACTOR: Jamaal Charles carted off the field.

The apocalypse continues for the Kansas City Chiefs. The story of their season is losses: losing Charlie Weis in the offseason, losing Tony Moeaki in the preseason, losing Eric Berry in week 1. Now, it looks like Jamaal Charles may be lost for the season after being carted off the field on the Chiefs’ first […]

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