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Ranking the Best Offenses and Defenses With Sheil Kapadia, Plus Ryen Gets Fleeced in France
Sheil and Ryen also discuss Deshaun Watson’s 11-game suspension
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Ranking the Top 10 Saddest NFL Quarterback Competitions of the Century
Think the battles featuring Geno Smith vs. Drew Lock and Baker Mayfield vs. Sam Darnold are depressing? We remember much worse. Much worse.
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The Magic and Mythology of Joe Burrow’s Deep Passing Game
The third-year quarterback enters this season with plenty of expectation. But his combination of touch, vision, and sheer ability has his receivers confident that he’ll find them any time, anywhere.
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Five Fantasy Players Everyone Is Too Horny For
Danny, Danny, and Craig discuss the most overrated fantasy picks heading into drafts
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Inside the Start of the Trey Lance Era in San Francisco
The San Francisco 49ers have fully embraced Lance as their new starting quarterback, welcoming the exciting potential and growing pains that come along with him
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Predicting How Every NFL Defense Will Perform in 2022
Which NFL defenses will show significant improvement and which are in for a massive fall? Sheil Kapadia ran through all the numbers to project how each unit will fare.
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How Will Every NFL Offense Perform in 2022?
After a deep dive into every NFL roster and a close look at advanced metrics and efficiency stats, Sheil Kapadia has each team’s offense figured out
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Preseason Week 1 Winners and Losers
The guys discuss consequential fantasy players like Jonathan Taylor, Zach Wilson, and Saquon Barkley
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Players Primed to Make the Leap in 2022
Ben and Steven each pick three players they think will take their game to the next level in 2022
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The Lions Are Still Building Their Foundation. But They’re Planning for Much More.
The second year of an NFL rebuild is still a work in progress, but for the Lions, it is when they need to show their plan—and the steps they’re taking to find success
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The Top Five Offenses in 2022
Sheil and Ben discuss which teams will have the best offenses this season, and which teams just missed out on their top-five lists
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NFC North Betting Preview
Austin, Raheem, and JJ are back to break down each team in the NFC North’s odds, make their favorite picks heading into the 2022 NFL season, and build a three-leg futures parlay
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Biggest Sleeper Teams
Nora and Danny discuss their biggest sleeper teams heading into the 2022 NFL season
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Allen Robinson II and the Great Escape From His Quarterback Hell
The Pro Bowl receiver spent nearly a decade catching passes from QBs like Blake Bortles, Mitchell Trubisky, and Justin Fields. Now that he’s in offensive paradise with the Rams, it’s finally Robinson’s time to shine.
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Are People Too High on the Lions?
Plus, the guys discuss the Lions’ ‘Hard Knocks’ hype, rookie wide receivers, Russell Wilson on the Broncos, and more
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Late-Round League Winners
Plus, answering listener questions and breaking down the best handcuffs in fantasy
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Doug Pederson Healed Himself. Now He’s Trying to Heal the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Pederson’s first win in Jacksonville is that he isn’t Urban Meyer. But now comes the real challenge: fixing Trevor Lawrence and turning the Jaguars into winners.
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AFC North Betting Preview
Austin, Raheem, and JJ break down each team in the AFC North’s odds and make their favorite picks heading into the 2022 NFL season
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Is Mahomes-Allen the New Brady-Manning?
Lindsay and Kevin examine Kansas City’s revamped receiving corps and how they’ll affect Patrick Mahomes’s QB play before discussing Buffalo’s new OC, Ken Dorsey, and speculating whether he’ll be able to elevate Josh Allen’s game to the next level this season
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Fantasy Football’s All-Training-Camp-Hype Team
Which positive training camp reports are real? Which are just smoke? Being able to identify the difference could make or break your fantasy season.
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The Kirk Cousins Scale of QB Competence
Danny and Steven rank NFL quarterbacks
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The Lessons Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs Learned From Their Weirdest Season
Patrick Mahomes survived the first slump of his career last season. Now, he and the Chiefs are trying to reinvent their offense while the rest of the AFC West is racing to catch up.
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The Sox’s Slow Torture, Pat Finley on the Bears, and the Return of Your Voicemails
Pat gives an update on Teven Jenkins, what he’s seen (or hasn’t seen) from Justin Fields, and why he’s so high on rookie Kyler Gordon
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RB Rankings, Tiers, and Fears
The guys discuss Matthew Stafford’s elbow injury before they sort out through their current running back tiers
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Ten Questions About the 10 First-Year Head Coaches
Sheil and Nora answer 10 questions about first-year head coaches like Todd Bowles and Kevin O’Connell
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Can New Blood Revitalize Brandon Staley’s Defense in Los Angeles?
The Chargers were helpless to stop the run in 2021. Through an aggressive offseason plan that included the addition of Khalil Mack, can the Chargers’ biggest weakness become a strength?
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NFC South Betting Preview
The guys discuss whether there’s any value in betting on the Bucs, explain why they’re all high on the Saints, break down why Carolina may be a sneaky team, and try to find value in a bad Falcons team
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How Russell Wilson Changed the Broncos’ Culture and Raised Expectations
The Broncos were desperate for a quarterback, and Russell Wilson was ready for a new team. In just five months together in Denver, Wilson has won over his teammates in this quarterback-crazy town.
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The Key Fantasy Players of 2022, as Told by ‘Superbad’
Quotes from the movie help the guys describe who they think will be key players in the 2022 fantasy football season
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How the Buccaneers Became the Team Tom Brady Built
After flirting with the Miami Dolphins and retiring for 40 days, Tom Brady is back in Tampa and using his star power to help the Bucs build one more Super Bowl contender
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The Ripple Effects of Miami’s Tampering Penalty
JJ and Sheil react to the fines and suspensions given to the Miami Dolphins, the dysfunction under owner Stephen Ross, and more
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Stephen Ross Is Very Bad at Tampering and Trying to Tank
The NFL says Stephen Ross tampered and encouraged Brian Flores to lose games. Now it’s time for the league to take the rest of Flores’s complaints about racism in the NFL seriously as well.