First Podcast and YouTube Spot!
Happy Monday, and I hope that everyone had a great 4th of July Weekend! I haven't posted anything since the NFL draft, because there was nothing really exciting to post about...UNITL NOW! DownfieldRead has been around for one year now. We are celebrating our One-Year Anniversary by branching out with more to Fantasy Football! I'm also starting up a podcast on Spotify and a show on YouTube! Fantasy Turf Wars Fantasy Turf Wars is a revolutionary way to play Fantasy Football at scale. I was accepted to play in a 64 team league (4 Divisions with 16 Teams) to see…
Divisional Round: Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers
The second game in the NFL Divisional Round takes place on Saturday night with the Green Bay Packers traveling to take on the NFC’s number one seed, San Francisco 49ers. The Packers are the number seven seed and coming off a Texas-sized win against the Dallas Cowboys by a score of 48-32. Was it a really great showing by Green Bay and Quarterback, Jordan Love (16/21, 272 yards and 3 TDs), or was it a complete implosion on the part of Dallas and their defense, who had given up 30 points or more only three times during the regular season…
Wild Card Weekend: Miami Dolphins at Kansas City Chiefs
In Saturday’s second Wild Card match-up, we get a to watch (only if you have Peacock…?) the Miami Dolphins AT the Kansas City Chiefs. The AT part is important because Saturday night in Kansas City is supposed to be somewhere around FIVE DEGREES! That’s cold enough to freeze your Swifties right off, and it’s certainly no place for a Dolphin to be! Miami traveled to KC earlier this season in the beginning of November, where they lost 21-14. The Chiefs got out to a fast start, leading 21-0 by halftime, as the Dolphins floundered throughout the game on third and…
Why NOT Joe Flacco?
On Friday the Cleveland Browns announced that newly acquired quarterback and Super Bowl MVP, Joe Flacco was going to be their starting QB this weekend against the Los Angeles Rams. Flacco spent his first eleven season with the Browns’ division rival, Baltimore Ravens, where he brought B-more to the post-season six times, going 10-5 and winning one Super Bowl in the process. In 2018, the Ravens drafted Lamar Jackson to back-up Flacco and eventually take over for the aging QB. That may have happened sooner than expected for both Baltimore and Joe, as he sustained a hip sprain in November…
2023 NFL Mid-Season Biggest Standings Surprises and Disappointments
Before the start of the 2023 NFL season, I went through the schedules of all 32 NFL teams and predicted winners and losers. These predictions were based on a combination of how each team finished in 2022, what player and coaching additions and subtractions that had taken place, and strength of schedule from both 2021 and 2022. Needless to say, there was a lot of time, effort and calculations (along with a lot of football intellect and a little bit of “gut feeling”) that went into each game of each week in deciding who was most favorable to come out…
2022-2023 NFL Playoffs Projection
First and foremost, if you haven't read how we have gotten to the post-season in these projections, please start by going to the very beginning of my "Win-Loss" Projections, starting with the AFC North and running through each division with specific reasoning for how we got here. Otherwise, you're just going to read this and then think of your favorite team, and then think, "Oh, this guy is full of crap!". Which I am sometimes, but now about this. So buckle up, buttercup! Only one team gets to win the Super Bowl each year, so let's find out who it's…
2023 NFL Win-Loss Projection Part VI: NFC South
In the last installment of the 2023 NFL Win-Loss Projection Part V, we got into the NFC and started with the North. You got an in-depth look at where each of those teams would finish the season and why, along with some key games on their respective schedules. Today we’re going to move to the NFC South and project where each team in the worst division in the NFC in 2022 will finish in the Win/Loss columns for 2023. There were plenty of big headlines in the NFC South this offseason including Derek Carr signing with the New Orleans Saints,…