The Buffalo Bills’ stunning 41-40 fourth quarter comeback over the Baltimore Ravens in Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season will be almost impossible for the remaining 256 regular season games to top. In fact, Sunday’s dramatic finish will likely go down as one of the most celebrated regular season games of all-time, with only the Rams-Chiefs 2018 Monday night …
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This Week 1 matchup was already among the most intriguing on the schedule and got even juicier with Jerry Jones letting Micah Parsons don a Cheesehead. The Green Bay Packers are getting all the offseason hype, but it’s the Detroit Lions who own a three-game winning streak in Green Bay, with their last loss dating back to Jared Goff’s first …
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WR Zay Flowers vs. CB Christian Benford Benford is the Bills’ top cover guy and the sixth-highest graded cornerback in the league last year, via Pro Football Focus. He also plays both sides about equally, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see him match up frequently against Flowers. Flowers missed last year’s playoff game, so he’ll be itching to show …
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Every week during the regular season I’ll use this space to highlight teams facing various funnel defenses. What’s a Funnel Defense? A funnel defense, in case you’re wondering, is a defense that faces an unusually high rate of pass attempts or rushes. I’ll take a close look at how opponents are playing these defenses in neutral game script — when …
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Welcome to Advanced Matchups! Using the Fantasy Points Data Suite, I’ll dig into coverage shells, blitz rates, individual matchups, and more every week throughout the season. If you believe this is too much overanalysis, Millionaire Maker winner rsbathla disagrees with you, crediting this very article as part of his process. This column is mostly geared toward giving you an edge …
Read More »Friday Night Football Kansas City @ Los Angeles (in Sao Paulo, Brazil) Team Totals: Chiefs 24.75, Chargers 21.75 Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo conquered Justin Herbert in 2023 with five sacks and two interceptions but was otherwise diced for 17 touchdowns (to four picks) and 7.7 yards per attempt — Herbert’s career-high mark in a single season — in seven surrounding games. With a career-best 4.1 …
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The New England Patriots kick off the 2025 season with a home matchup against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, embarking on a maiden campaign under new head coach Mike Vrabel and looking to get things started on the right foot. Three key storylines should define how this game plays out. From defending one of the league’s most explosive tight …
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When coaches identify what is most important from watching an opponent’s game film, it is all about the matchups. Once it is clear what the opposing defense and offense will want to do as far as overall strategy, the crucial part of a game plan is to look at the personnel matchups that they will be attacking as well as …
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The 2025 college football schedule kicks off with Week Zero on Saturday, Aug. 23. A total of nine contests are on the docket across the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Week Zero action begins with a Big 12 matchup, featuring the Kansas State Wildcats taking on the Iowa State Cyclones in the Aer Lingus College Football …
Read More »The NBA offseason is when hope springs eternal. But with more than four months between the Oklahoma City Thunder reaching the top of the mountain as NBA champions and the tipoff of the next climb to seize the Larry O’Brien Trophy, the offseason can also just … feel eternal. That’s one reason why so many fans get so psyched for …
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