Greg Cosell's Look Ahead: Looking at why Seattle's defense struggled It's easy to assume the Seattle Seahawks defense giving up a lot of passing yards to the St. Louis Rams was a function of holdout safety Kam Chancellor's absence, but it was more than that. The Seahawks' pass defense was not as tight as it has been. There were a lot of completions in open areas by Rams quarterback Nick … [Read more...]

Last Minute Decisions: Injury Report: Week 2 Week 2 of the NFL season is here, and the Rotoworld crew has everything you need to cash in a winning week. Top-ten FantasyPros ranker Patrick Daugherty answers your lineup questions with his Week 2 Rankings, Nick Mensio tells you who to start and who to fade in Start’ Em or Sit ‘Em, and Evan Silva breaks down every matchup in his award-winning Matchups … [Read more...]

Weekend Weather: Weather: Week 2 Forecasts Mother Nature has smiled upon the NFL and fantasy owners this week, as she decided to postpone the cold turn of autumn just one more week. Nationwide temperatures will be pleasant this weekend, with no major precipitation expected in any of the hosting NFL cities on Sunday. The only small concern worth noting as the weekend hits the home stretch is the … [Read more...]

Bills' team store puts inflating pumps 'front and center' before Patriots game There's been plenty of noise out of Buffalo in anticipation of Sunday's game against New England. With Rex Ryan at the helm for the Bills, they're doing their best to supplant the New York Jets as the Patriots' biggest AFC East rival. Now, the Bills' team store is making a silent contribution to the hullaballoo. … [Read more...]

NFL draft: Connor Cook, Cody Kessler rated as top senior QBs in 2016 One of the two primary scouting services employed by NFL teams rates Michigan State’s Connor Cook and USC’s Cody Kessler as its top two senior quarterbacks, the Shutdown Corner has learned. Cook is not a surprise given his class- QB stature — 6-4 and 222 pounds, with a hose for am arm. He might have been a first-round pick … [Read more...]

Andy Reid has a prolific history of game-management gaffes Game and clock management in the NFL is an epidemic, but Andy Reid redefines the pestilence. He is the Spanish flu of game managers, and the Kansas City Chiefs’ Monday night loss to the Denver Broncos showed he hasn’t found a cure yet. Reid failed to recognize that the Broncos were out of timeouts at the end of the first half and … [Read more...]

Chiefs absolutely blow it, as Broncos steal a miracle win at Arrowhead Andy Reid is often criticized for being too conservative. On Thursday night he took it to a level that will go down in NFL infamy. The Kansas City Chiefs were backed up at their own 20 with 36 seconds left. There's two reasonable options: Pass and try for the win in regulation or kneel on it. Reid chose a third, strange … [Read more...]

Matchups: Silva's Week 2 Matchups 1:00PM ET GamesHouston @ CarolinaTexans-Panthers has a 40-point Vegas total, lowest of Week 2. Carolina is a three-point favorite. Even after a slow opener, the best play on the Panthers' side is Greg Olsen taking on a Texans defense that got gashed by Travis Kelce (6-106-2) last week. Olsen's DFS ownership could be surprisingly low as fickle players are … [Read more...]

J.J. Watt: Lucky in sacks, unlucky in love, says new report Quarterback sacks or romance. Apparently, you can't have both. A new article in Complex indicates that Texans megastar J.J. Watt is trying as hard as he can, darn it, but he just can't land himself a girlfriend: "People think that I've never dated before, or whatever," he says. "But I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm just unsuccessful. My … [Read more...]

Jason Pierre-Paul: Looking on the bright side?   A day after posting a brief Instagram video of himself working out, Jason Pierre-Paul is back on social media this morning. We think he's trying to spin his situation - he lost his right index finger and reportedly part of his right thumb in a July 4 fireworks accident - into a positive ... or he's trolling us all. I can't think of the last … [Read more...]