Absurdity Check

Week twelve is mostly in the books, and except for the instant classic Bills-Eagles game… this week mostly sucked. I’m not going to pussy foot around, it was a bad …

Week Ten was so good, and not just because I am a 49ers fan, and everyone can shut up now. We got a lot of close games, we had some …

Week nine was all over the place. I am not going to do some cutesy intro here where I pretend to be gobsmacked about things that happened. I got up …

Week seven is (mostly) in the books, and that certainly was a weird one! Nearly every game had a Burn The Tape designation for at least one team involved, except, …

The Jacksonville Jaguars won on Thursday Night Football, in one of the most extreme cases of Thursday Night Farceball that we have ever seen. The Jags were cruising halfway through …

What a Thursday Night Football game! The Chicago Bears got into the win column for the first time since October 2022 in style, dominating the Washington Commanders en route to …

Week four of the NFL season was relatively sane, but still, there are some fantasy football questions we should be asking ourselves. I’ve selected three to highlight and answer for …

Week three of the NFL season is (mostly) in the books! And the Miami Dolphins are the talk of the town, scoring ten touchdowns to break the NFL record for …

Most of week two of the NFL season is in the books and to be honest with you? It was pretty good! We saw a lot of good things today, …

Thursday Night Football delivered this week! And by delivered, I mean delivered another sloppy performance that ended with one team clearly better than the other. The final score (34-28) was …

NFL football is back! And with it, fantasy football is also back. After one week, we all have slots on our roster that are causing us agita, anxiety, and irritation. …

Well, the Kansas City Chiefs did it. They successfully defended their title, with the Lions putting up a valia—wait. They won? Hold on. The Lions? No way. That rips. Anyway. …

Well, the fantasy football semifinals are in the books (unless you’re like me and definitely not panicking that numerous matchups come down to Monday Night Football), and with that, we …

The first round of the fantasy football playoffs are (mostly) in the books, and the NFL had a wild and woolly week! It started with the 49ers clinching the NFC …

For some of us, the fantasy season is over. Well, when 0:00 strikes in the fourth quarter of the Patriots-Cardinals game, it will be over. The playoffs are on the …

Thursday Night Football pretty much went exactly how most people figured it would. Josh Allen threw a couple of touchdowns, to Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis, and Rhamondre Stevenson caught …

Week 12 is (mostly!) in the books, and with the conclusion of Sunday’s action, we are now at the traditional three-quarter point in the fantasy football season. But, the NFL …

Thanksgiving is over, and the real fantasy football stretch run begins now, in week twelve, with the Thanksgiving Day games! We had three games yesterday with a good amount of …

Week 11 had some ups and downs this week, with Justin Fields getting carted off the field at the end of the game, and Wan’Dale Robinson getting carted off in …

Thursday Night Football was a heck of a ballgame. While the gods didn’t let us revel in a snow game, we still had a great contest nonetheless. We even learned …

Ten weeks of NFL football are (mostly) in the books! This one was a return to form for my priors, what with James Conner, CeeDee Lamb and Aaron Jones all …

Well, what we saw last night certainly was a game played in the National Football League, between two of its 32 franchises! The Panthers and Falcons went toe-to-toe and there …

Week nine was one of the wildest of the season! We saw the Jets upset, we saw Aaron Rodgers get very upset, and we saw Justin Fields break records! Not …

The Eagles-Texans game was… weird. There’s no other way to put it. The best team in the NFL played the worst team in the NFL, and as the saying goes: …

The NFL finally looked normal this week, with scoring and exciting games actually happening, all over the place! As the offenses round into shape, we have some serious questions for …

In the aftermath of Thursday’s trade that sent wide receiver Kadarius Toney from the New York Giants to the Kansas City Chiefs, there is plenty of intrigue to unpack about …

While Thursday Night Football was bad for weeks, this week’s Ravens-Buccaneers tilt was just… weird. Both offenses looked completely dysfunctional. The Ravens at least had injuries to point to, as …

The NFL went through a reckoning this weekend, with numerous high-profile fantasy football players suffering injuries that may or may not cost them some time. Players like Diontae Johnson and …

The Saints and Cardinals had themselves an actual, honest-to-God football game on Thursday Night Football! The game had a little bit of everything: double pick-sixes, a Taysom Hill touchdown, Kyler …

Nico Collins of the lowly Houston Texans, Robert Woods coming off an ACL tear on a new team (the Tennessee Titans), and the historically unreliable DeVante Parker on a New …

The NFL was incredibly stupid this week. The Packers lost to both inhabitants of MetLife Stadium in consecutive weeks after dropping one to the Giants last week in London, Bailey …

We’re through six weeks of Thursday Night Football, and we spent the last two weeks huddling over the cold remains of two touchdowns between the contests, both of which came …

Except for Monday Night Football, five weeks of the NFL season are in the books. We’ve had some relatively normal weeks and some really weird weeks so far. In terms …

Oh my God. Oh my God. That was one of the worst games of football that I’ve ever seen, and I went to Mira Loma High School in the early …

The majority of week four is in the books, and this was a wild one! We had Rashaad Penny running all over the Lions’ defense, Geno Smith getting three (?!) …

In the early spring, I wrote an article about running backs fantasy managers should avoid ahead of the 2022 NFL season, and Chase Edmonds of the Miami Dolphins was one …

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rondale Moore is yet to appear in a single game this season due to a lingering hamstring injury. Moore logged two practices this week and says he …

I normally start off these Absurdity Checks with some pithy little comment about something silly that happened last night. But, given that I am going to lay into the Dolphins …

Most of week three is in the books, and with the Giants-Cowboys Monday Night Football tilt. If we know one thing about this week, it’s that it was extremely weird. …

Thursday Night Football turned out to be quite a bit more prolific than we had thought. The Browns took down the Steelers, 29-17, moving the Browns to 2-1 and Pittsburgh …

I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for blind hypotheticals. Let’s try this one out for size: through two weeks of the 2022 fantasy football season, which of …

We’re (mostly) two weeks into the NFL season, and boy howdy was this one a wild one! Tua Tagovailoa had six touchdowns! Jimmy Garoppolo is a starting quarterback again! The …

The first Amazon Thursday Night Football game of 2022 between the Chiefs and the Chargers had it all: Jerick McKinnon touchdowns, Justin Herbert gritty performances, and puckering Josh Palmer starters …

Week one of the NFL season is in the books, and you know what that means! It’s time to overreact to anything and everything that happened on Sunday. Is Trey …

The Buffalo Bills shellacked the reigning champion Los Angeles Rams last night, winning 31-10. Obviously, this left some fantasy football managers rankled, as two Rams in particular  (and one Buffalo …

Recent fantasy football history provides us with ample instances of patience with rookie running backs rewarding managers. Just one season ago, two rookies (Jonathan Taylor of the Colts and J.K. …