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Sorry for Your Loss

Fantasy Football 2021 / Kansas City Chiefs / Sorry for Your Loss

Kansas City Chiefs, Sorry For Your Loss!

January 6, 2022 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

We’ve made it to your grandpa’s finale to the NFL’s regular season! The NFL has chosen to add a regular-season game and take away a preseason game for the sake …

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2021 Justin Herbert Los Angeles Chargers
2021 Week 17 / Los Angeles Chargers / Sorry for Your Loss

Los Angeles Chargers, Sorry For Your Loss!

December 28, 2021December 29, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

We are so close! The NFL regular season is coming to an end and those with the hope of a playoff berth are fighting for their lives. The AFC West …

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2021 Week 16 / Jacksonville Jaguars / Sorry for Your Loss

Jacksonville Jaguars, Sorry For Your Loss!

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Well, on the fifteenth week of the NFL season, the CDC gave to me, a wave of players out with COVID-19. Take comfort in the fact I didn’t bother with …

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Lamar Jackson Baltimore Ravens
2021 Week 15 / Baltimore Ravens / Sorry for Your Loss

Baltimore Ravens, Sorry For Your Loss!

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

With the NFL season quickly approaching the regular season finale, week fourteen set some teams up with a great opportunity to close the door on their rivals. We typically talk …

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New Orleans Saints
2021 Week 14 / New Orleans Saints / Sorry for Your Loss

New Orleans Saints, Sorry For Your Loss!

December 8, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

As usual, the first week of December football brings a cold dose of reality to fledgling teams. There’s only so much time left to climb up the standings for a …

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2021 Week 13 / Pittsburgh Steelers / Sorry for Your Loss

Pittsburgh Steelers, Sorry For Your Loss!

December 1, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The holiday season is upon us. Sure, that may warm your heart but for me, the approaching playoff run is equally as exciting. There was a team in particular that …

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2021 Week 12 / New York Giants / Sorry for Your Loss

New York Giants, Sorry For Your Loss!

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Eleven weeks ago, we all had an idea of how the NFL season was going to go. The scheduling committee celebrated Tom Brady’s latest championship ring by handing him a …

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Los Angeles Rams / Sorry for Your Loss

Los Angeles Rams, Sorry For Your Loss!

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Boy oh boy, The 49ers made themselves quite the splash in Week Ten. Monday Night Football had themselves a spicy NFC West divisional game on the docket when they made …

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John Lynch Kyle Shanahan San Francisco 49ers
2021 Week 10 / Fantasy Football 2021 / San Francisco 49ers / Sorry for Your Loss

San Francisco 49ers, Sorry For Your Loss!

November 10, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The ninth week of our fine NFL season dropped some real knowledge on us fans and even coaches. As we cross into the second half of the season, there’s no …

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Taylor Heinicke Washington Football Team
2021 Week 9 / Fantasy Football 2021 / Sorry for Your Loss / Washington Commanders

Washington Football Team, Sorry For Your Loss!

November 3, 2021 - by Jeff Krisko - Leave a Comment

Don’t blink now, we’re about halfway done with this NFL season. Now, that’s technically speaking. On so many other levels, the next nine games for many teams are just auditions …

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2021 Week 8 / Chicago Bears / Fantasy Football 2021 / Sorry for Your Loss

Chicago Bears, Sorry For Your Loss!

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The past week of the NFL games was not a gut punch to those hopeless dreamers. It was the heart-ripping “FINISH HIM” moment of my Mortal Kombat filled youth. In …

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MIami Dolphins
2021 Week 7 / Miami Dolphins / Sorry for Your Loss

Miami Dolphins, Sorry For Your Loss!

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 - by Jeff Krisko - Leave a Comment

Week six was a wake-up call to a lot of the dreamers hoping they would be contending this season. Entering 2021 there was one AFC team that thought they were …

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Russell Wilson Seattle Seahawks
2021 Week 6 / Seattle Seahawks / Sorry for Your Loss

Seattle Seahawks, Sorry For Your Loss!

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 - by Jeff Krisko - Leave a Comment

The close of week five in the NFL was affirming for many clubs. Boy, are there some stinkers, some fakes, and a few legit teams out there. The tragedy is …

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Comedy / Denver Broncos / Sorry for Your Loss

Denver Broncos, Sorry For Your Loss!

October 6, 2021October 13, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

If you blinked, then you might have just missed the first quarter of the NFL 2021 season. Sure, we have 17 games now but let me be loose with my …

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Fantasy Football 2021 / Indianapolis Colts / Sorry for Your Loss

Indianapolis Colts, Sorry For Your Loss!

September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week three of the NFL season finished with some key wins that helped shape a lot of key races in the league. The NFL treated us to an AFC South …

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New York Jets / Sorry for Your Loss

New York Jets, Sorry For Your Loss!

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

NFL’s week two was full of some very tight matchups. We aren’t yet at the point where team identities are fully developed, so there are opportunities for surprises, upsets, or …

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Atlanta Falcons / Sorry for Your Loss

Atlanta Falcons, Sorry For Your Loss!

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Welcome back, NFL! The start of the season is filled with more unbridled hope and unwarranted faith than a blind date. Last season we witnessed Tom Brady pull the baton …

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John Lynch Kyle Shanahan San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers / Sorry for Your Loss

San Francisco 49ers, Sorry For Your Loss: San Francisco DNRs

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The NFL did it! We have finished the regular season amid a global pandemic. Week 17 literally is the end of the road for many of the teams but why …

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Indianapolis Colts / Sorry for Your Loss

Indianapolis Colts, Sorry For Your Loss: Colt 86ed

December 30, 2020December 29, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again! Columnists get to use their triple word score of penultimate for their columns! We have navigated the 2020 NFL season and we’re close to …

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Big Ben Roethlisberger Pittsburgh Steelers Start or Sit NFL Draft
Pittsburgh Steelers / Sorry for Your Loss

Pittsburgh Steelers, Sorry For Your Loss: Throwing in the Terrible Towel

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week 15 of the NFL season was a splendid punch in the gut for some teams, and some of these playoff hopefuls are not getting back up. The 2020 playoff …

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Fantasy Football Drew Brees New Orleans Saints
New Orleans Saints / Sorry for Your Loss

New Orleans Saints, Sorry For Your Loss: Time to Geaux

December 15, 2020December 14, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week fourteen was very telling, separating the haves from the have-nots. I say this mainly as someone on the fringe making the fantasy football playoffs. In actual NFL gameplay, week …

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Seattle Seahawks / Sorry for Your Loss

Seattle Seahawks, Sorry For Your Loss: Your ‘Hawk is Cooked

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Luckily, the NFL wrapped up its week thirteen, and we again saw some major hits to playoff hopes. The second half of the season is showing a transition where some …

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Arizona Cardinals Streaming Defenses Chase Edmonds
Arizona Cardinals / Sorry for Your Loss

Arizona Cardinals, Sorry For Your Loss: Falling off the Kliff

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

On the twelfth week of the season, the NFL gave me, a clear understanding they don’t have a COVID protocol. Ok, that really doesn’t fit the rhyme pattern I wanted. …

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Las Vegas Raiders / Sorry for Your Loss

Las Vegas Raiders, Sorry For Your Loss: Grieving Las Vegas

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

We have nearly finished the third month of the NFL season. It’s clearer than ever that 2020 is up for grabs. No one is unstoppable, and before you yell ‘Steelers’ …

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Denver Broncos John Elway
Denver Broncos / Sorry for Your Loss

Denver Broncos, Sorry For Your Loss: Locked out of the Postseason

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The tenth week of the NFL season is toast and down goes another hopeful team. COVID-19 robbed us of the most pointless thing this year, the NFL preseason. We missed …

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Chicago Bears / Sorry for Your Loss

Chicago Bears, Sorry For Your Loss: It’s Hibernation Season

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week nine of the NFL season was another exciting run of games. As the playoff picture begins to really show itself, this is the time of year where realistic GMs …

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Carolina Panthers / Sorry for Your Loss

Carolina Panthers, Sorry For Your Loss: Carolina Reapered

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week 8 is in the books for us NFL fans and as the dust settles we start to see our interest in draft prospects rise. Sure, there’s buzz that the …

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Dak Prescott Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys / Sorry for Your Loss

Dallas Cowboys, Sorry For Your Loss: Requiem For A(merica’s) Team

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Look at you NFL! You finished week seven in a season we didn’t think would finish, and suddenly we’re halfway through the year. This week of the season came into …

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Minnesota Vikings / Sorry for Your Loss

Minnesota Vikings, Sorry For Your Loss: Skol’s Out

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week six of the NFL season is in the books! That sound was not the rustling of falling leaves, but the dying hopes and dreams for some preseason darlings. The …

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Joe Mixon Cincinnati Bengals
Cincinnati Bengals / Sorry for Your Loss

Cincinnati Bengals, Sorry For Your Loss: Joe, Buried

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

NFL week five ended with its first Tuesday Night Football game since 2010. The contenders are starting to put their footprint into this young and delicate season. Sure the AFC …

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Houston Texans / Sorry for Your Loss

Houston Texans, Sorry For Your Loss: The End of an Era

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The first quarter of the 2020 NFL season is in the books and we lost only one game to COVID?! Winner winner! Week four provided some great signs of life …

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Atlanta Falcons / Sorry for Your Loss

Atlanta Falcons, Sorry For Your Loss: (Really) Dirty South

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The third week of the NFL season was just what the doctor ordered. It was an exciting week of action, with many close games going down to the wire. There …

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New York Giants / Sorry for Your Loss

New York Giants, Sorry For Your Loss: Lost Season State of Mind

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week 2 in the NFL was a rough one. Whether you’re a fantasy football player or just a good old fashioned fan, it was tough to watch. So many players …

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Matthew Stafford Detroit Lions start or sit
Detroit Lions / Sorry for Your Loss

Detroit Lions, Sorry For Your Loss

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The 2020 NFL season is here. And at this point, anything short of getting the final Game of Thrones book would make this 2020’s saving grace. COVID-19 has leapfrogged over any …

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NFL: Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings start or sit quarterback sleepers
Minnesota Vikings / Sorry for Your Loss

Minnesota Vikings SFYL: Your Season is Over Dontcha-know?!

January 2, 2020January 3, 2020 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

I know what you’re thinking, why is there a week seventeen Sorry for Your Loss when the regular season is over? Well, even though there are twelve teams in the …

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Seattle Seahawks / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry for Your Loss, Seattle Seahawks: Definitely Not Seattle’s Finest

December 25, 2019December 24, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

There’s only one full week left in the 2019 NFL season and it has been a memorable one, to say the least. December sorted out the remaining pretenders from contenders …

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Los Angeles Rams / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry for Your Loss, Los Angeles Rams: Another Sad L.A. Story

December 18, 2019December 18, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The tension of the NFL regular season really is coming to a close. Week 15 had some beautiful knockout punches to the postseason hopes of some high profile franchises for …

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Dallas Cowboys / Sorry for Your Loss

Dallas Cowboys, Sorry For Your Loss: Not All Dak

December 11, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The NFL calendar says we just finished week fourteen, but this really feels like Christmas to me. I am a deflated Chicago Bears fan and well, we have nothing to …

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Las Vegas Raiders / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry For Your Loss, Week 13: Shut it Down and Pack it up, Oakland Raiders!

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

NFL week thirteen closed with the thud of a few more nails in the coffins of some teams’ title hopes. Sure there’s some math that says your team has a …

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Jacksonville Jaguars / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry For Your Loss, Jacksonville Jaguars: Drain the Swamp, Minshtache and All!

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

This is the point in the season where we start to really enjoy the downfall of the hopeful. As a Bears fan with a brain, I knew we’d crap the …

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Philadelphia Eagles / Sorry for Your Loss

SFYL 11: Philly (Not So) Special

November 20, 2019November 27, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Eleven weeks into the NFL season and we’re really starting to break some hearts and shatter some dreams. This column started the year very AFC heavy, and justifiably so as …

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Indianapolis Colts / Sorry for Your Loss

SFYL Week 10: Don’t Look This Sad Gift Horse in the Mouth, Indianapolis Colts

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - 1 Comment

The tenth week of the NFL season didn’t disappoint. That is, unless you ran my fantasy team or picked the Saints in a cakewalk against the Falcons. Woof! There were …

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Detroit Lions / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry For Your Loss Week 9: Beware of the Trap Game!

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - 1 Comment

Week nine in the NFL was a pretty compelling one for us. It’s debatable but the NFC seems to be the stronger and more competitive of the conferences this year. …

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Sorry for Your Loss / Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Sorry For Your Loss Week 9: What the Buc?!

October 31, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - 1 Comment

The Bucs’ Season Is Over Look at you NFL, halfway done with your season and what do you have to show for it? Two undefeated teams, a slew of quarterback …

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Fantasy Football 2019 / Sorry for Your Loss

Bear Down, and Stay Down For a Very Long Time

October 21, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week 7 in the NFL caught a little bit of the college homecoming vibe in Chicago when Sean Payton brought his physically bruised Saints team to the emotionally bruised Chicago …

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Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry For Your Loss: The Hype Train Derails in Brown Town

October 16, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Can the Browns Make the Playoffs? As I write this week’s post in the middle of America, the air turns crisp and the leaves are beginning to change colors. Don’t …

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Pittsburgh Steelers / Sorry for Your Loss

SFYL Week 5: Well, At Least We Have a Kicker!

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Will the Pittsburgh Steelers Be in the Playoffs? Week 5 of the NFL was full of many statements and a couple upsets. The storm of chaos in the AFC is …

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Cincinnati Bengals / Comedy / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry For Your Loss: A Tiger Doesn’t Change It’s Stripes

September 25, 2019 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Will the Bengals make the playoffs? If you’re looking for a definitive answer, we’ve got it. If you’re optimistic, you came to the wrong place.

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Dallas Cowboys / Football / NFC East / Philadelphia Eagles / Sorry for Your Loss / Weekly Recap

Sorry for Your Loss Week 14 – The Philadelphia Eagles Season Is over

December 14, 2018 - by Mike Maxwell - 1 Comment

What a difference a year makes. This time last year Eagles fans were mourning the loss of their star QB and abandoning all hope as some dude name Nick Foles …

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Fantasy Football 2018 / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry for Your Loss Week 12: The Atlanta Falcons Season is Over

November 29, 2018 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

The Atlanta Falcons Season is Over What a weekend. Week 12 in the NFL felt very much like a full week of football. We’re on the cusp of the pretenders …

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Fantasy Football 2018 / Sorry for Your Loss

Sorry for Your Loss (Week 9): Broncos’ Playoff Chances Are Now Super-Horrible

November 6, 2018 - by Mike Maxwell - Leave a Comment

Week 9 Deals a Crushing Blow for Broncos’ Playoff Chances What a crazy weekend for the one team in the AFC West that seems hellbent on building a Mount Rushmore …

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