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Picking on weak defenses

September 26, 2013
I had a chart in the Fantasy Index Weekly, showing how defenses fared that had allowed 90-plus points in the first three weeks of the season. Now let me expand that...

Bears have been strong against Megatron

September 23, 2013
Most notably, last year Johnson was trying to become the first-ever receiver to reach 2,000 yards in a season. He entered the Week 17 game (at home) needing 108...

100-yard rushers / crazy

September 22, 2013
LeSean McCoy has been the dominant runner so far, with two of the three games over 150. But a lot of the 100-yard games have been by surprise players. The Patriots benched Stevan Ridley in Week 1...

The risk of coveted running backs

September 18, 2013
This Trent Richardson trade is a reminder that drafting running backs is a tricky business...

Can Seattle pitch a shutout?

September 18, 2013
Shutouts, of course, are difficult. It's tough keeping an opponent off the scoreboard for an entire game. It's happened only 16 times in the last three years...

The evolution of ball security

September 17, 2013
This started as a little side project I was doing on Stevan Ridley and David Wilson. I find it amusing that Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin bench a running back who fumbles the ball...

RG3 is struggling

September 16, 2013
If you look at just the overall numbers -- especially fantasy numbers -- RG3 looks OK...

Passing Circus

September 15, 2013
This is just what the game is now. Rules have changed, and it's like touch football in the parking lot before the game. Two weeks in a row, three quarterbacks have gone over 400 yards...

Is Baltimore bad? Or extra motivated?

September 15, 2013
When a defense gets scorched, that's a test of its manhood. Their pride has been hurt. So you can be sure everybody was working hard in practice all week. Coaches have made corrections...

Where have the 100-yard runners gone?

September 10, 2013
So there was only one true 100-yard runner in the first set of 16 games -- LeSean McCoy (who threw down 184 yards with authority). These are not uncharted waters...

What now for Peyton Manning?

September 9, 2013
Only 11 of these 37 guys threw 3-plus TDs again the next week. 17 of them, surprisingly, threw either no touchdowns or just 1. On average, these quarterbacks threw 1.95 TDs and 1 interception whi...

Boldin's big game

September 8, 2013
That's rare. It's tough going over 200 yards...

High scoring series

September 4, 2013
Why teams score more points when playing teams outside their division is up for debate. My theory is that defenses learn how to play against offenses...

Rookie receivers / immediate impact

September 2, 2013
I will focus for just a moment on DeAndre Hopkins and Cordarrelle Patterson...

Undefeated preseason teams

September 1, 2013
Turns out there is some circumstantial benefit. Not that winning preseason games in itself results in a better regular season...

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