Author: Michael

One of the best features of modern Madden is how quickly real world performance can translate to the virtual game.
The Madden Ratings Hotline has also allowed fans to have input into which players deserve to see a ratings bump based on the start of their season. And few players had a better start than Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
Tagovailoa and wide receiver Tyreek Hill led the Dolphins to an impressive 36-34 road win over the Los Angeles Chargers. Tagovailoa threw for 466 yards and three touchdowns, two of which went to Hill.

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Dustin Johnson has been a regular on the U.S. Ryder Cup team having played in five of the last six, but this year the 39-year-old will be watching the biennial event from home. He believes that’s the reality due to the fact that he doesn’t play on the PGA Tour anymore.
Johnson was beyond dominant in the 2021 Ryder Cup as he became the first American to go 5-0 in the event. Most years, that record along with his strong résume would speak for itself, but this year’s Ryder Cup is like nothing we’ve ever seen before given the fact that LIV Golf is a thing that does, in fact, exist.

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The Rams–49ers matchup on Sunday will be a historic one as soon as the ball is snapped. It will be the first time in NFL history that a quarterback taken with the first pick of the NFL draft will face off against a quarterback taken with the last pick of the NFL draft, according to the NFL’s research department. 
Rams signal-caller Matthew Stafford was drafted No. 1 by the Lions in 2009 out of Georgia. Meanwhile, San Francisco’s Brock Purdy was selected with the No. 262 pick in the 2022 draft from Iowa State.

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The Cleveland Browns defense completely suffocated the Cincinnati Bengals offense in Week 1. Led by Myles Garrett — and aided by poor weather — the unit forced Joe Burrow into the worst game of his career. Head coach Kevin Stefanski loved what he saw from his defense.
That includes a very unique pre-snap “routine” by Myles Garrett. During the game, fans could see Garrett doing what appeared to be phantom crossovers prior to some of the Bengals offensive snaps.
Made popular by Allen Iverson, the crossover is a basketball move.

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It wasn’t Bills quarterback Josh Allen’s most inspiring performance in Monday night’s 22–16 overtime loss to the Jets to begin the season.
Allen turned in a pedestrian 29-for-41 passing performance for 236 yards and one touchdown to three interceptions, underscoring a night in which Buffalo’s offense failed to get going.
Allen’s penchant for throwing ill-timed interceptions is well-documented, but it doesn’t have his offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey concerned.
“I don’t think you get to this point in [Allen]‘s career if this happened every single game,” Dorsey said.

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Here’s who our panel thinks will win in Week 2.
Well, that was a bit of a mess wasn’t it? I don’t think anybody could have predicted Week 1 of the NFL in one of the wildest weeks around the league in recent memory.
It really felt like the majority of teams weren’t ready to play, so we didn’t get a great feel for them. So now we have the second week of the season being a bit of an informed reset.

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Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for GE
The Bucks star is putting his front office on the clock to build another championship roster.
It feels like the NBA newscycle just got done with reckless speculation about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s future. The superstar’s impending free agency was the biggest story in the league around the time his Milwaukee Bucks were on the wrong end of a stunning upset to the Miami Heat inside the bubble back in 2020.

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