Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
The Rams were playing the Chargers or Texans. The opponent doesn’t matter because it was an easy-to-forget preseason game last summer, but I do remember watching the broadcast thinking how great it was to hear Sean McVay analyze the plays called by his assistant coaches and how we need more of this.
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Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
Telling time by sundial. Listening to music on the beach with a boombox. Loading up a covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail.
All things that stopped happening once a better idea came along.
Welcome to the conversation around safeties in the NFL.
In the NFL’s golden age, few things about the on-field product are truly problematic. But the safety is boring and not properly rewarded.
For Tuesday’s MLB bet, let’s target a couple of starting pitcher props. Parlay these two bets and, if they both hit, a $10 bet would yield a $21.30 payout ($11.30 profit).
I like our plan:
1. Bryan Woo over 6.5 K (-130)
No team has struck out more than the Twins, who lead MLB with a 26.8% K rate. Meanwhile, Mariners starter Bryan Woo is striking out batters at a rate of more than 11 per nine innings. His strikeout rate is in the 88th percentile of the league and his chase rate is in the 85th. Woo has exceeded this strikeout prop in four of his seven starts this season.
Joel Embiid provided a bit of a scare to 76ers fans while sending many others into the land of hypothetical trades following his recent comments. But if the early reports and Embiid’s own response hold any weight, it may be safe to pump the brakes on the idea of a potential sequel to “The Process.”
It was a 15-word sentence from Embiid while discussing expectations going forward in his career with UNINTERRUPTED CEO and LeBron James’s business manager Maverick Carter last week that first created the buzz.
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Both Daniel Ricciardo and F1 are back this week, for the Hungarian Grand Prix
After a week off, Formula 1 is back this week, as the grid heads to the Hungaroring for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
But F1 is not the only thing making a comeback.
Yes, Daniel Ricciardo is back, with AlphaTauri making the stunning decision to slide the Red Bull reserve into Nyck de Vries’ seat hours after the conclusion of the British Grand Prix. But while his return is one of the major storylines in F1 this week, it is not the only one.
Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair is a true lover of sports. He watches it all, from college and pro football to baseball and hockey, where he especially can’t get enough of the playoffs.
But there is one sport that he’s starting to steer away from because it embodies the exact opposite of what pro wrestling is at its heart.
Scrutiny has found the NBA in recent years as resting players for “load management” on the court as well as players sitting out for injuries some believe should be played through doesn’t sit well with “The Nature Boy.
Shohei Ohtani is in the midst of one of the most historic seasons in MLB history and on Monday night he took things to another level with a beautiful bat flip after a huge home run against the New York Yankees, and MLB fans absolutely loved it.
Ohtani crushed a two-run blast, his MLB-best 35th home run, to left-center in the bottom of seventh inning to tie the game at 3-3. He admired his blast as soon as it left his bat and then flipped his bad in the air when he knew it was gone.
All of this emotion was just so cool to see:
OHTANI, TIE GAME 🦄@Angels | #GoHalos pic.twitter.
The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: Kansas City Chiefs
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Do you expect Isiah Pacheco to emerge as the workhorse back for Kansas City? By last season’s end, Pacheco and Jerick McKinnon were playing roughly equal snaps — a trend that seems likely to continue in 2023.
Since stepping away from the NFL after the 2020 season, former defensive lineman Russell Okung has undergone one of the wildest body transformations we’ve ever seen. The once very large lineman has now lost over 150 pounds since calling it quits thanks to a miserable-sounding water diet.
Okung weighed in at 310 pounds at one point during his NFL career, but last month revealed he had lost 102 pounds since his last game in the league. Those 102 pounds clearly weren’t enough in his mind so he decided to drop another 50 pounds since then.
The AFC North has a strong case for being the league’s toughest division with the Bengals, Ravens, Browns and Steelers fielding competitive rosters.
The Bengals appear to be the team to beat as back-to-back AFC North champions, but they will need their retooled offensive line to develop quick chemistry for this to finally be the year for Cincinnati to win it all.
The Ravens are also generating hype as contenders, and they, too, have a few new pieces that are vital for the team to have success in 2023.