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News -- October 2019 (67)
- 10/15 Bolt Beat: Game ball for the Chargers embarrassing loss on Sunday Night Football: The Los Angeles Chargers got pushed around for four quarters in an embarrassing loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night...
- 10/15 The Scorecrow: Waiver Wire Targets For Week Seven: At this point in the fantasy season, your team is starting to really take shape. Your first-round picks are either great, good...
- 10/15 The Scorecrow: Woz’s NFL Notebook: Russell Wilson emerges as the MVP favorite: There's no shortage of talking points from Week 6 of the NFL. This edition of my notebook features several quarterbacks making...
- 10/15 FootballPerspective.com: Week 6 (2019) Passing Stats: Matt Ryan In A Losing Effort: This was another rough week for passers, at least by 2019 standards. The most remarkable stat was the TD/INT ratio, which was...
- 10/15 Fantasy Six Pack: 2019 Fantasy Football Week 7 Drop List: Through six weeks, we are starting to see storylines – both player and team – start to develop. In the NFC, we’ve...
- 10/15 KC Kingdom: KC Chiefs: What we learned about each team in AFC West after week 6: Suddenly it's gotten a little more interesting in the AFC West, as the KC Chiefs have dropped two straight games and are...
- 10/14 Last Word on Sports: Los Angeles Chargers Running Backs Disappoint Again in Loss: The Los Angeles Chargers are probably glad at this point that they had the Miami Dolphins on the schedule two weeks ago. Because...
- 10/14 LA Sports Hub: Los Angeles Chargers can kiss the playoffs goodbye: The Los Angeles Chargers sealed their fate for the 2019 season with a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road athome on Sunday...
- 10/14 NFL Spin Zone: Pittsburgh Steelers: Studs and duds vs. Chargers in Week 6: With Devlin Hodges starting at quarterback, the Pittsburgh Steelers upset the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday Night Football. After...
- 10/14 City of Champions: Pittsburgh Steelers Prove Season Isn't Over With Week Six Win: The Pittsburgh Steelers picked up a much-needed win in Week Six, and in the process, kept their season alive. For one of the...
- 10/14 Bolt Beat: Chargers rally, but lose to lowly Steelers in national spotlight: Yes, that just happened. The Los Angeles Chargers looked like they were playing the Pittsburgh Steelers of old on Sunday night. It's...
- 10/13 Last Word on Sports: Will Dissly Fantasy Football Tight End Replacements: Will Dissly suffered a knee injury in Sunday’s action, and the early reports are not encouraging. According to ESPN’s Jeremy...
- 10/13 Last Word on Sports: Fantasy Football Week 7 Defense Waiver Wire Streams: Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, More: Five weeks of NFL play are officially in the books, which means bye weeks are in full swing. Gone are the days where you could...
- 10/13 Fansided Fantasy: DraftKings showdown Sunday Night Football: Each week I will be breaking down the DraftKings Showdown Slates on Monday, Thursday and Sunday night football. The DraftKings...
- 10/13 Bolt Beat: Chargers Fantasy Preview: Keenan Allen looks to rebound vs. Pittsburgh: The Los Angeles Chargers are looking to bounce back from a Week 5 loss to the Denver Broncos while fantasy players are looking...
- 10/13 Bolt Beat: Injuries, improvement, and impact: How Chargers match up against the Steelers: Another week, another major injury for the Los Angeles Chargers. In a season in which injuries are accumulating at an alarming...
- 10/13 LA Sports Hub: Los Angeles Chargers: Staff predictions vs. Pittsburgh Steelers: The Los Angeles Chargers are off to a very disappointing 2-3 start and find themselves on primetime against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The...
- 10/13 FanSided: Fantasy Football picks: Week 6 SNF Steelers vs. Chargers: Fantasy Football picks: Week 6 SNF Steelers vs. Chargers As most of us DFS players tend to do, after our lineups are all locked...
- 10/13 FootballPerspective.com: When Does ANY/A Get It Wrong? By Adam Steele: Adam Steele is back for another guest post. You can view all of Adam’s posts here. As always, we thank him for contributing....
- 10/13 The LAFB Network: DraftKings Optimal Lineup – Week 6: The LAFB Network provides you with the DraftKings Optimal Lineup for Week 6! The post DraftKings Optimal Lineup – Week 6 appeared...
- 10/12 The LAFB Network: Chargers Vs Steelers: Preview And Prediction: The Chargers square off with the Steelers on Sunday Night Football and there are many different ways that this game could go. The...
- 10/12 Bolt Beat: 5 things Los Angeles Chargers fans might say: It's hard being a fan of the Los Angeles Chargers. That's something many of the team's long-time fans might say. The...
- 10/12 FootballPerspective.com: Longest Active Streaks Without A Sack: Jacoby Brissett has a reputation as a guy who will take a lot of sacks. In fact, prior to 2019, he stood out as one of the most...
- 10/12 RandomCardinalStats: Is Mahomes the Best Show in the NFL?: I remember the moment quite clearly. It was the first football Thursday of the 2017 season, and Kansas City was in the process...
- 10/11 The Scorecrow: NFL Week 6: Steelers at Chargers Preview: The Los Angeles Chargers (2-3) host the Pittsburgh Steelers (1-4) in the Sunday night game. Anthony Lynn is under pressure to...
- 10/10 Last Word on Sports: Los Angeles Chargers Defense Key Against Pittsburgh Steelers Despite Injuries: The Los Angeles Chargers have a Sunday Night Football matchup coming up against the Pittsburgh Steelers (1-4). They come into...
- 10/10 Mile High Sports: Player Profile: Justin Simmons proving himself as a stalwart on defense: Broncos' fourth-year safety Justin Simmons is proving himself as a reliable commodity in the defensive backfield. The post Player...
- 10/10 NFL Spin Zone: Los Angeles Chargers continue searching for identity: With their defeat to the previously winless Broncos, the Los Angeles Chargers are spinning their wheels, needing both direction...
- 10/10 Bolt Beat: Los Angeles Chargers: Positional grades for Week 4 loss against Denver: Losing to a division rival hurts. Losing to a division rival that was previously 0-4 is borderline devastating. Yet that is exactly...
- 10/10 FootballPerspective.com: Longest Active Streaks Without An Interception: Some fun with play by play data this morning. As you know, Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, and Marcus Mariota are the only starting...
- 10/9 fullpresscoverage.com: Analyzing the Bright Spots in Miami’s 0-4 Start: Though we are only through one quarter of the season, it doesn’t seem that the Miami Dolphins trading for QB Josh Rosen has made...
- 10/9 Arrowhead Addict: Around the AFC West, Week 6: Oakland Raiders settle into second place: Let's take a look around the AFC West as the Chiefs and Chargers stumble, the Raiders rise, and Denver gets its first win...
- 10/9 LA Sports Hub: Los Angeles Chargers: The case for and against a Trent Williams trade: Washington Redskins tackle Trent Williams is still amidst a holdout and the Los Angeles Chargers could be a team that knocks on...
- 10/9 NFL Spin Zone: Pittsburgh Steelers: 3 Bold predictions vs. Chargers, Week 6: After a crushing overtime loss in Week 5, the Pittsburgh Steelers will take on the struggling Los Angeles Chargers in Week 6. The...
- 10/8 FanSided: Fantasy football lineup advice: Week 6 BOOM or BUST!: Fantasy football lineup advice: Week 6 BOOM or BUST! Week 5 Recap: Somebody told Aaron Jones that he was picked as a "BUST"...
- 10/8 The Commute Sports: NFL Use of Passing: Teams are running "high-powered" offenses with young quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes or Jared Goff who pass the ball a lot....
- 10/8 Just Blog Baby: AFC West standings, Week 5: Raiders shock Bears in London: The AFC West has been dominated by the Chiefs and Chargers over the past few years, but the Oakland Raiders are proving to be...
- 10/8 The Scorecrow: Week 6 Fantasy Streamers: It’s time for the Week 6 Fantasy Streamers! The teams on bye this week have doubled from two to four teams, so here are some options...
- 10/8 FootballPerspective.com: Week 5 (2019) Passing Stats: Deshaun Watson Stars: Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is pretty darn good when he isn’t being sacked. On Sunday against the Falcons,...
- 10/8 KC Kingdom: KC Chiefs: What we learned about each team in AFC West after week 5: The KC Chiefs experienced their first loss of the season over the weekend. How did the rest of the AFC West fare in week five...
- 10/7 Last Word on Sports: Eli Manning Has Already Made Unofficial Coaching Debut; Who’s Next?: Replacing Eli Manning as the starting quarterback of the New York Giants was the brilliant move that nobody saw coming; not after...
- 10/7 NFL Spin Zone: Los Angeles Chargers: Studs and duds vs. Broncos in Week 5: The Los Angeles Chargers laid an egg, losing 20-13 to the Broncos in Week 5. These were the studs and duds from the Bolts in a...
- 10/7 LA Sports Hub: Los Angeles Chargers drop close game to Denver Broncos: The Denver Broncos headed into their matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers without a win and left with a one in the win column. The...
- 10/6 Bolt Beat: Chargers become first team to lose to Broncos in 2019: The Los Angeles Chargers faced a winless team on Sunday and that winless team left with its first victory of the season. The...
- 10/6 Bolt Beat: Bold predictions for Chargers in Week 5 against the Broncos: The Los Angeles Chargers will face their first division rival of the 2019 season in Week 5 when they host the Denver Broncos....
- 10/6 Bolt Beat: Chargers Fantasy Preview: Austin Ekeler a must start vs. Denver: Can you depend on Austin Ekeler in fantasy with Melvin Gordon taking carries this week? What other Los Angeles Chargers are good...
- 10/6 Just Blog Baby: Oakland Raiders: 3 big stats from the first quarter of the season: The Oakland Raiders have a tough stretch that could swing their season in either direction and there a few areas of the stat sheet...
- 10/6 CaliSports News: Chargers Beat Miami, 30-10: After 37 years the Los Angeles Chargers finally beat the Miami Dolphins in Miami, 30-10. The last time the Chargers won in Miami...
- 10/6 Detroit Jock City: Here’s the NFL daily fantasy football lineup to play in week five: It’s week five for daily fantasy football! Here’s the lineup to play if you want a good shot at winning on Sunday, October 5th. Y'all,...
- 10/5 NFC Beast: Week Five, The Giants And Yards After The Catch: In Pro Football Reference’s advanced passing stats Giant quarterback Daniel Jones ranks fourth in passing yards after catch...
- 10/5 Bolt Beat: Chargers: Philip Rivers' performance through turmoil should not be overlooked: Through team injuries, holdouts, weird penalty calls, as well as the fall of his contemporaries, Philip Rivers is playing incredibly...
- 10/5 LA Sports Hub: Los Angeles Chargers: Staff predictions vs. Denver Broncos: The Los Angeles Chargers host the Denver Broncos in Week 5 looking to move above .500 while the Broncos chase their first win. After...
- 10/5 Steel Curtain Rising: Mason Rudolph’s Competition Isn’t Ben Roethlisberger Its Lamarr Jackson and Baker Mayfield: The 2019 regular season is four weeks old, and the Steelers are 1-3 and without their best player, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger,...
- 10/5 Bolt Beat: Report Card: Grading Chargers' effort in win against the 'Fins: I am never one to panic this early in the season, but if the Los Angeles Chargers would have lost to these woeful Miami Dolphins,...
- 10/5 The Scorecrow: NFL Week 5: Broncos at Chargers Preview: The 0-4 Denver Broncos head to the 2-2 Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. It's an AFC West Divisional game with plenty at stake....
- 10/4 Bolt Beat: Chargers: Grading the wide receiver group through four games: The Los Angeles Chargers' wideouts have been among the most interesting position groups on the team. How have they all fared...
- 10/4 The Fantasy Footballers: Predicting the Top-12 QBs for Week 5: Last week had some depressed QB scoring as someone like Mr. 3-Yard Pass Mason Rudolph somehow cracked the top-12. Patrick Mahomes...
- 10/4 Phin Phanatic: Miami Dolphins biggest bright spots through the four weeks: The Miami Dolphins have been one of the worst teams in NFL history through 4 games, but that doesn't mean there aren't...
- 10/3 Last Word on Sports: Early Success a Pleasant Surprise for 2019 Detroit Lions: If you're a fan of the Detroit Lions, you likely haven't forgotten the debacle that was Week 1 of 2018. The Lions opened the...
- 10/3 Bolt Beat: Los Angeles Chargers: Potential trades that could help fix issue at wide receiver: The Los Angeles Chargers are a hurting unit, in more ways than one. The team has injuries all over the roster and many second...
- 10/3 NFL Spin Zone: NFL Week 5, 2019: 5 Teams on upset alert: Here are five teams that should consider themselves on upset alert heading into NFL Week 5 of the 2019 season. During Week 4...
- 10/2 FanSided: Fantasy football lineup advice: Week 5 BOOM or BUST!: Fantasy football lineup advice: Week 5 BOOM or BUST! Fantasy football can be an extremely weird game. This week, I'll do...
- 10/1 The LAFB Network: 2019 Fantasy Football Start Em Sit Em Week 4: Read this week's Week 4 Start Em Sit Em to get the inside scoop on who to play and who to bench. Why do all the homework when...
- 10/1 The LAFB Network: NFL Week 4 Parlay Bets: 3 Of The Best Parlay’s That Will Make You Money: We continue our weekly series on The LAFB Network and give you the three best parlay bets that you can make for week 4. The post...
- 10/1 Toro Times: Houston Texans: 3 cornerback free agents that can help secondary: The Houston Texans have struggled with inconsistency at the cornerback position for the early part of the season. The Houston...
- 10/1 FootballPerspective.com: Week 4 (2019) Passing Stats: NFL Offenses Struggle: It was a rough week for a lot of passers in week 4: there were just 39 touchdown passes by the 30 teams, and the league averaged...
- 10/1 Arrowhead Addict: Around the AFC West: Raiders rise, Broncos sink in Week 4: Let's take a look around the AFC West as the Chiefs battled to remain in first place, the Chargers and Raiders took steps...
News -- September 2019 (127)