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• All about the QBs: the 2024 SportsChasers NFL mock draft

  By themikeherndon on April 10, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Another draft, another year with all the attention focused squarely on the quarterbacks. Perhaps the reason so many teams need them is because so many of them keep getting it wrong. Take the Bears, who again hold… Read More ›

• Prepare for a Swifty Super Bowl (and a dynasty)

  By themikeherndon on February 5, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON I hate to tell y’all, but I think Kansas City’s about to win this thing again. I hate to say it because they won it last year. I hate to say it because we’d just finally gotten… Read More ›

• Joyless Murderball is finally over (and we’ll miss it)

  By themikeherndon on January 11, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON OK, so now I guess you can say the dynasty is over. For years, many blowhard so-called sports analysts have been proclaiming the Alabama dynasty is “dead” pretty much anytime the Crimson Tide lost a game. And… Read More ›

• The championship may pass Nick Saban by this year, but the game hasn’t

  By themikeherndon on January 7, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON The college football national championship is Monday night and for the first time since the very first year of the playoff, an SEC team will not be in it. That’s made some people deliriously happy (has anyone… Read More ›

• Trophy hunting: Championship week starts and sits

  By themikeherndon on December 28, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON It’s championship week! If you’ve made it this far, congratulations – let’s get you that trophy. If you’re playing in a consolation round, let’s finish strong. This may not need to be said, but there’s no tomorrow…. Read More ›

• Start your studs? You might want to think twice about these

  By themikeherndon on December 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Start your studs, they say. This time of year, if you’re still alive in the fantasy postseason, is no time to overthink your lineup. Like anything else, however, even good advice has its limits. There are some… Read More ›

• Navigating injuries & bad weather in the fantasy playoffs: Week 15 starts & sits

  By themikeherndon on December 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON The playoffs are here. Hopefully your rosters are set and you weren’t counting on Justin Herbert to lead you to the promised land, as he is the latest in a lengthy list of quarterbacks lost for the… Read More ›

• Now or never: Week 14 starts and sits

  By themikeherndon on December 9, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON This is it – the last week of the regular season in most redraft fantasy leagues. It may be the next-to-last if you have a four-team playoff, but either way this week is important for many of… Read More ›

• Derek Carr doesn’t deserve what I heard in the Superdome on Sunday

  By themikeherndon on December 6, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON “At least we don’t have to watch Derek Carr anymore,” the woman in front of me said as we exited the Superdome last Sunday. “He is not an NFL quarterback.” She wore Saints colors, with a prominent… Read More ›

• The last Byemageddon: Week 13 starts & sits

  By themikeherndon on November 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON It’s the last big bye week of the NFL season, with six teams off this week. That means a lot of you will likely have holes in your lineups. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson won’t play this… Read More ›