Ken Riley, the Hall of Famer who is not in the Hall of Fame, passed away yesterday at the age of 72. Anyone outside of Cincinnati likely skipped over the headline or said, “Who is Ken Riley?”, which is not a surprise to many… least of all the man himself.
During their 60th NFL season in 2019, the Buffalo Bills finished with a record of 10-6, which was good for second in the AFC East. They booked a trip to the playoffs for the second time in three years but were unable to secure their first postseason win since 1995 after a heartbreaking overtime loss to Houston and turned their sights to 2020 free agency and the draft.
In a move that surprised absolutely no one, Major League Baseball owners proposed a return-to-play plan that the players effectively scoffed at, putting fans’ hopes for a baseball return in question.
Memories are short among NFL fans. Many do not even recall that the Houston Texans finished the 2019 season with a division championship at 10-6 and beat an upstart Buffalo Bills team in the first round of the playoffs. Following that, they went up by 21 points in the divisional round before the eventual SBLIV Champion Kansas City Chiefs went on a rampage and sent them packing. A tumultuous offseason then erased those memories for fans outside of Texas.
The Cincinnati Bengals hit it out of the park during the draft, beginning with Joe Burrow and continuing round-by-round to fill needs on the roster to pair with an active free agency and seem to have immediately changed their fortunes headed into 2020. With the scheduled offseason workout programs and post-draft rookie minicamps canceled, Zac Taylor’s vision of adding free agent veterans seems savvy, but it takes a lot to flip a franchise. The dominoes must fall the right way and here is how it happens, and this is how they will.
After a 2019 season that saw the Los Angeles Chargers finish 5-11 and in the basement of the AFC West, they hit the ground running in free agency. The Chargers don’t have to look far into the rear-view mirror to see a 2018 season where they went 12-4 under Anthony Lynn and made the playoffs. In 2020 they open the brand new SoFi Stadium in Southern California (a joint venture with the LA Rams) and are ready to christen their new digs with a winning season. What does 2020 hold for the Bolts? Here are some (very) bold takes for this season’s Chargers. Let’s get crazy!
Sam Schneider | May 12th, 2020 Forrest Gregg and Kenny Anderson. Sam Wyche and Boomer Esiason. Zac Taylor and Joe Burrow? The former pairs both
“Wel- uh um ttoo Ope ing-ing Day-ay ah twennnnnty-tee bayayseball eason!”.
More iconic words have probably never been spoken in the history of Major League Baseball. Even with less-than-stellar Wi-Fi, the announcer (sitting on his deck near the coast of South Carolina) is ushering in the first game of a season delayed by a world pandemic and still with many restrictions in place. He is watching the same feed as you and me; it comes to us from a solitary camera perched in the stands roughly seventy-five feet behind home plate and elevated for a full view of the field.
The Los Angeles Chargers started off free agency like a shock-wave. The right side of the offensive line was fortified and they added key pieces to the defense that made it potentially one of the best in the league in a weaponized division. Coming off a 5-11 season that included three straight losses to close the campaign, that was only the start.
The Cincinnati Bengals spent over $158 million in free agency in 2020, a sign of commitment to bring fans back to Paul Brown Stadium and to putting a better product on the field before going into the draft with the number one overall pick. The top of the draft was no surprise. They selected the best quarterback in college last year coming off arguably the greatest season in college football history.
Moss has all the makings of an effective (if not extraordinary) NFL tight end. He will need coaching at the next level to reach his potential but in a historically weak class for the position, he should be one of the first off of the board. He displays unreal hands and blocking ability but lacks the physical traits to dominate the field in most situations. Let’s have a look at the potential he brings to the next level as a tight end and where he might go.
Donovan Peoples-Jones, WR, Michigan, #9
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 212 lbs
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Games Watched: SMU (2018), WMU (2018), Indiana (2019), Wisconsin (2019), MSU (2019)
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