Quick Slant: TNF - This is America
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Commanders * Packers Washington, D.C., is the nation’s capital; it’s named after one of our founders—our first president, a military general whose integrity and steadiness helped secure independence for the colonies while assuring, along the way, that power should serve the people,
Quick Slant: SNF - Like Sisyphus, Summoning the Strength to Push the Stone Another Time
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Ravens * Bills Four teams enter Week 1 with an over/under of 11.5 wins in 2025. Two of them will meet Sunday night in a game that feels like the fresh pour of foundation to support the entire 2025 AFC title race. It’s
Quick Slant: Friday Night - Time to Flip the Script?
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Chargers * Chiefs Hollywood is a land of dreams; it feels like a metropolitan sprawl of 18 million waiters and valets spread along 33,000 square miles, each preparing for their place on the couch next to some late-night talk show host. It’s a city
Quick Slant: TNF - Not Peak, but Prologue
Mat Irby's Quick Slant * Eagles * Cowboys If the rivalries of the NFC East are like embers that never snuff out, Philadelphia and Dallas’ is a perpetual conflagration. Their rivalry isn’t seasonal, but generational—each offseason a Cold War, and their annual meetings, seven hours spilling out over
Stop Playing It Safe: Why Apex Drafting Is the Key to Fantasy Football Success
Smoke stagnated, yellowing the upper half of a dimly lit hotel room. It was August 1963; rain-slicked Manhattan was boiling outside, a distant train screaming through the night somewhere beyond the window. Three men from Oakland – each tied to the Raiders or Bay Area newspapers – were out on business with
Thinking Critically About Off-Season Narratives
The NFL offseason spits out narratives like a saw blade churning through wood—our takes as permanent as kerf. Our unconscious minds reinforce our biases on repeat; it’s an involuntary reflex. And when others confirm our biases, those become as impenetrable as city walls. And yet, parroting the most
Overlooked Stats: The Right Type of Routes
In fantasy football, gaining an edge means going beyond rankings and uncovering predictive stats that go overlooked. Legacy stats like receptions, yards, and past PPR output are solid but are also low-hanging fruit. Every bushy-haired grandpa with a fantasy football magazine who enters your draft room uses these. That means
The Rashee Rice Fallout: Legal Details, an Inevitable Suspension, and the Resulting Fantasy Impact
On March 30, 2024, two black sports cars tore up Central Expressway in Dallas at 119 MPH — a Chevrolet Corvette and a Lamborghini Urus — when a silver Malibu in the far left lane was suddenly caught between them. One car clipped the Malibu’s left flank, the other struck its