Quick Slant: 2025 NFL Madrid Game - De Madrid al Cielo
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Commanders * Dolphins Situated in Spain’s belly, high on a plateau where summer heat gathers like stored voltage, Madrid sometimes feels closer to the sun than the sea. The air is dry as a kiln, faintly metallic. Autumn weather is a silence occasionally broken by
Week 11 Walkthrough: Josh Jacobs, Come Hell or High Water
Welcome to the Week 11 Walkthrough. In this article, I'll outline critical fantasy football context for the 11th glorious football Sunday of 2025. (The stats below are from PFF, NFLfastR, rbsdm.com, RotoViz, FantasyLabs, Fantasy Life, Fantasy Points, ESPN, FTN, and NFL Next Gen). PROE data is available
2025 Week 11 Rankings
These are PPR redraft rankings, with input from Pat Kerrane, Steph Miller, and Sackreligious. The addition of tiers is intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. They'll initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff (just like the
Quick Slant: TNF - The Hate, As It Turns Out, Is More Fun
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Jets * Patriots Cambridge-born Vaudevillian Fred Allen fled New England’s stiff traditions, parsimony, and old workings for the vital organism of New York—vibrant, improper, unchaste—long ago. He lamented the difference on his radio show years later: “I have just returned from Boston. It
FAABulous Football Week 11: The End is Near
Welcome to Week 11 and I am sad to say that there are only two weeks left of the regular season for FFPC leagues... time flies! At this point you should have a realistic idea of where your team stands and what your odds are to securing a top 4
Quick Slant: MNF - Empires Forged From Cold and Hunger
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Eagles * Packers Twenty-one is an age where the pragmatist inside you is in full-on fisticuffs with the dreamer. People like Curly Lambeau—square jaw, plump lips, full hair, handsome—like a member of One Direction seduced some time ago by the call of the barbell
Quick Slant: SNF - The Comings and Goings of Winning Culture
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Steelers * Chargers Los Angeles still glows after the Dodgers renewed their championship banner subscription last Saturday; not only so, they own the rights to the greatest baseball player who has ever lived, and they participate in a sport without a salary cap, where the richest
Quick Slant - 2025 Berlin Game: Better than a Corporate Retreat
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Falcons * Colts On May 9, 1945, the sun rose on Berlin. People woke to the sound of calm, turned the doorknob, and were met with a brisk spring morning—partly cloudy, 40 degrees Fahrenheit. They entered onto cobblestone streets, under a layer of ash, into
