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HOTLANTA DEBATE: WHAT TO DO AT #4?
- April 22, 2021
- 2020 Season
It’s one of the great debates that’s happening in the roll-up to the NFL Draft starting on April 29. What will Atlanta do at #4?
FERNANDOMANIA: THE BEST OF TIMES
- April 8, 2021
- 2020 Season
I don’t think of Fernando Valenzuela being born so much as he was touched by the heavens and his left arm was turned into an artistic masterpiece as beautiful and creative as any work of art or a classic...
EMBRACE THE MADNESS! NFL FREE AGENCY 2021
- March 27, 2021
- 2020 Season
Way back in February, in the cleanup stages from the Super Bowl, Adam Schefter tweeted that there could be as many as 18 teams making changes at the QB position. That’s more than half the teams that could be...
SUPER SOPH: RUNNING BACKS
- February 24, 2021
- 2020 Season
We heard about why rookie RBs would not be able to thrive in 2020. The lack of OTAs and preseason games would slow acclimation to the NFL game. Players might not have state-of-the-art training facilities to get their work...
TIME TO RETHINK THE LATE-ROUND QB?
- February 16, 2021
- 2020 Season
In our Familia league, we chuckle at the photo of our first draft. It’s a big board, filled with stickers with players’ names in different colors making a big spreadsheet come to life. All our teams were on there...
ADENTRO Y AFUERA SUPER BOWL LV… WE MADE IT!
- February 5, 2021
- 2020 Season
When I think back to late July, when NFL camps were opening up with an equal mix of limited fanfare and trepidation, I had an internal tug of war going on in my brain about the upcoming NFL season.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY FIRST YEAR AS A FANTASY FOOTBALL ANALYST
- January 27, 2021
- 2020 Season
When my primos Ricky, Hector and I debuted the Familia FFB podcast back on Cinco de Mayo 2020, we all thought we knew fantasy football really well. We’d studied, received and made trade offers, made playoffs, won and lost...
ADENTRO Y AFUERA, CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS: YOU WANT A REMATCH?
- January 23, 2021
- 2020 Season
When I think of rematches, I think of Muhammad Ali and the Rocky series before I think of football. Ali had some of the boxing world’s most epic rematches, and with regard to Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, trilogies.
ADENTRO Y AFUERA, PLAYOFFS DIVISIONAL ROUND: WHAT’S IN THE NAME?
- January 15, 2021
- 2020 Season
The Divisional Round of the playoffs is one of the most poorly named weekends of NFL Football and sports in general. Kyle Brandt of NFL Network pointed out on the Rich Eisen Show that March Madness has the market...
TOMMY LASORDA: A LIFE IN BLUE
- January 13, 2021
- 2020 Season
When I got the news on the morning of Jan. 8 that the legendary Tommy Lasorda passed away at age 93, it was a major punch in the gut. More like a baseball bat to the forehead. This was...
ADENTRO Y AFUERA: SUPER WILD CARD WEEKEND
- January 7, 2021
- 2020 Season
I love the NFL playoffs. Much as I relish the regular season with 7 games on in the early window, I so enjoy it when there’s only a single game happening at once. It gets that Sunday or Monday...
ADENTRO Y AFUERA WEEK 17: THE WEIRD WEEK KICKS OFF 2021
- January 1, 2021
- 2020 Season
This week the strategy completely changes. The challenge is more complex than every other week this season, because you’re not just looking at past performance within a great matchup. You’re also looking at who is going to actually “play”...