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NFL Breaking News

By: Owen Meyers

NFL Breaking News!!! 

Rookie quarterback for the Washington Commanders, Jayden Daniels pulls off an incredible upset win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night. The second pick out of LSU faces another former LSU quarterback, Joe Burrow. Jayden did not only show off his scrambling skills and his elite mobility in Monday night’s game; but also his ability to be a great, in the pocket pass threat as well. Daniels completed 21 of 23 pass attempts, threw for 254 with 2 TD passes, and 1 rushing TD. Daniels also broke a rookie record with the best completion percentage(91.3%) ever. Daniel saved his best throw for last, completing a dime to Terry McLaurin in the endzone on 3rd and 7 with the game on the line. 

Injury Updates!!!

Jordan Love is expected to play in the game against Green Bay on Sunday. Love sprained his MCL late in the game against the Eagles, in week 1. Green Bay surprisingly went 2-0 without Love, but it is still huge for the Packers that Love is back this week. 

Dolphins star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffers his 3rd concussion in week 2 against the Bills. This was devastating for the Dolphins, because Tua was just coming off his first complete season without an injury. There have been serious conversations about his retirement ,but the Dolphins placed Tua on IR, leaving him 4 weeks to recover. 

Broncos star linebacker Alex Singleton suffered an ACL tear during week three’s game against the Buccaneers on Sunday. This hurts the Broncos significantly as Singleton averaged 10 tackles a game in his first three games this season. Singleton tore his ACL during the 1st quarter and ended up playing the rest of the game. He reported he had soreness in his leg but that soreness ended up being a season ending injury. 

Christian McCaffrey, running back for the 49ers, still suffers with a calf, achilles injury. McCaffrey is expected to miss 2 more games and maybe more. 

Team Dipper Kupp Stats from Week 3 

By: Cooper Scott

I’m in a ten man point per reception league with my friends, and after week three. My record is two and one. First player is Patrick Mahomes, my Quarterback, Patrick threw for two hundred seventeen yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Mahomes was projected to have 20.0 fantasy points and he fell short of that with only 16.38 fantasy points.

Starting off with my running back one, Jonathan Taylor. Taylor had 26 fantasy points on twenty three touches for one hundred ten yards and two touchdowns. He bombed this week with a projection of 18.1 points and he finished as running back 5 in week three. My running back 2 was James Connor. Connor had 9 touches for 17 yards. Connor was also involved in the passing game with one target, one catch, and eight receiving yards. Connor was projected 15.3 fantasy points and he busted this week with his projection of 3.5 fantasy points. 

Now onto wide receivers, My wide receiver one last week was Rashee Rice.

Rice was projected to have 18.1 fantasy points, but Rice bombed with only 29.1 fantasy points.

Rice was targeted 14 times with 12 catches for 110 yards and one touchdown. Malik 

Nabers is wide Receiver two, and Nabers had a monster week. Nabers was projected 14.7 fantasy points, and Nabers boomed with 28.1 Fantasy points. Nabers was targeted 15 times, and came down with 8 of the 12 targets with 78 yards and two touchdowns. Nabers finished as the wide receiver 1 this week!

I started J.K. from Los Angeles as my flex this week. Dobbins was projected to have 13.0 fantasy points this week, and finished with 44 fantasy points. Dobbins had 15 carries for 44 yards and 3 receptions for 10 yards. Dobbins was one of my sleepers going into this year, and my friends called me an idiot but I am proving them wrong.

Onto with the defense and the kicker, I started the Bucs defense. The Bucs were projected to have 7.9 fantasy points and they ended with 1 fantasy point. The Bucs defense gave up 26 points to the Denver Broncos and the defense had 1 fumble recovery. My kicker was Cairo Santos, he was projected 7.8 fantasy points. Santos finished with 5.0 fantasy points, and Santos had 1 field goal on 2 attempts and 1 extra point. That is a wrap for team Dipper Kupp Fantasy breakdown week 3. We will see you in week 5.

Overall my team played decent but not up to their full potential. Getting a win in fantasy will always make my weekend, and I put way too much research and time into fantasy to not have a good year. I play the number one team this week, but I feel confident my team has what it takes to beat Team Ford.

Is sports betting a reliable source of income?

By: Milling Galloway

Sports betting is an addiction that many people struggle with. Which pops the question can sports betting bring in a steady income. If we are going to look into this, first you have to understand what sports betting is. Forbes states, “Sports betting is the act of risking money on the outcome of a sporting event or any aspect of a sporting event. The goal is to turn a profit.Sports betting includes wagers on the moneyline, spread, Over/Under, parlays, props and futures.Multiple factors determine how much money sports bettors can win.” So, if you were asking the question of if it’s gambling. The answer would be yes. Unlike other gambling ways sports betting is the most reliable of them all. Unless you know nothing about what you are going to gamble on. ElitePickz mentions, “Professional sport bettors rarely sustain long-term winning percentage above 56% and sometimes the lowest win rate of 53 – 54 %. The break even winning percentage of a profitable sports bettor is typically 52.4%.” This truly isn’t that bad of odds and you also have to put in perspective of how many non-knowledgeable people make bets. I personally think sports betting could be a profession. It’s kinda like being a stockbroker, just with sports. Some sports bets can give you a max payout of a lot of money. The bad thing about it though is that the risk can be very high. Losing money is a common theme among people. But not me, just kidding I am not old enough to bet. When I turn the appropriate age, I might dabble into the sports betting industry. In my opinion nothing can beat sitting back on the couch and relaxing. Also you will be making money at the same time. What gets better than that? Nothing does, so sports betting could be a sustainable profession.

Cardinals Are Looking Scary Heading Into Week 4

By: Henry Jones

In all honesty, the last three weeks of NFL football have been the most enjoyable in a while. Though my Arizona Cardinals have a losing record being 1-2, we are surely shocking the sports world. Both of our losses have been by a single touchdown, and our win was by a significant amount of points. Not to mention all the teams we have played are significantly dominant teams. To give you better perspective on how our team is playing, Kyler Murray is a top 15 ranked QB and threw a perfect passer rating in the week 2 game versus the Rams. While this is very promising, there is also our rookie wide receiver, Marvin Harrison Jr., who has been producing as well. Despite the scary week one performance only producing one catch for four yards, he took a big leap forward going for 130 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter alone. Not only is this impressive for a rookie, Harrison Jr. is just the 13th receiver since 1991 to achieve this goal.

Another thing to notice is that our rushing game has also taken a jump. James Connor, our running back, has been a demon on the ground, amassing 189 rush yards and two touchdowns. Pairing him with the mobility of Kyler Murray is surely something for teams to watch out for. Now to talk rankings. The Cardinals are currently second in their division with the most points scored out of all their competitors. You would think since we have a more points scored than allowed in our games we would be positive, but no, our defense always seems to find a way to sell. It’s times like these when I am looking forward to the draft when we can pick up a 6’5 250 lb defensive stud to reinforce our line. To wrap up, it is hard to predict whether we will end up losing the rest of our games, or sneaking into a playoff spot, but I can for sure say that we will kill the Panthers when that game rolls around.

The Panthers’ Problems

By: Knox Buxton

The Carolina Panthers have started off the season 0-2 and look like the worst team in the NFL again this season. They lost to the Saints 47-10 in the season opener in New Orleans, and then lost to the Los Angeles Chargers 26-3 in week 2 for their home opener. A lot of people wonder why the Panthers are just so bad this year. The reason why isn’t just from one problem, it is from a ton of different problems added together.

The first and biggest problem in my opinion is that their owner, David Tepper, is the worst owner in the NFL. He consistently makes the wrong decisions such as hiring the wrong coaches, like when he hired Frank Reich last season and he didn’t even make it through the whole season before he got fired. He hired Reich after Steve Wilkes almost led the Panthers to the playoffs the year before even after they traded Christian McCaffrey to the 49ers and got off to a terrible start. The players made it known that they wanted to keep Steve Wilkes around, but Tepper obviously did not care and we saw how that turned out. In my opinion, the sooner David Tepper steps down as the owner of the Panthers, the sooner the Panthers will turn things around. Tepper just has no idea what he is doing and he acts more of a fan than an owner. The Panthers also seem to make the wrong decision everytime about what players to sign. They traded for Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield in back to back years and neither of them could play well on the Panthers. Now Baker is playing the best football of his NFL career for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Sam Darnold has put together a couple good games for the Vikings. They selected Bryce Young with the first overall pick last year and have already benched him after week two of his second season. Young has started off his career 2-17 as the Panthers starter and I know he hasn’t been playing well, but the problem is not all on him.

If Mayfield and Darnold can play well when they are not on the Panthers, I believe Bryce Young can too. He has been given one of the worst receiving rooms and offensive lines in the league to start his career and as an undersized quarterback, there’s not much he can do about it. The problem is not just the quarterback position, it is just about everywhere on the field. The Panthers should start by figuring out if Bryce Young is the guy to build around or not. Then they need to keep getting the offensive and defensive lines better. After that, they should go out and get a top receiver who is in talks of being traded by their current team such as Tee Higgins or maybe even Deebo Samuel. That is the best way to start getting on the right track. If Young is not the guy, which right now it seems like he is not, they need to try to get a good draft pick and draft a top quarterback this offseason. They should not try to trade for another mediocre quarterback like they have in past years because we see how that has gone.

The final thing I will talk about what they need to do is they need to figure out who to keep and who to let go of on the coaching staff. Dave Canales is in his first season as the Panther’s head coach and it has not looked good so far. I get that we are only two games into the season, but if this keeps up he might not make it the whole season just like Frank Reich. At the end of the day, there are many problems with the Carolina Panthers organization, but I believe if they can start correcting their mistakes little by little they can turn it around.

Team Dipper Kupp Stats from Week 1 

By: Cooper Scott

I’m in a ten man point per reception league with my friends, and after week one. My record is one and zero. First player is Patrick Mahomes, my Quarterback, Patrick threw for two hundred ninety-one yards, one touchdown and one interception. Mahomes was projected 19.3 fantasy points and he fell short of that with only 15.14 fantasy points.

Starting off with my running back one: Jonathan Taylor. Taylor had 10.8 fantasy points on sixteen touches for forty-eight yards and one touchdown. He fell short of his projection of 16.5 points and he finished as running back thirty on week one. My running back was Kenneth Walker III, Walker had twenty touches for one hundred and three yards and one touchdown. Walker was also involved in the passing game with three targets, two catches, and six receiving yards. Walker was projected 16.1 fantasy points and he did better than his projection with 18.9 fantasy points. Walker got beat up a little bit and exited the game with an abdominal injury late in the second half.

Now onto wide receivers, My wide receiver one last week was Garret Wilson.

Wilson was projected to have 16.5 fantasy points, but Wilson busted with only 12 fantasy points.

Wilson was targeted 11 times with only 6 catches with only 60 yards. Cooper Kupp is wide Receiver two, and Kupp had a monster week. Kupp was projected 14.7 fantasy points, and Kupp boomed with 32.0 Fantasy points.Kupp was targeted 21 times, and came down with 14 of the 21 targets with 110 yards and a touchdown. Kupp finished as the wide receiver 3 this week!

I started Rashee Rice from the Kansas City Chiefs as my flex this week. Rice was projected to have 14.1 fantasy points this week, and finished with 17.3 fantasy points. Rice had 9 targets and 7 receptions for 103 yards. Rice was one of my sleepers going into this year, and my friends called me an idiot but I am proving them wrong.

Onto with the defense and the kicker, I started the Bengals defense. The Bengals projected 7.9 fantasy points and he ended with 4 fantasy points. The Bengals defense gave up 16 points to the Patriots and the defense had 1 sack. My kicker was Cairo Santos, he was projected 7.8 fantasy points. Santos finished with 13.0 fantasy points, and Santos had 3 field goals and 1 extra point.

That is a wrap for team Dipper Kupp Fantasy breakdown week 1. We will see you in week 2.

What If?

By: Carson Wilsey

Super Bowl XLIX, February 1, 2015, is well-known for its miraculous ending in the final seconds of play. With only 26 seconds remaining, the Seattle Seahawks were behind 28–24 and on the verge of losing. The Seahawks were positioned on the New England Patriots,1-yard line and it appeared as though they would win the game with a last-minute touchdown. With so much at risk, the play calling became crucial needing close examination and discussion.

Unexpectedly, Darrell Bevell, the offensive coordinator for Seattle, decided to call a pass play rather than running the ball. Considering how effectively running back Marshawn Lynch performs in situations involving short yardage, the selection was controversial. On the play, Malcolm Butler, the rookie cornerback for the Patriots who was about to make a name for himself, was covering wide receiver Ricardo Lockette, quarterback Russell Wilson dropped back to attempt a pass to Lockette. Butler, who had a terrific read on the play, jumped the route and made a huge interception to put the Patriots ahead for good. This play, which significantly changed the game’s outcome and gained the Patriots’ a 28-24 victory, was a turning point in both Super Bowl history and the game itself.

Considering Lynch’s strong presence on the field, many have questioned the decision to pass rather than run on the closing play of Super Bowl XLIX. In addition to demonstrating Butler’s defensive greatness, the interception highlighted the intense nature of the game and how any play or decision may result in history. The game’s storyline may be impacted by a single moment in sports, as seen by this play, which makes Super Bowl XLIX one of the most famous and controversial Super Bowls in NFL history.

Does Green Bay Need to Worry WIthout Jordan Love

By: Stirling Tindal

On the second to last play of Green Bay’s week one loss, Jordan Love went down with what looked like a pretty gruesome injury. Many fans were scared that he would be out for the rest of the season, however Love is now reported to make a recovery in 3-6 weeks. Matt Lafuer assures fans that Love will be back on the sooner side of that expectation. 

Taking Love’s place will be Malik Willis who is now preparing for his first NFL start for the Packers. Willis should be a solid quarterback since he started some for the Titans his rookie season. If he has to start the entire 6 weeks or more, I believe Green Bay can win most of those games with a couple of losses. In their first game with the Colts at home, they should be able to come out with a win. The Colts run defense was very weak in week one with the Texans, allowing 213 rushing yards. If the Packers rely on Josh Jacobs it will be a good first game for Willis to get ready for the rest of his time as starter.

The next week on the road at the Titans, I see a close game. It’s Willis’s old team and this is his time to make a statement for the league but I don’t see the Packers pulling it away. Because it’s a road game and I don’t think Green Bay’s defense will be able to contain Tony Pollard, I have them losing this one and falling to 1-2.

In week 4 the Packers will stay home for their first divisional game and host the Vikings. This is Willis’s first divisional game as a Packer and I have Green Bay walking away with a win. I believe Green Bay’s secondary will be able to stop Justin Jefferson. I think the Packers offense will also have a decent game with some sloppy turnovers but the team will end up with the win.

Week 5 the Packers will go to the rams. Because of Green Vays great secondary and good offense, even with Malik Willis, I have them coming back home with a win and being 3-2

Green Bay hosts the Cardinals in week 6. The Packers are now getting into their stride and I am taking Green Bay again in this one. Matt Lafuer will have figured out how to work with WIllis at this point and the offense will look good enough to get another win

However in week 7 the Packers stay home once again and host the Texans. Because of the Texans hot offense I have Green Bay losing this one and falling to 4-3. I don’t see the Green Bay defense being able to control CJ Stroud. 

Green Bay still needs to be careful in all of these games because without Love, all of these games could go to anyone. I believe Malik Willis can keep the Packers satisfied and give Love a good record to work with once he returns.

NFL Report

By: Owen Meyers

Breaking News! Just hours before the Cowboys opener against the Browns, Cowboys agree to extend quarterback Dak Prescott’s contract, 4 years, 240 million dollars. This makes Dak Prescott the highest paid quarterback in the league, and the highest paid player in NFL history.

Also on Sunday, September 8, Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar was announced Super Bowl LIX, halftime performer. This is the second time that Kendrick Lamar will perform at a Super Bowl. He performed back in 2022 at Super Bowl LVI alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, and other California artists. Some people don’t agree with the choice of Kendrick Lamar and wish that Lil Wayne was the headliner instead.  

Injury reports! Christian Mcaffrey sat out week 1 against the Jets with calf, achilles injury. He managed to stay healthy through 2023 ,but dealt with calf, achilles injury throughout training camp and preseason games. 

The Green Bay Packers will not put Jordan Love on IR, since he suffered with a knee injury Friday night against the Eagles. Green Bay plans to have Jordan Love back on the field in 3 to 4 weeks. They will start Malik Willis, a recent addition to the team, since Green Bay traded a seventh round draft pick to the Tennessee Titans for Willis.

Rams star wide receiver Puka Nacua is placed on IR (injury reserved) from the game on Sunday night against the Lions. Sean McVay, head coach of the Rams, states on Monday that Puka has a PCL sprain. Puka is expected to be out for at least the next 4 games. 

Dallas Cowboys TE, Jake Ferguson sprained his MCL on Sunday in the game against the Cleveland Browns. His injury is not season ending, and he will only miss a few weeks. “Tests revealed an MCL sprain for Cowboys TE Jake Ferguson, which means he’ll miss time, but overall good news and not season-ending,” Ian Rapoport wrote on Twitter, an NFL network reporter. 

Can the Arizona Cardinals Compete in the the NFC West?

by: Henry Jones

Since the beginning of the National Football League, the Arizona Cardinals have existed, and ever since then, they have been disappointing to their fans. Though many others are willing to give up on the team, I am not. This looks as if it is finally our year. We have our dual threat QB back and healthy, we have a capable head coach, and our first draft pick, Marvin Harrison Jr. is looking to be the next coming of Jerry Rice and Randy Moss put together. This being said, our defense is probably, if not the worst thing I have ever laid my eyes on. It just isn’t physical enough to compete with the rest of the NFC West (the Cardinal’s division). 

Another thing, people love to go on and on complaining about how difficult they have it in their division, but nobody wants to talk about how hard the Cardinals opponents are. They have the 2022 superbowl champions, the 2024 superbowl runner-ups, and the Seahawks who have one of the best young rosters in the league. This being said, it will definitely be a challenge this year for the Cardinals. 

Last but not least, I would like to speak about the quarterback. I have been a Kyler Murray fan since he was playing Oklahoma football in college, and whenever the Cardinals drafted him with the first overall pick of the 2019 NFL draft, then I knew we were about to go on a run. Kyler started his career winning Rookie of the Year and putting up great numbers for it being his first year in the league. However, I got my hopes up too soon. Ever since his early run for MVP in 2022, Kyler has been plagued with injuries. I thing due to this, people forget about what an amazing quarterback he is. 

To wrap it up, I think I need to answer the original question: can the Arzona Cardinals compete in such a tough division? While it is a hard question to answer I will go with my own biased opinion (which is usually right) and say that we are good enough to compete this year and will go on a sneaky playoff run.