I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. – Tom Stoppard
Shawn Siegele breaks down the magic of Week 1, including all the highs and lows and crazy coaching decisions.
We’ve made the move to Sports Info Solutions for our data package in 2021, and the ridiculous advanced stats will be worth the RV subscription several times over. That also means we’ll be moving to match their stat delivery tempo in most of our tools. For an immediate look at the games, Dave Caban has built a new tool called the Monday Review.
Week 1 was a spectacular return to football with virtuoso performances all across the league. It was a feverish day with the remote as I watched most games in their entirety yesterday afternoon, catching up with a few extra on Shortcuts in the middle of the night. As I pen this, I’ve watched everything except for the second half of WFT/Chargers and the high-profile Saints/Packers blowout.
In the Monday column, I’ll reflect on elements from the games that might not be immediately obvious from the box score: coaching decisions that could impact the fantasy landscape, big plays that were called back, sequences that could be important and won’t be immediately obvious unless you’ve watched the game or scrolled through the entire play-by-play.
