NFL Week 1 (Photo from Google Images)
Are you ready for some football? (For those of you who were worried that I was participating in the writer’s strike, I was not. I just took the summer off to work on tan lines.) Tonight, week one starts the NFL season with the Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Detroit Lions on NBC at 8:30PM EST.
Fox Sports ranks the Kansas City Chiefs (reigning Super Bowl champs) as the best team going into week one. This is even with Chris Jones, one of the best DT in the league, holding out over contract negations. Travis Kelce hyper-extended his knee at practice yesterday and it is questionable if he will play tonight. Kelce has never missed a game since becoming a starter in 2014. (Update, Kelse will not play tonight.) When your QB is Patty Mahomes, I can’t argue with the number one spot.
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The Colts All-Pro running back, Jonathan Taylor will miss at minimum the first four games after being placed on the PUP (physically unable to perform) list. Taylor had surgery on his ankle in January and says he still feels pain. BUT the biggest pain is left in his ego. Taylor is medically cleared to play, but he wants out of Indianapolis after the Colts refused to discuss a contract extension. In 2020, Taylor signed a 4-year almost 8-million-dollar contract. The team shopped him in the NFL market and no teams were willing to give up a first-round draft pick or their starting QB. By refusing to play, it will cost Taylor heavy fines $40K for each training practice missed and $238,888.00 for each game he misses during the regular season. I’m just glad I took Tee Higgins in my fantasy draft over Taylor. Taylor on the bench is still richer than most of us will ever be and he stays healthy.
Sean Payton
Sean Payton came back to coaching after spending the 2022 season as an analyst on FOX NFL KICKOFF show and he hasn’t stopped talking. Payton took his shots at the former Broncos Head Coach and current Jets Offensive Coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett, by saying Hackett’s time with Denver was “it might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL”. That’s a low blow, but he’s not wrong.
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Things must be so bad in Denver that Payton is really letting his frustrations out to the media and he doesn’t even care. But he said something at practice that has me running down memory lane.
Growing up, the one phrase I heard over and over when my Dad was my coach was “take a lap”. I’m sure I was talking when I wasn’t supposed to be talking so having to ‘take a lap’ was his way to punish me. I giggle every time I hear the phrase now, because my Dad just made me a runner. And it’s a good thing I average about four miles every day because I think sugar is a food group. Thanks, Dad! It will be fun to watch the Sean Payton experience as we find out if Russell Wilson’s seven-year $296 million-dollar contract was ‘one of the worst contracts in NFL history’.
The next 18-weeks (17 regular season games and one bye-week) are going to be scheduled around your team’s kickoff. I just hope my tan lines and my fantasy team make it to the playoffs.
Alexa: Cue the NFL theme song.
Duh Da Duh Da Don! Duh Da Duh Da Dun!
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