Week 11 AFC East matchup: Dolphins vs Bills preview

Lisa Johnson
AFC South AFC East Reporter

By Lisa Johnson // @LJ1303

The Miami Dolphins are riding a two-game winning streak and about to face there in-division rival, the Buffalo Bills.

Dolphins head coach Brian Flores, who has always stayed committed to saying this team is being coached and rebuilt to win. There is no “tank” in this man’s mind what-so-ever. Never has been.

Being around Coach Flores after several games told me, without question, that all the tank talk was media-driven. He has made it clear time and time again that his goal is to win here…eventually. He knows how this process works, and right now you are seeing this first hand.

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Buffalo Bills want FEARLESS Josh Allen

By Heather Prusak // @haprusak 

About the Author: Heather Prusak is a sports anchor/reporter for WGRZ in Buffalo. She has spent the past five years covering the Bills in her hometown after graduating from Syracuse University.

Doug Flutie, Drew Bledsoe, J.P. Losman, Trent Edwards, Ryan Fitzpatrick, EJ Manuel, and Tyrod Taylor.

Those names are all too familiar to Buffalo Bills fans as a reminder of their failed attempts to find a franchise quarterback, one of the main factors in a team sustaining success in the NFL.

The Bills have been searching for their franchise guy since Jim Kelly retired and are hoping that search ended on April 26th, 2018 when Josh Allen became their highest-drafted quarterback ever.

GM Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott traded up to draft Allen seventh overall, and in his 20 career starts, Allen has shown flashes of being that guy. Flashes.

The Bills didn’t draft him that high to simply be a game-manager.

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What Did We Learn From the 49ers Loss?

Matt Woolsey, Sports Writer

By Matt Woolsey // @Aresgodff

About the Author: Matt is a sports writer for @49ershub, @SportsTalkLine, and @TheScorecrow, and is a longtime San Francisco 49ers fan. He has been a 49ers fan since the days of Joe Montana, Steve Young, and Jerry Rice. Aside from Jerry Rice, his favorite player was Merton Hanks, loved his dance after he made an interception. Let’s go Faithful.

In hockey the standings are based on a point system and you still gain a point for an overtime loss. In the NFL a loss in overtime is the same as a loss in regulation. There are no moral victories in the NFL. Last Monday, the undefeated streak for the San Francisco 49ers came to an end when they lost in overtime to their bitter rival the Seattle Seahawks.

Retired army General Colin Powell once said, “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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Patriots at bye and 8-1: Room for improvement

By Jay Flannelly //@jflannez19

About the Author: Jay is a Massachusetts native, and a fan of the Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, and Mets (you read that right). He has his own Podcast, @Beavs_world that he hosts with @khoekstra. You can find out more at www.beavsworld.com 

The 2019 New England Patriots stand at 8-1 at the bye, good enough for first place in the AFC East and hold the #1 seed in the conference. The offense has been hit hard by injuries, bad roster moves and a lack of identity.

Until the rough outing in Baltimore, the defense had been playing at a historic pace and often provided points and field position. Ravens result aside, this is still an excellent team with a combination of the greatest coach (Bill Belichick) and quarterback (Tom Brady) of all-time leading the way. Let’s Look at areas the Pats need to improve to raise banner #7.

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Where does Cam Newton stand with the Carolina Panthers?

By Antwan Staley //@antwanstaley

About the Author: Antwan is a writer for AthlonSports.com.  He’s also a video gamer, hip hop historian, and a has a graduate degree in communications from the University of Florida.  

2019 is the 25th season that the Carolina Panthers have been in the NFL. The franchise has had their fair share of quarterbacks, but no of them has probably meant more the area as Cam Newton.

That’s likely why some fans are having a difficult time with the fact Newton’s future with the Panthers in serious doubt. There have been multiple reports that Carolina is planning to move on from the 2015 MVP before the start of the new league year, which is in March. Newton is the best quarterback in Panthers’ history, but it is time for both sides to move on.

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Is it realistic to move a team to London? A UK fan’s view.

Liz Bhandari
NFL UK writer, Podcaster,
Blogger

By Liz Bhandari // @NFLGirlUK

About the author: Liz Bhandari is an NFL writer, podcaster, and blogger based out of Manchester, England. She is the host of the popular podcast @GridironWine and is the event planner for #NFLUKFanMeetUp events.

Last week, rumours circulated around the Los Angeles Chargers being linked with a move to London. It was very quickly denied by the owner, Dean Spanos who said he has no intention of moving the franchise to London despite reports of a potential relocation. The best part though was their social media team’s reaction and reference to the iconic scene in Wolf of Wall Street where Leonardo Di Caprio’s character Jordan Belfort tells the office, “I ain’t f****** leaving!”.

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Jeff Bezos looks to add NFL team owner to resume

By Brenda Lee // @brenduh_L 

About the author: Brenda Lee is an advertising professional and local foodie with a background in marketing & journalism. Her passion for sports has led her to the sports radio industry appearing on local San Antonio sports radio shows such as The Ticket 760am, and Spurs React. She’s also contributed her sports takes on local podcasts and is gearing up to her host her own sports podcast, The Main Dish w/Brenda Lee.

Jeff Bezos is the founder, president, and CEO of the ever-popular website Amazon.com, and he wants to go shopping.

He is looking for his next big purchase and his eyes are locked in on an NFL team. Bezos, whose net worth is $112 billion dollars, looks to position himself as the richest owner in the NFL.

There are only a handful of NFL teams that are up for sale, but as we all know from a business perspective, money talks and essentially everything is for sale. The question is, which of the 32 teams are most likely to be on Bezos’ hit list?

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Six cities, three weeks, one American sports obsessed Scottish lass

Shona Duthie
Podcaster, writer, editor

By Shona Duthie // @ShonaDuthie4

About the author: Shona is Sub-editor (sport) for @dct_media, co-host for the popular @GridironWine podcast, editor for @PFN365, and writer for @ninetynineyards. 

Heading back to the States was always a big plan of mine after I spent three months across the pond five and a half years ago.

What I find quite funny about this now, and if some of you have read my stuff elsewhere, you will know I was on an NFL boycott due to a guy I was dating dumping me out of the blue.To explain, he was, and I think still is, a Green Bay Packers fan, and he was the one that got me into the Harbaugh Bowl, also known as the Brother Bowl.

Well, thanks to Seattle winning that glorious trophy, and for my friend deciding to do a weekend trip there, I caught the Hawks bug – hook, line, and sinker. And it just so happened we won the 2014 NFC Championship against the Packers… in your face dude!!

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What’s next for the Lions

Sonja Greenfield Detroit Lions Reporter

By Sonja Greenfield //@Mom23RN

I interrupt Guest Writers Week for this article about the Lions.

John Matthew Stafford, the franchise quarterback for the Detroit Lions, didn’t start on Sunday.

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The curious case of Kirk Cousins

John Errico (@MikeZimmersEars) Blogger, Podcaster, Author

By John Errico //@MikeZimmersEars

**Disclaimer:  This article was written prior to the Vikings/Cowboys game on Sunday Night Football**

In the 2012 NFL draft, the Washington Redskins chose Robert Griffin III with the second overall pick. “RG3” was a dual-threat QB out of Baylor and was pegged to be the team’s franchise leader for years to come. Then in the fourth round of the same draft, Washington made an interesting pick, taking Kirk Cousins, a quarterback out of Michigan State.

Cousins threw for over 9,000 yards with 66 touchdowns against 30 interceptions in his college career. Maybe the Redskins were just covering their bases in case RG3’s style didn’t work well in the NFL. The Cousins pick turned out to be a prudent one. In 2015 after RG3’s three injury-marred seasons, Jay Gruden made Cousins his starting quarterback. Up to that point Cousins was 2-7 in his limited starts. Once installed as the regular starter, Cousins put up solid passing numbers. He completed 67% of his throws amassing over 13,000 yards with 81 touchdowns against 36 interceptions. Despite his numbers, the Redskins managed just a 24-23-1 record and Cousins got the reputation for being unable to win the big games.

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