Sunday Evening Wrap checks out players who increased or decreased their value during the Sunday afternoon games. Riser of the Week: For the past few weeks, I've been rather reluctant to anoint Robert Meachem as a weekly fantasy starter. Full Article at Sports Illustrated
■ The Southwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association will hold its monthly luncheon meeting at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. Full Article at Naples Daily News
When you only get one or two passes thrown to you per game, perhaps the most prudent thing to do to increase that number is catch them. Such is life for rookie receiver Deon Butler, who plays sparingly and sees the ball thrown to him even less. Full Article at The Olympian
Eighteen field goals since his last miss, Olindo Mare’s performance has been acceptable, acceptable, entirely acceptable. Full Article at TheNewsTribune.com
Every team in this league is so talented, so well-coached and so well-prepared that anyone can beat anyone on any given Sunday ... I know that is a cliché. Things haven’t gone the way we’ve wanted them to go. That’s obvious. We’re all disappointed. We’re all frustrated. But all we can do is work and pre...
The line just kind of caved in on my left knee and it kind of just locked [up] and I said, 'Great, here we go,' ... Steve Vallos, you're going in at tackle. And Steve is our center. He's not the prototypical left tackle. He did play it in college. And then after that, we got to put in [defensive tackle]...
It’s disappointing because it seemed like last week was almost a breakthrough for us ... I think we took a step backwards, but we have to learn from it, and continue to work and improve and focus on next week.
There were so many guys that helped me out, on the offensive line my guy Ryan Harris, Brady [Quinn], John Sullivan and John Carlson, just a laundry list of guys