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NFL Week 4 Winners and Losers: Put Your Goggles On for Teddy, Luck, and THE BUCS
Winners TEDDYYYYYYYYYYY!!! The joy of watching Teddy Bridgewater yesterday was dampened a bit when a twisted ankle sent him to the sideline for the end of the game. But, man, was he fun. Football is...
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Blood and Guts and Another Steve Smith Masterpiece
On the first play, you could tell there was nothing to worry about. Joe Flacco rolled out, hit Steve Smith in the flat, and Smith immediately stiff-armed some helpless corner to the ground, picking up...
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The NFL’s Out-of-Nowhere Players
The National Football League is an enormous organization with a lot of players. It’s actually pretty staggering. The NBA mandates an average of at least 14 players per team, meaning there are about 420...
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Week 5 Picks: Award-Winning Performances
Today, amid the Friday NFL picks and predictions, we’ll be handing out awards for the first four weeks of the season. Before we do that, let’s get to a topic that is quickly becoming a widely held...
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C.J. Mosley Is Filling Some Big Shoes for Baltimore
Anybody who saw the Colts beat the Ravens on Sunday had the privilege of watching one of football’s rising young stars survey the field on every snap before making pinpoint decisions. Yes, every week...
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NFL Week 6 Picks: Question Everything
I have to admit I was tempted to just make this entire Week 6 preview out of J.J. Watt GIFs from Thursday night’s Texans-Colts game and call it a column. I know that he’s not better at quarterback than...
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NFL Week 6 Winners and Losers: How Do You Spell Elite? F-L-A-C-C-O
Winners The Lions Defense This Lions performance had a lot in common with the last time Detroit played without Calvin Johnson. It was early October and Detroit was facing a division rival away from...
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NFL Week 7 Picks: It Can Only Go Up From Here
Week 7 can’t be worse than Week 6. Well, it would be very difficult to be worse than Week 6. I was victimized by two of the week’s three pick-sixes in the final seconds of games that turned a winning...
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The Quarterback Contract Question
Where does your team quarterback’s come from? Most likely, he comes from your team’s selection during the NFL draft. Of the league’s 32 starters, three were acquired by trade2 (Carson Palmer, Alex...
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Week 8 Picks: A Gambling Epiphany
The last time I wrote a Friday football column — 35 days ago, if you’re keeping score — Washington fans thought they had upgraded from RG3 to Kirk Cousins, Bills fans were dreaming about EJ Manuel...
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The 2013 NFL Redraft
The 2013 NFL draft was supposed to be a mess. 2012 had Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin. 2014, even a year in advance, held Jadeveon Clowney in what was regarded as one of the deepest draft classes in...
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NFL Week 9 Winners and Losers: The Cardinals D, the Steelers O, and OMG,...
Winners The Cardinals Tony Romo’s absence let some air out of a Cardinals-Cowboys game that was hyped as a battle for the no. 1 seed in the NFC. But if you were looking for injury sympathy in Arizona,...
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NFL at the Half: Breaking Down the Numbers
We’re halfway home. It seems like it just started, but today marks the halfway point of the NFL regular season. Naturally, this seems like a good point to take account of what has happened so far in...
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Revisiting the Y2K-Compliant Quarterbacks
Nearly 15 years later, I remember three things about Y2K. First, many people were legitimately concerned that computers would freak out at midnight, all hell would break loose, and we’d land in a...
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NFL Week 10 Wrap-up: Sorting Through the Clumps
Week 10 didn’t exactly wrap up with the most loaded Sunday you’ll ever see, but it took us to an interesting place. It featured just two games between teams with winning records, and even those games...
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Revisiting, Revising, and Reexamining the 2008 Class of RBs
The 2008 NFL draft class might be the last of its kind in league history. While the draft was topped by a pair of Longs (Jake first, Chris second) and became known for the quarterback duo of Matt Ryan...
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The NFL All-Bargain Team
One of my favorite things to put together every NFL season is an All-Bargain Team. I would say about half the fun is because people don’t read the description of who is and isn’t eligible for this...
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The Week of NFL Reckoning
It’s Week 11! I love Week 11! Here’s what happens in Week 11 … We Can Officially Cross Off One-Third of the NFL’s Teams Go away, dregs of the NFL! YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE PLAYOFFS! For the next seven...
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Welcome to the Week 12 Thunderdome
When your mailbag question inspires me to email multiple friends and colleagues asking for their answers, then congratulations — you’ve completed the Mailbag Video Game. There’s no parting prize other...
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Circling the Calendar: Your Guide to Cherry-Picking the Rest of the NFL Schedule
The byes are finally over. Every NFL team has played 11 games, leaving five contests per team to go. That’s 80 more NFL games over the next five weeks, likely ending with a Detroit–Green Bay game...
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