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The NFL Draft Value Index
While the NFL owners meetings have already given us rumors of a franchise swap and the latest tampering charges in the endless Jets-Patriots saga, the...
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Snyder Stays Silent: Why Washington's Quiet Offseason Provides a Welcome...
Not too long ago, the Washington Redskins would have been considered a primary bidder for Ndamukong Suh, who signed a contract with Miami that would m...
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NFL Draft Wish List, Part 2
The NFL offseason has seen lots of movement in free agency, and now the draft approaches. On Monday, we looked at the needs of half of the league; now...
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The NFL Schedule Is Here! OK, Calm Down ...; Here's What You Need to Know
Only the NFL could take a bit of information we already know and turn it into a three-hour announcement. The league's annual schedule release day...
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The NFL Mock Trade Draft, Part 1
The week of the NFL draft is finally upon us. If you're like me, you've read (or listened to) so many mock drafts by now that even the sligh...
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Welcome to the 2015 NFL Draft Awards
After all the hype, a draft that had been drawn in pencil for weeks ended up looking a lot like chalk. The first round went mostly to form, with few s...
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The NFL Draft All-Value Team
One of the great absurdities surrounding the NFL draft is the way we immediately judge picks. Everybody knows that the day after the draft is too earl...
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The NFL Draft Shell Game
For 362 days each year, NFL teams hoard their draft picks while privately and publicly preaching that they are irreplaceable foundational assets. Then...
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The NFL Statistical Crystal Ball: What 2014's Numbers Can Tell Us About 2015
Each May, during the rare, glorious downtime of the NFL calendar, we take a look back at the underlying metrics from 2014 that will help predict what ...
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It's Time for an Anti-Mascot Epidemic
If you haven't seen the 30 for 30 short The Anti-Mascot, what follows is a very quick description, which you will need or the rest of this artic...
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The Year the NFL Went Insane and Gave a Kicker the MVP Award
When I wrote about sub-replacement MVP candidates in baseball two weeks ago, my brain naturally c
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The NFL 100 Rankings: Part 1
The NFL's annual Top 100 Players countdown is never a pretty sight. As a list voted on by the very same players who suit up on Sundays, you would imag...
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The NFL's Next Notable Pass-Rushers
The NFL is, once again, changing. In 2014, just about every team spent more time in its sub-package than its traditional base defensive alignment. Off...
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Break Out or Get Out: Eight NFL Players Poised to Take a Leap or a Fall in 2015
This week, our NFL coverage is focusing on franchises that are a small nudge -- in one direction or the other -- from taking their rightful place in t...
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'The Grantland NFL Podcast': NFC East Preview
On today's Grantland NFL Podcast, Robert Mays and Bill Barnwell break down the NFC East and wonder whether the Cowboys can repeat as division champs. ...
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Tales From the Training Room: An NFL Injury Roundup
All it took was one meaningless preseason game to dramatically affect two very meaningful offenses' chances of repeating their 2014 success. You alrea...
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Curing the Seattle Hangover
On October 19, 2014, the St. Louis Rams pulled out a miraculous home win over the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, using
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NFL 2015 Season Predictions, Part 1: The Cellar Dwellers
It's harder to predict what will happen in an NFL season than it is to project what will go down in any other major American sport. It's the nature of...
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Watch Now, Watch Later: A Preview for Week 1, and the Season
Football is back! With the Patriots beating the Steelers in Foxborough last night to start the 2015 campaign, it's time to wrap
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