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NFL Week 3: Peterson, Picks, and the All-Outrage Mailbag
Editor’s note: We made the mistake of holding this column for one hour because we thought Roger Goodell might actually say something interesting, thoughtful or sincere in today’s days-too-late press...
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Week 4 Picks and Preview: It’s the Coaching, Stupid
You know a good NFL quarterback when you see one, right? Sure, it might take a few hundred passes and a playoff game or two to really get a grip on how good a passer looks, but watch a guy for a few...
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Is This (Finally) the End of the Patriots?
I don’t think what happened last night is Tom Brady’s fault. I’m going to tell you why, and it’s going to sound like I’m making excuses, and in the long run, maybe that will end up being the case. It’s...
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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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Best/Worst: A Salute to the Dumbest Penalty in Sports
What was the best in sports this week? What was the worst? It makes sense to have the excessive celebration penalty in the rulebook. I understand why it’s there. I get it. Officials need some kind of...
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Which 2-3 NFL Team Has the Best Shot at the Playoffs?
Every season, there seems to be at least one team in the NFL that gets off to a slow start and eventually creeps back into the playoffs. We looked at the cases for and against each of the teams that...
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Absent From Class: Where Are the NFL’s 2014 Draftees?
Most NFL observers say it takes a minimum of three years to judge a draft class. The 2014 draft class is miles away from proving its eventual worth under those standards, but what we can notice after...
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Ranking the NFL’s Non-Playoff Teams
Yesterday, I ran through the league’s eight divisional leaders and tried to figure out which of them were most likely to hold on to their spots over the 11 weeks to come. Sorry for jinxing you, Colts...
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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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Week 7 Wrap-up: The Mighty Start Falling
What a rough 72 hours to be a Seahawks fan. On Friday, the Seahawks unexpectedly gave up on wide receiver Percy Harvin and traded him to the Jets, which must have caused Seattle fans to spend hours...
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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 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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Tree of Tom: Why Are Brady’s Backups Still an NFL Commodity?
Contrary to popular belief, the myth of the “Patriot Way” wasn’t shattered during Spygate in 2007 or when Aaron Hernandez was revealed to be a homicidal maniac in 2013, but rather the facade came...
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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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Travis Kelce Can’t Stop Dancing
First Watch doesn’t seem like Travis Kelce’s kind of place. His branch of the Florida-based breakfast chain sits on Westport Road in Kansas City, Missouri, just 10 minutes from his downtown apartment....
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