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While the AFC is Nearly Set, the NFC’s Playoff Field is a Mess
The Sixteenth Week of the 2010 NFL season decisively settled just one major part of the playoff picture. The San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs entered play with similar likelihoods of making...
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FNQB: Developing and Benefiting from Elite QB Seasons
To start this exercise, I went through and denoted every elite quarterback season betweeen 1993 and 2010, using the DVOA metric as my primary tool of evaluation. My criteria for inclusion was that a...
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NFL Draft 2011: Important Lessons from LiveBall’s Big Board
Third to last post on this NFL draft. I promise. I have one to do on process points: long time readers of my work are very familiar with this activity (now in its fourth year). I also have a FNQB...
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NFL Top 10: The Best Draft Classes Since 2005
This post was inspired when I looked back at the Chiefs and Patriots drafts since Scott Pioli took over the Kansas City franchise, and wondered who had the best classes of players in their pre-free...
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LiveBall Transaction Anaylsis: Center Roulette
If I’d had made a wager a couple weeks ago, I would have guessed that the lockout and shutdown of offseason NFL activities would have locked down the movement of NFL centers, at least for this year....
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Wild Card Weekend Commentary: Understanding why the home teams gave such a...
It would be easy and perhaps very acceptable as well to get caught up in the excitement of what Tim Tebow did yesterday for the Broncos in the Wild Card round against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and miss...
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2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame Electorate: Instant Analysis
The 2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame class isn’t going to be known as an all-time great class. It did not elect a first ballot player, though two players who were overlooked with last year’s class will...
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Remnants of a Draft: The Case Study of the 2006 NFL Draft
In just six NFL seasons, fewer than half the players drafted by the NFL in 2006 are still employed by NFL teams or are actively searching for work. And overall, that means that the 2006 class has...
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NFL Free Agency 2012: Not winning
Yesterday’s article on free agency winners can be read here. Today, it’s six teams that probably hurt themselves more than they helped, plus two bonus teams who are going to end up on a list of FA...
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2012 NFL Season Awards Predictions
A listing of award predictions for the 2012 season plus a b0ttom line call on who will take it all in 2012. Offensive Rookie of the Year: Andrew Luck, Colts The offensive rookie of the 2012 NFL season...
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