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Continue reading →: Arizona Cardinals 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Cardinals were the only team in the NFL to win 10+ games and miss the playoffs last season, going 10-6, but finishing a game behind New Orleans for the 2nd wild card spot in the loaded NFC. They did that despite facing the 5th toughest schedule in the…
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Continue reading →: Atlanta Falcons 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Falcons went 13-3 in 2012 and got the NFC’s #1 seed, but they did so in a largely unsustainable way and looked like a prime candidate to regress in 2013 and be that year’s team that went from a first round bye to out of the playoffs (there’s…
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Continue reading →: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback It’s almost impossible to find something talking about the 2014 Buccaneers without hearing about the Buccaneers’ “basketball offense” (and I guess now that I mentioned it, this isn’t the outlier). You hear it so much you’d think the Buccaneers were an NBA team. They talk about how they added…
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Continue reading →: Carolina Panthers 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Panthers had a breakout year last year, finally getting over their issues in close games (2-12 in the first two years of the Cam Newton era, 5-2 last season) and overall improving in terms of talent and level of play. They finished 12-4, winning the NFC South and…
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Continue reading →: New Orleans Saints 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Saints once again had an explosive offense last season. They ranked 10th in points per game allowed, but they were better than that, finishing 3rd in rate of moving the chains, moving the chains at a 76.98% rate. That’s nothing new as they are a consistently top level…
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Continue reading →: Washington Redskins 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Redskins declined significantly in 2013, going from 10-6 and in the playoffs to 3-13 and the 2nd worst team in the league last season. To make matters worse, they didn’t have their own first round pick this year, thanks to the RG3 trade made in 2012, so they…
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Continue reading →: New York Giants 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Giants started last season 0-6, but they were able to finish the season 7-3 and end up at 7-9. A big part of that was that their turnover margin went from -16 in their first 6 games to +1 in their last 10 games. They still finished the…
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Continue reading →: Dallas Cowboys 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback Cowboys fans must be sick of going 8-8, after the last 3 seasons ended in the same way, with the team finishing 8-8 and missing the playoffs after losing essentially a divisional play-in game week 17. The good news is that the Cowboys could be pretty bad this season,…
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Continue reading →: Philadelphia Eagles 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Eagles made the head coaching splash of last off-season, hiring supposed offensive mastermind Chip Kelly from the University of Oregon. There was no doubt that Kelly’s offenses were explosive and revolutionary on the collegiate level, but it still remained to be seen whether or not that could translate…
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Continue reading →: Minnesota Vikings 2014 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Vikings went 10-6 in 2012 and made a surprise run to the playoffs, after going 3-13 the year before. A team going from 5 wins or fewer to the playoffs isn’t as uncommon as it sounds, as at least one team does so almost every season, but the…