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Continue reading →: 2012 NFL Playoff Predictions
AFC Wild Card #6 Buffalo Bills (10-6) at #3 Pittsburgh Steelers (11-5) The Bills got to the playoffs following the decent quarterback, strong running game, good defense, easy schedule model. Those teams almost never make it out of the first round. Steelers 20 Bills 10 #5 Tennessee Titans (11-5) at…
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Continue reading →: 2012 NFL Power Rankings- August
Schedules taken into account. Not a parrot back of what happened last season. Predictions for the 2012 season based strongly on the fact that an average team’s record changes by 3 wins per season in either direction. 32. Jacksonville Jaguars 31. Oakland Raiders 30. Cleveland Browns 29. Arizona Cardinals 28. Cincinnati Bengals…
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Continue reading →: August 7th Fantasy Football Stock Report
WR Sidney Rice DOWN Sidney Rice is not expected to be cleared for contact for most of the Preseason. It’s mostly precautionary and he should be out there week 1, but it’s definitely not a good sign. Neither is the fact that they’ve signed Antonio Bryant (eventually cut 10 days…
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Continue reading →: Seattle Seahawks sign WR Terrell Owens
I don’t understand this signing at all. TO is done. We saw it in 2010 and he’s not going to be any better 2 years and a torn ACL later, after a year out of football. In 2010, he did catch 72 passes for 983 yards and 9 touchdowns, but…
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Continue reading →: Predicting Parity: Part 7 (2012 Predictions)
Anyone who follows football knows how big a part of the game that parity is. One team can be good one year and bad the next and vice versa for seemingly no reason. This series, called Predicting Parity, seeks to discover why that is and figure out how to predict…
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Continue reading →: Miami Dolphins 2012 NFL Season Preview
Offense The Dolphins are frequently considered one of the worst teams in the league, but they had a solid season last year. They finished 6-10, which isn’t great, but they had a Pythagorean Expectation of 8.5 wins, which ranked 14th in the NFL and a DVOA that ranked 18th. They…
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Continue reading →: Vikings’ rookie Greg Childs likely out for the year with knee injuries
This is not what you want to see. Greg Childs is an incredibly talented player who caught 48 passes for 897 yards and 7 touchdowns as a sophomore at Arkansas in 2009 and 46 catches for 659 yards and 6 touchdowns in just 8 games in 2010, before tearing his…
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Continue reading →: New York Jets 2012 NFL Season Preview
Offense The Jets have been in the news so much lately that you’d think they were 3-time defending Super Bowl Champions. Instead, all they did was trade for Tim Tebow a few months ago. The reason they did that was because Mark Sanchez regressed in his 3rd season in the…
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Continue reading →: Buffalo Bills 2012 NFL Season Preview
Offense It was really a tale of two seasons for the Bills last year. In their first 7 games, they went 5-2, with a win over New England. Their only two losses came by a field goal against eventual playoff teams Cincinnati and the New York Giants (on the road),…
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Continue reading →: New England Patriots 2012 NFL Season Preview
Offense I’ve talked a lot about parity in my previews before. One team that hasn’t been subject to the ups and down of the NFL over the last decade is the New England Patriots. Since 2001, the Patriots have 9+ games every season, won double digit games in 10 of…