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The always-excellent Florida Danny at Niners Nation has a new stat: Adjusted BS Rate.
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This week's fantasy matchups feature compares performance early in the year to the playoff weeks.
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This week, Bill looks at Alabama-Florida, Nebraska's upset chances, "gotcha" journalism, and some champion-level hip hop.
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When do contracts give teams the option to elect to exercise options to carry over options? When they're for aging superstar inside linebackers.
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Baltimore Ravens
FO reader Travis did an impressively-researched post on palpably unfair acts under both NCAA and NFL rules, including examples beyond the 1954 Cotton Bowl.
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We'll admit it -- the college football season was a little lacking. You'll forget all that with this weekend's five conference title games, highlighted by the Florida-Alabama collision in the Georgia Dome.
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Ugh. Hofstra becomes the second FCS school in the last couple weeks to decide it no longer could afford a football program. Goodbye to the alma mater of Raheem Morris, Marques Colston, and Wayne Chrebet. The NCAA seriously needs to look into changing its rules to make it easier for Division I ...
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Raheem Morris
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It's all concussions, all the time in this week's Report. Will Carroll looks at the stars suffering from concussion symptoms, how their teams are handling them, and the small effect of the league's new concussion guidelines.
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This week's Numbers Crunching features the first 2009 appearance of FO game charting data. Learn about Ray Rice's amazing ability to run out of shotgun, Jason McKie's importance to the Chicago offense, and why the Patriots need to play against type to beat the Miami Dolphins.
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Here's a statistical look at the greatness of Chris Johnson, as part of ESPN The Magazine 's annual "NEXT" issue. Includes a fun little year-by-year projection for Johnson's career based on doing similarity scores, which ends up with Johnson setting an NFL record with 5.3 career yards per carry.
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Chris Johnson
Mr. Farrar, you can open up that bottle of champagne. Tim Ruskell is resigning as Seahawks President, with a press conference scheduled for Thursday at 10 PT.
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Tim Ruskell
That title either really excites you or really confuses you. Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy blog debates instant replay and de novo review.
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The NFL has released its new rules on concussions.
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Jon Runyan runs for Congress. Drew Brees hits the president on a drag route. Don't worry, readers. It's not really politics. It's Walkthrough.
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Your Scramble writers debate the importance of Pro Bowl nominations for Olde Tyme Foot-Ball Players, dodge Bill Belichick's nefarious contraptions, and marvel at cars that can manipulate time.
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Alan Ball
Jamal Lewis will reportedly be placed on IR after an analysis of his brain following a severe concussion revealed "brain abnormalities". Lewis has already said that 2009 would be his final season, so it appears that his career is over.
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In this single-subject analysis, Doug Farrar gets to the root of Jay Cutler's current issues with help from NFL Films' Greg Cosell.
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