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theringer.com March 9, 2018
The 49ers Are the Force That Controls 2018 Free Agency

A day after signing Jimmy Garoppolo to the richest contract in NFL history in February, the 49ers brass joined its 26-year-old quarterback for a press conference at the team facility in Santa Clara, California.
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espn.com March 9, 2018
Barnwell: Where it all went wrong for Seahawks' legendary defense

It's unfair to say that the roster moves the Seahawks have made and are about to make with their defense this offseason mark the end of the Legion of Boom, if only because that sells the rest of a dynasty short.
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si.com March 9, 2018
The NFL Can’t Stand Them Yet Can’t Get Rid of Them: How Barstool Sports Is Booming

INDIANAPOLIS — The warehouse owner didn’t think he needed to ask for a cash deposit from the NFL when the league asked to rent his venue during the annual NFL Scouting Combine.
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theguardian.com March 9, 2018
Even in the era of super-clubs, football’s pleasure principle still holds

Whatever we throw at it, no matter how we blind it with greed or dilute its edges, football remains an addictive, engaging, consoling source of human interest First impressions tend to linger.
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nytimes.com March 8, 2018
In Stopping Tottenham, Juventus Holds Back Time With a Smile

LONDON — In those last few minutes on Wednesday, as Tottenham Hotspur threw all it had at Juventus in one last, desperate attempt to remain in the Champions League, something came over the gnarled veterans at the heart of Juventus’s defense.
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si.com March 8, 2018
The 2018 Free Agency Crop Isn’t All That Great. Here’s Why It Will Be The Start of League Trend

No offense to any of the impending free agents out there. This isn’t personal. But you don’t need to rip off Bill Belichick or Howie Roseman’s free-agent board to know the truth. The new league year opens next Wednesday. And there simply isn’t a whole lot to be had on the market.
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si.com March 7, 2018
The ‘Legion of Boom’ Seahawks Go Quietly Into the Night

The Seattle Seahawks as we’ve come to know them, the most interesting and polarizing NFL team of the 2010s, are no more.
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si.com March 8, 2018
24 Hours ... At the NFL Scouting Combine

INDIANAPOLIS — On a four-block walk to dinner last Saturday night in Indianapolis, an MMQB staffer passed Chiefs coach Andy Reid, Vikings GM Rick Spielman, Ravens coach John Harbaugh and Jaguars football chief Tom Coughlin.
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nytimes.com March 9, 2018
In Seattle, a Seahawks Defense That Flowed Together Drifts Apart

It was one of the most important plays for one of the greatest defenses in N.F.L. history, but it has been all but forgotten because of what happened afterward. Clinging to a 23-17 lead over the 49ers in the final minute of the N.F.C.
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theringer.com March 6, 2018
The Positioning of Lamar Jackson

There are just too many quality quarterbacks. The NFL is overrun with them. If I’m counting correctly, at least 13 quarterbacks on each team’s roster made the Pro Bowl in January. Nobody knows where they come from, much less how to stop them.
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sbnation.com May 1, 2017
Football 3.0 is coming. This is what it will look like

Football as we know it is done, because the lawyers are here. When the lawyers arrive, things as you know them are over. After making an initial beachhead with concussion lawsuits in the NFL, The Lawyers (capital letters necessary) are pushing inland and making great, great gains.
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huffingtonpost.com March 9, 2014
Why I Retired At 26

I decided not to hold a press conference because I didn't want to have to say things that were cliché. I've done enough of that since I've been playing football. I actually didn't really plan on saying anything about my retirement at all. I just kind of wanted to disappear.
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theringer.com December 1, 2016
Simmons vs. Gladwell: The Future of Football

My son and I were discussing the Carolina Panthers’ Luke Kuechly, who had just spent three hours terrorizing the New Orleans Saints during a typically disjointed Thursday-night game. Everyone loves Kuechly because he doesn’t just play middle linebacker.
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newrepublic.com November 30, 2015
The Necessity of Football

One of my earliest assignments as an associate producer at NFL Films, the cinematic and mythmaking arm of professional football, was to splice together montages of the best plays, catches, bloopers, and hits from the week’s games, and synchronize them to the stirring orchestral themes for which th
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theringer.com September 27, 2017
Boston University’s CTE Breakthrough Could Forever Change Football

In January 2016, Kansas City Chiefs lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif suffered a concussion in the first half of a playoff game against the Houston Texans.
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theplayerstribune.com May 23, 2017
“They Basically Reset My Brain”

I was strapped to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance, still in full uniform. Shoulder pads, helmet — everything except for my face mask. The trainers had taken that off while I was still lying on the field in front of 81,000 people at Lambeau.
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theringer.com August 23, 2017
Christian McCaffrey Is the Future of Football

As we’ve already told you, football can be hard to understand. Playbooks weigh as much as physics textbooks, and when you hear a quarterback barking in the huddle, it can sound like you’ve intercepted an alien transmission.
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sbnation.com May 7, 2014
A Beautiful Corpse

The XFL jumped off the top turnbuckle in 2001 and landed with a blow equal parts short-lived and long lasting.
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sbnation.com April 10, 2014
Meet the Bag Man

The Bag Man excuses himself to make a call outside, on his "other phone," to arrange delivery of $500 in cash to a visiting recruit. The player is rated No. 1 at his position nationally and on his way into town.
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grantland.com June 6, 2014
How to Watch the World Cup Like a True Soccer Nerd

There is a point of view among some soccer fans that the sport is unassailably other. I assume that since I used the word “soccer” in the first sentence, those fans are gone now, and I can talk to the rest of you.
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theringer.com September 8, 2017
The NFL Is Back and So Are the 15 Reasons It Is a Complete Disaster

Click here for all our Week 1 coverage. Back when I was running Grantland and believed that everyone loved the National Football League, I emailed Robert Mays and demanded a daily countdown to the 2013 NFL season.
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highline.huffingtonpost.com February 5, 2017
Inside The NFL's Tobacco-Style Strategy To Hook Your Kids

I n early 2007, Brandissimo was a fledgling youth marketing agency with a corporate frat house vibe.
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sbnation.com November 24, 2015
Cold Turkey: Life without football, far from the Madden crowd

Let’s just get this out of the way: Football, as a game, is really kind of dumb. Eleven men on each team line up, run into each other, fall down, get up, and do it again. Sometimes someone throws the ball, sometimes someone catches it and keeps going in the direction the ball was headed.
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theringer.com August 18, 2017
There Is More to Becoming an Elite Route Runner Than Meets the Eye

Positional distinctions are disappearing. Rushing yards are losing meaning. And offensive and defensive schemes are shifting from game to game — if not drive to drive.
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mmqb.si.com October 24, 2016
Seahawks-Cardinals tie bewilders players; NFL Week 7 : The MMQB with Peter King

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Scenes from a beautiful and dramatic and sometimes incompetent debacle, the best really bad game I have ever seen: Cardinals 6, Seahawks 6. Other side of the field.
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sbnation.com July 5, 2017
What football will look like in the future

It's clear that the sport of football needs to change. And the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is terribly wrong. The writing's on the wall: youth participation in the sport is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their health.
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theguardian.com November 18, 2015
How CS Lebowski fans set up their own football club ... and honoured The Dude

When a group of disgruntled Fiorentina fans were thoroughly fed up by the monied world of Serie A, they decided to establish their own, self-financed football club and pay homage to the Coen brothers’ greatest characterBy Chloe Beresford for The Gentleman Ultra, part of the Guardian Sport Netwo
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fivethirtyeight.com October 27, 2016
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer

Here at FiveThirtyEight, we tend to think statistics can add to our understanding of sports.
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mmqb.si.com November 1, 2016
Oakland Raiders overtime win leads dramatic NFL Week 8 : The MMQB with Peter King

Two years ago, when Derek Carr and Khalil Mack were Raiders rookies, and Oakland stumbled to an 0-10 start and lost by 52 to the Rams and got swept by a combined 57 by Denver, Carr would say the same thing so many Sundays to Mack after another debacle. “Look at me,” Carr would say.
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espn.com October 27, 2016
Football's dumbest unwritten rules

NFL broadcasts and coaching news conferences are full of football proverbs. Very often, these are simply explanations for a why a situation demanded avoiding risk, or at least delaying it. And very often, the numbers -- while not perfect -- tell us otherwise.
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theringer.com August 14, 2017
Rewriting the NFL’s Positional Lexicon

Positional distinctions are disappearing. Rushing yards are losing meaning. And offensive and defensive schemes are shifting from game to game — if not drive to drive.
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si.com November 21, 2016
On the Dolphins, Giants and Others Nobody Saw Coming

Flurries outside my window in New York late Sunday night. It’s beginning to look a lot like the pennant race, with quite a few teams we didn’t see coming. Such as:
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mmqb.si.com September 12, 2016
Jimmy Garoppolo, Jack Del Rio highlight NFL Week 1 : The MMQB with Peter King

Editor’s Note: Peter King and the staff of The MMQB took over this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated magazine.
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kotaku.com February 5, 2017
Football: The Kotaku Review

If Football—that is, the American National Football League football—used the same naming scheme as “Dungeons & Dragons,” we’d call it “Beer Commercials & Cheerleaders.” Like dungeons and dragons, beer commercials and cheerleaders are two things that not everyone likes.
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mmqb.si.com November 7, 2016
Oakland Raiders vs. Dallas Cowboys : A dream Super Bowl : The MMQB with Peter King

Every week watching the NFL, we try to draw conclusions on what we’ve just seen.
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espn.com October 6, 2016
Ten things Berry hates about fantasy football

Fantasy football and I have been dancing for three decades now and I can tell you, there are things we cannot explain. There is an ebb and flow to fantasy that is hard to explain if you are not in it, but it is very real, it is very beautiful and, man, can it be very frustrating.
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deadspin.com December 12, 2013
My Injury File: How I Shot, Smoked, And Screwed My Way Through The NFL

Adapted from Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile (Harper). After the last game of every season, we came into work for an exit physical.
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theringer.com September 19, 2017
How Football Stopped Being Fun

We are living in the golden age of failed completions, a statistic as grim as it sounds. Tracked by Football Outsiders, failed completions occur when a team doesn’t get 45 percent of the yards it needs on first down, 60 percent on second down, and 100 percent on third or fourth down.
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grantland.com October 23, 2015
Week 7 Picks: Welcome to Finding Your NFL Roots

Let’s just get it out of the way: Even I think the term “football babies” is a little creepy, but it’s going to be the way we get into this Friday’s picks column.
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espn.com February 2, 2017
Barnwell's Super Bowl LI preview: Why I'm predicting a rout

It's not easy to beat Tom Brady in the playoffs, but the blueprints on how to pull it off aren't hard to find. Just about every team who has managed to take down the Patriots over the past decade has done so with pass pressure.
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nytimes.com October 26, 2017
Not Safe for Children? Football’s Leaders Make Drastic Changes to Youth Game

ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S.A. Football, the national governing body for amateur football, intends to introduce a drastically altered youth football game in response to declining participation and increasing public belief that the game is not safe for children to play.
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artofmanliness.com November 3, 2015
The 17 Best Football Movies of All-Time

Dwight D. Eisenhower thought that football was the best sport for young men to play because it was the closest sport to war. Football’s similarity to battle also explains why it has made for such excellent fodder for movies through the decades.
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si.com August 7, 2017
Monday Morning QB: Aaron Rodgers Never Wants to Retire (While Jay Cutler Changes His Mind)

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Look around this classic old football town. It’s changing—in a big way. There’s a new luxury hotel, Lodge Kohler, across the street from Lambeau Field, a cornerstone to a new year-round fun-and-games Titletown District. (Bocce. Sled hill. Big park. Apartment complex.
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espn.com September 26, 2016
Stacking the NFL's best defenses

There are five 3-0 teams in the NFL. Do you know what they have in common? It's not All-Pro quarterback play.
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mmqb.si.com November 18, 2015
Arizona Cardinals' Carson Palmer goes inside a game plan for MMQB : The MMQB with Peter King

To the public, one of the mysteries of the NFL is the game plan, the weekly and oft-times encyclopedic secret document each team uses to strategize against that week’s foe.
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story.californiasunday.com November 19, 2015
The Samoan Pipeline

On a rain-soaked field of artificial turf, the Washington State University Cougars, a team inscribed in the annals of college-sports infamy for suffering one of the worst four-year records in the history of NCAA Division I football — with only nine wins between 2008 and 2011 — are lin
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theguardian.com April 6, 2016
The fall: how diving became football’s worst crime

You learned it quite early on. If someone tugged at your sleeve, or touched your back, or whiffed a kick close enough to your shin, you immediately slowed down and tripped yourself. Then you glanced at the referee and said, “Porra, falta, caralho!” (roughly, “Fuck – foul, dammit!”).
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si.com May 29, 2017
An NFL Memorial Day Medley

Sending my best on this Memorial Day to those who have sacrificed so much for our country. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In particular: Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Navy vet John F. Kennedy.
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theringer.com September 5, 2017
The Collected Stories of Marcus Mariota

The first rule of Marcus Mariota is that he does not talk about himself. He can do many things—roll out and throw across his body, hang in the pocket and zip the ball down the field, run past linebackers when he must—but self-praise is not one of them.
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theguardian.com March 30, 2017
Expected goals and Big Football Data: the statistics revolution that is here to stay

From predicting Leicester’s grind towards the title to foreseeing Norwich’s decline, analytical models are changing the way people watch football The first time I came across the phrase “expected goals” was in November 2015.
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nytimes.com October 24, 2017
ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field

LONG BEACH, Calif. — If Ed Cunningham had not already seen enough, he would be back in a broadcast booth on Saturday afternoon, serving as the color analyst for another top college football game televised on ABC or ESPN. It is the work he has done each fall for nearly 20 years.
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thecorrespondent.com March 24, 2015
How data, not people, call the shots in Denmark

But until now, Ankersen says, the progress of data analysis has been limited—rather than a revolution, we have something closer to a gradual evolution.
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mmqb.si.com March 20, 2017
Dwight Clark, ex-49er famous for The Catch, Has ALS : The MMQB with Peter King

There’s a pall over the Bay Area this morning.
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theringer.com August 15, 2017
The NFL’s Real Spencer Strasmore Is the Anti-‘Ballers’

In April, Lisa Kerney, a SportsCenter anchor, sent a tweet to her husband Patrick, a former top NFL defensive end, about their 5-year-old son.
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statsbomb.com February 22, 2017
Changing How the World Thinks About Set Pieces

The first project I officially worked on inside football didn’t involve statistics, but it did involve analysis. My task was to take all the video for teams we knew were unusually good at set pieces, analyse what they were doing, and build a guide of best practices.
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mmqb.si.com March 6, 2017
Myles Garrett, Cleveland Browns could pair at NFL draft : The MMQB with Peter King

Those were the words of NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock as Texas A&M phenom Myles Garrett crossed the finish line of the 40-yard dash in a staggering 4.64 seconds on Sunday, putting a bow on the show that most scouts expected he’d put on here at Lucas Oil Stadium.
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mmqb.si.com October 3, 2016
Julio Jones’ 300 game; Bills over Patriots; NFL Week 4 : The MMQB with Peter King

The smart people in 2011 said the bounty Atlanta GM Thomas Dimitroff paid the Browns to move up 21 spots in the draft to pick Julio Jones was excessive. Two ones, a two and two fours is quite a premium to move from 27 to six.
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theringer.com February 1, 2018
Philadelphia’s Football Revolution: How a Cultural Shift Explains the Eagles’ Rise

Timmy Jernigan had been a member of the Eagles for about two hours when an unknown number lit up his phone. Not recognizing the area code, the defensive tackle ignored the call. Seconds later, his cell buzzed with a text message: Yo, it’s Cox.
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nytimes.com September 24, 2006
The Ballad of Big Mike

As he drove into Memphis in March 2004, Tom Lemming thought that everything about Michael Oher, including his surname, was odd. He played for a small private school, the Briarcrest Christian School, with no history of generating Division I college football talent.
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theplayerstribune.com April 6, 2016
We Do Not Dream

I remember my first meeting with the chairman when I arrived at Leicester City this summer. He sat down with me and said, “Claudio, this is a very important year for the club. It is very important for us to stay in the Premier League. We have to stay safe.” My reply was, “Okay, sure.
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mmqb.si.com January 11, 2016
Blair Walsh miss dooms Vikings; NFL wild-card playoffs review : The MMQB with Peter King

From Duluth west to Moorhead, from Warroad up near the Manitoba border south to Albert Lea, on the road to Iowa, the good people of Minnesota are in pain this morning. That is nothing compared to the pain of Blair Walsh.
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si.com August 28, 2017
Monday Morning QB: J.J. Watt Helps With Hurricane Harvey Flood Relief in Houston

A timeout for the Houston flood before we get to the rest of the column... The more images we see from Texas, the more harrowing Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath looks. Some around the country wonder, “What can we do?” J.J. Watt wondered, and then he did something.
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nytimes.com October 25, 2017
How One Lawyer’s Crusade Could Change Football Forever

There are 1.27 million lawyers in the United States, one for about every 300 Americans — about 400,000 more of them than there are doctors. Their work is rarely glamorous, and especially for those just starting out in the profession, it can be grinding and repetitive.
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bleacherreport.com August 23, 2017
The Death of a Teenage Quarterback

The mother walks through the midnight darkness of the upstairs hallway in their New Jersey home, pushing open the door to her only child's bedroom. She checks his closet—sometimes she'll put on his clothes to feel close to him, to smell him, to be with him—and then examines his books on a shelf.
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washingtonpost.com July 24, 2015
Chip Kelly, football’s most intriguing figure, is also its most unknown

On a Monday afternoon nearly two years ago, a woman in her mid-forties settled into a long Metro ride, Dupont Circle to Landover, bound eventually for FedEx Field.
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deadspin.com February 6, 2014
The Big Book Of Black Quarterbacks

On Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks walked all over the Denver Broncos, 43-8, to win Super Bowl XLVIII. Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson passed for 206 yards, ran for 26 more, threw two touchdowns, and made National Football League history.
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theringer.com August 17, 2017
The Fantasy Football Road Map

I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to write about football professionally, to spend the vast majority of my days nerding out over NFL players, teams, schemes, and strategies.
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espn.com August 20, 2015
Why Chris Borland is the most dangerous man in football

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's August 31 NFL Preview Issue. Subscribe today! ONE DAY IN April, the NFL asked Chris Borland to take a random drug test.
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mmqb.si.com September 5, 2016
Sam Bradford trade explained by Eagles, Vikings GMs : The MMQB with Peter King

Saturday, 6:30 a.m., two NFL general managers and good friends on the phone, trying to finish a trade. The subject of sleep comes up.
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theringer.com January 31, 2018
Making Sense of Washington’s Baffling Trade for Alex Smith

On the surface, the Redskins’ decision to eschew a long-term contract extension for Kirk Cousins, trade a third-round pick (plus cornerback Kendall Fuller) for Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith, and then give Smith the big-money, long-term deal Cousins should have earned over the past two
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si.com April 3, 2017
Paul DePodesta: The Brain Behind the Browns Rebuild

PHOENIX — Paul DePodesta, the Cleveland Browns’ trump card on the rest of the NFL. Nice fellow. Harvard guy, and, to his credit, doesn’t intimidate you with his Ivy League brain. Fifteen months into the new job after two decades with five Major League Baseball teams. Nowhere to go but up.
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mmqb.si.com September 29, 2014
DeMarco Murray, Philip Rivers lead NFL MVP race; Steve Smith Sr., more : The MMQB with Peter King

As we near the end of a strange Week 4 in the NFL (margins of victory this weekend: 31, 24, 28, 24, 3, 7, 6, 21, 19, 13, 5, 21), let’s take stock of the race that’s looking very fun, and very different than usual: the NFL MVP race.
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mmqb.si.com April 4, 2016
Colin Kaepernick trade, Titans eye Jalen Ramsey in 2106 NFL Draft : The MMQB with Peter King

No new news about the status of a certain 49er quarterback—Sunday was very quiet in the Colin Kaepernick derby—but we do have some information about the first pick in the 2016 draft. Specifically: The Titans might have some action on the No. 1 slot.
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mmqb.si.com July 18, 2016
Mike Florio guest-writes MMQB for Roger Goodell Week : The MMQB with Peter King

With Peter King on vacation until July 25, this week’s Monday Morning QB guest columnist is Pro Football Talk founder Mike Florio. Peter and Mike work together on NBC’s Football Night in America on Sunday nights during the season, and Mike also hosts PFT Live weekdays on NBC Sports Radio.
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grantland.com August 20, 2014
The Sound and Fury of the NFL Preseason

Attention, NFL fans: Don't get excited if your team rules the month of August. (And don't be sad if they stink.) The preseason doesn’t matter. We run through the same stuff every year, only with different faces. There’s the bad team that looks great in meaningless action.
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spielverlagerung.com
The Half-Spaces

This article will delve into an oft-neglected area in tactics theory: the half-spaces. In our analyses we have often made reference to them. We are also frequently asked what the half-spaces are and what their purpose is and I want to devote myself to answering that question here.
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theringer.com November 15, 2017
Five Ways to Fix the Dumbest Rule in Football

Bears head coach John Fox did something dumb Sunday.
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espn.com July 21, 2017
Barnwell: The NFL stats that matter most

You've heard the (perhaps apocryphal) quote from Bill Parcells before. "You are what your record says you are," has some element of truth behind it, yet the phrase fails to tell the entire story.
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si.com May 1, 2017
‘Ready to Be a 49er?’ Inside San Francisco’s Draft Room

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theringer.com September 27, 2017
Knowledge Is Life: The CTE Breakthrough and the Burden of Understanding

What did you know, and when did you know it? Offensive lineman D'Brickashaw Ferguson, a 10-year Jets veteran, said he didn’t fully grasp the risks until he saw Concussion. Linebacker Chris Borland, then with the 49ers, didn’t know that minor hits cause damage, too.
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espn.com September 8, 2015
Spygate to Deflategate: Inside what split the NFL and Patriots apart

HIS BOSSES WERE furious. Roger Goodell knew it. So on April 1, 2008, the NFL commissioner convened an emergency session of the league's spring meeting at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Attendance was limited to each team's owner and head coach.
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si.com July 31, 2017
The Boss, the ’Boys and the Recommitment to the 2017 NFL Season

OXNARD, Calif. — This is going to be a great column. Springsteen and U2 are in it. Can’t a guy hit his musical go-tos with his first column of training camp?
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deadspin.com November 21, 2013
Jameis Winston Isn't The Only Problem Here: An FSU Teacher's Lament

We love the game. We love the players, too, even when they scare us.
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si.com September 10, 2017
Peter King's Monday Morning QB: Week 1 and Irma

a. Great to see you back in the studio, Chris Mortensen. c. Great idea by Fox, getting Michael Bennett to share his social thoughts on Sunday. From the sound of it, seems like it will be an every Sunday segment on its pregame show.
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mmqb.si.com June 26, 2017
The NFL's Optimism Season

As the NFL entered its dead period this past week, that blink of a break between the end of minicamps and the start of training camps, optimism reigned. Always does this time of year. Every story about every player on every team oozed with hope and possibility.
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vanityfair.com January 2, 2014
The Fight to Save Johnny Manziel from All-Out Self-Destruction

Back in the summer of 2013, before he became perhaps the biggest bust in the history of the National Football League, before the social-media firestorms and the mysterious rehab, before his hard-partying ways put him on TMZ more than on ESPN, Johnny Manziel already worried his parents.
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economist.com August 7, 2017
How a football transfer works

In football, July and August are known as the “silly season”—and looking at Neymar’s world-record €222m ($261m) move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), it is easy to see why.
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