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Here’s Why Drafting Saquon Barkley Could Be A Mistake

Penn State’s Saquon Barkley is the top running back prospect in the 2018 NFL Draft and is expected by nearly everyone to be among the first to hear his name called by Roger Goodell on Thursday night. Thanks to a nostalgic sense of tradition, there is still plenty of love for the workhorse running back […]

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Here’s Why Drafting Saquon Barkley Could Be A Mistake

Penn State’s Saquon Barkley is the top running back prospect in the 2018 NFL Draft and is expected by nearly everyone to be among the first to hear his name called by Roger Goodell on Thursday night. Thanks to a nostalgic sense of tradition, there is still plenty of love for the workhorse running back […]

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The Way Everybody Measures NFL Schedule Strength? It’s Wrong.

After Thursday night’s two-hour special on the NFL Network, we now know exactly what every NFL team’s schedule looks like for the upcoming season. But what we don’t know is how hard any of those schedules will be. Every year when the schedules are released, NFL analysts ritually compare the strength of the 32 teams’ […]

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The Way Everybody Measures NFL Schedule Strength? It’s Wrong.

After Thursday night’s two-hour special on the NFL Network, we now know exactly what every NFL team’s schedule looks like for the upcoming season. But what we don’t know is how hard any of those schedules will be. Every year when the schedules are released, NFL analysts ritually compare the strength of the 32 teams’ […]

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Eli Manning Deserves Better

If the majority of mock drafts are to be believed, the New York Giants are poised to draft one of the elite quarterbacks available in next week’s NFL draft despite having Eli Manning, the franchise’s all-time leading passer, still on the roster. The NFL is far from a beacon of benevolence, but even for this […]

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