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Don’t Tell Derrick Henry That Running Backs Don’t Matter

NFL running backs have had a rough go of it recently, with more and more evidence building for the fungibility of the position. As my colleague Josh Hermsmeyer wrote last week, 2020 has provided even more examples of high-profile RBs being replaced by unheralded backups who don’t miss much of a beat. It’s not that […]

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Stay Out Of Derrick Henry’s Way

The Tennessee Titans have taken a battering ram to the NFL in the form of their 6-foot-3, 247-pound running back, Derrick Henry. With him, not only are they knocking on the door to the postseason, but they’re threatening to blast right through. Winners of three straight games courtesy of a record-setting string of performances by […]

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Skeptical Football: The Aaron Rodgers Enigma

In 1994, I had only been watching the NFL for a couple of years. I lived in Hawaii, where the closest thing to a home team we had was the Pro Bowl — which pretty much made me a Dallas Cowboys fan. I griped when it seemed like the Miami Dolphins were on TV every […]

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Skeptical Football: The Aaron Rodgers Enigma

In 1994, I had only been watching the NFL for a couple of years. I lived in Hawaii, where the closest thing to a home team we had was the Pro Bowl — which pretty much made me a Dallas Cowboys fan. I griped when it seemed like the Miami Dolphins were on TV every […]

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