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• In NFC South, Only Atlanta Falcons Are Set at QB
In NFC South, Only Atlanta Falcons Are Set at QB Vincent Verhei 24 Feb 2023, 12:33pm In these editions of Four Downs, we'll review the biggest hole on each team in the division and then give a short look at each team's major free agents for 2023. Atlanta Falcons Biggest Need: Edge Rusher The Falcons had an adjusted sack rate of 4.0%, worst in the league. The sad ...2023
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• NFC South QB roundup: Starting options for all four teams in '23

The NFC South is ripe with quarterback uncertainty. Who will be under center for the Bucs, Falcons, Panthers and Saints next season?...2023
• Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards
Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards Vincent Verhei 24 Feb 2023, 10:10am Welcome to the 11th Annual NFL Alumni Awards! Once again I use the NFL's no-longer-pretending-to-be-amateurs collegiate pipeline to gauge major conference program strength, assess who is up and who is down at the ever-volatile pro level, and start arguments, because one thing lacking in...2023
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• Pre-Snap Reads 2/24: Bring Bobby Wagner back?
Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Read! Bobby’s been cut! Combine coming up! Aaron reappears from the dark! Lots to discuss. Even more to wait on. Let the links guide you. Seattle Seahawks News Bobby Wagner is a free agent again: Will Seahawks bring him home? - Seaside Joe 2/23/2023: In stunning news, the Rams are releasing Wagner after only one season It’s time to bring Bobby ...2023
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• Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards
Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards Vincent Verhei 24 Feb 2023, 10:10am Welcome to the 11th Annual NFL Alumni Awards! Once again I use the NFL's no-longer-pretending-to-be-amateurs collegiate pipeline to gauge major conference program strength, assess who is up and who is down at the ever-volatile pro level, and start arguments, because one thing lacking in...2023
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• Ravens News 2/17: Most Improved and more
Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Every NFL team’s most improved player in 2022 - Gordon McGuinness BALTIMORE RAVENS: LB PATRICK QUEEN 2021 PFF Grade: 43.5 2022 PFF Grade: 69.7 Improvement: 26.2 Queen has flashed at times throughout this three-year career in Baltimore, but the consistency just wasn’t there. While he was still a little up and down for the Ravens this past season, we als...2023
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• Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections
Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections Aaron Schatz 16 Feb 2023, 02:53pm ...2023
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• Can Rams out-duel Eagles, rest of NFC next season?
Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images Early odds have Rams with 10th-best chance to win Super Bowl The Philadelphia Eagles held a fourth quarter lead in the Super Bowl and tied the game with 5:15 remaining, but if the last 20 years of divisional parity are any indication then the Eagles might have a difficult time even winning the NFC East next season. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Eagles 3...2023
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• Buccaneers Superlatives Pt. 3: After the Honors
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images The 2022 Tampa Bay Bucs did not have a single member representing their team at this year’s NFL Honors. The annual NFL Honors were held this week and all of the best players and plays were recognized amongst NFL royalty. Not all 32 teams get to have a player or players represented at the award ceremony and unfortunately the 2022 Tampa Bay Buccaneers were ...2023
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images Weekly, we take a look around the SB Nation family of NFL blogs. Here are the news stories and analysis they are discussing. AFC EAST: New England Patriots (via Pats Pulpit) What losing Nick Caley means for the Patriots - Pats PulpitCaley will leave New England to join the Rams. New York Jets (via Gang Green Nation) The price needs to come down f...2023
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• Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza
Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza Vincent Verhei 02 Feb 2023, 09:26am Call us the Fridge and keep Walter Payton on the bench, it's time for Prop Bet Extravaganza XX! It's hard to believe that Football Outsiders has been doing this for 20 years, stretching back to when Al Bogdan and Ian Dembsky riffed on the Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl. Back then, to get Tom ...2023
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• Ravens News 2/1: Tight on Cap Space and more
Max Faulkner/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Twelve Ravens Thoughts following conference championship weekend - Luke Jones Credit the Eagles for having the conviction to reset with a new head coach and quarterback a few years after winning a Super Bowl rather than sticking with a Doug Pederson-Carson Wentz partnership that wasn’t working. Continuity is grea...2023
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Weekly, we take a look around the SB Nation family of NFL blogs. Here are the news stories and analysis they are discussing. AFC EAST: New England Patriots (via Pats Pulpit) Hiring Bill O’Brien a ‘great move’ for Patriots, says Julian Edelman - Pats PulpitMac Jones’ sophomore campaign certainly did not go as planned. While the young quarterback was thrus...2023
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• NFC West will be the league’s toughest division in 2023
Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Sustained run of NFC West dominance hasn’t ended The Los Angeles Rams fanbase rejoiced seeing the 49ers getting the snot kicked out of them on Sunday, losing 31-7 to the Philadelphia Eagles and seeing Brock Purdy leave with what turned out to be a torn UCL. If it wasn’t for all the injuries and a few questionable calls, the NFC Championship would be even...2023
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• Monday Morning Hangover: Vick, Weeden and the NFL Grab Bag of Backup QBs
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2023
"Derek Carr released by Raiders: Best fits for QB in 2023 include multiple teams in NFC South"

2022
"Week 8 overreactions and reality checks: Falcons best team in NFC South? Seahawks top dogs in NFC West?"

2021
"The short-handed Buccaneers routed the Panthers on Sunday to clinch the NFC South division title for the first time since 2007."

2020
"The Bills capture the AFC East, the Buccaneers take the NFC South, and here's what else will shake out in 2020"

2019
"Ron Rivera, who was fired after leading Carolina to three NFC South titles and a Super Bowl appearance in nine seasons, is believed to be a primary candidate for the Redskins vacancy, sources told ESPN."

2018
"New Orleans, back in the playoffs after a four-year absence, looks to beat NFC South rival Carolina for the third time this season."

2017
"Beat the Falcons, something the Saints couldn’t do on the road in Week 14, and they’ll have a great shot to put a virtual hammerlock on the NFC South."

2016
"That left them in the basement of the NFC South and four games out of a playoff spot."

2015
"A dearth of playmakers in the receiving corps hasn't hindered the Seahawks amid their six-game winning streak, per NFC Director of Football Communications Randall Liu: The Carolina Panthers don't have to apologize for winning the NFC South with a 7-8-1 record."

2014
"The Falcons play Carolina on Sunday with the NFC South title and a playoff spot on the line."

• In NFC South, Only Atlanta Falcons Are Set at QB
In NFC South, Only Atlanta Falcons Are Set at QB Vincent Verhei 24 Feb 2023, 12:33pm In these editions of Four Downs, we'll review the biggest hole on each team in the division and then give a short look at each team's major free agents for 2023. Atlanta Falcons Biggest Need: Edge Rusher The Falcons had an adjusted sack rate of 4.0%, worst in the league. The sad ...2023
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• Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards
Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards Vincent Verhei 24 Feb 2023, 10:10am Welcome to the 11th Annual NFL Alumni Awards! Once again I use the NFL's no-longer-pretending-to-be-amateurs collegiate pipeline to gauge major conference program strength, assess who is up and who is down at the ever-volatile pro level, and start arguments, because one thing lacking in...2023
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• Pre-Snap Reads 2/24: Bring Bobby Wagner back?
Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Read! Bobby’s been cut! Combine coming up! Aaron reappears from the dark! Lots to discuss. Even more to wait on. Let the links guide you. Seattle Seahawks News Bobby Wagner is a free agent again: Will Seahawks bring him home? - Seaside Joe 2/23/2023: In stunning news, the Rams are releasing Wagner after only one season It’s time to bring Bobby ...2023
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• Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny
Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny Mike Tanier 23 Feb 2023, 10:45am Should the Kansas City Chiefs really franchise-tag left tackle Orlando Brown for the second straight year? Let's see. [Begins punching buttons on an imaginary old-timey cash register.] Brown was tagged at $16.7 million last year. A second tag comes with an automatic 20% raise, so...2023
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Weekly, we take a look around the SB Nation family of NFL blogs. Here are the news stories and analysis they are discussing. AFC EAST: New England Patriots (via Pats Pulpit) What Matthew Slater’s return means for the Patriots - Pats PulpitThe Patriots announced on Friday that Slater will be back for a 16th season with the team. ...2023
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• Ex-Cowboys RBs coach Skip Peete reportedly making lateral move to Buccaneers after not having contract renewed

The position coach who helped develop Tony Pollard is moving on to the NFC South champs...2023
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• Fleur-de-Links, February 21: Denver Broncos add another Saints coach to staff
Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here are your daily New Orleans Saints links New Orleans Saints News: Erik McCoy restructures contract, per report - Canal Street Chronicles The Saints have restructed their contract with Erik McCoy, freeing up $8 milllion in cap space. 8 Saints players led the team in penalties in 2022 - Yahoo! Sports A look at which players caus...2023
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• Ravens News 2/17: Most Improved and more
Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Every NFL team’s most improved player in 2022 - Gordon McGuinness BALTIMORE RAVENS: LB PATRICK QUEEN 2021 PFF Grade: 43.5 2022 PFF Grade: 69.7 Improvement: 26.2 Queen has flashed at times throughout this three-year career in Baltimore, but the consistency just wasn’t there. While he was still a little up and down for the Ravens this past season, we als...2023
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• Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections
Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections Aaron Schatz 16 Feb 2023, 02:53pm ...2023
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• Saints early 2023 off-season Q & A
Many questions surround Michael Thomas, who might have played his last down for the Saints | Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images Common Saints questions and answers going into the 2023 NFL off-season. The 2022 season has completed but the NFL machine keeps chugging along. The NFL free agency period will be upon us shortly, followed quickly by the 2023 NFL Draft. Going into this off-seaso...2023
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• Two Bucs Named To PFF’s Top 101 Players List
The 2022 season didn’t go as planned for the Bucs. And that may be putting it lightly. Four offseason retirements — with one turning into an unretirement — and a coaching change made for a new-look team in Tampa Bay, and the result was disappointing. Yes, the Bucs repeated as NFC South champions, but...2023
• Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny
Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny Mike Tanier 23 Feb 2023, 10:45am Should the Kansas City Chiefs really franchise-tag left tackle Orlando Brown for the second straight year? Let's see. [Begins punching buttons on an imaginary old-timey cash register.] Brown was tagged at $16.7 million last year. A second tag comes with an automatic 20% raise, so...2023
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Weekly, we take a look around the SB Nation family of NFL blogs. Here are the news stories and analysis they are discussing. AFC EAST: New England Patriots (via Pats Pulpit) What Matthew Slater’s return means for the Patriots - Pats PulpitThe Patriots announced on Friday that Slater will be back for a 16th season with the team. ...2023
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• Ravens News 2/17: Most Improved and more
Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Every NFL team’s most improved player in 2022 - Gordon McGuinness BALTIMORE RAVENS: LB PATRICK QUEEN 2021 PFF Grade: 43.5 2022 PFF Grade: 69.7 Improvement: 26.2 Queen has flashed at times throughout this three-year career in Baltimore, but the consistency just wasn’t there. While he was still a little up and down for the Ravens this past season, we als...2023
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• Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections
Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections Aaron Schatz 16 Feb 2023, 02:53pm ...2023
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
Photo by Gaelen Morse/Getty Images Weekly, we take a look around the SB Nation family of NFL blogs. Here are the news stories and analysis they are discussing. AFC EAST: New England Patriots (via Pats Pulpit) Patriots QB Mac Jones wants to ‘re-earn the respect’ in 2023 - Pats PulpitJones is working with former NFL quarterback Nic Shimonek to improve his strength. New York Jets (via ...2023
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• Can Rams out-duel Eagles, rest of NFC next season?
Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images Early odds have Rams with 10th-best chance to win Super Bowl The Philadelphia Eagles held a fourth quarter lead in the Super Bowl and tied the game with 5:15 remaining, but if the last 20 years of divisional parity are any indication then the Eagles might have a difficult time even winning the NFC East next season. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Eagles 3...2023
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• Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza
Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza Vincent Verhei 02 Feb 2023, 09:26am Call us the Fridge and keep Walter Payton on the bench, it's time for Prop Bet Extravaganza XX! It's hard to believe that Football Outsiders has been doing this for 20 years, stretching back to when Al Bogdan and Ian Dembsky riffed on the Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl. Back then, to get Tom ...2023
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• Tom Brady retires (again)
Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images And he never lost to the Vikings Tom Brady has never lost a football game that he’s played against the Minnesota Vikings. And, apparently, he won’t. On Wednesday, Brady announced his retirement. . .again. . .one year to the day that he announced his previous one. He was persuaded to come back this past season and led the Tampa Bay Bucca...2023
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• Rebuild for the Bucs? Not so fast
Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images While some believe a full on rebuild is in store, fans should maybe pump the brakes a little The Buccaneers face an offseason with a ton of questions and with that, a lot of fans and media are speculating that the Bucs will be entering a rebuild if Tom Brady were to either retire or sign elsewhere. Not so fast. Now, people have differ...2023
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• In NFC South, Only Atlanta Falcons Are Set at QB
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• Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
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• Ravens News 2/17: Most Improved and more
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
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• Buccaneers Superlatives Pt. 3: After the Honors
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
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• Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza
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• Julio: 'Surreal' to join forces with Brady, Bucs

Julio Jones said joining Tom Brady and the Buccaneers -- his longtime NFC South opponent -- was a "surreal moment" but also discussed his excitement to "be a part of something special."...2022
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• Sources: Jim Harbaugh Expected to Take Michigan Job
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• Jameis Winston Wins 2015 Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year Award
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• NFL Divisional Schedule 2015: Dates, Times, AFC and NFC Matchup Preview
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• Buzz: Could Vincent Jackson Trade Be Patriots Answer for a Deep Threat?
2014

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• Julio Jones Is the NFL's Strongest MVP Candidate Through Week 3
2015

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• Week 8 overreactions and reality checks: Falcons best team in NFC South? Seahawks top dogs in NFC West?

The NFC has two surprising division leaders...2022
• DeAngelo Williams Should Remain a Part of Panthers Backfield for One More Year
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• Saints Take Offense to Cam Newton's 'Superman' Celebration, Fight Breaks out
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• Cam Newton Officially Active, Starting for Panthers for First Time Since Crash
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• Jared Allen to Panthers: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Kelvin Benjamin Injury: Updates on Panthers WR's Knee and Return
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• Cam Newton Speaks out in First Press Conference Since Car Accident
2014

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• Cam Newton as 'Superman' Good Enough to Keep Panthers as NFC South Contenders
2015

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• Atlanta Falcons fire coach Mike Smith
Sunday's loss to the Panthers proved to be the deciding factor for Mike Smith's tenure in Atlanta. The Falcons fired the coach on Monday after the team was blown out at home in a game that decided the NFC South....2014
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• Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza
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• Ryan Fitzpatrick has career game after sons pick him in fantasy football
It sure did seem like Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was living in fantasy land against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.Getting the season-opening start with Jameis Winston suspended, the career journeyman put up the best single-game performance of his career in a stunning 48-40 win over the defending NFC South champs.Fitzpatrick put up 417 passing yards with four touchdowns an...2018
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• Week 5 Snap Judgments

Musings, observations and the occasional insight as we absorb an ultra-competitive Week 5 in the NFL, which has so far featured nine games decided by one score…. * Almost nine months has passed, but nothing has really changed. The Green Bay Packers still own the Dallas Cowboys. And Dallas still can’t stop Aaron Rodgers when the game’s on the line. Join the club, Cowboys. Green Bay went into AT&T S...2017
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• Chiefs vs. Falcons: Score and Twitter Reaction from 2016 Regular Season
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• Do Kirk Cousins, Washington Redskins Really Stand a Chance in the Playoffs?
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• Monday Morning Hangover: An Anarchist's Guide to the Wild-Card Race
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• Monday Morning Hangover: Vick, Weeden and the NFL Grab Bag of Backup QBs
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• In NFC South, Only Atlanta Falcons Are Set at QB
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• Justin Herbert Leads Pac-12 Alumni Awards
2023

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• Pre-Snap Reads 2/24: Bring Bobby Wagner back?
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• Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny
2023

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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
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• Ravens News 2/17: Most Improved and more
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• Bills Top Way Too Early 2023 Projections
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• Saints early 2023 off-season Q & A
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• Derek Carr rumors: Latest next team odds have surprising favorite
Derek Carr is one of the hottest free agents in the league right now and could feasibly land on any quarterback-needy team. How about one in the NFC South? No, not the New Orleans Saints. The Carolina Panthers are apparently the betting favorites to sign Derek Carr, followed by the Saints, New York Jets, Tampa […] Derek Carr rumors: Latest next team odds have surprising favorite - FanSided -...2023
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
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• Orlando Brown, Daniel Jones, and the Tag of Destiny
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• Can Rams out-duel Eagles, rest of NFC next season?
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• Buccaneers Superlatives Pt. 3: After the Honors
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• Around SB Nation: What Other NFL Blogs Are Discussing
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• Super Bowl LVII Prop Bet Extravaganza
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• Ravens News 2/1: Tight on Cap Space and more
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• NFL insider notes: Where Panthers could trade Teddy Bridgewater and why NFC South makes sense, plus draft buzz
Most are connecting Bridgewater to the Broncos, but there's plenty of interest in the NFC South...2021
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• The 25 most compelling games of the NFL's 2018 regular season

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• Wild Card Playoff Snap Judgments

Musings, observations and the occasional insight as we re-cap the mostly entertaining first round of the NFL playoffs... * The NFC has had the lead in the glamor department all season and next week’s divisional round matchups will be no different. While the Falcons at Eagles game on Saturday will be intriguing, put me down for thinking the NFC will be represented in the Super Bowl by the winner of...2018
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• Week 17 Snap Judgments

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