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Top QB versus Top D

January 22, 2020
Today I'm looking at Patrick Mahomes, the game's top quarterback, versus San Francisco's top-ranked pass defense. There's a decent sample set of games to look at...
Super Bowl LIV

Aaron Rodgers

January 20, 2020
But Rodgers and the Packers were never in the game. Not enough of their completions were doing any real damage...
Aaron Rodgers

Pass-catching RBs

January 19, 2020
I was poking around with the search tools at Pro Football Reference...
Dalvin Cook Aaron Jones Jamaal Williams

Playoff runners

January 18, 2020
Since 2000, a running back has run for 140-plus yards 28 times in playoff games. Only two of those running backs were guys that those teams selected in the first round...
Derrick Henry

Davante Adams

January 16, 2020
Adams missed a month of the regular season, but when he was playing he accounted for 36 percent of Green Bay’s receiving yards...
Davante Adams

Bye Bye Texans?

January 10, 2020
Reid has been a head coach for over 20 years, so there’s considerable data to work with. Including his years with the Eagles, Reid is 18-3 after bye weeks in the regular season...
Andy Reid

49ers defense

January 9, 2020
San Francisco at one point seemed to have perhaps the league’s best defense. It allowed only 7 TDs in its first seven games. We’ve seen that defense totally shut down the Browns, Rams and Packers...
Dalvin Cook

Aaron Jones

January 8, 2020
Usually when a team allows a bunch of rushing touchdowns, that means it’s not very good and is losing a bunch of games...
Aaron Jones

George Kittle

January 7, 2020
Kittle is one of the league’s best tight ends. Maybe the No. 1 guy...
George Kittle

Wade Phillips

January 7, 2020
When he does, that's a defense I'll be interested in in fantasy drafts...
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Playoffs

January 4, 2020
That’s the way it’s been consistently playing out. Since the move to the eight-division format in 2002, there’s been an average 5.9 new playoff teams per season...
Jimmy Garoppolo

Tennessee Titans

January 3, 2020
For Tennessee to win, it will need a decent game out of Ryan Tannehill...
Ryan Tannehill Derrick Henry

Julian Edelman

January 2, 2020
Edelman is getting up there in years (he’s 33) and was banged up late in the season. He wasn’t productive in two of their last three games...
Julian Edelman Tom Brady

Playoff kickers

December 31, 2019
Lutz is great. He scored 144 points in the regular season, 2nd-most in the league behind Harrison Butker...
Wil Lutz

Amari Cooper

December 28, 2019
For whatever reason, Cooper has been a different guy at home. Since joining the Cowboys, he’s had seven games with over 100 receiving yards, and all of them have been at home...
Amari Cooper Dak Prescott

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