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New Orleans Saints
September 27, 2016
The Saints are bad – historically bad. If you catch me this year suggesting any other defense “might be the worst in the league” call me on it...
Alshon Jeffery
September 27, 2016
But Alshon Jeffery, at least, has been a star in this matchup. He's faced them six times in his career, and scored in four of those games (5 TDs total)...
Houston Texans
September 26, 2016
Certainly chance plays a big role. Injuries tend to occur when a player is hit just in just the wrong way...
New England Patriots
September 25, 2016
The Patriots have been looking at T.J...
Third-round quarterbacks
September 21, 2016
Two third-round quarterbacks make their first career starts this week. In the last 25 years, only two quarterbacks selected in that round have won their first start...
Christine Michael
September 21, 2016
Seattle has faced San Francisco seven times in the last three seasons (including a playoff meeting), and had a significant running back in all of those contests...
Buffalo Bills
September 17, 2016
In this century, 23 other players have managed it. Most recently, Ted Ginn Jr. last year against Atlanta...
Bills defense
September 16, 2016
Buffalo has had some bad luck with injuries, to be sure...
Ezekiel Elliott
September 15, 2016
Elliott scored on an 8-yard run, and he also had a nice enough 8-yard run on his previous carry...
Russell Wilson
September 14, 2016
Wilson is only 4-4 as a starter against this team, and Seattle’s offense has scored more than 2 TDs in only one of those games (when Wilson threw 2 TDs and ran for a third in 2014).
As poorly as t...
Delanie Walker
September 14, 2016
Detroit has allowed 15 TDs to tight ends in its last 17 games - a league-worst 12 last year, and 3 in Week 1 to Indianapolis...
Ryan Tannehill
September 13, 2016
In his career, Ryan Tannehill has taken the Dolphins up to New England four times. Those games have gone badly for him -- very badly...
Detroit Lions
September 12, 2016
When the Lions had Vince Lombardi’s grandson as their offensive coordinator, in the first half of last year, they ranked last in rushing...
Road woes
September 8, 2016
Over the past few years, in fact, these guys have tended to be the most affected by home-field advantage (or away-field disadvantage, if you will).
For this one, I looked at the stats of the 23 qu...
Rookie quarterback debuts
September 7, 2016
Over the last three seasons, a dozen other rookie quarterbacks have made starts, and most put up lesser numbers in their first game. On average, they threw for 212 yards and 1.6 TDs...
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