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The Sports Guy’s Week 2 NFL Picks
If you missed last night’s Goodell-Must-Go bag, click here. Before we make Week 2 picks, allow me to congratulate myself for writing a Week 1 picks column called “The Year of the Dog,” imploring...
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NFL Week 3: Peterson, Picks, and the All-Outrage Mailbag
Editor’s note: We made the mistake of holding this column for one hour because we thought Roger Goodell might actually say something interesting, thoughtful or sincere in today’s days-too-late press...
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Week 4 Picks and Preview: It’s the Coaching, Stupid
You know a good NFL quarterback when you see one, right? Sure, it might take a few hundred passes and a playoff game or two to really get a grip on how good a passer looks, but watch a guy for a few...
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Week 5 Picks: Award-Winning Performances
Today, amid the Friday NFL picks and predictions, we’ll be handing out awards for the first four weeks of the season. Before we do that, let’s get to a topic that is quickly becoming a widely held...
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Which 2-3 NFL Team Has the Best Shot at the Playoffs?
Every season, there seems to be at least one team in the NFL that gets off to a slow start and eventually creeps back into the playoffs. We looked at the cases for and against each of the teams that...
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NFL Week 6 Picks: Question Everything
I have to admit I was tempted to just make this entire Week 6 preview out of J.J. Watt GIFs from Thursday night’s Texans-Colts game and call it a column. I know that he’s not better at quarterback than...
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Ranking the NFL’s Non-Playoff Teams
Yesterday, I ran through the league’s eight divisional leaders and tried to figure out which of them were most likely to hold on to their spots over the 11 weeks to come. Sorry for jinxing you, Colts...
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The Grantland NFL Podcast: Recapping the News and Taking a Look at the Lions,...
Bill Barnwell and Robert Mays recap the news, adopt the Lions, and take a look at the Packers and Bears. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Sports podcast network on iTunes here and...
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NFL Week 7 Picks: It Can Only Go Up From Here
Week 7 can’t be worse than Week 6. Well, it would be very difficult to be worse than Week 6. I was victimized by two of the week’s three pick-sixes in the final seconds of games that turned a winning...
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NFL Week 7 Winners and Losers: Peyton, Trick Punt Plays, and Endangered Panthers
Winners Peyton Manning Peyton Manning wanted this thing over quickly. He went 5-of-5 on Denver’s first drive en route to touchdown no. 507, and it never really slowed down from there. It’s fitting that...
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The Quarterback Contract Question
Where does your team quarterback’s come from? Most likely, he comes from your team’s selection during the NFL draft. Of the league’s 32 starters, three were acquired by trade2 (Carson Palmer, Alex...
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Week 8 Picks: A Gambling Epiphany
The last time I wrote a Friday football column — 35 days ago, if you’re keeping score — Washington fans thought they had upgraded from RG3 to Kirk Cousins, Bills fans were dreaming about EJ Manuel...
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NFL Week 8 Winners and Losers: Rob Gronkowski Hunts Bears, J.J. Watt Hates...
Winners The Steelers Offense When Todd Haley was building this offense over the last couple of seasons, in between intense goatee sculpting sessions, I imagine yesterday is what the Steelers had in...
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Oh No, Romo: The One Guy Dallas Can’t Afford to Lose
Only one thing was ever going to shake the NFC East–leading Dallas Cowboys. Although they would surely suffer if they lost the likes of DeMarco Murray or Tyron Smith, there’s just one truly...
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The Grantland NFL Podcast: Seahawks, Injury Updates, and a Chat With Clay...
Barnwell and Mays break down this week’s injuries before adopting the Seahawks and talking with Clay Matthews about the Bears-Packers rivalry and his experience playing. Listen to the podcast here....
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The 2013 NFL Redraft
The 2013 NFL draft was supposed to be a mess. 2012 had Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin. 2014, even a year in advance, held Jadeveon Clowney in what was regarded as one of the deepest draft classes in...
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NFL at the Half: Breaking Down the Numbers
We’re halfway home. It seems like it just started, but today marks the halfway point of the NFL regular season. Naturally, this seems like a good point to take account of what has happened so far in...
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Revisiting the Y2K-Compliant Quarterbacks
Nearly 15 years later, I remember three things about Y2K. First, many people were legitimately concerned that computers would freak out at midnight, all hell would break loose, and we’d land in a...
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NFL Week 10 Winners and Losers: The Lion Kings, Dez Bryant, and the...
Winners Pick a Lion, Any Lion 1. Calvin Johnson The Packers did the boat racing yesterday, but in some ways, Detroit’s four-point win over Miami was just as impressive as Green Bay’s 41-point thrashing...
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The Grantland NFL Podcast: Week 10 Recap
The Chicago Bears. Chris Borland. The yin and yang of football, life and death, tragedy and triumph — it’s all covered on Monday’s recap of Week 10. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the...
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