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http://www.thefootballprofessor.com/ - The Ups and Downs of Sports. I Think.
Many thanks to Derek Singer, an independent football analyst, for this guest column.
What Wins Championships?
Perhaps the oldest and most revered cliché in all of sports is “defense wins championships.” Play a drinking game based on commentators using that cliché, and you may be dead before ...
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Derek Anderson
Fact: the Detroit Lions suck. This isn’t exactly old news considering Detroit’s 31-97 record since 2000, but they took their level of play to an all-time low in 2008 and that is definitely worth getting miffed about if you are/were/ever have been a Lions fan as I am.
I started ...
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Detroit Lions
Only more more set of rankings to go for this season, and once again the Tennessee Titans find themselves atop the pile. Their victory over the Steelers was solid in that they only trailed by 4 and they won by 17 going away. The Giants retain their #2 ranking but the Ravens creep up to #3 with ...
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Baltimore Ravens
Detroit Lions
Ah, the people at Football Outsiders are on the offensive today.
“Ralph Vacciano can see into the souls of men.
I know that Derrick Ward was the hero with 215 yards Sunday night, but I think everyone can now see what a difference it makes to have Jacobs in the Giants’ lineup. His ...
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New York Giants
Back at the end of March, I ran RSI (Relative Strength Index) numbers for each NFL team and produced my pre-season projections. The only stats I used were:
1. Each team’s winning percentage back to 1964 (or whenever their first season was)
2. The mathematical formula for generating RSI ...
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This week’s power rankings are published over at Associated Content …a very cool site for people who want to contribute to larger sites and maybe even get paid for it.
Check the article out here .
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NFL
I’ve got a few things I’m tossing around in my head this morning.
First of all, the AFC has taken its very first Inter-Conference play lead after winning four out of five games against the NFC yesterday. Tonight’s PHI-CLE game will most likely shrink that lead to one game, ...
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