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Time to consider Pats as a football team, finally
Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando With apologies to Sen. Arlen Specter, and at the risk of violating unofficial 2008 offseason protocol, let's take a look at the New England Patriots as a football team. Let's take a really close look at them, starting where any analysis should start: with a detailed look at the roster. I've made some upgrades to the 25-column Excel version we made available ...
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Patriots roster in focus
Extra Points — ESPN.com's Mike Sando posts a blog entry on "Hashmarks" titled "Time to consider Pats as a football team, finally." In the blog entry, the detailed Sando offers up an Excel file to download with the Patriots roster. He breaks down the roster in different ways, such as: Did you know that 40 of the players come from college programs aligned with three major conferences -- the Big 12 (15), SEC (15) and ACC (10). Only Tampa Bay has more players from those conferences (45). No team has more players from the Big 12.

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