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We all know that Al Davis loves to draft speed. Recently, a fellow B/R writer made an “All-Speed Team” for the NFL by identifying the fastest 40 times for players at each (speed-relevant) position. It made me curious: how would the actual 2…
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Aug 20th, 2011 | Filed under
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So, while we’re waiting for the NFL CBA to become finalized, let’s take a look at the three quarterbacks who were drafted in 2009 and try to assess how they’ve fared. At the end of the Jets 2009 campaign, I was talking th…
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This is a list, not a ranking.A player’s third year in the league is when most teams have an idea of whether or not that player lived up to the hype from the draft process.Brian Orakpo of the Washington Redskins and Clay Matthews of the Green Bay Packe…
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Jun 8th, 2011 | Filed under
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and this time I will use it to reveal what would have happened if the Detroit Lions took Vontae Davis instead of Brandon Pettigrew in the 2009 NFL draft. This was a widely criticised pick on the day because&nbs…
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The Lions 2009 draft will go down as a great one if Matthew Stafford keeps healthy. However, it could have been a whole lot better.In the third round, the Lions selected Derrick Williams, hoping that he would develop into a solid deep threat to dr…
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