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The Football 101

Countdown of the 101 greatest players in pro football history

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There’s a moment in the 2008 AFC Championship Game between Pittsburgh and Baltimore that might explain, just a little bit, what it means to play modern…
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What’s left now is the explosion. Bill James likes to say that in baseball, it’s the statistics that survive. As the years go on, people remember fewer…
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No player in The Football 101 inspired more disagreement, more consternation, more immovable viewpoints among the people I consulted with than Steven M…
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If I asked you, “Can you tell me the difference between the way Peyton Manning and Lamar Jackson played quarterback?" I imagine you would laugh for a w…
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If you’re even a moderate fan of NFL history, you probably have heard of The Mel Blount Rule. Mel Blount was a big, ferocious and hard-hitting cornerba…
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OK, here’s a little perspective on how much the game has changed. When Ozzie Newsome retired in 1990, his 662 receptions were good for fourth on the al…
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An image comes to mind whenever I think of Randall McDaniel, an image that always makes me smile.
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