All About the 2011 NFL Players Lockout
The NFL lockout has reached it’s fourth week now, and it’s time for a LiveBall sports informational on The Lockout and what it means for fans. I’ll put on a completely amateur and limited legal hat...
View ArticleNFL Schedule Release Thoughts
One of the counter-intuitive things that I learned over many, many years of studying schedules is that in the NFL, hot starts matter. They matter more than what teams do at the end of a season. You...
View ArticleNFL Draft 2011: QB Class a lot of Things, but Weak isn’t One
It’s been said a couple of different ways, but most experts seem to believe that we’re looking at one of the weaker quarterback classes in recent memory. But until more people get comfortable...
View ArticleThe NFL and the Critical Importance of Undrafted Free Agents: Evidence from...
NFL teams are built though the NFL Draft. This is a truth that we hold self evident. It’s also misleading. The more-accurate truth is that the successful teams are built through the scrap heap in...
View ArticleThe NFL and the Critical Importance of Undrafted Free Agents: Evidence from...
As clear as it was last week that both late round picks and recent undrafted free agents form the core of contending NFC teams, such as the Packers, we’ll look at a couple of the dynasties that...
View ArticleThe LiveBall Sports 2011 NFL Season Mega-Preview: Part I
We’re going to start with the NFC South and NFC North predictions, to ensure that those picks are out by the time the Saints and Packers play this evening. By Friday, the rest of the season preview...
View ArticleThe LiveBall Sports 2011 NFL Season Mega-Preview: Part II
Part 1 of the NFL preview can be seen here. NFC East LiveBall Sports QDS Projections: Eagles 10.0 wins Giants 9.5 wins Cowboys 8.1 wins Redskins 7.1 wins As stated in part one, the win projections on...
View ArticleThe LiveBall Sports 2011 NFL Season Mega-Preview: Part III
Despite the fact that week one is more or less in the books, I’m still rolling out the projections. Here are the final two divisions, saved because half of the remaining teams play tonight. Here is...
View ArticleFNQB: The Raiders and Quarterback Carson Palmer: A Fact-Based Debate
Today’s Carson Palmer article features guest blogger Jason Hirschhorn of One Thirty BPM. You can find his work here, and you can follow him on Twitter at @JBHirschhorn. Head Coach Hue Jackson with...
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