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By Joey Esquire Originally I anticipated this series would be six articles: QBs, run offense, pass catchers, pass rush, run defense and secondary. In researching my run defense article, I came to the realization that there is no meaningful statistic – none at all, anywhere –which supports the idea that run defense correlates to wins.…

This one should be easy to write. Just tally up total sacks and rank accordingly, right? No, because that would be stupid. 1. Philadelphia Eagles 2. Washington Redskins 3. Dallas Cowboys 4. New York Giants 4. New York Giants DL Depth Chart: Dalvin Tomlinson, Snacks Harrison, BJ Hill, Kerry Wynn, Robert Thomas, AJ Francis, Avery…

By Joey Impatient Esquire The correlation of rushing yards to wins in the NFL has generally declined over the past 40 years or so. Recent analyses tend to show, regardless of game situation, that passing has a higher rate of success than running. But because NFL coaches still inexplicably called runs on 42.4% of plays…

By Joey Esquire. In 2017, I tried my hand at forecasting the performance of various position groups for all four NFCE teams. That series of articles was… epic. But this year, I am going to change it up a bit. These articles will try to predict how teams will perform byfunction: quarterbacking, run game, pass…