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Bleacher Report / Mike Tanier: How the Cowboys (or Ravens, Jaguars or Even the Chargers) Can Win Super Bowl LI
http://bleacherrepor...n-super-bowl-li

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CBS Sports: 32 overrated players http://www.cbssports...name-than-game/

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MMQB / SI: Can Goodell Save His Job?

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ESPN: NFL Concludes Manning didn't use HGH, any other PED's

 

http://espn.go.com/n...-hgh-other-peds

 

League will still interview Julius Peppers, Clay Matthews, James Harrison, and free agent Mike Neal on the first days of training camps. They were also mentioned in the Al-Jazeera report.

 

Side note: IMO, I've thought for years Harrison was an easy pick for abusing performance enhancing drugs. He goes from undrafted, to cut by the Steelers, then cut by the Ravens, in the glory days of the Ravens defense and scouting and development where they would not have mis-scouted an All-Pro player. He ends up playing in NFL Europe. Then one day...All-Pros, Pro Bowls, Defensive Player of the Year...the same year he flies off the handle and commit domestic abuse (charges were dropped)? Harrison, clean, I don't buy it. Complete unknown becomes ill-tempered hot head, poses in magazines with handguns and jacked like Lattimer in "The Program". Now he's still going at age 38? If it smells like a rat and it looks like a rat......

 

I know in rare cases there are players that come from no where, to greatness, like Kurt Warner. But you can probably learn to be more accurate of a passer by sharing a camp with Brett Favre. Then luck box your way into being surrounded by immensely talented players (Faulk, Holt, Bruce, Fitzgerald, Boldin). Harrison's job is to be faster and stronger than the guy trying to block him. 

 

I don't expect anything to come down on these guys. Seems like it's common place for some type of performance enhancers to be used, and a blind eye turned since they don't blood test in the NFL. But Harrison 100% checks all the boxes of a user. 

[bnickle]

None of these guys were clean. Just like the majority of NFL players

[Mackus]

None of these guys were clean. Just like the majority of NFL players

 

Agree.  I would imagine that PED abuse is overwhelmingly rampant in the NFL.  Nobody cares because the records don't mean anything, which is the only reason anybody cares in baseball.

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Sports on Earth: QB Wins: Flawed, But Still Important

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The Ringer: The Kings of Consistency It’s supposed to be hard to stay good in the NFL, but don’t tell that to the past three Super Bowl champs
https://theringer.co...3621#.vb7x8uqo5

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ESPN: Predicting which NFL teams will rise and decline in 2016

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The Ringer: The Second-Year Breakout Team These highly touted 2015 NFL draft picks could be primed for star turns in their sophomore seasons

https://theringer.co...8b0b#.p2u1pcxya

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The Ringer: NFL Defensive Tackles Are Having Their Moment

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Sports Illustrated: NFL Preseason Power Rankings

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The Ringer: How to Quantify the NFL, Five stats to better understand football

https://theringer.co...26f1#.vunhuu5uq

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http://www.espn.com/...m?ex_cid=espntw

 

Hall of Fame Game cancelled due to player safety concerns, citing issues with the paint at midfield and the end zones.

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Sports Illustrated: Roundtable: NFL’s most compelling team entering preseason

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The Ringer: The NFL’s 32 Non-QB MVPs

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The Ringer: The NFL’s All-Face-lift Team
https://theringer.co...43bb#.g86fiq8kz

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http://profootballta...ive-interviews/

 

Why can't the angels from Dogma ever walk into an NFL board meeting?

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Sports on Earth: AFC South Preview 2016
http://www.sportsone...c-south-preview

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NFL.com: NOT the usual suspects: Sleeper award candidates