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[We are no longer accepting entries now that teams can now talk with players and make trades. Because teams can officially sign players on Friday, the contest will be over a week from Friday on 8/5]

We do like a competition every now and then, and with free agency approaching we’ve got another one.

Using our Top 51 Free Agents article, we want you to predict just where each of them is going to end up. We’ll be closing the competition one week after free agency opens, and the person with the most correct answers wins. The winner will receive a free PFF Premium Subscription for one year, and if you already have one, we’ll give your choice of a free renewal when that ends or access to your favorite team’s Player Participation data.
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Free agency is coming. So now, after spending so long wondering about when it would arrive, we’re left to dive into what’s going to happen when it finally does.
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Well, we can’t tell you that exactly, but we can tell you what should happen. Two of our top analysts, Sam Monson and Khaled Elsayed, sat down to discuss what each franchise should do, answering three questions for every team.
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Up first, we’re looking at the AFC East. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s Day 1 of our free agency preview, and we’re going to keep firing the articles at you.
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Up next it’s the AFC North, home to two playoff teams and two teams that have a lot of questions that need answering. For one team, holding onto their players seems a priority, for another there are so many holes that they’d struggle not to upgrade their roster.
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That’s the AFC North, one of the NFL’s most bitterly competitive divisions that is also currently home to the haves and have-nots.
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Two of our chief analysts, Sam Monson and Khaled Elsayed sit down to share their thoughts on the directions each team could go in free agency.
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At ProFootballFocus.com, we work with NFL teams, players, agents, and media; providing them with the totally unique data gathered by our team and the information about every player that is derived from it. It’s the desire to break new ground and be involved that motivates us, not the money we may make out of this going forward.
 
Therefore, all the roles below should be seen first and foremost as voluntary. If you love football and want to be involved with a group of people whose paramount objective is to drive knowledge of the NFL to new levels and have fun doing it, then you certainly should apply. If you are simply interested in earning some extra cash, I think you’ll find you won’t fit in.
 
That said, we are expanding and, as time goes on, we’ll likely be looking to recruit people for more full-time paid roles. Team members who start off as unpaid volunteers and do a great job put themselves in fantastic position as we grow. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting Monday, we’ll begin a series breaking down the best individual pass protectors for 2010, so be sure to check back in.
 
In the mean time – on the heels of our 2010 team pass protection rankings – here’s a quick look back at what the same formula produced in 2009.

A familiar group would up at the top as Indianapolis’ concoction of few extra blockers and quick-triggered quarterback balanced a relatively porous line and again formed the pressure-handling unit that others looked up to.
 
Linked below is the three-part series written by Neil Hornsby. Read the rest of this entry »

So it all comes down to this.

The Super Bowl, a.k.a. The Greatest Show on Earth, a.k.a. “I’m Going to Disney World!”

We here at Pro Football Focus aren’t going to Disney unless we get a price break on a timeshare, but we’re none the less as excited as can be. After all, you have a matchup worthy of any Super Bowl, with two great sets of fans, two great quarterbacks and two great teams. What more could you want?

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It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were sizing up rosters and trying to figure out who might still be kicking by the time this part of the season rolled around.

And now, here we are. In August, this would have seemed to be a pretty reasonable final four … with the exception of Chicago, who most people saw as a team that would be .500 or worse. Can they get to the Super Bowl against a tough Packer team? Can the Jets live up to their preseason promise? Will the Packers or Steelers add to their well-stocked championship cases?

Damned if we know. We’re good at telling you what happened in a game, not how they’re going to turn out. But we’ll try anyway.

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The Saturday games are in the books, and if we learned anything it’s to bet the over.

Will Sunday’s games also be filled with touchdowns galore (offensive, defensive and special teams), or will they be more classic low-scoring affairs befitting their chilly locations?

Our six fearless pickers take a look, and yes, at least one person is picking the Jets to upset the Patriots.

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Our managing editor, Jonathan Comey, has been lording it over the rest of us all week, so we might as well get it out of the way right off the bat: He nailed it last week.

He picked three of four, almost down to the number, and predicted the Seahawks to give the Saints all they could handle before losing by two. It’s not a win, but it’s as close as just about anyone outside of Seattle got.

Can he do it again? And will he ever shut up about it?

Read on as we break down the Saturday games.

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