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Jon and I break down every aspect of Monday’s mega-deals: Myles Garrett traded from the Browns to the Rams; AJ Brown moving from the Eagles to the Patriots. We discuss the players, the value, the winners and the losers. How much does Brown have left in the tank? How has his receiver profile changed? How will losing Brown change the Eagles’ offense? What…

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Jon and I kick off our offseason Summer Scouting series with a look at the 2025 rookie class. We go pick by pick through the first round, buying, holding or selling stock in the players after their rookie season. In part one, we look at the top 16 picks: how high is Abdul Carter’s ceiling? What does Cam Ward need to do in Year Two? What makes Colston Lo…

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Jon and I wrap up our tiers of the best organizations in the league by running through the final two tiers. We look at the underachievers, the perennial basement dwellers, and those franchises on the upswing. Who has slipped from mediocrity down to the bottom tier? Which turnaround are we buying? How on Earth do you place the aggressively unambitious St…

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Jon and I continue our evaluations of all 32 NFL franchises, moving on to our third tier. If you missed part one of the series, you can find it here. On this episode, we dig through our third tiers.

Should the Packers and Bills be higher? Can Jon convince me to think more highly of the Texans or the Vikings? How much of a role has luck (or lack thereof) …

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It’s here! Jon and I kick off our annual organization rankings by running through our first and second tiers. We look at the elite and the good, tiering organizations based on the combination of ownership, GM, coaching staff, alignment, the strength of the roster, their team-building in all phases, the moves they’ve made (and haven’t), how they navigate…

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You asked, we’ve answered. Jon and I open up our archives to look back at the 2022 NFL Draft class. We discuss our initial evaluations, how we’ve each evolved our grading and analysis of prospects, where we stacked up versus the consensus, our biggest whiffs, biggest hits and the biggest surprises from the group.

We then answer our first batch of offseas…

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Jon & I wrap up our draft coverage by evaluating and tiering every team’s class. We finish up with the NFC, discussing why the best organizations disappointed, why we differ on the value of a couple of classes, the value of the “Consensus Board,” and which teams are poised to make a leap after nailing their classes.

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Jon & I wrap up our draft coverage by evaluating and tiering every team’s haul. First up, it’s the AFC. What did we like? What didn’t we like? What was confusing? What are the best scheme fits? Who are the later round gems? All that and much more.

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