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9 Predictions To Start The 2014 NFL Season

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The 2014 NFL season is nine days from kickoff next Thursday night, when the Seattle Seahawks hoist their Super Bowl banner for the NBC audience against the Green Bay Packers. It’s time then, for the Notebook Nine, the nine key predictions I’m taking into the season. In the NFL’s case, they make doing nine easy—just one pick for each of the eight divisions, and then an overarching Super Bowl pick. Here we go…

NFL Analysis: Final 2013 Predictions

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TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis has been going full-bore through the month of August, completing previews on all 32 teams individually, as well as a separate overview on each of the eight divisions, exploring their betting odds, recent history and including links to the team previews of its members. Now it’s time to tie everything together into one last preseason preview.

NFL Predictions: Final Preseason Extravaganza

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We’ve been running NFL team previews here for the last month at TheSportsNotebook, including projections on whether teams would hit their Las Vegas over/under number for wins. We’ve also had contributor Isaac Huss weigh in with key storylines and predictions for both the NFC & AFC, and then yesterday Isaac laid out why he thought the New England Patriots would win the Super Bowl. Now it’s time for me to jump in with my own final set of picks.

NFL Team Previews: Cleveland Browns

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The Cleveland Browns have not made the playoffs since 2002 and only broken .500 one time during that dry spell. This summer the team was bought by an owner who’s a self-professed Pittsburgh Steeler diehard, only the archrival of the Browns. Can things get much lower? Or will the arrival of rookie running back Trent Richardson and rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden—two of the most productive skill-position players in college football last year—signal the start of winning football again in Cleveland? TheSportsNotebook breaks down the Browns…