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Receivers are new alpha dogs

By Joe Theismann
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I've been around the game of football my entire life, either playing, watching or commentating on it. But the past few seasons, I've seen something different about this game that I haven't seen anyone else talk about. Somehow, wide receivers have become the new alpha males of the NFL. For years, when you talked about the best players in the league and talked about the leaders on a team, you were talking about the quarterbacks … but not anymore. Now there are only a handful of quarterbacks ...

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