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Joyner: Week 1 passing matchups to exploit

By KC Joyner
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Hello! Many of you may be familiar with my statistical metrics work for the NFL section, but for those of you who aren't, a quick primer is probably in order. For the past four seasons, I have been taping and breaking down every passing play of every NFL game. Some of the things I look for are the types of routes receivers run, how often quarterbacks force passes into coverage and which defensive backs are targeted and beaten the most. I run statistical analyses from these tape breakdowns an ...

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