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AFL Pick 'em Week 5 preview

By Scott Engel
ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

For the 2008 season, the Arena Football League added two new rules that were seemingly designed to make defense more of a factor. First, the Jack linebacker now has "freedom of movement" and can roam from sideboard to sideboard within five yards of the line of scrimmage once a play begins. Second, one defensive player is allowed to have a radio device in his helmet in order to communicate with the coaching staff. With the Jack linebacker no longer confined by the old "box rule," quarterbacks ha ...

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