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SETTLING THE SCORE: OFFENSIVE LINE OR RUNNING BACK?

By Jordan Brenner

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

LINE OR BACK? It's the NFL's ultimate chicken-or-egg question, and it extends far beyond Saturday's draft. Simply put, what's more important to a successful running game, the running back or the offensive line? Of course, there's nothing simple about the question, which is why consensus is just as tough to find among experts as with bar-stool GMs. That couldn't have been more clear after talking to a pair of current personnel men (Minnesota's Rick Spielman and Buffalo's John Guy), one of th ...

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