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Best of the Blogs: History is often irrelevant

By Brendan Roberts
ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

You wanna know what stat bothers me? Anything that has "Going back to ..." and involves teams. As in, this team is blank-and-blank against that team going back to 2001, or Receiver X has averaged blank-and-blank yards per game against that defense over the past five seasons. Whatever. I've been reading or hearing that a lot lately, and the stats mean nothing to me. Today's NFL changes at record speed -- new plays, new schemes, new coaches, new players, new injuries. Examine a midrange team and ...

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