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FBO: Week 2 Quick Reads

By Bill Barnwell
Football Outsiders

Monday, September 21, 2009

In the record books, a yard is a yard. That keeps things simple, but it's not entirely accurate. A yard is three feet, but those three feet never come the same way. The skill and effort needed to gain a yard is never the same; because it was impossible to properly value the relative difficulty and importance of each individual yard, though, they all got lumped together when people started compiling NFL statistics. Of course, all it takes is watching an NFL game to know better. A yard gained ...

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