The Grantland NFL Gambling Preview

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The Ultimate NFL Preview

Pretenders! Contenders! Simmons! Barnwell! Podcasts! Cousin Sal! Depressed Fan Bases! Sharps! The Bad Quarterback League (2.0)! Football!

Grantland’s Mega NFL Preview

By Bill Barnwell

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Who has a shot at the Lombardi Trophy?

The Grantland NFL Gambling Preview

By Bill Barnwell

With our massive, four-part preview of the NFL season finally complete, it’s time to apply the research from the preview to the real world. Well, as real as Vegas can be.

The NFL in 2011: All About Continuity

By Bill Simmons

All 32 teams had only seven weeks to get their act together. The Sports Guy knows this could spell trouble for just about everyone.

B.S. Report: Mike Lombardi and JackO

By Bill Simmons

Bill Simmons and Mike Lombardi discuss the spectacular Packers-Saints game. Plus, JackO joins Simmons to break down Yankees-Red Sox.

B.S. Report: Cousin Sal

By Bill Simmons

Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal look ahead to the NFL season and guess the lines for Week 1.

In Search of the Most Depressed Fan Base: September Edition

By Shane Ryan

Over Labor Day weekend, 10 of the ablest minds at Grantland briefly stopped typing their own names into a Google search bar and devoted themselves to a sad question: Which city’s fan base is enduring the roughest stretch in sports right now?

Introducing Grantland’s Bad Quarterback League

By David Jacoby

There is too much attention and praise showered on the modern elite quarterback. The Tom Bradys, Peyton Mannings and Aaron Rodgers of the league are celebrated as genius demigods, just because they can make split-second decisions and deliver precise passes while being chased by gigantic men who spent an entire week figuring out ways to injure them. Blah fucking blah.

Reintroducing The Bad Quarterback League: This Time With More JaMarcus Russell

By David Jacoby

The response to Grantland’s Bad Quarterback League has been encouraging, intimidating and extremely helpful. But the Declaration of Independence was not perfected in one draft and neither was our original set of BQBL rules.

Swimming With The Sharps

By Grantland Staff

Hey you, yeah you with all the disposable income. You know what stimulates the economy? Casual sports gambling! But we’re not throwing you in the deep end without some floaties, here.

Are you ready for some football gambling?


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