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Why the Raiders’ 3-0 Start is For Real, But the 49ers’ May Not Be

Conor Orr looks at five teams that have been pleasant surprises through three weeks, and tells us which teams may keep it up.
The designer statistic is the NFL’s silent assassin. Seemingly every outlier performance, both good and bad, is accompanied by a computer-generated information nugget that lets us know that teams in a similar position are a combined 987–1 when leadin... [17730 chars]
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