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NFL Coaching Continuity

Coaching might be the single biggest competitive advantage NFL teams can exploit during the salary-cap era.

NFL Coaching Continuity
Six members of the Chiefs coaching staff who have been with the team since 2013 (L-R): Andy Heck, Mike Frazier, Rick Burkholder, Andy Reid, Tom Melvin, and Dave Toub.

Here's where I'm at in building out an extensive coaching tree for all the sickos.

It's still in the sapling stage but the goal is to grow an evergreen so big and tall that Rockefeller Center comes calling around Christmas Future.

I went to each NFL team's website, toggled to their coaching page, and went to work compiling a timeline of the coaches' previous stops over the past three seasons.

I quickly learned that I would need to establish a few guardrails if I was going to come up with any sort of viable formula to assess coaching continuity at

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Brad Beatson
Brad Beatson The Wild West

2025 NFL Draft 3-Round Mock

This 3-round mock combines mountains of research with sourced insider reports to provide the latest intel ahead of the NFL Draft.

2025 NFL Draft 3-Round Mock

The following mock draft combines research from various sources, including Sports Info Solutions, PFF, NBC Sports, several Bleacher Report team affiliates, the Athletic's tremendous stable of beat reporters, Alex Katson's equally tremendous, NFL-sourced Pro Day spreadsheet, many NFL podcasts, Spotrac, Dane Brugler's prospect guide ("The Beast"), and mock drafts from ESPN's Matt Miller and NFL Network's Daniel Jeremiah.

All of the information gathered is current through Top 30 visits. Teams now have a good sense of when players will be targeted throughout the draft and are prepared for runs on certain positions, which could motivate them to trade.

At the

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Brad Beatson
Brad Beatson The Wild West

Finding the Next Sun God

The next PPR menace heads to South Beach.

Mike McDaniel thinks impatience is a virtue. Sometimes, that means skipping a night's sleep and calling an 8 a.m. meeting that leads to your team trading for the fastest player in the NFL.

Miami's front office had planned to sign some hogmollies to protect Tua Tagovailoa, back in 2022, but McDaniel argued they should instead spend their resources on speed.

The first-year head coach had compiled a 700-play highlight reel to share with his quarterback and discovered Tagovailoa "could sense an opening before it happened." He was more accurate and got rid of the ball faster than most "star

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Brad Beatson
Brad Beatson The Wild West

Patrick Mahomes Reloaded

What will the 2024 Kansas City Chiefs' offense look like in a post–Travis Kelce world?

Kansas City will play San Francisco in the Super Bowl for the second time in four seasons. Patrick Mahomes has made the AFC Championship game in each of his six seasons as Chiefs starting quarterback. This will be their fourth Super Bowl and his second chance at going back-to-back.

He's Tom Brady and LeBron James rolled into one. As a Bills fan, watching him dice up the league while Josh Allen careens down the Philip Rivers trajectory isn't exactly what I would describe as a fun time.

But that's real life and I'm here to talk about fantasy football. Specifically,

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Brad Beatson
Brad Beatson The Wild West

The Next WR1 — (Part 4)

I've been deep in the sheets looking for wide receivers who will rise over the next seven weeks to help us win fantasy championships.

It has not been as simple as tracking the wide receivers who have met the 12 target threshold, which I outlined in Parts 1, 2, and 3.

The Next WR1 — (Part 1)
How a dozen targets became the threshold for elite WR seasons
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The Next WR1 — (Part 2)
21 wide receivers have seen at least 12 targets in a game through the first four weeks of the season.
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The Next WR1 — (Part 3)

Predicting this season’s Top 25 PPR WRs

23 wide receivers met the 12-target mark in the first six weeks of the season:

  • Tyreek Hill
  • Stefon Diggs
  • Adam Thielen
  • Keenan Allen
  • Ja'Marr Chase
  • Puka Nacua
  • A.J. Brown
  • Justin Jefferson
  • Davante Adams
  • Amon-Ra St. Brown
  • CeeDee Lamb
  • Michael Pittman Jr.
  • Jakobi Meyers
  • Christian Kirk
  • Garrett Wilson
  • Drake London
  • Deebo Samuel
  • DeAndre Hopkins
  • Romeo Doubs
  • Josh Downs
  • Mike Williams
  • Cooper Kupp
  • Tee Higgins

Cooper Kupp joined the party in Week 5. Drake London, despite Arthur Smith's best efforts, met the mark in Week 6.

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