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How to Spot an NFL Playoff Fraud
How to Spot an NFL Playoff Fraud
Plenty of teams enter the NFL postseason deserving to be there. But others are fraudulent teams hiding in plain sight. How can you spot them before they lose in an early-round upset? Just look back at four examples from recent history.Latest From Around the League
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