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Your Annual Reminder That Turnovers Determine the Fates of Games and Seasons

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Insta-whiskey d**k every time I look at that.

Football is a matter of possessions, and there’s a reason a majority of Playoff-bound teams are in the upper echelon of the NFL in turnover margin.

7 of the 12 Playoff participants were in the top 11 in turnover margin last year; 5 NFL Playoff teams occupied the top 6 spots in turnover differential, and both participants in the Super Bowl were top 4.

I will only insult your intelligence for just a second while I tell you why every football coach in the world is accurate in harping on turnovers as the paradoxical savior/devil of games: from 2002-2013 in the NFL, if a team had even +1 in the turnover margin, they were 69.