One thing I’d like to do more of here at Football Perspective is to point you in the direction of some great content you can find at other sites. You can scroll down and on the right side column I have a “Friends of FP” list, linking to great sites like Pro-Football-Reference.com, Footballguys.com, Smart Football, my old comrade Jason Lisk at The Big Lead, Football Outsiders, and Brian Burke’s Advanced NFL Stats. In addition, I also frequent Bill Barnwell at Grantland, Mike Tanier at Sports on Earth, Scott Kacsmar, and Pro Football Focus. And yes, Matt Hinton, who also moonlights at CBS and Football Outsiders, remains the best college football writer out there. And then there are my tireless Footballguys co-Staffers like Sigmund Bloom, Matt Waldman, Jene Bramel, and Cecil Lammey, who somehow simultaneously never stop talking football and maintain a consistently excellent quality of production. There are more great writers out there — this is probably why I have always gotten distracted whenever I try to link to some of the excellent content out there.

But Greg Bedard has delivered a fascinating look into how Chip Kelly (and Paul Brown) have helped Bill Belichick further refine his incredible offense. The entire article is worth a read, and I won’t quote it all, but here are some particularly interesting points:

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