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  As   Patrick Mahomes   pointed out Monday, we are now less than a month away from regularly scheduled NFL football, and with training camps underway amid strict safety protocols, it’s time to start getting cautiously excited about the 2020 season. As such, let’s dive right into an absurd prediction exercise! PFF’s play-by-play grading, coupled with the hundreds of individual data points we collect on any given NFL play, help form one of the most powerful, predictive databases anywhere in football. And yet, we know the game is still one of so many variables that the best we can do is tilt the odds in your favor rather than give you a cheat sheet with all of the answers several months in advance. Many of my picks are simply playing the odds, but we know an NFL season never pans out that way. There are surprises and shocks every year that would have been impossible to predict without the use of a crystal ball, so I have taken my best guess in certain spots at forecasting some of those s