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Tackling the burning questions heading into 2015 NFL season

Well everyone, congratulations! We've made it. We survived the interminable off-season, and the NFL is now here. The storylines, as usual, are bountiful. Whose hot seat will be up in flames by the end of the year? Which deserving team will fall short of the postseason? Which player will exceed expectations (and who won't)? Below, SI's NFL team does its best to predict the answers to some of the burning questions of the 2015 season:

Best team to miss the playoffs

DON BANKSCowboys: The Cowboys are still talented and dangerous, but I think their vaunted running game and their opportunistic defense—the two real keys to last year's surprising success—will both fail to match the production from 2014.