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What we think we know on Labor Day leaves us wondering what we were thinking by New Year’s. It happens every year.Seven of the 12 teams that qualified for the postseason were home for the postseason a year ago.The Ravens Daniel Jones Jersey , Bears, Cowboys, Texans, Chargers, Seahawks and Colts didn’t make the playoffs a year ago. Those seven teams combined for a 49-63 record a year ago. They are 75-37 this season.The Patriots, Rams Ed Oliver Jersey , Eagles, Chiefs and Saints are the only teams to repeat with playoff berths.Since 1990 — a streak of 29 consecutive seasons — at least four teams have qualified for the playoffs that were not in the postseason the previous year.In 15 of the past 16 seasons at least one team has finished in first place in its division the season after finishing in last or tied for last place.Chicago and Houston accomplished the “worst-to-first” turnaround this season, which marks the second consecutive season that two teams have accomplished the feat. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the NHL, MLB or NBA have never had multiple teams go “worst to first” in their divisions in consecutive seasons. The funniest moment of the first episode of Hard Knocks on Tuesday came when rookie Johnathan Abram was seated across from quarterback Derek Carr at a restaurant. Abram asked Carr the pronunciation of “salmon.”It was hard to tell whether Abram was serious or joking when he debated Carr about whether the “l” was silent.Reporters asked Abram on Wednesday whether he really believed it was pronounced as “sal-mon.”“Sal-Mon, not salmon http://www.billscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-cody-ford-jersey ,” Abram said with a chuckle, via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com. “I mean give me a couple words where the ‘l’ is silent.” Presented with the word “calf,” Abram offered his own pronunciation. “Like a CAL-F. You don’t hear the F?” Abram said. “I know a couple. Like could and should and would, the L is silent. But I just think salmon should be SAL-MON instead of salmon.”The great salmon debate of Raiders camp continues.“It’s definitely salmon,” Carr said, laughing Devin Singletary Jersey , on Wednesday, via Bair. “I don’t know what he’s talking about. But like I said, that guy never needs to change.”