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Don't look away from the screen! Don't go to the concession stand for a beer! You'll miss something, because football keeps speeding up. The hurry-up offense is causing total snaps per game to increase. Last season, the New England Patriots snapped the ball six more times per game than they did a decade ago -- and that's a comparison to a dominant team that won the Super Bowl against Carolina. The New Orleans Saints snapped the ball four more times per game than a decade ago. The Buffalo Bills snapped the ball eight more times per game than a decade ago -- and the 2013 Bills were a run-first offense. Many if not most NFL teams are using some version of hurry-up snaps. The NFL is going no-huddle, too. The absolutely invaluable independent website Football Outsiders calculates that a decade ago, 3 percent of NFL downs were no-huddle; by 2012, 6.6 percent were; last season it rose to 12.2 percent. Chicago, Denver, New England, Philadelphia and San Diego spun the scoreboard...