By Kevin Meers This post analyzes who deserves the NFLās Most ValuableĀ Player award (spoiler alert: donāt read the title) based on some different criteria than most people have used. I want to focus on the word...
Category - NFL Football
By Kevin Meers Almost everyone who makes predictions about the NFL tends to be overconfident: we think we are more accurate and more precise than we actually are. We like to think we know just how good every team is before the...
By Andrew Mooney For interested fan or gambler, the NFL playoffs can be infinitely maddening to comprehend. Those Cincinnati Bengals that had won seven of their last eight? Well, theyāre out, held to just -6 passing yards in...
By Andrew Mooney A couple weeks ago, IĀ discussed the implicationsĀ of one of the NFLās recent rule changes, namely the movement of kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35. Though we donāt have quite as much evidence for it...
Yesterday, Aaron Schatz issued a challenge to his readership to prove the existence of a ātrap gameā or a āletdown gameā. Both terms are thrown around in the media for almost every sport all the time, but I have not seen...
By Andrew Mooney Unveiled for the first time this year, the NFLās season-long slate of Thursday night games has thus far produced mixed results, to put it kindly. The series is a not-so-subtle pimping of the NFLās own premium...
By Andrew Mooney A year and a half into the NFLās amended kickoff rules, itās safe to say theyāve achieved their intended purpose. In 2010, 16.4 percent of kickoffs resulted in touchbacks; a year later, that number rose to...
by Nick Jaroszewicz With running backs like Marshawn Lynch, Frank Gore, BenJarvis Green-Ellis showing that feature backs are back in style, and Chris Johnson finally coming around, many are saying that the pendulum is swinging...
By Andrew Mooney The Patriots blew a fourth-quarter lead in Seattle two weeks ago and nearly did so against the Jets last week. But before the “Brady’s a choker!” train gets any momentum, I’d like to...
by Cameron Dowd This year a disproportionate number of teams seems to be hovering around a mediocre .500 record. For instance, heading into this weekend, the entire AFC EastĀ was 3-3, another 6 teams had a 3-3 record, and five...