by Cameron Dowd The wave of the young signal callers is upon us. This year there are five rookies and five second-year quarterbacks starting from opening day. Over the past ten seasons there has never been a year in which this...
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by Sam Waters Since this was written, the Chargers have played their Week 5 game. Jackie Battle started, but Mathews received more touches. Mathews still ceded goal line carries and late-game snaps to third stringer Ronnie...
by Andrew Mooney A road game in the NFL can be a daunting proposition. Facing a sufficiently amped home crowd, a team has to worry about things they normally wouldn’t at home: snap counts, hearing play calls, and hey, what...
by Andrew Mooney At its most important position, the NFL is in the midst of an extreme youth movement. A record five rookie quarterbacks started games in Week One, to go along with another five starters in just their second year...
by David Roher What would motivate you to Google “referee?” Nothing good (unless you’re counting sexy bedroom role-play costumes, in which case, uh, nothing good). The above Google Trends graph (updated last...
by Andrew Mooney Here’s a look inside the final sequence of Sunday’s wild 20-18 loss to the Cardinals. For my numbers, I’m making use of the Win Probability Calculator made available by advancednflstats.com. Specifically...
by Andrew Mooney For the last decade, the beginning of a new Patriots season has brought with it the realistic prospect of a Super Bowl in a few months’ time. Much of the reason for this—and one of the only things remaining...
In April, a writer for the Bleacher Report (BR) attempted to critique a new pick value chart for the NFL draft that I created and that HSAC published. There are many legitimate criticisms of my work in that article that are worth...
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As the draft looms tomorrow night, NFL teams are (hopefully) finalizing their draft boards and trying to make plans for every conceivable contingency. Whether or not they want to trade, and in which direction, is surely one of...