By Kurt Bullard The NFL is months away from starting, but even in the midst of March Madness, the league managed to grab headlines. Yesterday, the NFL announced that it would move the touchback to the 25-yard line, inciting a lot...
Category - NFL Football
By Bill Lotter How would you determine who had the best performance at the NFL Combine? If one player had a faster 40, but another was quicker in the shuttle, who would you say performed better? Ā While it might seem like a...
By Matt Goldberg, Ā Adam Gilfix, Steven Rachesky, Nathaniel Ver Steeg āDefense wins championshipsā and āthe best offense is a good defenseā are two of the most common adages in sports. The timelessness of these...
Heading into the playoffs, multiple teams can make a claim that they are the favorites to win it all, and even those who just barely snuck in have hopes. We decided to look at several of the playoff teams from an analytical...
By Kurt Bullard Itās hard to believe weāre only two years removed from what might have been the greatest single-season performance from a quarterback of all time: 5,477 yards, 55 touchdowns. And yet, the Broncos enter the...
By Thomas Negron This past Sunday, Bill Belichick did the unthinkable, he chose to kickoff in overtime. Controversy erupted as there seemed to be communication errors between the referees and Patriots Special Teams Captain...
By John Acton Because the NFL has a small sample size and football games are too physically draining to schedule extra tiebreakers, hard-core NFL fans are well-accustomed to accounting for tiebreaking procedures before and during...
By Jason Light and Dan Holmqvist When Dion Lewis went down clutching his knee during a week nine matchup between the Washington Redskins, Patriots fans breathed an all-too-familiar groan of horror. While this was no means a 2008...
By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins After the Patriots narrowly escaped the Meadowlands with a win this Sunday afternoon, Ian OāConnor of ESPN suggested that readers would be smart to bet on the Patriots going 19-0, saying...
By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins Earlier this semester, HSAC was fortunate enough to have Bill Barnwell, formerly of Grantland.com, come to a meeting discuss all things NFL with us. One of the questions that came up was which...