News -- May 2013
- 5/1 FootballPerspective.com: Where Does Tim Tebow Rank in the Pantheon of Great Quarterbacks: With the Jets releasing Tim Tebow, it appears that his NFL career may be over. If that’s the case, it’s time to reflect...
News -- April 2013
- 4/16 FootballPerspective.com: Do NFL teams properly value age when drafting quarterbacks?: For the most part, age is rarely discussed when talking about college quarterbacks. Outside of the Brandon Weedens and Chris Weinkes...
News -- March 2013
- 3/3 FootballPerspective.com: Jimmy Smith is one of the best wide receivers in NFL history: Jacksonville’s Jimmy Smith was first eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2011. He was cut early in the process, failing to...
News -- February 2013
- 2/17 SideLion Report: Dallas Cowboys’ Example Provides Support for Detroit Lions’ Draft Philosophy: The Detroit Lions’ philosophy of taking a “best player available” approach to the NFL Draft has received criticism,...
News -- January 2013
- 1/22 FootballPerspective.com: The Manning Index (and The Brady Effect): Eight years ago — almost to the day — our old PFR colleague Doug Drinen wrote a Sabernomics post about “The...
- 1/4 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career passing stats in wins and losses: Last weekend, I looked at career rushing stats in wins and losses; today I will do the same but for quarterbacks. I looked at...
News -- December 2012
- 12/8 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Most Game Winning Drives in First 12 games: Scott Kacsmar, friend of Football Perspective and the leading writer on quarterback comebacks, noted that Andrew Luck has 5 game-winning...
News -- November 2012
- 11/26 FootballPerspective.com: Game Scripts, Part II: Analyzing team seasons: Yesterday, I rolled out Game Scripts, a way to measure the flow of every game since 1940. The sum of each team’s Game Script...
- 11/23 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: A different starting quarterback in three straight games: Ben Roethlisberger started the first nine games of the season, but things are getting ugly quickly in Pittsburgh. After suffering...
News -- October 2012
- 10/25 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 25, 2002: The artificial surface at the University of Illinois, where the Bears are playing their home games this season, is getting less...
- 10/4 FootballPerspective.com: Quarter-by-Quarter Team Win Probability Added: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a method of calculating a team’s win probability at the end of any given quarter, given...
News -- July 2012
- 7/20 FootballPerspective.com: The top receivers and the men who threw to them: Let’s start with some trivia before moving to today’s post: Only two quarterback-receiver pairs have ever topped the...