News -- May 2013
5/15 The Pewter Plank: #BucsBracket Opening Round: Vote for Your Favorite Tampa Bay Buccaneers of All-Time (Barber Division) : Welcome back to #BucsBracket. Let’s keep things going in the unofficial competition, set to determine the most po**** and beloved ...
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 ...
4/13 FootballPerspective.com: Fourth Quarter/Overtime Game-Winning Passing Touchdowns : Yesterday, I looked at the career leaders in 4th quarter (and overtime) game-winning touchdowns from scrimmage. Today I will do ...
4/5 The Pewter Plank: 2005 Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ NFL Draft Review: Where Are They Now? : The 2004 Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ season saw the downfall of Brad Johnson, Martin Gramatica, and the Buccaneers’ record, ...
4/5 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL News of April 5, 2003 : Shaun King showed up at One Buc Place three weeks ago as a man without a team. Quarterback jobs were drying up around the NFL, ...
News -- March 2013
3/22 FootballPerspective.com: Playing with the most coaches on one team : During the season, Mike Tanier noted that Shane Lechler has played for eight different coaches while being a member of the Raiders. ...
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
2/4 FootballPerspective.com: Are the Super Bowl-Winning QBs Getting Worse? : Now that we live in a world where Joe Flacco and Eli Manning have quarterbacked 3 of the last 6 Super Bowl-winning teams, you ...
News -- January 2013
1/27 FootballPerspective.com: How Super Bowl XLVII could impact the HOF chances of certain Ravens : Being a Super Bowl champion is a pretty nice bullet to place on your Hall of Fame resume. For players like Jerry Rice or Peyton ...
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 ...
1/22 The Pewter Plank: Tim Brown’s Revisionist History Lesson: Oakland Raiders Lost Super Bowl XXXVII Purposefully : There are sore losers. And then there’s Tim Brown. According to Pro Football Talk, the former Raider receiver told SiriusXM ...
1/20 FootballPerspective.com: Super Bowl History : Now that the Super Bowl matchup is set, I thought I’d start the two-week period with some Super Bow history. The table below ...
1/20 The Pewter Plank: Remembering the 2003 NFC Championship Game: 10 Years Later : As we gear up for the 2013 NFC Championship game, and we watch Colin Kaepernick and the San Francisco 49ers face off against Matt ...
1/16 FootballPerspective.com: Previewing the NFC Championship Game: San Francisco at Atlanta : A couple of interesting notes, courtesy of Mike Sando on ESPN.com. The first is a good bit of trivia: Jim Harbaugh joins George ...
1/10 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL News of January 9, 2003 : Steve McNair was asked on a national conference call this week about all the Tennessee Titans being snubbed for the Pro Bowl. ...
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
12/19 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of December 19, 2002 : Paul Wiggin, director of pro scouting for the Vikings, looks around the NFL and sees former Vikings quarterbacks Rich Gannon, ...
12/12 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of December 12, 2002 : Houston rookie quarterback David Carr is five sacks from setting anNFL single-season record and—as painful as it might be—there ...
News -- November 2012
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 ...
11/17 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: QB Playoff Wins by College : Watching Matt Barkley today against UCLA, I tweeted that Mark Sanchez is responsible for 4 of the 9 playoff wins by USC quarterbacks. ...
11/17 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of November 17, 2002 : The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won four times Sunday—including once themselves—and now sit alone atop the NFC South Division, tied ...
News -- October 2012
10/27 FootballPerspective.com: Wins with quarterbacks drafted by that team : Good stat today by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who notes that Kansas City has gone 25 years without winning a game with a quarterback ...
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 -- September 2012
9/27 Cubs Stats: Jay Cutler Is The Problem :
Here is a great piece from Grantland's Bill Barnwell concerning Jay Cutler:
Compare Cutler to Brett Favre, for example, ...
9/24 FootballPerspective.com: Interceptions per Incompletion (or POPIP) : I leave the baseball analysis to my brothers at baseball-reference.com, but I know enough to be dangerous. There’s a stat ...
News -- June 2012
6/29 FootballPerspective.com: Largest increase in pass completions : Fifteen days into its infancy, Football Perspective has published fifteen posts. If you are enjoying the site, be sure to check ...