News -- May 2013
5/18 EDSFootball: Fantasy Football Dynasty Mock Draft: Round 6 Complete : We have now completed half of our new 2013 fantasy football dynasty mock draft.
Here are the picks from Round 6:
6.01 - ...
5/17 NFL Jerks: Quarterback Contract Wars: Who Should Be Paid the Most? : This offseason has been a bonanza for quarterback contracts. Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco both received NFL-record contracts ...
5/15 FootballPerspective.com: Quarterbacks Were Healthier Than Ever in 2012 : Twenty quarterbacks started all sixteen games last season: Eli Manning Tony Romo Andrew Luck Russell Wilson Peyton Manning Matthew ...
5/14 The High Phive: Chip Kelly Philadelphia’s ‘Hero’? Too Early to Tell; But Getting a ‘Good Feeling’ : As NFL rookie camps concluded over the weekend, we now look ahead to the next item on the NFL’s offseason agenda. The penultimate ...
5/13 NFL Jerks: A Look at Where Quarterbacks are Drafted in 2-QB Fantasy Football Mocks : When drafting in 2-QB leagues, we can’t look at standard ADP data, because most of it is skewed toward leagues that only ...
5/13 NFL Spin Zone: Seattle Seahawks News: Jerrod Johnson, Luke Willson : The Seattle Seahawks might have a backup quarterback to keep an eye on behind Russell Wilson in Jerrod Johnson, as the Seattle ...
5/7 FootballPerspective.com: Game Scipts: Average margin in every game last season : Yesterday, I presented the average lead or deficit for each team in the NFL last year, a number I’ve called the “Game ...
5/6 FootballPerspective.com: Game Scripts – The Best Teams of 2012 : Last year, I introduced the concepts of Game Scripts. There are 3600 seconds in every game: the Game Script is the average score ...
5/2 The Pewter Plank: Fantasy Football: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Getting Respect In Early Fantasy Rankings, Josh Freeman Being Underrated : On the “Fantasy Focus” podcast on ESPN.com, “The Talented Mr. Roto” Matthew Berry and Nate Ravitz were ...
5/1 EDSFootball: 2014 NFL Mock Draft: Jadeveon Clowney to the Raiders : Since 1998 when Peyton Manning was selected with the first overall pick, 12 of the past 16 top overall draft picks have been quarterbacks.
If ...
News -- April 2013
4/28 NFL Jerks: Post NFL Draft Tiered QB Rankings for 2-QB Leagues : Three days, 254 picks later, and the 2013 NFL Draft is finally over. Questions have been answered and quarterbacks have been chosen. ...
4/28 EDSFootball: 2013 Fantasy Football Rankings: Top 12 Rookie Quarterbacks (Re-Draft Leagues) : Last year was an unprecented year for success of rookie quarterbacks. Five different rookies were their respective team's opening ...
4/27 NFL Jerks: 2013 NFL Draft Recap and Reactions : Two days, and three rounds, into the 2013 NFL draft, we’ve begun to get a clearer view of which teams are clearly enjoying themselves, ...
4/26 Musket Fire: Buffalo Bills did indeed always want E.J. Manuel : The Buffalo Bills made the surprise move of the 2013 NFL Draft when they decided to take Florida State Seminoles signal-caller ...
4/24 NFL Jerks: Pre NFL Draft Tiered QB Rankings for 2-QB Leagues : With the 2013 NFL Draft scheduled for Thursday, now seemed like a good time to put together tiered fantasy football quarterback ...
4/24 FootballPerspective.com: Are Big School Prospects Overrated in the NFL Draft? : We already know what the average draft pick is worth, thanks to the Football Perspective Draft Value Chart. If we assign the draft ...
4/22 NFL Jerks: Fantasy Football: Top 30 ADP in 2-QB Leagues : In the poker community, when debating who is the best poker player, the debate tends to gravitate towards recent tournament/event ...
4/11 StoopSports.com: NFC West Draft Preview : Eric Goodheart- Two years ago, the NFC West was unanimously considered the worst division in football as all four teams finished ...
4/9 North and South of Royal Brougham: Brady Quinn a member of the Seahawks for now and for maybe a while : After the Seahawks came out swinging in free agency, signing Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett after already trading for Percy Harvin, ...
4/3 FootballPerspective.com: Comparing Geno Smith to other Leach-Holgorsen quarterbacks : What does it mean that Geno Smith comes from a long line of Mike Leach/Dana Holgorsen star quarterbacks? I don’t know. At ...
4/2 NFL Jerks: Fantasy Football: Ben Roethlisberger is a QB1 Being Drafted as a QB2 : For whatever reason Ben Roethlisberger isn’t being mentioned with the elite fantasy football signal callers this off-season. ...
4/2 Money in the Banana Stand: Cracking the Geno Code : Last week for RotoViz, I examined the statistical profiles of the current NFL starting quarterbacks to get a baseline for evaluating ...
4/2 Sports Out West: Matt Flynn acquired by Raiders : After much speculation, the Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks have finally agreed to a trade that will send Seattle’s backup ...
4/1 EDSFootball: Raiders acquire Matt Flynn; Carson Palmer soon to be a Cardinal? : The Oakland Raiders have announced that they have acquired quarterback Matt Flynn from the Seattle Seahawks for a pair of picks ...
4/1 StoopSports.com: Breaking News: Matt Flynn to Raiders : Spencer Hazan- The Raiders have finalized a deal that will bring in Seahawks backup QB Matt Flynn to Oakland. Flynn was signed ...
News -- March 2013
3/30 EDSFootball: 2013 Fantasy Football Rankings: Top 25 Quarterbacks : The quarterback position is as deep as ever in fantasy football, but the top three quarterbacks are still in a tier of their own ...
3/30 NFL Jerks: A Quarterback Test: Pass Happy, Efficient and Reasonable ADP : Relying on a glut of pass attempts is by no means a rock solid strategy in selecting your fantasy signal caller. It’s an unstable ...
3/30 Sports Out West: NFL trade rumors: Matt Flynn trade ‘imminent’ : ESPN reported that the Seattle Seahawks have been in trade discussions with multiple teams involving their backup quarterback ...
3/28 Money in the Banana Stand: Colin Kaepernick, Tactlenecks, and QB Predictiveness : ...
3/27 Sports Out West: NFL trade rumors: Oakland Raiders interested in Matt Flynn : Oakland Raiders’ general manager Reggie McKenzie continues to try and put together a quality roster and make the Raiders respectable. ...
3/20 SideLion Report: No Current Detroit Lions Player will be on the Next Madden Cover : The first round of voting that will determine who will grace the cover of Madden 25 is over and the Detroit Lions are already ...
3/19 Lombardi Ave: Does Dom Capers think the read-option is the ‘flavor of the month?’ : Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin paid a nice insult to Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers by ...
3/18 North and South of Royal Brougham: Percy Harvin’s Extension and its Implications :
Yesterday we found out that Percy Harvin was traded to the Seattle Seahawks from the Minnesota Vikings for a first round pick, ...
3/18 North and South of Royal Brougham: Harvin Trade is Best Offseason Move Hawks Could Have Made : Percy Harvin is the long-term upgrade Seattle needed to make.
Bar-none, no bones about it, the Seahawks needed a dynamic play-making ...
3/18 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seattle Seahawks Don’t Need to Acquire a Number One Receiver :
A couple months ago one of my best friends and I had a text message conversation about the future of the Seahawks. In that conversation, ...
3/18 North and South of Royal Brougham: Cutting Zach Miller not a Good Idea for Seahawks this Offseason :
Among moves that some Seahawks fans want to see this year is an upgrade at the tight end position. In conjunction with that, ...
3/18 FootballPerspective.com: How can teams best take advantage of the rookie salary cap? : [Special thanks goes out to my Footballguys.com co-writer Maurile Tremblay for his help in co-authoring this piece with me. Any ...
3/17 Sports Out West: Seattle Seahawks release Ben Obomanu : The Seattle Seahawks have released wide receiver Ben Obomanu, according to Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun on Twitter. Obomanu, ...
3/14 NFL Jerks: The Nuclear Fantasy Fallout of Percy Harvin to Seattle : Don your radiation suits. It may be the only way to protect yourself against the fantasy community’s reaction to Percy Harvin’s ...
3/12 North and South of Royal Brougham: Percy Harvin’s Extension and its Implications :
Yesterday we found out that Percy Harvin was traded to the Seattle Seahawks from the Minnesota Vikings for a first round pick, ...
3/12 StoopSports.com: NFC West Needs : Ryan Pavlicek and Ollie Banton- Last season the NFC West proved to be a rising division in the NFL. The San Francisco 49ers had ...
3/12 NFL Jerks: The Nuclear Fantasy Fallout of Percy Harvin to Seattle : Don your radiation suits. It may be the only way to protect yourself against the fantasy community’s reaction to Percy Harvin’s ...
3/11 North and South of Royal Brougham: Harvin Trade is Best Offseason Move Hawks Could Have Made : Percy Harvin is the long-term upgrade Seattle needed to make.
Bar-none, no bones about it, the Seahawks needed a dynamic play-making ...
3/11 Sports Out West: Percy Harvin trade: Seahawks, not 49ers acquire WR : Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin is headed to the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for a 2013 first-round draft choice. ...
3/11 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Seattle Seahawks Acquire Percy Harvin : The Seattle Seahawks have traded for Percy Harvin of the Minnesota Vikings. This just after Vikings GM said to the media ...
3/11 Bolt Beat: Seattle Seahawks Trade for WR Percy Harvin : The Seattle Seahawks made some big time news by trading for WR Percy Harvin today from the Minnesota Vikings. The Seahawks will ...
3/10 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seattle Seahawks Don’t Need to Acquire a Number One Receiver :
A couple months ago one of my best friends and I had a text message conversation about the future of the Seahawks. In that conversation, ...
3/9 North and South of Royal Brougham: Cutting Zach Miller not a Good Idea for Seahawks this Offseason :
Among moves that some Seahawks fans want to see this year is an upgrade at the tight end position. In conjunction with that, ...
3/9 Musket Fire: Buffalo Bills to host Matt Scott : Former Arizona Wildcats standout quarterback Matt Scott is drawing comparisons to former Wisconsin Badgers and current Seattle ...
3/7 NFL Jerks: Early Fantasy Football 2013 Tiered Rankings : Specificity will come later. For now, I’ve pieced together tiered rankings for each of the four fantasy skill positions. The ...
3/4 FootballPerspective.com: 2013 RSP Football Writers Project: My Picks in Rounds 1 and 2 : Matt Waldman and Sigmund Bloom are once again running the RSP Football Writers Project this off-season. Last year, a salary cap ...
3/4 NFL Spin Zone: Matt Schaub Says Mobile Quarterbacks Are Trend, Not The Future : As the new mobile quarterback and read-option emerge in the NFL behind youngsters Russell Wilson, Robert Griffin III and Cam Newton, ...
3/2 NFL Jerks: How to Work the Waiver Wire in 2-QB Fantasy Football Leagues Part 1 : When playing in a 2-QB fantasy football league you have to look at the league you play in differently in every aspect. Your draft ...
3/1 Sports Out West: NFL trade rumors: Seahawks could move Matt Flynn : The Seattle Seahawks would like to have a proven, capable backup like Matt Flynn to play behind Russell Wilson, but they know ...
News -- February 2013
2/28 North and South of Royal Brougham: Too Much is being Made of the Correlation Between the Alex Smith Trade and Matt Flynn’s Value :
Among a list of expected tasks for the Seahawks, at least as it relates to fan interest is the future of their backup quarterback ...
2/28 Money in the Banana Stand: Alex Smith Superstar : Now that an Alex Smith trade to Kansas City appears a fait accompli, long-suffering Chiefs fans are wondering what to make of ...
2/26 KC Kingdom: Fan Perspective: Chiefs Cannot Draft Luke Joeckel : Luke Joeckel is not the answer for the Kansas City Chiefs. Our Chiefs have never had a first round pick in the NFL draft – ...
2/25 KC Kingdom: The Quarterback The Chiefs Should Acquire : There is a quarterback the Chiefs should acquire. He would be cheap on the market right now. He might even get cut by this weekend ...
2/23 Stripe Hype: Week in Review: 2013 NFL Draft: Top 10 QB Prospects : As we have seen in the NFL the last few years, a really good QB is required to win the Super Bowl. Every year teams are trying ...
2/20 FootballPerspective.com: Comparing rookie quarterbacks to their team’s prior year’s stats : Since 1990, there have been 48 rookie quarterbacks that threw at least 224 pass attempts, the necessary amount to qualify for ...
2/18 Stripe Hype: 2013 NFL Draft: Top 10 QB Prospects : As we have seen in the NFL the last few years, a really good QB is required to win the Super Bowl. Every year teams are trying ...
2/18 Stripe Hype: 2013 NFL Draft: Top 10 QB Prospects : As we have seen in the NFL the last few years, a really good QB is required to win the Super Bowl. Every year teams are trying ...
2/17 NFL Jerks: 2-QB Leagues are the Future of Fantasy Football : When it comes to my fantasy football draft strategy the thoughts that usually run through my mind revolve around the quarterback ...
2/15 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Saturday, February 16th : It’s hard not to be amazed by the seasons that Colin Kaepernick, Robert Griffin III and Russell Wilson had as first-year ...
2/15 NFL Spin Zone: Kaepernick and Griffin III: Will the Option be an Option in the NFL : Will the option be an option in the NFL? In towns like Norman, Oklahoma, old men gathered to watch NFL games this year, and smiled ...
2/13 NFL Jerks: Michael Vick Contract Could Signal Trouble for Eagles : Many teams figured to be in the Michael Vick sweepstakes as the spring wore on, but as it turns out, the Philadelphia Eagles aren’t ...
2/12 FootballPerspective.com: The History of Black Quarterbacks in the NFL : Five years ago, I wrote a five part series detailing the history of the black quarterback. With February being Black History Month ...
2/11 FootballPerspective.com: Analyzing the leaders in targets in 2012 : Reggie Wayne led the NFL in targets last year, but that’s a little misleading since the Colts ranked 6th in pass attempts. ...
2/4 NFL Jerks: NFL Awards: Adrian Peterson Correctly Named MVP : Adrian Peterson had to battle back from a torn ACL, and he had to face more eight and nine-man fronts this year than we have... ...
2/2 FootballPerspective.com: Super Bowl XLVII Preview : Before we get to my preview, I feel the need to point you to some excellent Super Bowl previews I saw this week: Bill Barnwell ...
News -- January 2013
1/28 Lombardi Ave: The Green Bay Packers could receive a fourth round compensatory pick for Matt Flynn : The NFL Draft is only a couple of months away and the mock draft season has already amped up big time across the Internet and ...
1/28 Stripe Hype: NFL: A.J. Green, Russell Wilson Highlight Pro Bowl : The Pro Bowl is an annual chance for the best players of the AFC and the NFC to come together, and show NFL fans their skills. ...
1/28 North and South of Royal Brougham: Kyle Rudolph’s MVP Award Highlights Why Pro Bowl is a Joke :
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1/28 Stripe Hype: NFL: A.J. Green, Russell Wilson Highlight Pro Bowl : The Pro Bowl is an annual chance for the best players of the AFC and the NFC to come together, and show NFL fans their skills. ...
1/28 North and South of Royal Brougham: Why the Pro Bowl is a joke :
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Before I start **** while I am eating my Nachos Bell Grande, let me give credits where credits are due to the six Seattle ...
1/27 FootballPerspective.com: Is good luck driving the low interception rates of Joe Flacco and Colin Kaepernick? : In September, I started a post by asking you to make this assumption: Assume that it is within a quarterback’s control as to ...
1/27 The Pewter Plank: 2013 Pro Bowl: Buccaneers Help Lead NFC to Victory : The NFC defeated the AFC 65 to 32 in the annual NFL Pro Bowl today, and it was 3 players from a 7-9 NFC team who provided a good ...
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 North and South of Royal Brougham: Russell Wilson added to Pro Bowl roster :
Seahawks rookie quarterback Russell Wilson has been added to the NFC squad in this years Pro Bowl. He replaces quarterback Matt ...
1/21 North and South of Royal Brougham: Matt Flynn is Affordable for the Seattle Seahawks, Though Keeping may not be Their Best Option : The biggest storyline of the Seahawks 2012 season, and with good reason, was the battle between Russell Wilson and Matt Flynn, ...
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 ...
1/16 The High Phive: HighPhive.net’s Staff Thoughts on the Eagles hiring Chip Kelly : Earlier today the Philadelphia Eagles announced Chip Kelly as the new Head Coach for the team. The contract details have not yet ...
1/16 Musket Fire: New England Patriots fans, vote Stevan Ridley : I am always fascinated with awards that deal with underrated or underpaid players, and the VIZIO Top Value Performer award is ...
1/15 North and South of Royal Brougham: Season ends in Atlanta; but Seahawks must remain positive : “There’s always next year!”
Those words seem to be a pretty common thing Seahawks fans, coaches, and players ...
1/14 KC Kingdom: Playoff Games Give Chiefs Hope for QB Situation : If you had to choose between the following quarterbacks to lead your team, who would you choose? Peyton Manning / Aaron Rodgers ...
1/14 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Pro-Football-Reference.com releases 2012 AV : It’s Christmas in January. Once the 2012 All-Pro teams were announced (my thoughts here), my buddies Mike Kania and Neil ...
1/13 FootballPerspective.com: Reviewing the Divisional Round of the Playoffs : The Best Weekend of the Year lived up to its re**** this weekend, as the divisional round of the playoffs gave us three outstanding ...
1/13 NFL Jerks: Creating The Fantasy Quarterback Frankenstein: Part 2 : My yearlong experiment of piecing together an elite fantasy quarterback with nothing but excellent matchups for maddeningly inconsistent ...
1/13 NFL Jerks: NFL Playoffs Preview: San Francisco 49ers at Atlanta Falcons : Fourteen seasons ago, the San Francisco 49ers knocked off the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. The very ...
1/12 FootballPerspective.com: Previewing the Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs – Sunday : Yesterday, I previewed Saturday’s games with um, mixed results (skip the Denver-Baltimore preview and just read the San ...
1/12 North and South of Royal Brougham: Battle of the Birds: Seahawks-Falcons Playoff Preview : “That guy over there is named John Abraham. Breno, go easy on him, these refs are partial to AARP members.”
As I type ...
1/12 KC Kingdom: Kingdom Round Table: NFL Divisional Round : The other day I was roaming around and reading up on the match-ups for the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs. In my internet ...
1/11 NFL Jerks: FanDuel Daily Fantasy Football Picks for the Divisional Playoffs : Here at Sports Jerks, we’re always on the lookout for the best ways to help you out with fantasy football. Today, we’ll ...
1/8 FootballPerspective.com: Season in review: AFC and NFC West : AFC East and NFC East Season in review AFC North and NFC North Season in review AFC North and NFC South Season in review In the ...
1/8 KC Kingdom: Kansas City’s Quarterback, Andy Reid’s Most Important Job : Andy Reid is officially the head coach of our Kansas City Chiefs. Right now he is trying to put together a staff, and working ...
1/7 The High Phive: 2013 NFL Draft Prospect Rankings: QB : From now until the NFL Draft, I will be watching tape and analyzing each and every player on these rankings. Expect a list of ...
1/7 North and South of Royal Brougham: Bears Seek Interview with Darrell Bevell : After coaching under Brad Childress in Minnesota, Darrell Bevell has become a head coaching candidate in Seattle.
For the second ...
1/6 Stripe Hype: Wild Card Recap: Seahawks Overcome Redskins’ Fast Start, Rally to 24-14 Victory : An injured and hobbling Robert Griffin III tossed touchdowns as the Washington Redskins jumped out to a 14-0 lead, but ...
1/5 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seahawks-Redskins Playoff Preview: A Game of Strengths vs. Weakness, Like Every Other Game That Has Ever Been Played :
Sometimes these kinds of things start intentionally cryptic and annoying. They start with a poorly **** metaphor that sounds ...
1/4 NFL Jerks: Fantasy Football Keeper Watch: Quarterbacks to Consider for 2013 and Beyond : When keeping a fantasy quarterback, the decision can be easier at some times than others. The four most consistent players are ...
1/4 NFL Jerks: FanDuel Wild Card Daily Fantasy Football Picks : Here at NFL Jerks, we’re always on the lookout for the best ways to help you out with fantasy football. Today, we’ll ...
1/3 NFL Jerks: Wild Card Weekend’s Best Fantasy Plays: QBs and RBs : I don’t care who wins the Super Bowl. I’ve said that before, and even in this time of postseason frothing at the mouth, I ...
1/2 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seahawks send Rams home with a loss : Your Seattle Seahawks have finished their regular season record 11-5, which is good for third best in team history. The Seahawks ...
News -- December 2012
12/31 NFL Jerks: 2013 NFL Playoffs Schedule : The 2013 NFL playoffs schedule and NFL playoff bracket are set, as there are just 12 teams that are left remaining in the fight ...
12/31 NFL Jerks: NFL Playoffs Preview: Seattle Seahawks at Washington Redskins : In what will surely amount to be one of the most interesting games to watch in the first round of the NFL playoffs, the Seattle... ...
12/28 SideLion Report: Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions Preview with Bear Goggles On : The circumstances surrounding the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears entering their week 17 matchup could not be more different. ...
12/25 FootballPerspective.com: Who should win Coach of the Year in the NFL? : Let’s get this out of the way. Bruce Arians, or an Arians/Pagano ballot, is going to win Coach of the Year. Period. But ...
12/25 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seahawks thump 49ers and are Playoff Bound : Pete Carroll and his Seattle Seahawks gave the 12th Man Faithful an early Christmas present last night. A playoff berth. Nobody ...
12/23 FootballPerspective.com: Playoff Picture: Who needs what in week 17 : With week 16 in the books, it’s time to take a look at the playoff picture. In the AFC, it’s simple: we know the six ...
12/22 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt “FIP” for Quarterbacks : I’ve been on a major QB kick lately, and there’s no reason to stop now. Today, I want to look at a method that might ...
12/21 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seahawks-49ers: Battle royale within the NFC West : Who would have honestly thought this Sunday night in Seattle would mean so much? Any Seahawks fan earlier this year probably did ...
12/20 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Quarterback Yards Above Bench (QBYAB) : After posting about SRS-style quarterback ratings on Monday, I was thinking about other things we can do with game-by-game data ...
12/18 NFL Jerks: Week 16 NFL Fantasy Football Fact or Fiction : Here at Sports Jerks, it’s time for another version of Fact or Fiction, as we look at some of the most pressing questions ...
12/18 North and South of Royal Brougham: Seahawks Go Oppa Gangnam Style in Rout of Buffalo : History was made within the Seahawks organization as the Seattle Seahawks destroyed the Buffalo Bills in, Toronto, Canada. It ...
12/17 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: SRS-Style Quarterback Ratings : Here’s a quick set of quarterback ratings I was messing around with, based on Doug’s Simple Rating System. The basic ...
12/12 FootballPerspective.com: Week 14 Power Rankings : It’s time to take Seattle seriously. On Sunday, the Seahawks had a “name your score” game, the type of matchup ...
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 ...
12/5 FootballPerspective.com: Week 13 Power Rankings : We’re 75% of the way through the regular season. We know the Patriots, Broncos, and Texans are elite teams in the AFC, the ...
News -- November 2012
11/12 North and South of Royal Brougham: Follow the Yellow Brick Road … To the Playoffs : Good feelings abound in the Emerald City. And no, not from the celebratory THC that I know is pumping through so many Washingtonian’s ...
11/8 FootballPerspective.com: Ranking NFL quarterbacks by how much ‘it’ they have : 2) Tom Brady, New England Patriots. Until further notice, nobody has more ‘it’ than Tom Brady, who has been overflowing ...
11/7 FootballPerspective.com: Week 9 Power Rankings : Maybe it was the election, the great weekend of college football, or the fact that I had no cable and barely watched the NFL this ...
11/6 FootballPerspective.com: Quarterback performance on third and fourth downs : So far this season, teams have converted on 37.2% of all pass plays on third or fourth downs. Looking at success rates on these ...
News -- October 2012
10/30 Blogcritics Sports: Seattle Seahawks Crash In Detroit: 28-24 : I’ll admit it.
I was impressed with the drive Russell Wilson led in the fourth quarter on Sunday to take the lead late ...
10/26 FootballPerspective.com: Cam Newton is having an interesting year : I don’t care about any of the nonsense with Cam Newton. Instead, take a look at his 2011 and 2012 stat lines: Year GS QBrec ...
10/25 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Josh Freeman is three parts Steve Grogan, one part Eli Manning : Have you taken a look at a passing leaderboard lately? Here’s the PFR passing leaderboard sorted by ANY/A; as always, all ...
10/24 The NFL Injury Report: Cowboys Injury Report: Sean Lee Placed on IR, Done For Season :
Sean Lee dealt the Dallas Cowboys a devastating blow on Wednesday when it was announced that his 2012 season is officially ...
10/16 FootballPerspective.com: Joe Philbin chose to coach, did so successfully, no one cares : While most coaches act like they’re on autopilot when it comes down to crucial 4th down decisions, let’s credit a ...
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 ...
10/3 Money in the Banana Stand: Omaha! Omaha! – Week 4 : . . . where we watch every game and occasionally audible the title along with the commentary. I want winners – not elite players ...
News -- September 2012
9/28 Riggo's Rag: NFL Week 4 Picks Against the Spread: The Refs and Redskins are Back : 70,000 voice mails were left at the NFL’s commissioners office Monday night after the Inaccurate Reception occurred. 70,000 ...
9/27 FootballPerspective.com: Week 3 Power Rankings : Some additions to the weekly power rankings table. After the team name, I have listed each team’s record in column two and ...
9/25 Blogcritics Sports: Seattle Defeats Green Bay 14-12, But Does The Score Matter? : I love hosting the prime time games in Seattle. It’s a great opportunity to showcase a great city, a loud and proud fan ...
9/21 FootballPerspective.com: Week 2 Power Rankings : With week 2 in the books, it’s time to present updated win projections for each team. I kept half of the league’s ...
9/21 FantasyDaddy.com: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Week 2 : Week 2 of NFL action is in the books and now I’ll take a look at some of the top performers and biggest disappointments of the ...
News -- August 2012
8/27 FootballPerspective.com: Russell Wilson continues the NFL’s rookie movement at quarterback : Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were drafted as franchise saviors, and have been expected to start on opening day for months; ...
8/1 FootballPerspective.com: 2011 Age-adjusted team rosters : Measuring team age in the N.F.L. is tricky. Calculating the average age of a 53-man roster is misleading because the age of a ...