For the third year in a row while researching teams for summer previews, for every single niche metric we bring up I go to the top of the league and see Baltimore far outpacing everyone else in...basically everything. I can't believe this Ravens era might result in no hardware.
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Here's a fun stat to drive the desert folk insane (again). Per PFF, the Cardinals tried to throw 44 fades/go routes last season. That was 7th-most of any team in the league. They completed eight.
Interesting thought exercise for the Big 4 quarterbacks. If Mahomes, Lamar, Allen, and Burrow rotated teams every month from September to December so all four played for each team, would any of them end up with more wins than the others?
Prime Champ Bailey defending the double move from prime Marvin Harrison Sr.
2006 LaDainian Tomlinson. The cutback of all cutbacks.
2009 Texans offensive line putting on a clinic for how to run wide zone. Kyle Shanahan was the OC. Arian Foster was a rookie. Perfection.
That time the Seahawks beat the Eagles 42-0 while only gaining 194 yards.
If you’re mad about people waving the Mexican flag instead of the American flag at a protest, you should also get mad when people wave Confederate flags instead of American flags at a protest. The celebrating heritage argument is a two way street, folks.
Thing to note about new Texans OC Nick Caley From what I understand, he was one of the guys that McVay brought in from the Patriots to help streamline the Rams' transition away from being an outside zone heavy team into being arguably *the* gap scheme team in the NFL, which is what the Pats were.
Literally the most hilarious possible moment for the Aaron Rodgers news to hit the timeline.
Panthers had most snaps of cover-3 in the entire league where they rotated from 2-high pre snap into MFC post-snap. You'd think that would mean more TFLs, but they missed so many tackles on those rotations (most in NFL) that their AVERAGE depth of tackle on those rotations was 5.5 yards downfield.
For all of the talk about how to help Bryce Young…the Panthers defense was the real train wreck last year. On the pod we talked about why Derrick Brown’s return matters so much, and improvements they made elsewhere on D. 🎧: apple.co/3ZQUBzY 📺: youtu.be/8KYFpucNTyU?...
Remember folks, McLaurin is already 30. He's the 16th-highest paid receiver and this is probably going to be his last window to get a top-10 contract. This won't be resolved without him getting paid imo.
So PFF tracks "threat %", which is percentage of targets per receiving snaps. Here's the top 10 from last year among WRs with at least 300 snaps (+ Puka's 297) Puka - 37.4% Nabers - 29.8% Nico - 28.5% Lamb - 28.3% Downs - 27.5% London - 26.9% Kupp - 26.7% AJ Brown + Davante - 26.0% Evans - 25.9%
QB sneaks are up 319% and it's ruining America. New video now live on the channel! youtu.be/7oO8bjbtPqA
QB sneaks are up 319% and it's terrible.
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Notable contested catch rates vs press coverage, min 50 targets Jakobi Meyers (77%) Collins (66%) Jauan (64%) Amon-Ra (63%) Evans (62%) G. Wilson (54%) CeeDee (54%) AJ Brown (54%) London (50%) Jefferson (46%) Marv Jr (42%) Ja'Marr (40%) Nabers (38%) Pickens (33%) Metcalf (22%)
Not trying to start a war here, but do Dolphins fans have positive expectations for this season?
Per PFF here is a scatter plot for pass blitz percentage faced on 3rd down, as well as first down conversion rate. Or, as I like to call it, the Jayden Daniels chart.
Apparently South Carolina is also one of the states where random apocalyptic rain just shows up sometimes. Duly noted!
Never seen a team erase a -41 point differential for a series in just one half.
RIP to everyone who took the OKC +9.5 live line lol
Twitter must be running on hamster wheels at this point lol
kinda odd that it feels more climactic for the NVP to get their trophy than the NBA MVP, no? There’s gotta be a better way to do that.
I’m not a reporter but I have heard from multiple folks who would know these things that the Shedeur pick was an Andrew Berry decision, not a Haslam decision btw (Yes, I know what it looked like on TV and I’m surprised too)
The real story to me is that Caleb was right. He and his dad were worried about going to the Bears because they thought Flus and Waldron were bad for his development, and they were immediately proven correct.