NFL Stats takes a look at 2007 FG Kicker Rankings. Last year, NFL Stats ranked the FG kicking for the 2003-2006 seasons.
Draft Daddy has the inside scoop on the news and rumors coming from inside the NFL Combine.
Football Outsiders' Doug Farrar has a nice series of Combine Reports with a more intimate feel to them.
FF LiveWire is one of the quickest sites to update with the height and weight info from the NFL Combine weigh ins, as well as the drill results. TFY Draft also has frequent updates on the results and practice notes.
Pro-football-reference takes a look at running backs and the Body Mass Index, and what that might mean for this year's top draft prospects.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Round Up
The NFL Draft Guys present their 2008 NFL Combine All-Snubbed Team. The two players there who really stand out: Georgia center/guard Fernando Velasco and Connecticut LB Danny Lansanah. Although, as much as I liked watching Lansanah at UConn (fan bias alert), I'm even more surprised that Oklahoma State LB Rodrick Johnson didn't get an invite. The Draft Guys also have an interview with one of my “pet cats” Eastern Michigan's Jason Jones.
Yakuza Rich takes A Statistical Look at the Last 30 Super Bowls and finds some interesting results related to the NFL's Passer Rating, such as “the G-Men won the Super Bowl despite having the worst QB rating differential of any team that has gone to the last 30 Super Bowls” and “[the Giants] also had the largest QB rating differential margin to overcome as the Pats had a 37.9 QB rating differential compared to the G-Men’s -9.5 QB rating differential.”
NFL Stats has a fascinating three-part post on The Passing Paradox. Covering similar ground, PFR asks Why do teams run the ball?.
Detroit Lions Weblog on the Patriot's loss and In Defense of Greatness.
Over at Hashmarks Mike Sando breaks down the Patriots' personnel used in Super Bowl 42. One interesting nugget: “Tom Brady averaged 6.2 yards per pass attempt with four or fewer pass rushers coming his way, but 2.6 yards per attempt with more than four.”
Finally, a quick note on the heels of Adam Schefter's report that Chris Long's draft stock is rising and that “the widespread consensus is that Miami football operations chief Bill Parcells believes there is less risk with Long than any other potential No. 1 overall pick.” With so many mock drafts across the Web these days, I'm sure some of them had this earlier, but when I moved Chris Long into the number one spot in my mock draft last month, none of the “major” mock drafts online had gone there yet. As an added kick: I had Chris Long as a first-rounder before the 2007 season started when few others did. Having paid particularly close attention to the personnel decisions (both on the field and in the front office) made by the Dallas Cowboys during Bill Parcells' tenure there, I even had Long going to a Jeff Ireland team!
Yakuza Rich takes A Statistical Look at the Last 30 Super Bowls and finds some interesting results related to the NFL's Passer Rating, such as “the G-Men won the Super Bowl despite having the worst QB rating differential of any team that has gone to the last 30 Super Bowls” and “[the Giants] also had the largest QB rating differential margin to overcome as the Pats had a 37.9 QB rating differential compared to the G-Men’s -9.5 QB rating differential.”
NFL Stats has a fascinating three-part post on The Passing Paradox. Covering similar ground, PFR asks Why do teams run the ball?.
Detroit Lions Weblog on the Patriot's loss and In Defense of Greatness.
Over at Hashmarks Mike Sando breaks down the Patriots' personnel used in Super Bowl 42. One interesting nugget: “Tom Brady averaged 6.2 yards per pass attempt with four or fewer pass rushers coming his way, but 2.6 yards per attempt with more than four.”
Finally, a quick note on the heels of Adam Schefter's report that Chris Long's draft stock is rising and that “the widespread consensus is that Miami football operations chief Bill Parcells believes there is less risk with Long than any other potential No. 1 overall pick.” With so many mock drafts across the Web these days, I'm sure some of them had this earlier, but when I moved Chris Long into the number one spot in my mock draft last month, none of the “major” mock drafts online had gone there yet. As an added kick: I had Chris Long as a first-rounder before the 2007 season started when few others did. Having paid particularly close attention to the personnel decisions (both on the field and in the front office) made by the Dallas Cowboys during Bill Parcells' tenure there, I even had Long going to a Jeff Ireland team!
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Round Up
In honor of Black History Month, pro-football-reference.com's Chase Stuart kicks off a series looking at the history of black quarterbacks in the NFL. It's a great first post on a topic that shouldn't be relegated to the dustbin of football history just yet. It's amazing how much has changed in the thirty years I've been watching.
Yakuza Rich plays a First Round Draft Game, and takes a quick look at the correlation between first round draft pick performance and team success. Pacifist Viking looks at the importance of the draft anecdotally by considering the downfall of the Cowboys in the 1990s and the sustained success of the 49ers through the 80s and 90s.
Also worth checking out at Yakuza Rich's blog are his offensive linemen rankings. I don't think the rankings equate to a listing of the best linemen of the year exactly, but it's certainly a measure of success and something to consider when discussing the best linemen in the game.
Matt Mosley on Roger Goodell, Senator Arlen Specter, and Spygate. I can't believe a Senator is actually wasting his time, and therefore our tax dollars, on this. I understand that because of the NFL's Antitrust exemption the government has an interest in the league, but this issue has been blown out of such proportion over the course of the season, I get queezy every time it's brought up.
NFL Stats asks if red zone performance is real?
NFL Draft Guys might be the only site covering the Texas vs the Nation all-star game this week, providing relatively detailed practice reports and complete, downloadable weigh-in information. I'll be watching the game this afternoon and writing about it, possibly later tonight if I can make time. The official site provides some info on players from last year's game who went on to be draft selections.
Michael Davis Smith questions Roger Goodell about the NFL's outrageous rookie salary structure and its fairness to proven veterans.
Yakuza Rich plays a First Round Draft Game, and takes a quick look at the correlation between first round draft pick performance and team success. Pacifist Viking looks at the importance of the draft anecdotally by considering the downfall of the Cowboys in the 1990s and the sustained success of the 49ers through the 80s and 90s.
Also worth checking out at Yakuza Rich's blog are his offensive linemen rankings. I don't think the rankings equate to a listing of the best linemen of the year exactly, but it's certainly a measure of success and something to consider when discussing the best linemen in the game.
Matt Mosley on Roger Goodell, Senator Arlen Specter, and Spygate. I can't believe a Senator is actually wasting his time, and therefore our tax dollars, on this. I understand that because of the NFL's Antitrust exemption the government has an interest in the league, but this issue has been blown out of such proportion over the course of the season, I get queezy every time it's brought up.
NFL Stats asks if red zone performance is real?
NFL Draft Guys might be the only site covering the Texas vs the Nation all-star game this week, providing relatively detailed practice reports and complete, downloadable weigh-in information. I'll be watching the game this afternoon and writing about it, possibly later tonight if I can make time. The official site provides some info on players from last year's game who went on to be draft selections.
Michael Davis Smith questions Roger Goodell about the NFL's outrageous rookie salary structure and its fairness to proven veterans.
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