If you read between the lines here and listen very carefully, it seems as if Mike Tomlin doesn’t have a ton of interest in coaching at the college level. Hard to tell for sure, though: Obviously I’m kidding. Tomlin absolutely flipped his lid at the mere suggestion of him coaching college football. This is as… Read More It Would Appear Mike Tomlin is Unlikely to Take the USC Head Coaching Job
As with the college football power ratings, I decided to streamline the process and use mainly net statistics, as it can kill two birds with one stone for a lot of my categories. Here are the statistical categories I’m using: To get a team’s rating, I averaged out their ranks across all the statistical categories… Read More NFL Week 7 Power Ratings
At the NFL owners meeting, Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about the league’s investigation into the DeShaun Watson lawsuits: NEW YORK — The playing status of Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, one of the hottest topics in the NFL ahead of next Tuesday’s trade deadline, does not sound as if it will be altered any time soon. NFL… Read More Goodell: Not Yet Enough Info on DeShaun Watson Lawsuits to Make Decision Regarding His Playing Status
The NFL recap, injury report and power ratings will be back this week after a brief hiatus. It was another week of mostly blowout games, unfortunately. And guess what: not a single game went to overtime this week! I know I complained about how the NFL was almost at the point of “rigging” games with… Read More NFL Week 7 Recap: Chiefs Crushed, Bengals Blast Baltimore, Brady Schools Fields; Blowouts Galore Yet Again
In what feels like the blink of an eye, we’re already through week 8 of the 2021 college football season. It has certainly been a fun season, of course, but it’s more than halfway done. While this weekend wasn’t viewed as a great slate of games (that’s next weekend), there were actually quite a few… Read More College Football Week 8 Recap: 9 OTs in State College, Okie State Goes Down, OU’s Williams Rips Ball From Teammate in Heroic, Game-Winning Play
This is according to John McClain, the Texans reporter for the Houston Chronicle who appears to be the most plugged-in person regarding the team: Now I know we previously heard that the Texans and Eagles were potentially nearing a deal for Watson, and that was months ago, but I guess it’s different this time. The… Read More Texans, Dolphins Nearing Trade for DeShaun Watson?
That is a real photo of a Purdue lineman chugging a beer that was thrown onto the field in the third quarter of the game. Was it a little early to start celebrating? Maybe, but Iowa, despite having one of the best secondaries in college football, had no answer for the Purdue passing game all… Read More College Football Week 7 Recap: IOWA Bounced By Beer-Drinking Boilermakers, Orgeron Officially Out, Tennessee Fans Fling Food on Field–PLUS: the Best QB in the Nation Nobody’s Talking About
This is going to be a new weekly series here on the site, where I keep track of all the injury news from the day’s NFL action. Injuries are such a huge factor in football, and it’s important to keep track of them all because they really do make such a difference. Oftentimes we find… Read More NFL Week 6 Injury Report
Yesterday, while watching RedZone, as the Cowboys and Patriots became the second game to go to OT on the day, I remember Scotty Hanson saying something about all the overtime games we’ve seen thus far in the 2021 season. I don’t exactly remember what the stat he brought up was, but the point was that… Read More Why Are There So Many NFL Games Going to Overtime?
It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the 2021 college football season, but here we are. College football schedules are typically back-loaded, though, meaning the biggest and best games of the season are saved for the end. While we have already seen some heavyweight non-conference bouts, like Georgia-Clemson and Oregon-Ohio State, most of the… Read More College Football Mid-Season Report: The Stats That Will Decide “Who’s In”
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