Clearly you don't know my dad.

I'm not sure what you can conclude from this other than that your dad is wrong when he grumbles about how "good teams pass the ball." Clearly teams are using both tendencies effectively. The fact that the worst teams are all getting a lot of touches just indicates that nobody is creating or getting open for good…

He got into the habit because Eli wasn't allowed in the pool without a helmet and Archie didn't want to have to explain why.

FYI- Wikipedia has locked the page until January 10th. Mark your calendars, gentlemen.

I saw that same sign hundreds of times at Browns games in the early 2000s.

It is accurate. There's more than enough data to draw conclusions and build an expected points system upon. The problem is that you're talking about a tiny marginal difference between going for it and punting the closer you get to the orange—like maybe 0.02% victory probability or something. If it's 4th and 3 at your…

Nope, just a blip in the distribution. The larger the sample size the smoother that curve will be. If there were twice as much data I doubt that would happen.

No, it definitely has nothing to do with that. It's based on the success percentage of gaining 3 yards in that situation, not the average number of yards plays net. Very different.

Agree with almost everything but you're totally wrong about RG3 and Kaepernick. If you actually look at Kaepernick's stats he's having a good season despite throwing to a terrible receiving corps. RG3 was rushed back from injury too soon and clearly can't run like he could before Shanahan and Dr. Andrews destroyed his…

LOL. Yeah, because clearly the Jets know the difference between an "NFL Quarterback" and somebody who "just can't throw". I'm a liberal elitist who loves Tebow and all "dual threat" quarterbacks because they add an undeniable mathematical advantage to an offense.

Completion percentage is a meaningless statistic.

Nope. Flynn has a terrible arm, that's why he keeps getting cut. At least Tebow does something exceptionally, which is run the football. He also had the highest completion percentage in the league on deep passes thanks to his ability to move safeties up into the box on every play. Flynn does absolutely nothing at a…

Nah don't bother, he's clearly just another "vile man". No need to dig any deeper than that!

I totally agree that it's an outrage that Flacco be lining up in the wildcat. He should be benched for Tyrod Taylor once and for all so that that extra position on the field can be taken up by a real athlete.

I'm sure that the quarterback position was decided completely on the basis of ability and not on the basis of race. All hail the ultimate meritocracy!

The sample size is too small (and I too would be very curious to see this broken down by type of penalty,) but if the gap between the most and least flag-happy crews were to stay at 40%, I think that's just far too high.

This is the same argument that's used to excuse umpires for applying the strike zone arbitrarily. Granted, there will always be differences between crews and individual officials, but keeping the gap as small as possible should be a goal of rule enforcement for any league.

How is this different from when Kobe Bryant goes to China?

"It's really fucking hard to win all your games."

Tony Sparano?