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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.
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.
I would like go live in precedented times.
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.
CJ saying that he has "full control" pre-snap now just feels so Erhardt-Perkins to me. Giving the QB control is kind of the point of that entire offense.
A lot of folks expect the Texans offense to look Sean McVay-ish this year, but I think it's more likely that it will look Josh McDaniels-ish, but with sprinkles of McVay in there.
With Caley's influence they changed their whole identity as an offense, and even changed what kinds of body types they prioritized in the run game.
McVay was already trying to make that transition, but Caley is who helped solidify and perfect it. Per PFF from 2022 to 2023, the Rams jumped from 25% man blocking scheme usage (5th) to 42% (1st), and at the same time dropped from 10th to 20th in OZ.
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.
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.
SHEESH what a cover
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%
Apparently people can’t tell the difference so I changed it
Wasn’t ai. Was a photoshop filter
QB sneaks are up 319% and it's ruining America.
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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%)
Wolves packed
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.
Skubal is not human lmao
Apparently South Carolina is also one of the states where random apocalyptic rain just shows up sometimes. Duly noted!
