NFL

So to get ready for playoff chase, I took a look at each team's statistics for the past 6 weeks(weeks 7 - 12). Shown are the offense and defense statistics, the rank, and what the league average is. Then I assigned grades to the offense, defense and team as a whole. You can read all 32 team breakdowns in the full post:

NFL 2023 - Offense, Defense, Team grades for weeks 7-12

As a quick TLDR, the following chart shows NET Yards/play, NET EP, Power Ratings, and change in power rating vs post week six rating. It is sorted by NET EP. Remember, these stats are only for weeks 7 - 12, not the full season.

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NFL Team Ranks for NET Yards/Play, NET Expected Points & Power Rating weeks 7-12

Each of the 32 team capsules include the following information.

• Net Expected Points
• Net Yards / Play
• Power Rating
• Graphics Metrics Capsule showing weeks 1-6 and 7-12 in one chart for comparison
• Offense Grade & Comments
• Offensive Metrics
• Defense Grade & Comments
• Defensive Metrics
• Summary

Here is an example of the Dallas Cowboys Team Capsule for weeks 7 - 12.

Dallas Cowboys - Offense Defense Team Stats Grades Weeks 7-12

Obviously the letter grades and comments are a bit subjective, but the statistics are not. Have fun checking out the stats of your favorite team and rivals. Enjoy the football tonight!

From the "you can find a stat that makes anyone look good department"

4th down QBs since 2021 by QB Rating (Minimum 10 passing attempts):

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Personally I would think Point State Park is a more suitable location than the North Shore, but what do I know.

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With both these teams having had questions around their offensive play-caller and second-year quarterback, the way to get back on track for them was to re-dedicate themselves to more diverse run games. However, they're doing it in slightly different ways.

I broke down what that plan looked like for these teams this past Sunday, what this can create for them and how I believe they’ll be trying to control matchups this way going forward!

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I could only post the first 15 (of 23) minutes. You can check out the full video here!

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Team rank in offensive redzone efficiency

2014 Raiders: 1st

2015 Raiders: 9th

2016 Raiders: 14th

2017 Raiders: 7th

2018 Raiders: 22nd

2019 Raiders: 22nd

2020 Raiders: 23rd

2021 Raiders: 26th

2022 Raiders: 26th

2023 Saints: 29th

For either of the two MNF games they have for December 11th, today was the last day for the NFL to make a decision to flex either of them out - especially with GB/NYG, with talks of HOU/NYJ potentially taking their place.

But 7:20 came and went, and no official call was made. Therefore, expect MetLife stands to be blue instead of green by then.

Once more...the primetime schedule remains untouched...

Carolina had a 1-15 season in 2001. They also went 2-14 in 2010

But somehow it feels worse than even those years.

Even those seasons, George Seifert and John Fox at least were allowed to coach out the season.

It’s hard to think that CAR somehow feels like the days of Weinke and Matt Moore were better.

Like Carolina has had bad seasons but this feels almost apathetic

I was just wondering what would happen.

I've seen some people confused as to why the Eagles need the Rams to lose in order to clinch a playoff spot in week 13. It all comes down to unfathomably unlikely tiebreakers that would make it seem like God hates Philadelphia, but mathematically I find it interesting. This is gonna get complicated with shenanigans after shenanigans so strap in.

So to start, here is how the Eagles do clinch (In some instances, I'm going to use > and < signs to signify who beats who). For the sake of simplicity, I won't worry about ties. The Eagles can clinch week 13 with:

• PHI win, LAR loss
• PHI win, GB loss, DET loss

So if the Eagles and Rams win, there are three ways week 13 could go where the Eagles don't clinch:

1. GB win, DET win
2. GB win, DET loss
3. GB loss, DET win

In each of these 3, there is essentially only one or two tiebreaker storms where the Eagles don't make it in. Here's what would need to happen the rest of the way for the Eagles to miss with a week 13 win:

On a macro scale, with PHI going 11-6, three other non-division winners would need to go 11-6 and PHI would need to lose the 4-way tiebreaker. We'll get to more specifics later, but in this scenario were PHI not to win the division, there are 6 other teams that can mathematically contend with them for a wild card spot: DET, GB, MIN, SEA, SF, LAR. (ATL or NO could finish 11-6, but if either of them do they automatically win the division, making it impossible for either to be an 11-6 wild card.)

Between DET/GB/MIN, one of them must win the NFC North. Also, GB and MIN cannot both finish 11-6 due to their matchup in Wk. 17.

Between SEA/SF/LAR, one of them must win the NFC West. It is possible for any 2 or all 3 to finish 11-6.

Thus the potential four teams fighting for three wild card spots in this scenario are PHI, [NFC North], [NFC West], [NFC West], so the short answer as to why the Eagles would need the Rams to lose to clinch, it's because that guarantees that there can only be 2 other 11-6 teams to compete for the three wild card spots.

Now you might be wondering how the Rams could possibly matter if the Eagles beat them already, and the answer is that 3-way and 4-way tiebreakers get messy, and there are a few where the Eagles could get screwed. In order for PHI to lose the big tiebreaker, the 7 seed must win a 2-way tiebreaker against PHI. SEA, DET, and GB are the only three in this scenario that could possibly do that, because of conference record GB in the wild card would let PHI in because they hold the tiebreaker over LAR, and with LAR > SEA in the division (H2H), the seeding would go GB > PHI > LAR > SEA by the tiebreaker rules. Thus DET must finish 11-6 as a wild card team for the Eagles to miss. With DET in the picture, LAR > DET by conference win percentage. It gets hectic and confusing so I'm just going to give the scenarios as to how it's possible cause the logic is a mess.

Here is how the Eagles could possibly beat SF and miss the playoffs.

With LAR win over CLE, GB win over KC, DET win over NO, PHI win over SF

• PHI loses out
• DAL finishes 11-6 or better
• LAR wins out
• GB or MIN wins out
• DET goes 1-2 against remaining division opponents
• DET < DEN
• DET > DAL
• 1 team from SEA/SF finishes 11-6, the other finishes 11-6 or better.

Example with Vikings winning out

Example with Packers winning out

With LAR win over CLE, GB loss to KC, DET win over NO, PHI win over SF

• PHI loses out
• DAL finishes 11-6 or better
• LAR wins out
• MIN wins out
• DET > CHI
• DET < DEN
• DET > DAL
• 1 team from SEA/SF finishes 11-6, the other finishes 11-6 or better.

Example

With LAR win over CLE, GB win over KC, DET loss to NO, PHI win over SF

• PHI loses out
• DAL finishes 11-6 or better
• LAR wins out
• GB wins out
• DET splits games with MIN
• DET > DEN
• DET > DAL
• DET < CHI
• 1 team from SEA/SF finishes 11-6, the other finishes 11-6 or better.
• DET wins Strength of Victory tiebreaker over PHI.

The Eagles with all this in the 3rd scenario would still have a >90% chance to make the playoffs based on Strength of Victory.

Example

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For those wondering why a DET loss to NO would guarantee the Eagles in the playoffs if GB also loses, it's because a loss to NO would make it so that DET cannot have a better conference win percentage than PHI without also winning the division.

The Eagles have basically clinched, and with a win next week have assuredly clinched but for a needle in a haystack chance to miss. But this is why the Eagles need either a Rams loss or a Packers loss and Lions loss.

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Trivia concept not new, but presentation here is friendlier.

This round is old school 80s-90s

Use the spoiler markup to hide your guess >!example!<

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Player A (1993 to 2000)

Player B (1986 to 1998)