In NFL history, 6 QB’s have averaged 275 passing yards/game and had 30 TD and 5 or fewer INT through the first 12 games of the season.
Joe Burrow is the only one to have a losing record through 12 games. Four of the other five won the NFL MVP that season. (the other that did not win MVP was Mahomes in 2020 when he was beaten out by Rodgers)
Also no NFL team has ever had 4 losses while scoring 33 plus points in a season.
Bengals are 2-4 when scoring 33+, where the rest of the league is 52-1.
It is just great the Hawks are in a division where 9 wins probably gives them first place. Better to lose early in the playoffs than not to make them at all.
And my favourite AFC team, the Bills, are in an even weaker division where they have already clinched first. Guessing my Bills will go further than the Seahawks this year.
Oh I agree but the NfC west and NFC south are both sending mediocre teams to the playoffs a will be hosting the first round against likely stronger opponents. I just don’t see either of those divisions winning more than 1 playoff game this year if they manage even 1 win between them.
Eh, more asking about the “loyalty” part.
I mean, when I was younger, yeah, gotta pick a team and take a blood oath.
But even then, I wasn’t buying a shitload of merch and wearing it. I require a two-way street.
Buffalonians don’t have a lot of choice when it comes to local major league teams: just the Bills and Sabres. And Buffalonians haven’t had much else to cheer about outside of sport since the Erie Canal became unimportant. I understand their desperate devotion to the Bills.
But what else is there to cheer about living in Buffalo is more my point. Torontonians used to shuffle off to Buffalo for a good time but that ended about 60 years ago.
Excellent article by The Economist on the differences between the NFL and CFL. Nothing I didn’t know already but many of my US counterparts might find it enlightening. The Canadian game IS more entertaining in many ways even though it doesn’t have the money behind it that the NFL does.
Only beef with the article is that the Super Bowl should be viewed as America’s Grey Cup rather than vice-versa since the Grey Cup has been around for 115 years.
Interesting that American Rules Football has so many different rules for the different levels.
English Laws Soccer has one. It is allowed to vary them based on field size and number of players, length of match, and the number of substitutions is left to the organizing organizations.
For American Rules, every level has different rules. NFL is different from College, which is different from high school, which is different from lower-level flag football.
Canadian Rules Football, not sure why it has to be so different, though with better players and more on the line, it might be much more interesting.
More than the answer to a trivia question?
Thing is, I don’t need any of it. My question was not about simply rooting for a team but some level of “loyalty” of which the BUF fans have a lot.
Yes, he was initially a punt returner when he was signed by Washington in 1974.
Theisman was the QB for the Argonauts when I first lived in Toronto. He was excellent as were the Argo teams he played on. However the CFL had by then lost its credibility as a league that was able to compete financially with the NFL so CFL players trying to break into the NFL suffered reputation wise. Despite Theisman’s great college and CFL stats it took him a few years to get established as Washington’s starting QB.
Given the gruesome way his career ended, it might have been safer for him to have returned punts than be a QB! However he was paid much more as a QB!