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Penalties in playoffs

January 5, 2014
On the weekend, it definitely seemed like calls were down...

Brees on the road

January 4, 2014
The Eagles in the regular season came within 81 yards of setting the all-time record for most passing yards allowed...

Protecting the football = playoffs

January 3, 2014
Nobody doubts the importance of avoiding turnovers in today's NFL, but it's a little striking how important avoiding interceptions is to winning right now...

Home field advantage

January 2, 2014
It's rare to see all four teams win in the first-round games. Since the NFL went to the eight-division format in 2002, only twice has all four of the first-round games been won by home teams...

Defenses behaving badly

December 30, 2013
This year, four different teams gave up over 400 yards per game. That's rushing and passing production, but not including yards lost on sacks...

Not-so-Super No. 1 seeds

December 29, 2013
In the last eight years, it’s been far more common to see No. 1 seeds lose their first game than advance to the Super Bowl...

Manning / TD pass record

December 23, 2013
When I first started working on this one, I expected to show that Dan Marino's 48 TD passes in 1984 was a lot more impressive than what Manning's done...

Vikings bleeding TD passes

December 22, 2013
The Vikings are in that group getting clobbered. After allowing 4 TD passes today to Andy Dalton, they're now up to 36 for the season...

Players with 5 TDs

December 22, 2013
For this one, I simply called up the list of all players who've scored 5 TDs in a game since 1960...

Late-season running backs

December 18, 2013
Since the '60s, only 10 running backs have scored 5 TDs in a game. And the vast majority of done it late in the year. The list appears below...

Tucker & Bailey

December 16, 2013
According to my notes, 29 times previously in this century a kicker scored 18 or more points in a game...

Big run yards in defeat

December 15, 2013
As best as I can figure, it's happened only seven other teams since the league moved to the 16-game format in 1978. Most recently, Bryce Brown did it last year...

Broncos go bust

December 13, 2013
There are 15 NFL receivers who have caught at least 8 TDs this year, and the Broncos have four of them...

Runners on the rampage

December 11, 2013
The most popular week to go over 200 yards, for example, is Week 17. It's happened 13 times in the last 20 years...

Bad news, Bears

December 10, 2013
And with three games left, it's looking like Chicago will become just the 10th team (since the move to the 16-game schedule in 1978) to allow over 5 yards per carry. Can't promise the Browns will ...

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