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(Re)Introducing Total Yards per Play.
Four seasons ago, I worked up a new quarterback statistic, based on Pro Football Reference's excellent ANY/A metric, and used that statistical analysis to model how good Jalen Hurts would be for the 2022 season. This model correctly predicted an All Pro type of season from Hurts, which came to pass. Here's a link to the original post, but the following is the formula for the subsequently updated version of the statistic (I will intend to reference this somewhat often over the


Why Terrell Owens may have been the most overrated player in Eagles history.
Ah, Terrell Eldorado Owens. The great hope of the longsuffering Eagles fans who arrived by trade in time for the 2004 season. He was finally going to solve years of mediocre to terrible WR play (seriously, check out this list of stiffs that Birds fans endured in the early years of the Andy Reid era). Owens had proven himself to be a premier playmaker in San Francisco and after increasing dissatisfaction there, forced his way to Philadelphia to team with Donovan McNabb. Firewo


Offseason review, grades, commentary. Or, what to think about that AJ Brown trade.
Usually I come out with this article sometime shortly after the draft but one of the reasons I waited was to see how the AJ Brown situation got resolved. Well, that's been done for some time now, so let's get to it. With camp about three weeks away, let's jump right in with some grades and commentary for the offseason's biggest storylines (starting with the bad news): Lost Jeff Stoutland due to philosophical differences over offensive system: F - - -. It's really difficult to
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(Re)Introducing Total Yards per Play.
Four seasons ago, I worked up a new quarterback statistic, based on Pro Football Reference's excellent ANY/A metric, and used that statistical analysis to model how good Jalen Hurts would be for the 2022 season. This model correctly predicted an All Pro type of season from Hurts, which came to pass. Here's a link to the original post, but the following is the formula for the subsequently updated version of the statistic (I will intend to reference this somewhat often over the
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