Goodbye to Byes (For Now); Brady Leads League
All teams have had their bye weeks, and now we can look forward to the rest of the season with 16 games per week.
Now that all teams have played an equal number of games, we can start looking at individual statistics.
New England's Tom Brady leads the league in passing yards with 2,560, just ahead of Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb (2,507), and nearly 200 yards ahead of Oakland's Kerry Collins (2,367).
There are seven teams with 2-7 records. There are five at 7-2, six at 6-3, four at 5-4, five at 4-5, three at 3-6, one at 1-8, and one at 9-0. Looks a little lopsided, but that means there are 11 teams at 7-2 or 6-3, and ten at 3-6 or 2-7. This parity thing is kinda scary sometimes.
No surprise here: Indianapolis is the highest scoring team in the league with 260. The Colts are followed by the Giants (254), San Diego (252) and Carolina (250). The lowest scoring team? Baltimore with 100 even. Followed by the Jets (121), Houston (124) and San Francisco (126).
San Fran tops the list of teams giving up the most points (263), followed by St. Louis (262), Houston (247), New Orleans (242) and Arizona (240). You'll never get this one. The team that has allowed the fewest points ...
... is Chicago(!) with only 107. Second is Indy (115), followed by Cincinnati (134), Jacksonville (142) and Pittsburgh (145).
FYI, our beloved Patriots have scored 203 (11th) and allowed 236 (26th).
Some notes from the last few weeks ....
Priest Holmes: I always liked this guy, especially when I had him on my fantasy team with Stephen Davis a few years ago. Seriously, he always seemed a class act, very Barry Sanders-like. He took the handoff, he ran, he often scored, he went back to the huddle. No dances. No trashtalk. No BS. Just football. Why do running backs and wide receivers seem to be born of such different molds?
Madden Curse: Looks like it hit last year's cover boy Ray Lewis a year late. Otherwise, the evidence has been mounting, culminating Monday Night, that it has a pretty good stranglehold on Donovan McNabb, quite possibly using Terrell Owens as an evil agent.
NFL.com, which generally takes game stories from the Associated Press, reported after the Raiders-Chiefs game (which KC won on a last-second Larry Johnson touchdown) that: "After most of the Raiders left the field following Johnson's game-winning touchdown, Collins took the safety position for the Chiefs' conversion kick." Remember when Randy Moss walked off the field with time left on the clock last year in Minnesota. Looks like Randy Disease is spreading in Oakland.
posted by Tom Masse @ 4:28 PM
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3 Comments:
Did you notice that the QBs with the most passing yards are playing for struggling teams? Not that NE is in danger of not going to the playoffs, but is this the first time the club has had to rely on his arm this much?
Re: above comment.
I don't think it's so much that the team is struggling as the ground corps have been so banged up. McNabb is so high because he's averaging about 40 throws a game and the Eagles have stopped running. In the same vein, the no-run Cardinals are right at the top in terms of passing yards per game, it just doesn't show up in the individual stats cause it's divided between two QBs.
NFL Adam: Yes, I've noticed that. Happens quite often actually. Remember that Bledsoe guy? When he didn't have Curtis Martin, he was throwing for 4k-5k yards per season. Not winning, but piling up yards -- usually in the 4th quarter when the Pats were 20 points behind.
Scsatr: That just might be a plausible strategy for the Ravens. Call Brian Billick and see if you can get an idea to sink through his very thick skull.
Brett: Right, and continuing, I don't remember ever seen so many poor rushing teams in the league at once.
Tim: Few people are bigger Brady boosters than I (I was one of those "anybody but Bledsoe" guys), but I'd draw the line short of saying he's the entire offense. Someone is catching 63% of his passes, and the linemen he has are doing a legitimate job blocking. Still, it would be nice to have a running game.
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