October 19, 2007

NFL.com and statistics

If you havn't checked out the new NFL.com site, you should. They recently re-designed it, and it is great. They have all kinds of stats on almost anything you want, and good articles as well.

The most recent one I found facinating was a breakdown of NFL stats by Ira Miller. One excerpt:

"ยป Team rankings in rushing and passing: "If people can run the ball on you, you're going to have better pass defense statistics (because they won't bother to throw)," Miami defensive coordinator Dom Capers said.

"If you throw for 500 yards of offense but you still (allow) 10 sacks, I don't know how you can sit there and rave about being, say, third in the league in offense," said Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy. "That can be skewed."

Read the whole thing at NFL.com

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