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(Edit/Order 66) - Tally now at bottom
On punts I prefer the NFL rule. Ball can go into the inzone and not be a touch back as long as it doesn’t touch the ground. Makes for fun diving saves.
(Edit) I’d edit inzone but friends let friends Reddit drunk
(Edit 2) And a special shout-out to our persistent ND fan, you know who you are - I think he responded to every PI change suggestion 😂
(Edit 3) When I get a chance I will Tally the top 10 most suggested changes
(Edit 4) goddamnit save my Tally
(Edit 5) Tally Most popular- Less Commercials with 2,464 upvotes, who knew commercials were so unpopular
Most Divisive- Spot Foul PI - 26 comment threads, negative net up/downvotes (ND may or may not have committed voter fraud)
Honorable Mentions:
2 feet in bounds - 13 threads; Down with touching - 14 threads; Lineman 1 yard downfield- 6 threads; No cfb teams in Alabama- 914 upvotes
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I was feeling old when I learned that Kirk Cousins was only 34, so I made this:
https://preview.redd.it/are-you-older-than-the-oldest-active-nfl-player-or-some-v0-603h45foczub1.png?width=3600&format=png&auto=webp&s=311102503d3717f4446a20a077219406b520268cIt's a graph of the oldest active NFL players per year. Take your birth year and trace the dashed line. When the dashed line is above the colored dots... Congratulations! You're older than every active NFL player!
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If you were born in 1980, 2023 is the first year you are older than every NFL player thanks to Tom Brady's retirement.
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If you were born in 1965, you were older than every NFL player as of the 2009 season when John Carney retired.
The graph did mostly what I expected; when an old guy retires, the next-oldest guy is younger than that guy was. That new oldest guy is always getting older because time is cruel. The graph zig-zags up and down mostly as expected, but there were two neat pieces of NFL Old Man History that show up here that I wanted to share:
Steve DeBerg
If you were born in 1955, you were older than every NFL player starting in the 1996 season after Vince Evans retired. Generally, once you're older than every player, it's like that forever. And that makes sense, right? Like, what's a team going to do? Hire an even older guy? Of course not! That would be crazy!
... But that's exactly what happened in 1998. Steve DeBerg retired in 1993 when he was, at the time, the oldest NFL player. He then un-retired in 1998 for a brief stint with the Falcons and became the oldest player even on a Super Bowl roster. So he was the oldest player, retired, then returned to continue to be the oldest player. Pretty neat!
(Interestingly, his Wikipedia page says he got divorced in 1996 before un-retiring. It made me think of Brady's un-retirement after splitting with Giselle. I hope Adam Vinatieri's marriage is doing well, but if not there's a chance he returns in 2024.)
Morten Andersen
If you were born in 1960/1961 you were older than every NFL player as of the 2005 season when Gary Anderson retired...
... Until Morten Andersen came back in 2006! And he used that un-retirement to overtake Gary Anderson on the all time scoring leaderboard. They would both eventually be overtaken by Adam Vinatieri, but Morten Andersen was the all-time NFL scoring leader for about 10 years in there.
[Data details: I got the roster data from NFLFastR. There's a little wonkiness with how the data decided who was active vs who was on practice rosters. Player's age was calculated as of September 1. I don't know when your birthday is, so there's some wiggle room here.]
Why does only EA get the rights to make an NFL game? How does exclusivity help make the NFL more money?
I would think that having multiple devs obviously = multiple income sources. And you know that people who like EA/MUT will continue to pay loads of money for that product. But the people who can't be bothered to play EA titles would happily go to a competing developer's title.
And then there would be some NFL super fans and gaming enthusiasts who buy BOTH titles. I don't see any way how having multiple devs doesn't financially help the NFL.
And the competition would lead to not one mediocre product but hopefully MULTIPLE GOOD products, and better products = more sales.
Why is this not the reality?
Week 7 is here, r/NFL, and it's definitely a light one. Cooler temps are sweeping through and the leaves are falling hard. A perfect atmosphere for some good football. We're taking a break from the overseas games, but we also have six teams on byes making us three games light this week. Last week, I was able to go 9-6 bringing me to 59-34 on the season. How did everyone else do? We only have five division games this week with some more cross-conference games lined up. Let's get to it!
Byes: Bengals, Cowboys, Titans, Jets, Panthers, Texans
Those are my predictions, let's hear yours. Keep it civil and fun. Best of luck!
Following up on yesterday's NFL Team Offense Grades post
Used pro-football-reference stats to take a deep dive, Bill Barnwell style, into all 32 team defenses and assign them 1st trimester grades through 6 weeks. Quite a long article so for the TLDR crowd here it is in one chart.
If you would like to read the entire article and get the in depth stats and metrics, you can do so here NFL Team Defense Grades Through Week 6 . On Sunday will be a final article with grades for each team as a whole.
This chart show each team's defense based on Yards/Play & Expected Points.
https://preview.redd.it/nfl-team-defense-grades-through-week-6-v0-uu09uijsd5vb1.jpg?width=2409&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29c5b06e115d9eaf746b55d4c9471326f7c10317https://preview.redd.it/nfl-team-defense-grades-through-week-6-v0-dt1yghjre5vb1.png?width=2017&format=png&auto=webp&s=f66d4428af0f75a2017828d7b4e1539874eb9e7b
https://preview.redd.it/nfl-team-defense-grades-through-week-6-v0-nec09utfy5vb1.png?width=943&format=png&auto=webp&s=15df75e5274b089f9bbada9edf81020249d0c3d9
If you want to learn more about the NFL, this is the place. There are no stupid questions!
Just look at how fans are treating the chargers super fan from Monday night saying she is an NFL plant
Then you constantly get people saying certain games are rigged Ect…you usually don’t get this much tin foil talk among MLB or NHL fans
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