Sunday, December 1, 2019

Several interesting Week 13 factoids:

Through the early games:
  • Baltimore-Seattle does look like the "shoot" Super Bowl -- the legit best team in each conference.  What the rigging will give is another question!
  • Home teams only 4-7 so far.
  • Average is about 43 1/3 PPG so far.
  • Jacksonville's 16 accepted penalties are the most for one team in a game this year since Cleveland's 18 in Week 1, and we know what happened in THAT Fine Blotter.
  • Cleveland committed only 5 accepted penalties in the rematch in Pittsburgh.
  • If they get no fines this week, it would only be the second game this season they have not been fined.
  • Mason Rudolph was not allowed on the field of play.  He MAY HAVE BEEN on the sidelines.
  • The New York Jets have become the first team in history to lose to two winless teams at least 0-7.
  • Second time in four weeks that two double-digit underdogs won outright.  Five such games already this year, according to Pro Football Reference.  Now 197 such games since 1978, the first year PFR has on that statistic.
  • Also from PFR:  Two NFL records were tied today.  The Kansas City Chiefs had no penalties today vs. the Oakland Raiders.  (That's not that unusual, as it happened twice last year.)
  • What is unusual is the second record tied in that game -- the 12 penalties the Raiders got in the game is the most penalties by a team opposed by a team which had none (The Jets had 12 against Indianapolis' none October 30, 1994.)  The Chiefs won the key game 40-9.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you on Baltimore-Seattle (with SF in the mix), but I also agree on the rigging (are those clowns going to want to see another NE SB). Heck, it seemed like they were trying to fix the Texan game tonight with that penalty on the onside kick (before Houston was spared).

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