Archives for December 2018

Thirty-one touchdown passes.  That was all, just 31. With one game left in the 2018 Championship Season, seven different quarterbacks (led by Patrick Mahomes’ 48) have thrown at least 31 touchdown passes.  With good games on Sunday, Kirk Cousins and Jared Goff could swell that number to 9. In 1922 – the first official year […]

As there is no mechanism for keeping a losing team out of the NFL playoffs, it is a curiosity that does occur from time to time.  Usually, though, when it happens, it happens the way it did four years ago – the last time a losing team received a playoff invitation. In 2014 the NFC […]

Say this about the NFL.  It’s always full of surprises. After twelve weeks, we are always under the impression that we know who these clubs are.  But, as Week 13 dramatically displayed, in the NFL anything can – and usually does – happen. On Thursday night, the Dallas Cowboys hosted the high-flying New Orleans Saints.  […]

The game had come to this. The Chicago Bears – playing without their franchise quarterback Mitchell Trubisky – were clinging to a 23-16 lead.  There was one minute left in the game. The Bears faced a third-and-9 on their own 21, with Detroit holding one final time out.  A stop here, a quick time out, […]