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The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2
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JaMarcusHustle wrote: »I doubt Gordon's latest legal issue will have any impact on him playing. It's a paternity test court case is all.
Oh ok, shouldn't have jumped to conclusions but...
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Out of boredom / discontent with the state of the Seahawks O-Line (for yet another year...) I wanted to look at just how much they Seahawks sacrifice on O-Line, relative to other teams. So I did a bit of data scraping, and came up with a couple of interesting findings that may be of interest to all.
Below is a list of the 2016 cap space* allocated to the starting offensive line-men** in the 12 teams who made the playoffs last year:
ARI CAR NE DEN KC HOU PIT CIN GB SEA WAS MIN
LT 5 6 10.3 5.2 6.8 9.5 0.5 8 4 1 10.6 0.6
LG 5.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 1.5 2.4 4.75 1.5 0.6 5 6.7
C 0.8 11 0.5 0.5 1 0.5 10.5 0.7 0.7 0.9 2.8 1.4
RG 4 0.7 0.4 0.7 0.6 6.1 5.2 8 6.2 1.5 4.8 4
RT 2 2.5 4.7 4 2.4 5.5 4 2.1 5.4 0.6 0.8 3.5
Total 17.5 20.8 16.5 11 11.4 23.1 22.6 23.55 17.8 4.6 24 16.2
figure in millions
The totals per team, and average per positions, look like this:
So as predicted, the Seahawks deploy a miniscule spend on their O-Line compared to every other team in the playoffs from last year, presumably relying on Tom Cable to make up the difference. The average starting O-Line costs 17.4m, vs. their spend of 4.6m. You have to wonder if this saving of ~12m is worth it; I suppose this season will tell a lot, with injuries to Wilson and no more Beastmode to rely on.
Some other points:
- The most expensive O-Line (Redskins - 24m) costs more than 5 times than the cheapest (Seahawks - 4.6m).
- All 12 teams will spend less on their O-Line this year than the Giants will spend on Eli Manning (24.4m).
* according to this site
** according to this site0 -
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I kind of want to see them win, and win easily, just to listen to the media go mad for a few weeks on whether Brady is a system QB or not. Watching the world burn, and all that.Well, they did that handily anyway! :pac:
Clearly Brady is a system QB, nothing else!!
On a serious note, what Bellichek and his team have done to start the year is one of the best coaching performances in a very long time. To not have Brady, Gronk, Lewis, losing Garroppolo, missing your OT's for a game and then going 3-0 is beyond belief. If they were fully fit and went 3-0 @Fins, @ Cards and vs Texans then you would say that is a great performance, what they have done really is staggering.0 -
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Clearly Brady is a system QB, nothing else!!
On a serious note, what Bellichek and his team have done to start the year is one of the best coaching performances in a very long time. To not have Brady, Gronk, Lewis, losing Garroppolo, missing your OT's for a game and then going 3-0 is beyond belief. If they were fully fit and went 3-0 @Fins, @ Cards and vs Texans then you would say that is a great performance, what they have done really is staggering.
They look superb. Extremely polished and well coached, its like they've gone up another level. I'd be extremely excited if I was a Patriots fan right now. I've no great love for them normally, but I'm enjoying watching them this year.
Hopefully Eli can become 3li in Super Bowl LI and beat the undefeated Pats once more. I'd die from happiness 0 -
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