by rseysPosted on Posted in Adopt-a-Player

I come from a huge family. I’m the youngest of 13 kids (no, seriously!) and sports were always a big part of our daily lives. It was not uncommon for us to get together with cousins and neighbor kids for an impromptu pick-up game of softball or football. Most of us were also active in high school sports – football, wrestling, basketball, track & field – but none of us ever took sports beyond high school. How cool would it have been to have a family member play for a D1 college or professional team? That’s the idea behind Football Weblog’s Adopt-a-Player.

Each year, recruiting services identify the top high school football prospects in the nation. Of course, these highly sought-after gridders inevitably commit to playing with the best college teams in the nation, and some go on to play at the professional level. In Adopt-a-Player, I’ll randomly select one of the top 50 player prospects to call our own and follow his career all along the way. With any luck, we’ll stumble across the next Heisman Trophy winner or, if the football gods really shine on us, a player that will eventually slip on a gold Pro Football Hall of Fame jacket.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in Hall of Fame QB Crossword Puzzle

As I write this, the 2021 NFL regular season is 83 days away. Sigh. That’s 22.74% of the entire 2021 year. I don’t know about you, but I miss football. To pass the time I decided to make an NFL crossword puzzle of the quarterbacks enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It’s my hope that you will enjoy trying to solve it as much as I enjoyed making it.

A heads up: This puzzle will not be easy! I will be honest with you. I never heard of some of the guys that played in the 1920’s and 30’s. And even the big-name players I remember watching as a kid will probably be foreign to the iGen/Gen Z’ers. But the cool thing is the Pro Football Hall of Fame website provides in-depth biographies of all their inductees. You can learn about each of these famous field generals here.

Click the button below to download and print the puzzle. It’s in PDF format and fits an 8½” x 11″ sheet of paper perfectly.  Good luck and have fun!

HOF QB Puzzle

Spoiler alert!  Click the button below for the answers!

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by rseysPosted on Posted in One Page 2021 NFL Schedule

It’s the football invention of the century. There’s never been anything like it. It’s Football Weblog’s One Page NFL Schedule. Men, women, youngsters can all reference the schedule almost like experts the very first time. So easy to use. Small enough to fit in glove compartment, backpack, any travel bag, or even in your pocket. Print out a copy of the schedule and it’s ready to use anytime. Even find the big game with teams wearing your favorite colors. Football Weblog’s One Page NFL Schedule is made with the finest digitized pixels and boy does it list the games. It’s the perfect schedule to use in tight spots. You can even slip it in your shoe.

Expert or amateur will love Football Weblog’s One Page Schedule. It lists every game of the 2021 NFL regular season. But wait. That’s not all. The 2021 schedule includes over 6% more games than last season. Yes, it’s football fun for the whole family. What a gift.

To access Football Weblog’s One Page schedules, click the blue NFL Schedules button below, or select NFL Schedules from Football Weblog’s menu. You’ll be taken to the NFL Schedules page with access to all of Football Weblogs Printable NFL Schedules. Enjoy!

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by rseysPosted on Posted in 2021 NFL Draft Notes

The 86th annual meeting of the National Football League franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2021 NFL season — the 2021 NFL Draft — begins tonight at 8:00 PM ET. Are you itching to get things rolling early? Check out the 2021 NFL Draft Notes. It’s a 38-page booklet full of info on player prospects, draft history, and other miscellany. It’s the perfect companion to the draft if you want to start enjoying the draft early or to follow along as the draft progresses. Select the 2021 NFL Draft Notes button below to download a PDF copy for yourself.

2021 NFL Draft Notes
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by rseysPosted on Posted in Dickinson Football Rating System: Final Thoughts

In my two most recent posts, I talked about the Dickinson Football Rating System.

In my post Ranking the 32 NFL Teams Using the Dickinson Football Rating System, I wrote:

“According to the Dickinson System, the Bucs are overachievers. Despite advancing to the Super Bowl, they are rated as just the 6th best team in the NFL overall (tied with the Cleveland Browns). You would expect a better rating for a Super Bowl participant.”

In a second post titled Projected Super Bowl Winner According to the Dickinson Football Rating System, I wrote:

“…so it looks like yet another piece of evidence that the favored Kansas City Chiefs will finish the 2020-21 season with a 2nd Super Bowl victory in as many seasons.”

So much for the Dickinson Football Rating System.

Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers!  Your victory over the Kansas City Chiefs was a dominant performance!

As always, run to daylight.
Randy

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by rseysPosted on Posted in Ranking the 32 NFL Teams Using the Dickinson Football Rating System

Yesterday I pushed out a short little post that projected which team will win Super Bowl LV based on the Dickinson Football Rating System. Today I figured I’d rank the entire league using the Dickinson System. There were a few oddities that jumped out at me.

The first aberration to catch my eye were the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. According to the Dickinson System, the Bucs are overachievers. Despite advancing to the Super Bowl, they are rated as just the 6th best team in the NFL overall (tied with the Cleveland Browns). You would expect a better rating for a Super Bowl participant.

Washington is also a bit quirky. They played their way into the top half of the 2021 player draft (pick #14) despite being rated as the 22nd worst team overall. I guess that’s what happens when a 7-9 record is good enough to be crowned division champions.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Cincinnati Bengals were big underachievers. The Dickinson System had the Bengals rated as the 21st best team in the league. Despite that they ended the regular season with a measly 4-11-1 record. A team rated as well as the Bengals probably should have knocked out two or three more wins.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were also disappointments. The Steelers earned a 20.882 Dickinson Rating – good enough for a solid #3 ranking in the NFL. There’s no way a #3 ranked team should be eliminated in the AFC Wild Card round of the playoffs.

What was the Dickinson Rating for your favorite NFL team? Check out the chart below to find out.

As always, run to daylight!
Randy

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by rseysPosted on Posted in Projected Super Bowl Winner According to the Dickinson Football Rating System

 

I was watching College Football 150 the other night.


College Football 150 is a docuseries from ESPN that celebrated college football’s 150th anniversary in 2019.  If you haven’t seen any of these episodes, I would recommend doing so.  The show is well done and very interesting.

In the episode I watched – Bowls, Polls and Champions – they briefly talked about the Dickinson Football Rating System.  The Dickinson System rated teams using a mathematical formula, and was devised by Frank G. Dickinson, an economics professor at the University of Illinois.  The system was used to crown college football’s national champions from 1924 to 1940.  It was the first rating system to gain widespread acceptance by the fans and media before the establishment of the Associated Press poll.

The Dickinson System is quite simple.  It awards 30 points for a win over a strong team, and 20 points for a win over a weak team.  A team is considered “strong” if it sports a win-loss record over .500; a “weak” team is one with a .500 or worse winning percentage.  Defeats are worth half as much as wins, so a team garners 15 points if it loses to a strong team, and 10 points if it loses to a weak team.  Ties are half a win and half a loss, so teams earn 22.5 points for tying a strong team and 15 points for tying a weak team.  Dividing each team’s total by the number of games played results in the final rating.

After learning about the Dickinson System, I thought it would be fun to apply it to the Super Bowl LV entrants – the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers – to see which team the system considers to be best. (more…)

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by rseysPosted on Posted in NFL Finalizes Week 17 Schedule [Addendum]

I previously posted that the NFL finalized its Week 17 schedule.  Somehow I missed the following further changes to Week 17:

  • The New Orleans-Carolina game, originally scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM ET, will now kickoff at 4:25 PM ET.
  • The Green Bay-Chicago game, previously scheduled to start at 1:00 PM ET, will now begin at 4:25 PM ET.
  • The LA Chargers-Kansas City game, originally slated to kickoff at 1:00 PM ET, will now kickoff at 4:25 PM ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been updated with these additional changes.  My apologies for any inconveniences this oversight may have caused.  (And thanks to reader Ryan for the heads up!)

Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or access the page from the menu.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in NFL Finalizes Week 17 Schedule

The NFL finalized its Week 17 schedule with the following tweaks:

  • The Washington-Philadelphia game, originally slated to kickoff at 1:00 PM ET, will now kickoff on Sunday night at 8:20 PM ET.
  • The Tennessee-Houston game, previously scheduled to start at 1:00 PM ET, will now begin at 4:25 PM ET.
  • The Jacksonville-Indianapolis game, originally scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM ET, will now kickoff at 4:25 PM ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been amended with these changes.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or access the page from the menu.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in NFL Announces Week 16 Schedule Change

The NFL announced today a flex-scheduling change for Week 16 on Sunday, December 27.  The Carolina at Washington game, originally scheduled to kickoff at 1:00 PM ET, has moved to 4:05 PM ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been updated to show this change.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or select Printables > NFL Schedules from the drop down menu.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in NFL Flexes Schedule for Week 15 and Week 16

The NFL announced yesterday flex-scheduling changes for Week 15 on Sunday, December 20, and Week 16 on Sunday, December 27, but the updates mostly involve TV broadcast changes.  The only change that affects the game schedule is the Los Angeles Rams at Seattle game on the 27th.  The kickoff time is being pushed back 20 minutes from 4:05 PM ET to 4:25 PM ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been updated with this Week 16 change.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or you can always access this page from the menu.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in Flex-Scheduling Changes for Week 15 (December 20)

The NFL announced yesterday three flex-scheduling changes for Week 15 on Sunday, December 20.

  • The Browns at Giants game, originally scheduled to kickoff at 1:00 PM ET, is pushed back to an 8:20 PM ET kickoff.
  • The Niners at Cowboys game has been rescheduled from 8:20 PM ET to 1:00 PM ET.
  • The Jets at Rams game that had been waiting for a time to be scheduled has been slated to kickoff at 4:05 PM ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been updated to reflect these Week 15 changes.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or you can always access this page from the menu.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in Week 12 Ravens-Steelers Game Moved to Wednesday

The Week 12 Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers game has been moved to Wednesday, December 2, at 3:40 p.m. ET.  The last time an NFL game was played on a Wednesday took place on September 29, 1948.  The Los Angeles Dons defeated the New York Yankees 20-10.

While looking up the above information, I stumbled across an epic NFL infographic regarding NFL games played on Wednesday.  Check it out HERE.  It’s pretty awesome.

Other changes to the NFL schedule are as follows:

  • The Week 13 Washington Football Team at Pittsburgh Steelers game, originally scheduled for Sunday, December 6, will be moved to Monday, December 7 at 5:00 p.m. ET.
  • The Week 13 Dallas Cowboys at Baltimore Ravens game, originally scheduled for Thursday, December 3, will be moved to Tuesday, December 8 at 8:05 p.m. ET.
  • The Week 14 Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions game will move from 1:00 p.m. ET to 4:25 p.m. ET.
  • The Week 15 and Week 16 schedule has been firmed up.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been updated to show these changes.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or select Printables > NFL Schedules from the drop down menu.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in NFL Postpones Ravens-Steelers Week 12 Game Again

The NFL pushed back the date of the Week 12 game between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers again.  The game was originally going to be played on Thanksgiving Day, but was postponed until Sunday.  Now, because of further COVID-19 issues, the game has been rescheduled again — this time to Tuesday, December 1, at 8:00 p.m. ET.  There’s still the possibility that the game will not be played at all in Week 12, but the NFL has its fingers crossed that it will.

Should the game be played on Tuesday, the Week 13 Dallas Cowboys at Baltimore Ravens game, originally scheduled for Thursday, December 3, will be moved to Monday, December 7, at 5:00 p.m. ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules are up-to-date with the NFL’s most current iteration of the schedule.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or access the NFL Schedules page from the menu, to check it out.

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by rseysPosted on Posted in NFL Postpones Ravens-Steelers Thanksgiving Day Game

It will be a vintage Thanksgiving football day this year.  For the first time since 2005 there will only be two NFL games played on Thanksgiving Day.  The Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers game, originally scheduled to be played on Thanksgiving Day today, has been moved to Sunday, November 29, at 1:15 p.m. ET.

Football Weblog’s One Page Schedules have been updated to show this change.  Click the blue NFL Schedules button below to be taken to the NFL Schedules page, or access the NFL Schedules page from the menu.

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