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Really quick guesses... 3. 2004 (Manning, Rivers, Roethlisberger) 5. 1985 (Rice, Reed) 3. Correct, the players in the 2004 NFL draft combined to throw 1,398 passing touchdowns. 5. Incorrect, though 1985 is one of the answers for six. Side note about the 1985 NFL draft: It had the most receiving yar...

Came up with these 20 draft questions in my free time one night. Hope you find them at least interesting. All answers concern only players in the NFL draft. Not AFL or AAFC in the years those were split. All drafts since 1936 can be the answer of a question unless otherwise noted. 1. The players of ...

At first, I thought 75 Steelers over 78 sounded a little wild. But then I dug a little deeper and can see 74_75's point The 75 team scored 17 more points and allowed 33 fewer points in 2 less games The AFC Central was tougher (1978 had 1 10-win team while 75 had 2 such teams 1 that literally went u...

Regarding play by play, last I checked, it’s complete on pro football reference since the 1994 season. On FTN Fantasy, Aaron Schaatz recently released DVOA team rankings for the 1978 season, which is a fully play-by-play based statistic. So there’s probably a lot of play-by-play from that season and...

Not sure if this would fit the bill, but I thought of the 1995 Wild Card Game between the Eagles and Lions where the final score is 58-37; with Detroit scoring 30 points in garbage time after trailing 51-7. Side note: I recall an NFL Top 10 segment about a game in 1989 where Sam Wyche ran up the sco...

So you all are aware, When we get a bit closer to the NFL draft (I'm thinking the week before), I will be posting some trivia questions I thought of regarding the history of the NFL draft much like I did for the history of the conference championship game round.

They used the phrase "Defense Wins Championships" very often in the 6os and 70s. Interestingly enough, in the 1970’s, five of the six times that a top five offense by raw points faced a top five defense by raw points; the team with the offense won. From 1981 on, the defenses won more of t...

I am still shaking my head that the Bears in 2006 had a #2 ranked offense with Rex Grossman? That defense could really force turnovers. The worst defenses, the Cardinals in 2008 and the Falcons in 2016, both lost leads in the SB. Kyle Shanahan as OC or HC has lost 10 points or more leads in three S...

You may have heard the saying: Defense wins championships. I was curious to see how true that statement really is, so I looked at every Super Bowl since the 1970 merger, and specifically what the results were each time a top five offense faced a top five defense and vice versa. Here are the results:...

Dusty Sloan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:45 pm - What if "The Drive" didn't happen, and the Browns played the Giants in the Super Bowl?

In 86, do the Browns match up with the Giants any better than the Broncos did in your opinion?