Recent content by Nihilist Pig

They don't have "inside five" numbers, but sports.yahoo.com give career situational stats for players active in 2005. You can check TD conversions for "1st & Goal carries," "2nd & Goal carries," etc.For his career, Bettis converted about 28.5% of his "& goal" carries into TD's. The...

This would probably be a good time to mention I had him ahead of Mirer in that draft. Probably. :unsure:

Way too much love for safeties here. History's greatest safeties have less impact on both the game and the opposition's gameplan than slightly above average DT's, LB's and CB's have. The entire position exists to get "good athletes" on the field, when they don't have the body or skill set...

Everson Walls. 11 picks in 1981 regular season, then played absolutely out of his mind to almost single handedly keep Dallas in "The Catch" game against SF in the NFC championship. Two more picks, bunch of deflections and defenses, bunch of tackles too. He wasn't anywhere near the best player...

I see him as a shorter, lighter, shiftier Jerome Bettis, without the size, strength, and plowing ability, but with greater speed and agility.

Agreed. Katzenmoyer has no more to do with scouting Hawk than the college careers of Lawrence Taylor or Lavar Arrington do. AK and Hawk didn't even play in the same system. A shared uniform is not a genetic trait.

Tackles is the most worthless stat in football for determining the quality of a player.Guys rack up huge numbers of tackles for a bunch of reasons. Sometimes, it's because they are legit sideline-to-sideline players with a good nose for the ball and an unstoppable will to make plays. Young Ray...

A fair question for the average guy, because we've all got lots of experience with this kind of thing.But Vince was a star athlete at a major public university. The Wonderlic is probably the first test he's ever had to take on his own.

Leinart is a pretty standard type of QB, and will be a fantasy success or not depending almost entirely on where he ends up. He has the tools to put up Bulgerish numbers while succeeding in a Rams type system, or the tools to lead quietly and put up Roethlisbergerish numbers in a Steeler type...

Millions and millions of dollars.

I don't think Harrington is the answer, but I like the stance they're taking with him. Martz has shown the ability to work genuine miracles with no-name QB's. He (or his system) turned a grocery bagger into a legend, and a draft day afterthought into a Pro Bowler. That doesn't mean Harrington...

This post illustrates the misunderstanding people have of the NFL drug policy, and of the NFL in general.It doesn't matter if pot hurts Ricky's job performance in the way we typically think of NFL job performance. That's because Ricky Williams does not get paid to run the football. He does not...

In a totally unrelated and off-topic aside, does anybody know how many official apologies the NFL has given out in the past couple years for bad officiating, and to whom?

Easy enough to confirm.http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...wtopic=2267&hl=

These are the two things that should be coming together to cause concern, here. VY did tell the media that he was going to throw. And we do know that he's overflowing with confidence, so it follows that he would happily get out there and throw if given the chance, especially after declaring he...