It couldn’t be more appropriate that Halloween falls on a Sad Stats Tuesday.
These teams just can’t help themselves.
No matter what they do.
No matter what they try different.
These are your Week 8 NFL Sad Stats.
Stepping up in the pocket.
Throwing at the right time.
And putting it right on Chris Godlose.
I set off to search if this has happened before.
If a Hail Mary pass ever hit the ground in play without any player on either team touching it.
Hail Mary fell incomplete."
“Fell incomplete”.
If that’s not a sad Hail Mary, I don’t know what is.
There’s no sadder feeling than putting your ball out there without it getting even a fleeting caress.
I move to submit it’s the successful surrender kneel.
The Rams and Titans are right on their heels with nine Suc-Ks.
Fair to say this guy gets down on one knee more than Larry King.
And all of them were done with success.
The Tim Boyles ones anyway.
You might have thought the Giants vs Jets was the biggest punt off in NFL history.
But #2 all-time is still no joke.
BOTH punters INDIVIDUALLY punted more times than anyone else since Bandon Colquitt in 2018.
But hang on a second.
Let’s go back to thatChargers/Raiders gameat the top of the graph.
It needs to breathe like a fine wine to be fully appreciated.
Take a look at the complete drive summary for the Oakland Raiders.
Remember, this was team that won the game.
This might look like a Raiders drive summary, but it’s really an all-time Chargers Chargering moment.
Out of 19 total Raiders drive, their second best drive ended in a kneel down.
That might be the most Charger stat of all time.
People joke about having a fan come in to play for a team with a shitty quarterback.
Now we know how that would play out.
The only other quarterback to throw for negative air yards with 7+ attempts in a game was P.J.
Walker last year with -1.
Any quarterback ever, but only on halfback-sweeps
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I looked back at the last few teams to start the year 5-0 before losing their next three.
2021 Steelers
We all remember mummified Ben Roethlisberger’s final year strapping up the knee brace.
2016 Vikings
The Vikings!
Involved in a fraud stat?
They would end the season 8-8 missing out on the playoffs.
2009 Giants
Same story and just as shocking as the 2016 Vikings in every way.
There was legitimate reason for optimism.
It wasn’t just homerism gone wild.
But that dream is now dead.
I mean - that would officially complete Aaron Rodgers' Brett Favre reincarnation right?
I feel for Vikings fans.
I was even ready to proclaim the 2023 Vikings as a fraudulent bad team.
Going 1-4 to set the persona to make everyone think they’re nobodies.
I guess with Cousins gone now, that makes them a fraud of a fraudulent fraud team.
That’s it for Week 8.
It’s been a long season.
The good news is it’s almost half-way over.
The bad news is it’s not even half-way over.
We’ll get through this.
See you next week.
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- Jeffro
