Welcome to an all new season of NFL Sad Stats.
Except, they still cry.
We cover stats on teams, players, coaches, whatever helps us ease the pain.
Hopefully that rings true.
Even player/coach profiles that might one day become useful.
Birthday, place of birth or death, even nicknames if they have them.
Just sitting there on my computer.
Ready to be queried for sadness sake.
Let’s have a year everyone.
I’m fully committing to another 18 weeks.
Here are your sad stats for Week 1.
And word is out on this.
We weren’t the only ones listening…looks above to the skies… Just a sad realization for Jacobs who put 110% in his five years with the Raiders.
In five years with the Raiders, Jacobs had 197 regular season catches and another four in the playoffs.
We all know how good he is both as a runner and receiver out of the backfield.
So this all goes to show you the Raiders are the reason for him never scoring a receiving touchdown.
I get what’s going on here Josh.
It’s absolutely on them.
But the Giants are definitely next.
Unless it’s Josh Jacobs.
The Chicago Bears are predictably next worst with just seven such wins.
But they won this week so we don’t need to harp on them yet.
Let’s pivot to Cleveland.
Hello, old friend.
I mean - they have a point.
But when we’re left making “oh yeah well we didn’t even exist!”
arguments you know you’re down bad.
It’s a great feeling to have.
One that Browns fans hope to feel one day.
Maybe your Panthers fan friend can tell you about it.
OK, I can’t talk about the Browns anymore right now.
It’s just too sad a situation.
Let’s give them a break.
while learning the playbook on the flight that probably landed during early warmups.
And look what’s happening.
Mayfield baked so Darnold could rise.
Speaking of the Giants, I’d love to know how many jerseys they sold with these awful throwbacks.
And that chain reaction never happens if you don’t score the drive before.
We might need to get the popcorn ready for Titans games this year.
Just a reminder air yards is the stat about how far from the line of scrimmage the ball travels.
Whether it’s caught or not.
Negative air yards is one of the better ways to tell a coach doesn’t trust his quarterback.
That’s an immediate fire if I’m a GM.
This might shock you but the Browns would go on to lose the game.
Just like the Raiders did in this one too.
That’s enough for Week 1.
Feels good to be back!
Honorable mention to the Panthers end of first half sad field goal to cut the deficit to 3-30.
But 1-0 is 1-0.
We all know that feeling.
Well… except you, Cleveland.
