January 21, 2016

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

posted by huddle to general at 06:00 AM - 13 comments

Tom Brady in, The Manning.

posted by Mr Bismarck at 08:13 AM on January 21, 2016

Bills hire first full-time female coach. Kathryn Smith will be a quality control-special teams coach after spending the last year as Rex Ryan's admin assistant.

posted by Etrigan at 09:31 AM on January 21, 2016

Did the Ariz. Cardinals female assistant ever get rehired anywhere after her contract or term was up with the Cards?

posted by beaverboard at 10:13 AM on January 21, 2016

As I recall she finished that internship and was not hired.

posted by rcade at 12:21 PM on January 21, 2016

Yep. No apparent hard feelings.

posted by Etrigan at 12:24 PM on January 21, 2016

No matter who wins the AFC title game, once Super Bowl 50 is played, the Cowboys, Broncos, Pats, and Steelers will have competed in 32 of them.

posted by beaverboard at 12:41 PM on January 21, 2016

Together individually they will have competed a total of 32 times.

They will have appeared in 28 of the 50 Superbowls played.

posted by cixelsyd at 02:33 PM on January 21, 2016

ESPN ran a stat saying this weekend will be Tom Brady's 10th Conference Championship, which is more than 27 teams. It's also the 11th in 22 years for the Pats under Kraft after 1 in the first 40 or so.

posted by yerfatma at 02:53 PM on January 21, 2016

yerfatma: ESPN ran a stat saying this weekend will be Tom Brady's 10th Conference Championship, which is more than 27 teams. It's also the 11th in 22 years for the Pats under Kraft after 1 in the first 40 or so.
There are a lot of crazy stats about Brady, Belichick, and the Patriots at this point, such as some of his post-season records besting that of most teams. For example, if they do make the Super Bowl, the Patriots will take over the slot of most SB appearances with 9; Brady/Belichick would account for 7 of those, meaning each would have more Superbowl appearances than all franchises except the Cowboys and Steelers with 8 each.

However, this is my personal favorite:

  • The single-season record for pass completion is held by Drew Brees, when he completed 71.2% of passes in 2011
  • With 10 AFCCG appearances in 14 seasons (ignoring 2008 when he was out all year with an injury), Tom Brady has appeared in 71.4% of the AFCCGs during his career as a starting QB
It is therefore statistically more likely at the start of a given season that Tom Brady will end up playing in the AFCCG, than it is that any quarterback, cherry-picked from any point in history, will complete a given pass.

I sent that to a Seahawks fan friend of mine in a text the other day, and his only reply was "You are now dead to me". I suppose my timing could have been better...

posted by hincandenza at 03:52 PM on January 21, 2016

Thank you cixelsyd for the correction. Shaky with the numbers there. Shocking in fact. Good thing I'm not buying a car or doing any online trading today.

posted by beaverboard at 04:17 PM on January 21, 2016

@hincandenza, your whole post:

posted by yerfatma at 07:26 PM on January 21, 2016

Damn, maybe it's because my formative years were in the 80's, but Ann Wilson was a *fox*.

posted by hincandenza at 08:23 PM on January 21, 2016

Don Imus has been asked to stay the hell out of this.

posted by beaverboard at 10:32 PM on January 21, 2016

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