The Saddest NFL Stats Of Week 17
There's a lot of talk about which NFL franchise is the biggest joke in the league. You have three main competitiors. The Jets. The Giants. And the Bears. Carolina is out of the mix (for now) since there is some renewed hope in Bryce Young. I guess you could say the Bears too but the organizational disaster over rules that. And the Raiders have a solid argument as well seeing as how they went from being on track for the #1 pick going into Week 16 to the #8 as it stands now two weeks later.
But let's get real. The three headliners of bad have been in the unconscionable laughingstock of the league game for years over years. So show some respect.
Anyway, let's get to this. Week 17 sad stats. Here we go.
Sad Stat #1 - 40 seconds and a Penix is all you need to disappoint before coming up short
This had to be the most disappointing and quickest :40 performance of a Penix ever. Even rookies should know you can't go full force to quickly. You have to slow down, call a quick timeout, and reposition yourself to get into a groove. But Raheem Morris failed in doing this and ended his performance short on the drive.
But Morris wasn't the only dumb coach on that drive. At least in my mind. I'll go on a limb and say I'm the only one in real time that knew what Dan Quinn should have done on 2nd and ten at the Atlanta 44 with :12 left or even after the timeout on 3rd and ten at the very least.
I can't believe this hack isn't used more. Put in a dime package and double the wide outs and tell every DB to hold the absolute snot out of every receiver. If it isn't raining yellow flags, you're not doing it right. Guarantee you only give up five yards on the penalty while killing time. If it doesn't kill enough time, do it again. Figure six or seven seconds per play puts the Falcons in a must Hail Mary situation vs a very makable field goal attempt. Sure it didn't go in so this didn't really change the outcome, but I mention this pretty much to say I'm smarter than Dan Quinn.
Sad Stat #2 - The Giants dropped from a 63% chance of getting the #1 draft pick in Week 16 to 3% after Drew Lock played statistically the best Giants quarterback performance ever
What an absolute troll Drew Lock is. Just brutal. This is why Giants fans have a claim for worst franchise. I looked up some examples of teams that won in Week 17 (before the extra game) when they would have had the #1 pick. A couple key examples comes to mind. One good. One… not good.
Good: 2006 Lions.
Won their Week 17 game and ended up with the #2 pick as a result in 2007. That's when Mega Tron Calvin Johnson was taken. Right after… JaMarcus Russell.
So cheer up Giants fans! Sometimes you dodge a bullet by not getting the #1 pick! Then again…
Bad: 1997 Cardinals
Same deal here. The Cardinals won in Week 17 to earn their fourth win of the season. The only team with less was the Colts with three. I looked through the tie breaker considerations and neither team played each other, and both teams won two division games. So it came down to total points scored as the next tie breaker tier. And that's where the Cardinals had the Colts beat. Well, by not having nearly as many points. Had the Cardinals not beat the Falcons, they'd have gone 3-13 with a chance to take a Volunteer that was light years ahead of anyone's draft board as the sure fire selection.
Scott Halleran. Getty Images.Sorry Cardinal fans. Just remember, read and laugh at other team's misfortune at your own risk. Ricochet sad stats are always possible.
Sad Stat #3 - The Bears are 4-13 in their last 17 prime time games with zero such wins being exactly what you might call statement wins
Speaking on behalf of Bears fans I can tell you all we reveled in every single camera shot on a booing fan or Ryan Poles sitting in his suite. Like a dog owner who watched his dog shit on the carpet time after time after time, the only possible joy we have left is sticking our dog's face in his own shit to see what he did. That's all we have left. We are national laughing stocks. Even one of our four pathetic wins we failed to score a touchdown against the great Joshua Dobbs. Oh yea - and the Commanders had Sam Howell. Pretty impressive stuff guys.
Sad Stat #4 - The Falcons' recorded the 26th goal to go play in the NFL from the 26-yard line in the play-by-play era that spans 26 seasons
I feel like an idiot for thinking the Falcons may have found themselves in a goal-a-gami when they had 2nd and goal from the 26 on Sunday Night Football. Boy was I wrong. This is some illuminati message, if you ask me. What does 26 mean? And why didn't this happen three days earlier? They ended up scoring a touchdown on the drive though, so that part isn't really that sad I guess. But they lost, so I guess that's the spin.
One more week everyone.
Catch up on last week's sad stats: