The Saddest Stats Of NFL Week 6
Harry Murphy. Getty Images.As a happily married father of two, easily the best decision I've ever made in my entire life was forgetting there was another London game Sunday morning and finding out only to watch the final couple minutes to see Justin Fields pee down his pants. I enjoyed some morning coffee, tickled my daughter on the couch to get her to eat breakfast, and walked the dog on a nice crisp morning. It was an amazingly pleasant morning.
But then I found out.
Jets fan. What in the entire fuck was that? I pretty much got to see Justin Fields throw a wide open Garrett Wilson injured on an out route before freezing on 4th down to put a cap on his noviceclass -10 net passing yard performance. Then I found out about Aaron Glenn pulling perhaps the most loser coward coaching move I've ever heard of (since, well, I didn't see it) in my life by letting the time run out of the first half instead of trying to get in field goal range or throw a Hail Mary or SOMETHING. Why is that defensive coordinators are the stupidest people on the planet? How does this happen and how did Bill Belichick escape that destiny?
Let's get to this week's sad stats.
Sad Stat #1: Detroit Tigers 2-5 hitters went 0/23 Friday night in winner take all Game 5
I promised a Detroit Tigers fan I'd include this and since Detroit bookended the weekend with a devasting series losing Game 5 Friday with a Sunday Night take down of the Lions in Kansas City, it's fitting to give Detroit as a city the first sad stat here. Not to mention Michigan lost to USC and Michigan State to UCLA.
Pennsylvania hearing Michigan had the worst sports weekend of any state
Sad Stat #2: New York NFL teams have 3/3 games with negative net passing yards since 2010
Well it looks like we're really going after states this week, I guess.
Remember the 59-0 blizzard blowout the Patriots put on the Tennessee Titans back in 2009? The Titans threw for a combined -7 yards in that game. Three more than the Jets managed while I sipped coffee and enjoyed a peaceful Sunday morning. It's impossible to imagine things could be worse for the Jets post Zach Wilson. You could not imagine a more inept offense if you tried. Except, now you don't have to try.
The only other games since 2010 any team threw for negative passing yards were both by the Giants. Week 8 2023 (-9) and Week 17 2021 (-6). Daniel Jones was the quarterback in 2021, so maybe this is a sign that it's not Justin Fields' fault and you should keep some hope things will turn around if you're patient.
At least the Giants have some hope with Jaxson Dart throwing darts all the sudden. But in the grand scheme of things, this is a tough stat to come across for the state of New York when you consider Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones are easily the two biggest out of nowhere quarterback turn arounds perhaps in the history of the NFL.
Sad Stat #3: Don't laugh at the Browns 11-game scoring 17 or fewer points stat there Pittsburgh Steelers fans
The last team to do such a feat as this was the 2000 Cardinals from Week 7 to Week 3, 2001. They would go on to make it 13 in a row before breaking that 17-point barrier. The Eagles were next before that from Week 5 to Week 17, 1998, while Seattle and Cincinnati bumbled their way a little further back in 1992. So it's not an impossible sad stat to achieve, but it's certainly uncommon - even for the saddest of teams such as these and pretty much every other season's Browns.
But don't laugh too hard Steelers fans for putting up #11. Don't think it slipped by me that Pittsburgh has the all time record for most games scoring 17 or fewer in NFL history. You think 11 games is bad? Or 13 for the Cardinals?
Try 47. And that's how the Steelers franchise started. Now in fairness, these were the days right after the forward pass was allowed and I'm not quite sure the carrier pigeon was able to yet spread that word for a few years as this streak lasted from the start of 1933 to the end of 1936. Back in the days Roethlisberger was playing without body wrap.
Sad Stat #4: Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck never scored more points through six weeks than Daniel Jones with the Colts
Daniel Jones continues to be the story of the season. It really makes me wonder if his cup of coffee on the bench in Minnesota had something to do with this as Sam Darnold has also been able to ball out after QB consultant Kevin O'Connell did his thing. But add this to the now growing things Jones has done in Indy that neither of the Hall of Famers before him ever did with what we would all agree were more talented offenses.
Sad Stat #5: The Cardinals have the lowest margin of defeat for any team on a four-game losing streak in NFL history
Four losses. By 9 points. Tough times for the Cardinals, but you really have to give them some credit for going into Indy and making a game out of it seeing as how pretty much everyone on the team is a walk on from the stands at this point. Just completely demolished with injuries. So much the Colts felt a little bad and arranged a couple of their guys to smash into each other and miss the game in warm ups.
By the way the two teams with pictures that didn't match from 1994 are Washington and Houston. Double shout out to the 49ers who made this list twice from the same year and same overlapping time frame. That's hard to do. And very sad. So, very sad.
Sad Stat #6 The Bills brought out the sad buffalo uniform and played pretty sad Monday Night
No wonder they lost to the Falcons. How does a small bird beat a buffalo 100 times it's weight? Well, the buffalo gets sad and lonely and lives out it's days on a red canvas. The falcons clearly pecked out its eyes too. Seriously, what was the thought process back in the AFL days with this logo? It's the saddest logo in sports. Not even a close second.
Sad Stat #7: Dan Quinn is the first coach to ever challenge a non-first down 1-yard gain
The Browns would lost that game 44-28.