Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Am I crazy to think Erich Barnes is ranked too low Not crazy. Very reasonable. Did his best work as NYG ... if they are putting guys who played 2½ years as a NYG ahead of him ... then him playing for Chi and Cle cannot be held against him. If they hadn't put Cal Hubbard to high, then maybe you coul...

In tribute to a certain hyperbolic Jaguars fan who posts on YouTube... People here might remember a late season game in 1973 between the Colts and the Dolphins. A 2-10 rebuilding Colts team shocked a 11-1 Dolphins team 16-3. The Dolphins still went on to win Super Bowl VIII that same year. Now the D...

Does the adjusted yards chart make Charlie Joiner appear to be a first ballot HOFer? He is one whose career both benefits and gets hirt, +10% for 1971-77 but -15% for the rest... People can tweak with that, it's based on passes attempted only .. . and then smoothed people could get more detailed.. ...

The Chargers matched up well against the Steelers, and beat them the only time they played in the playoffs, as well as the last game of the season in 1980 and a regular season game in 1979.

Landry teams tended to lack a "killer instinct" most seasons so I'll call it a tossup.

One factor that finally tipped the balance in 1977 is likely that many teams couldn't even run the ball particularly well any more. The rushing average was 4.1 in 1976, in 1977 it was 3.8, despite more carries. Defenses knew year over year they didn't need to respect the pass, teams tried to run, de...

Just like in baseball in the 1960s, 1977 was a culmination of strategic and rule changes. As much as some people here love the 1970s, the 1950s and 1960s were recognizable two platoon football as well, with higher scoring, more successful passing than you had in 1977. If the NFL was trying to get ba...

With the NFL inching its way to an 18-game schedule, what do you think it looks like: 6 games with divisional opponents 4 games each with 2 intra-conference divisions (8 games total) 4 games with 1 inter-conference division or something else? The intera-conference would go to 4-2-2 I think, not 4-4...

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but from the 1977 season onward is when we start to see the majority of NFL games have a full broadcast available in some archive? And for playoff games in the rounds before the Super Bowl, would that be more like the mid 70’s? Of the games I’ve only read about...

From that era, I think Earnest Byner and James Brooks were probably better as backs with some receiving ability. Anderson does have a lot of TDs, but Byner and Brooks match him there and had longer careers. I think Byner was more of a grind it out guy, and Brooks was more talented than Anderson. Bu...

I've thought the same thing. The Lions brought in Garo Yepremian, who had a good rookie season, then fell off his second year and the Lions probably gave up on Yepremian too quickly. At this same time, the Lions also had Lem Barney performing the punting duties, and Barney was about as good as a pu...