Cary Kollins

2014 Strength of Schedule: Overall 22 Carolina Panthers .473 30 Houston Texans .441

They also played the Jags and Titans four times.

Look at a team like the Texans. They just had a guy have arguably the most dominant season ever by a defensive player....and yet their team doesn't even come close to making the playoffs.

This x1000000 Not sure how anyone that understands football even a little bit can say Luke.

Seahawks lose and Sherman misses his first born. Muahahhaahhaah suck it Seahwks

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but pretty damning analysis that suggests that the Patriots may have been deflating footballs since 2007, the year they were caught for SpyGate. Read this link, it's worth it. http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/blog/?p=2932 One can CLEARLY SEE the Patriots, visually, are off the chart. There is no other team even close to being near to their rate of 187 offensive plays (passes+rushes+sacks) per fumble. The league average is 105 plays/fumble. Most teams are within 21 plays of that number. I spoke with a data scientist who I know from work on the NFLproject.com website, and sent him the data. He said: Based on the assumption that fumbles per play follow a normal distribution, you’d expect to see, according to random fluctuation, the results that the Patriots have gotten over this period, once in 16,233.77 instances”. Which in layman’s terms means that this result only being a coincidence, is like winning a raffle where you have a 0.0000616 probability to win. Which in other words, it’s very unlikely that it’s a coincidence. I actually went back and researched 5 year periods for the entire NFL over the last 25 years. The Patriots ratio of 187 plays to 1 fumble is the BEST of ANY team in the NFL for ANY 5 year span of time over the last 25 years. Not was it just the best, it wasn’t close: 2010-2014 Patriots: 187 plays/fumble 2009-2013 Patriots: 156 plays/fumble 2006-2010 Colts: 156 plays/fumble 2005-2009 Colts: 153 plays/fumble 2007-2011 Patriots: 149 plays/fumble 2008-2012 Patriots: 148 plays/fumble 2010-2014 Texans: 140 plays/fumble 2004-2008 Colts: 139 plays/fumble 2006-2010 Jets: 135 plays/fumble 1999-2003 Chiefs: 134 plays/fumble There are a few key takeaways. First and foremost, the 187 plays/fumble dwarfs even the rest of the best seasons the last 25 years. Second, the Patriots have been at the top of the NFL since 2007. Ironically, as my study yesterday showed, the Patriots performance in wet weather home games mysteriously turned ridiculous starting in 2007. In 2006, they went 0-2. From 2007 onward, they went 14-1. The next obvious question becomes, where were the Patriots in this statistic pre-2007? Take a look:

Yeah I loved this guy since the first time I really watched him against Oklahoma. His ability to catch the ball at the highest point, in the middle of the field in traffic reminded me a lot of Smitty. I think he'll have a great career in the pros. Could be a Desean Jackson/Steve Smith type guy.

rubbing

In the first article linked, the Tampa Bay writer totally stole the Panther's "be relevant" mantra from last season.

That's just sad.

Wait who here said the Bucs had sold the place out?

Just got a few free tickets so I'll be making the trip down. OH YEA

changed my handle to @tommyFromNC for those that care

Who the fug actually follows NASCAR?

I noticed this split jump catch in Voth's video too. I guess it's something Ricky can work on.

Please save that sound bite for later. Maybe when you have to run a caller. Release the hounds!

Whew... What an eventful two days! First, a podcast and now I'm signed up for Carolina Huddle?! Oh snap, poo just got real...

couldn't get this kid out of my head last night

Is the length limited to one hour? I don't really listen to podcasts so I don't know the standard running time, but I bet once the season gets going the show could run for two hours easy.

Really enjoyed the show. Great job Sammi Jo, Bill and Jeremy. Nice dueling banjos blast. I didn't even know the Hornets got the #9 pick until I heard it there. Breaking news since day one.

Brilliant move by Hardy to call 911. Drug test the young woman asap. Wouldn't be surprised if the charges are dropped by this time next week.

Solange?