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2 hours ago, BleedTheClock said:

that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I'd have mutilated an infant if I were a Steelers fan on that day. 47 freaking yards and you get blown out? That really is a mindfudger.

David Carr had more sacks taken than passes completed in that game to boot.

The main culprit are the 5 turnovers, 8 penalties and 6 sacks.

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22 minutes ago, Elky said:

David Carr had more sacks taken than passes completed in that game to boot.

The main culprit are the 5 turnovers, 8 penalties and 6 sacks.

3 of the 5 turned into defensive touchdowns

call this game the Tommy Maddox special

 

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3 hours ago, BleedTheClock said:

that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I'd have mutilated an infant if I were a Steelers fan on that day. 47 freaking yards and you get blown out? That really is a mindfudger.

Almost half of those yards were lost to sacks also (23 yards total lost from 4 sacks on Carr). The offense essentially moved 24 net yards.

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1 hour ago, tom cody said:

Saw this online just now; Walter Payton, one of the top running backs ever, only won 1 rushing title in his career. 

Plus, the only year he won it was with over 1800 yards back when they played 14 games.

In the subsequent years (83-87), 5 straight years a RB for LA won the rushing title (Rams/Raiders). Eric Dickerson x3, Marcus Allen, Charles white

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The Seahawks once had 4 pick sixes in a game. It wasn't done by the Legion of Boom though. It was against the Chiefs on November 4th, 1984. 

Seattle overall had 6 interceptions, with 4 of them returned for touchdowns. The Chiefs ended up playing 3 quarterbacks that game. Each had at least 1 interception. 

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Thru 2002 the Raiders were the NFLs all time leader in NFL winning percentage(regular season).  Since then they have dropped all the way down to #12.

Even without making the playoffs from 2002-2015 the Raiders are still 6th in all time playoff wins with 25.  Only the Cowboys, Steelers, 49ers, Packers and Patriots have more playoff wins.

The Cardinals have the longest post season drought in history.  From 1947-1998 they failed to make the post season.

Andrew Luck has more playoff passing yards than Bart Starr.

In 2000 the Chargers had a total of 1062 rushing yards, 19 individual RBs had more rushing yards than the Chargers that year.

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3 hours ago, daineraider said:

 

The Cardinals have the longest post season drought in history.  From 1947-1998 they failed to make the post season.
 

 


Actually they made the postseason three times during that period. They did, however, fail to win a postseason game.

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Steelers + Eagles = Steagles?  It happened in 1943.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steagles

 

The Boston Patriots were nearly renamed to the Bay Side Patriots, but the league rejected it.  I'm sure a lot of people on this board would love it if they were called the BS Patriots.

 

In college Terry Bradshaw was Phil Robertson's back up.  Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty. 

 

No NFL team officially uses the color yellow in their team colors... it's just named as "gold".  Steelers, Packers, Chargers, Vikings, Chiefs, and sometimes the Rams (using their alternate jerseys 5 times this coming year and will likely be their new jerseys going forward).

 

Patriots are the only team to score 3 TDs in less than 1 minute... and they did it twice (vs Jets 2012 and vs Bears 2014).

 

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Some other games that have had weird statistics:

In 1967, the Packers turned the ball over eight times to the Bears once, and still managed to escape with a 13-10 win.

A 1968 game between the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills saw the Jets outgain Buffalo 427-197. But Joe Namath threw three pick sixes and the Bills upset the Jets 37-35. It would be the Bills' only win of the year, and it came against the eventual Super Bowl champions.

In 2001, the Chiefs outgained the Raiders 447 yards to 264 AND had a 5 to 1 turnover differential. Yet somehow, they lost 28-26.

A 1986 game between Kansas City and San Diego featured three interception returns for touchdowns (two by Lloyd Burruss) and a fumble return for a touchdown . . . all in the second quarter.

In 1983 Seattle managed just two passing yards against the LA Raiders (153 total), yet put up 38 points.

In 2002, Seattle scored four touchdowns against Minnesota in the span of 2:09.

In a 1970 game against the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay quarterback Don Horn went one-for-eight. His lone completion went for an 89-yard game winning bomb in the final minutes.

In an early 1980 contest, Dan Fouts' San Diego Chargers turned the ball over on SIX consecutive possessions against the Oakland Raiders. Despite this catastrophe, the Chargers managed to hang on for an overtime win. Turnovers on six consecutive drives! Surely something like that couldn't happen again to the same team! Wrong. Later in the year the Chargers played the Cowboys in a nationally televised Sunday Night game and opened the second half with . . . turnovers on six consecutive drives, allowing Dallas to run away with what had been a tight ball game.
It would be six years before a team had turnovers on six consecutive drives again. That team was? Fouts' Chargers, in a 1986 loss to the New York Giants.

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