Jake writes his biographical information in the third person to further confuse the reader. Yes, it is him writing his own biography, but he is writing it about himself, to get himself over as a serious football journalist. He is also a connoisseur of using the word connoisseur.
Buffalo Bills vs. New York Giants Canton, Ohio 8/3/2014 @ 8 P.M. ET on NBC The game within the game: Preseason games, especially ones in week zero, arguably consist of the same amount of competitive fire as regular season games. It’s just a different form of competition, as the battles are between teammates for roster spots, as opposed…
Play this in the background for the best experience: “Don’t Give Up On Us” by David Soul Made famous for my generation by Starsky and Hutch with Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. I’m not exactly guaranteeing it will make sense if you are listening, but the premise will be lost entirely if you don’t at least listen…
As training camp creeps up on the horizon, Chiefs fans are stuck in limbo, some waiting for what they believe is their white horse Alex Smith to sign a long-term deal and become a strong foothold for the quarterback-starved franchise looking to climb, while others are waiting for the other foot to drop right on…
The Introduction to Field-Position Adjusted Stats. Questions I set out to answer: How many points is each yard of field position worth in the grand scheme of things? When you pin your opponent inside the 20, how much worse is that for their offense? Who benefited most from stellar field position set up by great…
Follow @jakeb253 Last season, the majority of discussion on offensive prowess was directed at Denver’s aerial assault on the record books, and nearly every other team went unnoticed. Sadly, one of those teams was the San Diego Chargers, led by Philip Rivers, Ryan Mathews (one of the last of a dying breed, a first round running back), an aging Antonio…
Follow @jakeb253 An unbiased and rational eye is paramount for success in properly analyzing football. You have to be able to separate your emotions from what is actually going on, and make decisions based on those facts. That’s the nature of evaluation and analysis, and that is something that really isn’t all that difficult in…
Follow @jakeb253 The rest of potential contract extension candidates are going to all be included into one post because this process has been painstakingly repetitive, as a handful of teams have a ton of guys under contract in 2014 and are projected to be in a very bad cap position before free agency. Here is…
Follow @jakeb253 Let me start off by clarifying one thing: I don’t even know if the position “tight end” really exists, what it entails, and how much these dudes should be making. If you’re paying wide receivers to catch the ball and their ability to contribute to the passing game is how you qualify the…
Follow @jakeb253 For this edition of our Contract Negotiations series, I had to limit myself and not talk about every wide receiver looking to get paid soon, as that would have taken days upon days to write and a lot of them will end up walking away from a bad extension offer to test the…
Follow @jakeb253 Once the most revered of all positions on the field, the running back position has fallen on hard times recently, and it’s looking like things will continue to trend in that direction for the foreseeable future, (until some radical offensive shift happens and running the ball becomes en vogue again) but how does…
