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wild card weekend!
Titans rookie punter Ryan Stonehouse broke the NFL’s oldest single-season record this in 2022.
Stonehouse averaged 53.1 yards per punt during the regular season, breaking the previous record of 51.4 yards per punt was set by Sammy Baugh in 1940.
Samuel Adrian Baugh was an American professional football player and coach. During his college and professional careers, he most notably played quarterback, but also played as a safety and punter.
Jay-Z wore Baugh's Mitchell & Ness 1947 Washington jersey in his 2002 video for "Girls, Girls, Girls." This increased demand for the throwback jersey and renewed popular awareness of Baugh.
In February 2022, sports merchandise giant, Fanatics, acquired vintage team jersey maker Mitchell & Ness for around $250 million.
Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin teamed up with rappers Jay-Z, Meek Mill and Lil Baby — and Maverick Carter, a business partner of LeBron James — on the purchase.
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Numbers
43: Gardner received 43 first-place votes out of 50. He’s the first rookie CB named to the first team since Ronnie Lott in 1981.
2: New playoff overtime rules take effect with this weekend’s wild-card games. Now both teams are assured of getting the ball during any game that goes to overtime. If both teams score touchdowns on their first possession, the game becomes sudden death. The game also could end if the second team to score a touchdown decides to go for a two-point conversion and the win.
3: NFL regular-season ratings down 3% over last season.
16: The Eagles, 49ers, and Chiefs have more All-Pro players on offense and defense (16) than the eleven other playoff teams combined (12).
2: In Super Bowl era, teams that went 2-0 in regular season vs an opponent and played them again in playoffs went 14-10 in the 3rd meeting (including 49ers loss to Rams last season) and 13-6 when the 3rd game was at home.
7: The last 7 teams that ended season on 9+ game win streak (result of 1st playoff game): 2-5 straight up.
2019 BAL (L 28-12)
2015 KC (W 30-0)
2012 DEN (L 38-35)
2009 SD (L 17-14)
2008 IND (L 23-17)
2007 NE (W 31-20)
2006 SD (L 24-21)
2016 [TRIVIA]: With Derek Carr soon to be traded/released, and Aaron Rodgers' uncertain future in Green Bay, who could become the longest-tenured QB on their current team (2016-present)?
Quotes
“@NFL Since y’all all about the coin flipping let’s do this. Let’s have a coin toss to pay this crazy fine for expressing myself. If it’s heads I’ll pay. If it’s tails Roger G pay the money to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cincinnati. 🪙 #AllAboutTheKids #WhoDey”
"It was real funny. I was kind of mad at Wes, and idk if somebody felt my energy and they just hit him right in the jaw with a snowball. I'm like, 'That's what you get.'"
Tyreek Hill said Dolphins WRs coach Wes Welker took a snowball to the face last game in Buffalo
“I really do think the biggest advantage is that little shift from assessment of somebody else [game planning for opponents] to self-assessment. Because we fully believe that success on game day, at the end of the day, is going to come down to us. Whether we make mistakes, whether we turn the ball over, all of these things have been very controllable from our point of view.”
All Pro Center Jason Kelce on the most important benefit of a bye week
“In this league, everybody is pretty much banged up. I don’t want to speak for him and whatever he’s going through with the contracts. But for me, you got a chance to do something special. He can will this team to a SuperBowl. I don’t think he’s thinking about it that way“
Ravens WR Sammy Watkins
“Is he worth me taking a sword? He’s not Al Davis. For me, he’s not.”
Jerry Jones on Dan Snyder
“I want it on my back; I want to carry the load. I want my teammates to look at me and be like, ‘Alright, he’s ready; let’s ride him. Let’s do it.’”
No doubt about how J.K. Dobbins feels going into Sunday’s game
Picks
8:15pm
Chargers at Jaguars (+2.5)
Jaguars have 56% of the bets and 57% of the money: +1 differential
Record
ATS: 57-64-3 (-12.13u)
O/U: 16-30 (-15.44)
Highlights
Trivia
Dak Prescott
So much changing of the guard for QBs since 2019. Only 3 years ago, Brady, Rodgers, Brees, Rivers, Dalton, Ryan, Stafford, Newton, Roethlisberger, and Wilson all had longer streaks than what Dak has.