On Monday Night Football, Drew Brees broke Dan Marino’s 27 year old record for most passing yards in a season with an extra game to spare.  If Brees plays the distance against Carolina on Sunday, he’ll end up shattering Marino’s previous mark of 5,084.  Even though passing numbers have been going through the roof this […]

By now, you’ve probably heard of this Tim Tebow guy that has quarterbacked the Broncos to seven wins in their last eight games and to the top of the AFC West.  TebowMania began two months ago with a crazy comeback victory in Miami.  At that point, it was a fun little sideshow to the real […]

NFL quarterbacks and passing offenses are reaching numbers never before seen in the history of the sport.  Through seven weeks of the season, offenses are averaging a record 251 passing yards per game, obliterating the record set just last year.  Nearly every passing record leaguewide will be history after this season with over one-third of […]

NFL players are known to do all sorts of things to get the number they’ve worn their whole career after signing with new teams. Most of the time it’s money, but in the case of Jeff Feagles, sometimes you’ll get a little something extra. In Feagles’ case, he got a a vacation for his family […]

Coming into the season, one team made sense above all others to put themselves in pole position for the Andrew Luck sweepstakes.   A team in the Bay Area. A team with a rotten quarterback. And a team that just so happened to have Luck’s college head man as their new coach. That team was […]

Professional football lost an icon today with the death of Al Davis at age 82. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released this statement upon the news of Davis’ death: “Al Davis’s passion for football and his influence on the game were extraordinary. He defined the Raiders and contributed to pro football at every level. The respect […]

We’ve thoroughly chronicled the unbelievable rise in passing numbers in 2011 here at TGS.  The massive jump in passing yards per game is staggering, and still going up.  Six quarterbacks are still on pace to break Dan Marino’s single season passing record.  Seven quarterbacks have a 100+ quarterback rating.  Aaron Rodgers is at a record […]

Quick – which player leads the NFL in all purpose yards?  You may think a big name receiver like Andre or Calvin Johnson.  You may think of a brusing running back like Darren McFadden or Adrian Peterson.  You might even consider electric return men like Devin Hester.  Instead, the most impactful skill position player so […]

After Week One’s eye-popping passing statistics, we discussed the evolution of the passing game in the NFL and pro football’s shift from a run-oriented game to a pass-oriented game.  The NFL has seen an incredible growth in nearly every statistical category throwing the football over the last few decades.  After Week One, we asked if […]

Photo via daylife.com Will the real Mike Martz please stand up, because Chicago Bears fans are terribly confused. They cannot reconcile Martz’s reputation as the mad genius behind the Greatest Show on Turf with what they see of the 2011 Chicago Bears offense. Remembrance of the St. Louis Rams 1999-2001 Super Bowl offense haunts Martz […]

Many NFL fans may not know or remember Steve Gleason.  After all, he was a eight year veteran that largely played on special teams and had only 65 tackles in his NFL career from 2000-2007.  However, if you ask any New Orleans Saints fan about the most memorable play in franchise history, you won’t hear […]

You’ve heard all the sayings about rookie quarterbacks starting from Day 1 and all of the bad, scary things that are supposed to happen to them, right?  Coming into the 2011 season, a rookie quarterback starting from Day 1 would theoretically be at an even bigger disadvantage due to being locked out of working with […]

Week 1 of the NFL season was notable for the mindboggling passing statistics that began the 2011 season.  You don’t have to be a quarterbacking guru to realize we’re currently in a golden age of gunslingers.  Brady, Manning, Brees, Rodgers, Rivers, Roethlisberger, Vick, Ryan, and Schaub are all Pro Bowl caliber QBs and soon perhaps […]

No NFL team has had to face more criticism from the national media over the last year than the Chicago Bears.  The Google search trend of “Brian Urlacher overrated” is probably ranked ahead of Kate Upton and Hope Solo.  Lovie Smith is on and off the hot seat and has seemingly never recovered the respect […]